Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance. And I have no doubt that every new example, will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
-- James Madison to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822.
-- James Madison to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822.
hat tip = Charlie Pierce
"Saved" - saved from what, exactly? Saved from the wrath of a jealous god who gets pissed off and threatens to torture me for a thousand eternities if I decline his invitation to grovel at his feet?
ReplyDeleteTo be jealous is to commit a sin. To be wrathful is to commit a sin. If god sins, then god stops being god.
Your god is the invention of a neo-lithic culture barely able to grasp the basics of Food Safety. And Jesus is the product of a brutalized community wishing that somebody could counteract the power of Rome. So thanks anyway - I appreciate the tho't - but include me out.