[lbo-talk] Re: Atheistic religions

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 5 10:27:29 PST 2005


andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>Course, Jesus isn't much improvement, if any. He's
>supposedly the God of Love, but if you don't believe
>in him he'll cast you into a pit of eternal torment.
>Why does he care whether believe in him or not? If
>he's so omnipotent, why does it matter to him what our
>cognitive state is? And cruel, you can't beat it. Fail
>to believe and suffer the tortments of the damned
>forever. Also a bad neighbor.

Zizek writes about a medieval heresy that held that it was God's vanity that caused Him to send His Son as our Savior.

Doug



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