Every year the famous pagan / jewish / christian festival of Easter brings forth its crop of loony quotes from loony people with invisible friends.
This year one of the geriatric god botherers was fulminating against Voluntary Euthanasia. Taking aim at the claim that those in pain should be allowed to die with dignity, he frothed that “no death is dignified” and then exhorted his audience to look at “Jesus … who suffered many indignities in his dying, yet bore it nobly.”
Such is the bizarre pattern of thinking that animates the religious mind. Leaving aside the twisted logic of sacrifice and atonement that underpins the jesus-myth, it is clear that the good cleric expects us all not only to suffer simply because his god-man did, but to accept that the suffering is ‘good for us’!
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