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- From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Self Defense
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
- Message-ID: <n0ef6t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:23:06
- Lines: 36
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- Who: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- ID: 1e193lINN93j@gap.caltech.edu
- And: riggs@descartes.tec.army.mil (Bill Riggs)
-
- BR> "Christianity is useful precisely because it is conflict
- BR> with basic human nature.
-
- CJL> "Well, at least it allows the churches to make a bundle
- CJL> by inducing guilt in people then relieving the feelings
- CJL> of guilt that they've induced. When a physician does
- CJL> something like this, it's called malpractice. When a
- CJL> clergyman does it, it's called ministry."
-
- Love it!
-
- I saw Bill Riggs' article, but just laughed loudly to myself.
- It took hundreds of millions of years for "human nature" to
- develop, and much of this "nature" is SURVIVAL TRAITS. There
- are religions who turn these traits into handles for guilt,
- so that they may CONTROL and DOMINATE sick, confused, ignorant,
- lonely, hurting people.
-
- As Nexus said to Louis Wu, "You NEVER interrupt a self-defence
- mechanism!"
-
- Any doctrin that is in conflict with basic human nature is an
- evil to be destroyed, because it is anti-humanity. That includes
- patriotism, nationalism, death cults like Christianity.
- Cooperation (which is a survival trait) is one such "basic human
- nature" trait, that Christianity co-oped and turned into "God
- loves us and hates you / God's on our side and not yours' / We're
- Godly, you're Satanic" ditchomies, and it turns thinking into black-
- or-white (look how many Christian groups are called Not True
- Christians by the other Christian groups).
-
- --- Maximus 2.00
-