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A need to justify the authority of leaders for another.
And, of course, the everpopular rationale for morality.
Need I go on?
None of these has anything to do with "spirituality" and everything to do with mans cravings to:
A: Lord over his fellow man.
B: Justify his own existence.
C: Rationalize his societal morality.
Once, slavery was "righteous", the bible justifies it, and all "right-thinking" people defended it as the "natural order".
Thinking changes, morality changes, and now slavery is inhumane.
Yet the "bible" the holy book of Jehovah and Yeshua ben Yusef, defends slavery many times.
How can modern christers justify this obvious contradiction and rationalize their faith against it?
Just more contradiction and hypocrisy from the masters of it, the theists.
Get real, people.
"A Kenyan man once said to me, 'You can get used to anything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks a time."
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