RE: How can Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when ...?
February 11, 2012 at 3:33 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2012 at 3:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Which arguments did you find convincing when you were a christian? Which did you feel confident leveraging against others? Their fables are no more or less idiotic than anyone else's. Your favorite traditions have also had the same effect, in fact, they had this effect much, much earlier.
"There is no heaven, no final liberation, nor any soul in another world,
Nor do the actions of the four castes, order, &c, produce any real effect,
The Agnihotra, the three Vedas, the ascetic's three staves, and smearing oneself with ashes
Brihaspati says, these are but means of livelihood for those who have no manliness nor sense."
(snipped)
"Hence it is only as a means of livelihood that Brahmans have established here
all these ceremonies for the dead, — there is no other fruit anywhere."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%81rv%C4%81ka
"There is no heaven, no final liberation, nor any soul in another world,
Nor do the actions of the four castes, order, &c, produce any real effect,
The Agnihotra, the three Vedas, the ascetic's three staves, and smearing oneself with ashes
Brihaspati says, these are but means of livelihood for those who have no manliness nor sense."
(snipped)
"Hence it is only as a means of livelihood that Brahmans have established here
all these ceremonies for the dead, — there is no other fruit anywhere."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%81rv%C4%81ka
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