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There Are Hundreds Of Millions Who Believe The Messiah Has Come. If He Did, Then It Is Unfortunately The Case That His Heroic Sacrifice And Death Have Had No Effect Whatsoever On The Very Problem His Coming Might Have Been Expected To Address, For History Demonstrates, Beyond Question, That We Christians Have Been Just As Dangerous, Singly And En Masse, As Non-christians.

I Do Not Understand Those Who Take Little Or No Interest In The Subject Of Religion. If Religion Embodies A Truth, It Is Certainly The Most Important Truth Of Human Existence. If It Is Largely Error, Then It Is One Of Monumentally Tragic Proportions—and Should Be Vigorously Opposed.

I Cannot See How It Can Be Argued That One Should Speak In Tones Of Reverence And Awe About The Alleged Divine Instruction-in Psalms-to Grab The Defenseless Bodies Of Innocent Infants And Dash Their Brains Out Against The Nearest Rocks Or Walls.

Consider The Wave Of Revulsion That Floods The Average Person When He Or She Hears Of The Practice Of Human Sacrifice By The Aztecs And Other So-called Primitive Peoples. How Savage And Barbaric Such Practices Seem. But When A Christian Or Jew Comes Across Human Sacrifice In The Bible (see Jephthah's Immolation Of His Daughter In Judges 11:30-40), Is He Or She Repulsed?

If The Old Testament Were A Reliable Guide In The Matter Of Capital Punishment, Half The People In The United States Would Have To Be Killed Tomorrow.