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(Date Posted:08/26/2008 23:39:58)
http://www.ep.tc/mccain-bible/HELLO HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS ... ABOUT THE 1934 GEORGE BUSH JOHN McCAIN TIJUANA BIBLE
Snippet from introduction: This item arrived to us through the chanced purchase of a box of random undetermined documents - belonging, we were told, to the recently deceased Millionaire Huntington Hartford. (wiki and obit) The still-sealed box, purchased from a dumpster diver who fetched it from the curbside trash outside Mr Hartford's Bahamas residence last month, arrived without ceremony or description at our steps last Tuesday. We had purchased it for scrap ... upon further review we soon realized that within this box of unimportant personal effects and aged letters there was, in fact, a very important piece of political history. By complete accident we had stumbled upon the hiding place for one of the most coveted political comics of all time: "OBLIGING LADY" - the 1934 Tijuana Bible long sought after by historians as the oldest known document to feature George Bush and John McCain
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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 | 
