Quote:Esquilax wrote:I guess the other implication is that the believer asking doesn't care about the sincerity of the belief, just that you knuckle under and go through the motions the same as everyone else around them. It's not so much a genuine hope that you'll hear the good word, as a disguised demand that you stop upsetting the damn apple cart.
I think you have a good point there. Heaven forbid anyone should upset the equilibrium and frighten the horses. God, guns and guts made America great, dammit! If you don't like it, at least keep quiet!
Got a lot of those types around these parts.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
