(A Grim Fairy Tale)
An excerpt at the beginning of her book:
Suppose you had never heard of Christianity, and that next Sunday morning
a stranger standing in a pulpit told you about a book whose authors could not
be authenticated and whose contents, written hundreds of years ago, included
blood-curdling legends of slaughter and intrigue and fables about
unnatural happenings such as virgin births, devils that inhabit human bodies
and talk, people rising from the dead and ascending live into the clouds, and
suns that stand still. Suppose he then asked you to believe that an uneducated
man described in that book was a god who could get you into an eternal
fantasy-place called Heaven, when you die. Would you, as an intelligent
rational person, even bother to read such nonsense, let alone pattern your
entire life upon it?
A must read, humorous book called
“The Born Again Skeptic’s Guide to the Bible”
by Ruth Hurmance Green. Originally published by
Freedom From Religion Foundation, P.O. Box 750,
Madison, Wisconsin 53701
Naturalism and Religious Experience 