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Great Quote

"It takes a special kind of con artist to get rich without paying taxes by selling people an invisible product for 10% of their income that they can't see until after they die."

I have no idea who wrote this quote, but it's spot on.

The problem is not that Christians chose to simply "believe" such things, which is worrisome enough (especially when you consider that people who believe this are so often running around saying how foolish people are), but that, because they believe it, they think they have a special right, and indeed even a special obligation, to decide for all of humanity, what it means to be a human being. 

And because they feel they have this "special knowledge," which they insist comes from God, they have the authority, which for the sake of their eternal souls they must exercise, to define for everyone on the planet, the nature of sex, gender, love, marriage, the meaning of life, happiness, what constitutes "truth," and so much more. 

If Christians simply wanted to believe in an invisible friend, like so many children do, there isn't anything necessarily wrong with that on its own. But when they insist that their "belief" in this invisible friend is a FACT, and NOT an 'act of faith' (Ive actually had this said to me by Christians with a straight face), then you know you are dealing with someone who is more interested in being "right" in their "beliefs" than in seeking to understand anything that has to do with actual truth.

In short, they are simply gas-lighting for their special brand of God. 

That such people refuse to ever even consider whether their "beliefs" about the God they claim to believe in, could ever be wrong - rejecting even the notion that, even if their God exists, they might be misunderstanding what that "God" really is, or really wants -  is to reject reality for a fantasy, and then demand that everyone else accept it, or burn in hell forever!




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