On 9/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John K Clark</b> <<a href="mailto:jonkc@att.net">jonkc@att.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Religion exists for 2 reasons, one reason I understand and one I don't.<br>Clearly religion would not exist if the fear of death did not exist, but<br>there is another much more mysterious reason. How did preachers convince
<br>people that faith is a virtue? It's very easy to see why some human beings<br>would want other human beings to believe this; but how on Earth did they<br>convince them that an all powerful and all knowing being thinks the highest
<br>form of virtue is to believe in something when there is absolutely no damned<br>reason for doing so? There must have been some very sophisticated Meme<br>engineering at work to sell that load of crap.<br></blockquote>
</div><br><br>Did you see this? <a href="http://www.christianitymeme.org/">http://www.christianitymeme.org/</a><br>