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(Date Posted:08/14/2007 03:19:02)
TACOMA, Wash. - A man accused of having sex with a goat is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on a animal cruelty charge. Charging papers say a witness saw 63-year-old Arthur Lawton having sex with a goat May 8th in a barn atEatonville's Pioneer Farm Museum where he worked.Lawton said he was trying to milk the goat.Lawton missed a scheduled arraignment on August 3rd but turned himself in last night to Pierce County sheriff's deputies.He's the second person charged in the county since the Legislature made bestiality a crime in response to the fatal injury to a man having sex with a horse inEnumclaw.A man accused of having sex with the family pit bull dog was acquitted in May.___Information from:The News Tribune,http://www.thenewstribune.com
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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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