(December 7, 2014 at 5:11 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Yeah, clearly our good old British patented anti-Jesus shields are still working. Well, mostly.
We've talked before about how those shields are powered by the state sponsorship of religion. I really like your proposed historical scenario, however unlikely it may be, that this was the plan all along.
For those others who haven't heard, the plot was to give religion a subsidy. That way, the church services could remain boring and traditional with no appeal to the public.
In America, where religion was thrown out of the government and onto the street, only the most appealing to the public could survive. Thus, evolution bred the most aggressive strain of the Christian mind-virus, one that had to develop savvy marketing appeal.
In Britain, where religion was fat and protected, it soon became characterized by folks mumbling and badly singing and became its own pathetic self-parody. Thus, it's not taken seriously by many and has become like a drug-addled rabid dog kept safely in its cage.
Truly ingenious! And whatever those taxes are that you pay to maintain the state church, they are a small price to pay, trust me.
Now if only you could come up with a state sponsored Islamic mosque...
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
