(June 10, 2015 at 8:42 pm)whateverist Wrote:(June 10, 2015 at 7:06 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Of course. It's completely different.
You have to please others for legitimate reasons. Christians only do it for the cookie.
Make that a supernatural cookie which can never interact with your taste buds and you might just about have it.
Make that a promise of a magic cookie that someone tells you is waiting for you, always just out of reach, but if you transgress against a set of arbitrary, contradictory, and archaic rules, even by thinking about it, you not only don't get the cookie but you get your arse kicked forever. Then we're starting to get closer to the scam.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
