“The most preposterous notion that H. Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all of history.”
Heinlein nails it completely in my opinion.
Heinlein creates a strawman which he easily dismantles, but that’s about it.
“The most preposterous notion that H. Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all of history.”
Heinlein nails it completely in my opinion.”__Strider44
JAG 5000 Replies:
Your claim that there is not
a “shred of evidence to bolster
it” is incorrect. There may be
no evidence that has convinced
YOU, but YOU are not humanity.
You are only one individual out of
some 7.5 billion people on this
planet and the last study I saw
projected there would be 5.7
billion Theists in the world
by 2050 — and that was not
counting the Jews.
So? So Theism and Christianity is
alive and well throughout the World
and will be growing HUGE as the
millenniums unfold.
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