(Date Posted:08/17/2007 20:10:31)
Reply to : Grayfeather
Reply to: SnakechicHi Ya Sankey!!I found this very interesting! This was my era! I had found it interesting that I had lost my arm on Noverber 11, 1965 and we enter the Viet Nam war on November 14, 1965. It's amazing that i am still here because of this. Interesting, isn't it?Grayfeather
Hi Gray.....BIG HUGS  glad to see you again. Yeah...its my era as well. Although you're much older than me......*chuckles* ....(A girl can't give her age away too much).
You sure do have a mind for dates. My Dad was like that ....he'd remember every detail and had a habit of writing the date on everything that passed through his hands.
YEP...glad you missed it. SOund like you 'won' the lottery in a way....Did you have the big lottery happening on TV during that time? Conscription is BAD!!!!!..........bad enough that young men are being enticed into the armed forces in other sneaky ways these days.
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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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