“The greatest horror we can ever face is having our sin-filled lives held up before a holy God.” http://t.co/ymGjFD6iwb
— Desiring God (@desiringGod) March 8, 2015
Because — Never forget! — y’all are no damn good.
Ayn Rand deals nicely with Christianity’s central claim in Galt’s speech, in Atlas Shrugged.
Death is the standard of your values, death is your chosen goal, and you have to keep running, since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that the pursuer is yourself. Stop running, for once — there is no place to run — stand naked, as you dread to stand, but as I see you, and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.
Damnation is the start of your morality, destruction is its purpose, means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil, then demands he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands, as his first proof of virtue, that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start, not with a standard of value, but with a standard of evil, which is himself, by means of which he is to then define the good: the good is that which he is not. [ … ] The name of this monstrous absurdity is Original Sin.
Think back, now, to all the death-wish theology you’ve listened to in church, all the times that you have heard yourself told that the good is self-annihilation, the total elimination of your self-interest and self-direction, because your self is rotten and putrid and evil.
Then marvel at all the retweets and favoriting of Piper’s tweet, and ask yourself what is the psychological state of the people who do that.