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Four Huge Fakes Demons- if Christianity is true, then demons must exist.  Angels- if Christianity is true, then angels must exist.  Miracles- if Christianity is true, then miracles should be a major part of our lives.  Prayer- If Christianity is true, then prayer must be effective.  http://new.exchristian.net/2018/10/the-four-count-take-down-of-christianity.html? Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedanism, extermination and tyranny . . . ” —-George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952), Little Essays, No. 107, "Christian Morality" Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

The “Lemon Test” endures. “If any of the three prongs of the Lemon Test are violated by an act of government, it is unconstitutional:  1) It must have a secular legislative purpose;  2) Its principal or primary effect must neither advance nor inhibit religion;  3) It must not foster excessive entanglement between government and religion.” —The Lemon Test, promulgated in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 US 602 (1971) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Mercier:   But what about morality? Payne:   First you adduce morality as a proof of God, and then cite God in support of morality. You reason in a beautiful circle, like a dog biting his own tail. —-Buchner's "Payne" in "Danton's Death" playwright and poet  Karl Georg Buchner 🔛 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in churches quite a lot).” —Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s (1991) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.” —Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, 1861 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“Pierre belonged to no religion and I did not practice any.” —Marie Curie, What Do I Read Next (1924), a memoir of Pierre Curie. Two-time Nobel Prize winner Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"And the flames of hell, they seemed so high When I could barely see over the pew I was just a boy when they told me that lie But lord, it felt so true And that's a hell of a thing to do to a kid Just to teach him right from wrong You can burn in hell the rest of your days Or you can choose to sing along" -“Sing Along,” from Robert Ellis’s 2014 album, “Lights From the Chemical Plant” Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering