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<\/a>If there is anything that undermines personal dignity and integrity, it is Christianity and its dogma that mankind is inherently damaged and that we are all “fallen” — even though the human genome project has proven that Adam and Eve never existed and that there was no “Fall” and hence no need for a Messiah.<\/p>\n

Michael Hamar<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep. The Christian narrative is false, and its implications are degrading.<\/p>\n

Seriously: Has Christianity contributed anything<\/i> to ethical thought besides Original Sin, the claim that we’re all, innately, no damn good? If so, I can’t think what it might be. The Golden Rule certainly preceded Jesus, and Confucius dismissed turn-the-other-cheek centuries before Jesus’ birth.<\/p>\n

I’m probably tedious on the subject, but Nietzsche’s identification of Christianity’s threat to healthy life seems to me to hit the bullseye.<\/p>\n

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When the centre of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in “the beyond” — in nothingness — then one has taken away its centre of gravity altogether. The vast lie of personal immortality destroys all reason, all natural instinct — henceforth, everything in the instincts that is beneficial, that fosters life and that safeguards the future is a cause of suspicion. So to live that life no longer has any meaning: this is now the “meaning” of life … Why be public-spirited? Why take any pride in descent and forefathers? Why labour together, trust one another, or concern one’s self about the common welfare, and try to serve it? … Merely so many “temptations”, so many strayings from the “straight path”.<\/p>\n

The Antichrist, §43.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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