(Date Posted:04/29/2007 12:24:51)
. But also you know it is sometimes hard to "read" what a person is thinking in writing.
Well! that goes without saying Grey!! ....we're on a computer - 10000 odd kms away. 
(hangon!......you can never know exactly what a person is thinking ...even when people are face to face ............................unless ya believe mind reading ? )
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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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