XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.atheism   
   From: burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll   
      
   On 29.01.21 18:54, Jonathan wrote:   
   > On 1/29/2021 12:06 PM, Dreamer In Colore wrote:   
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   >> "When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit,   
   >> you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false   
   >> promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No   
   >> contest. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story   
   >> ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced   
   >> people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who   
   >> watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And   
   >> the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does   
   >> not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things,   
   >> he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning   
   >> and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and   
   >> suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and   
   >> ever 'til the end of time. But He loves you!"   
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   >> George Carlin, Dec 23 2005   
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   > Honestly, you get your opinions on the nature of existence   
   > from George Carlin?   
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   > Mainstream religious philosophy does NOT hold there's an   
   > invisible man out there waving a magic wand.   
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   > That's what is taught to children and others that can't handle   
   > anything more than simple stories.   
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   > Only those that have never read a single line of religious   
   > philosophy could believe that's the definition of God.   
   > And those that haven't read a single line of religious   
   > philosophy are hardly capable of rendering an intelligent   
   > criticism of religious beliefs.   
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   > Can you relate, say, how the Catholic Church defines God?   
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   Have you got a buildin echo repeater?   
      
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