(February 16, 2012 at 7:29 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I'm always amazed when the christians bring that one up.
Do they think their god so stupid that he would be so easily taken in?
Or does he just not care as long as you go through the motions?
Pascal - who was a catholic which usually annoys the shit out of fundies - lived at a time when "uniformity" was considered essential to the religious fanatics on both sides of his day. Going through the motions was probably enough to fool the idiots but they were the ones operating the torture devices.
As Jefferson said on the subject:
"Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. "
