Tuesday, April 7, 2009

thought of the day.266

The ugliness of Christianity is no more evident then when a believer beholds a beautiful newborn child and sees her as a sinner—a fallen creature worthy of eternal torture— and believes her only hope of escaping being gathered up with the other “goats” and hurled into a lake of fire is being baptised and growing to believe certain things. From birth to death, nothing poisons life like Christianity’s threat of hell.

2 comments:

homesicksooner said...

Does the phrase "dirty sinner" ever occur in scripture or is that your own "dirty" twist on it?

I see you are still borrowing from the ideas in Christianity and twisting those ideas to support your own presuppositions and worldview.

I grew up in a Christian environment and go to church on a regular basis. I have never been called or taught to believe that people are "dirty sinners."

I have kids of my own and I teach them about Christianity. I have never once told them that they are "dirty sinners."

This sounds a lot like Hitchens and his false premise of "religion poisoning everything". A far better premise would be that "everything poisons religion".

john evans said...

Hi Anthony, I will take your point to heart and rewrite it. Thanks