(July 21, 2011 at 11:26 am)TheCarlisle Wrote: Eternal salvation. The Bible tells us how to save souls from going to hell. Therefore, in one way or another, the Bible saves lives.
No such thing, so the bible actually distracts people from doing what's right in this life by making people concentrate on the one beyond this that doesn't exist.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell