Souder Sex Scandal Shows Threat From Social Conservatives

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Religion stresses "forgiveness." Mythic God sends Christ to die to forgive everybody for "the Fall of Man." That was the first act of sexual intercourse when Eve & Adam obeyed the command to "be fruitful & multiply & fill the world with Christians." Until Christ came along, tithes and fees went to Jewish rabbis. After Christian conversions, the money flowed to Christian preachers. When Jesus told adulterous men when it was OK to throw stones, the men knew all of them used the same poor women as whores. They kept the women poor so they'd have to be whores or starve. Watch the next sex scandal between believers. Hubby asks the wife to forgive him, and maybe she does. Theh he asks church members to forgive him, and often they do. It is a given. The set-up is there, ready to use whenever a younger or more flirtatious or needy "office clerk" or "parson's aide" comes along & competes for family assets. Forgiveness and mercy mean there is no justice. This is why atheism is more ethical. There is no Heavenly reward for "being good" and no "Hell for being bad."

aURa dawn veirs of CA 11:33PM May 30, 2010

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John A. Farrell

John A. Farrell

John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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