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To me, the strangest claim of certain religions is that an all-powerful Creator issued, to a weak, fallible people, commands about our behavior...once...under strange circumstances....to ONE individual..then expected the billions who followed to make sense of all the varied interpretations.
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Many years ago, I read a short 'SF' story about the group of aliens who sent out missionaries, and just one found a lone half crazed hermit in the desert, and told his story about his civilization sacrificing itself in a violent incineration for the good of all the other civilizations in the galaxy - the sky then blazed - and then he said, now I want you to go and tell everyone what we have done for you all ...


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