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Nobody is good enough to receive anything other than punishment from God.
This means that anybody can accept Jesus-salvation and be saved, missing most of the punishment.
What this shows us is that God is not cruel, but loving.
Well I see you're still busy posting your silly god nonsense. What else is new.
Here ya go dude, have some quotes from folks that actually have a brain and think rationally.
I know it will have zero effect on repairing your sky fairy believing virus you are unfortunately afflicted with but hey,
who knows, you might get a laugh anyway....you're welcome....
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
"Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist"
"Say what you like about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."
"What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell"
"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the thirteenth century."
"The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes -- that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects -- this notion has no support in the plain facts.
If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once -- and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow.
To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity."
"The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make
the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church, as an organization, has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man.
It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions.
It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings."
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
"There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the schoolboy who said, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
"Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?"
"Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million."
"If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian."
"If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board"
