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(Date Posted:06/17/2007 12:25:23)
from a great little site...http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/makechurchpopular/I can't think of anything right now.."Excuse me, I seem to have a problem with my Protestant LV2:40 system with the Radeon Revelations Confessional Card"
"Erm, 'ave you tried looking on the internet? Our dogma specialist is, er, off sick with loneliness today."
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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God
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