The Theistic Paradigm in a Nutshell

[Godscreated]

Machiavelli has another lesson that is relevant to the religious debate. He says;

"Men are obligated as much by what they have given as by what they have received".

In the context of religious debate, we could take this to mean "the more you sacrifice for a belief, the more wedded to that belief you become."

There are people who have spent their whole lives believing in god. They have given so much of their life to a myth that they simply cannot afford to question that myth.

 Before you make such a statement you need to prove what you say, and to bring your interpretation to of another's statement and apply it to religion isn't proof of a single thing, it's no more than hog wash.

GC