(Date Posted:01/24/2006 2:38 AM)
Reply to : Parisian
Reply to : snakechichttp://www.christianitymeme.org/Spent most of the morning reading this site so I figured I may as well post it here....hope you enjoy it.It looks very interesting. I'm not sure I fully grasp the idea of "memes," but I suppose reading through the site will help me to sort out the concept. Thanks!
If my memory serves me.....I didn't bother too much with the idea that 'memes' are biological whatnots <shrugs> I liked the idea - what a persons says they 'believe' and what the person does, are 2 different things.....and so on and so....I guess I take a meme to be a 'fallacy' ...for example (or more or less) I say I agree that the emporer has clothes on when in fact, I don't see any?
forget haven't read it in ages...has some kewl links etc. 
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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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