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Atheists & Agnostics

awoke_in_2003

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4. What always got me about the god thing

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 12:12 AM

Feb 2016

is, how do you punish people for things other people do? If you have children, and one of them screws up, do you make all of them pay? As a human I say "hell no". But xtians buy into getting punished for things they didn't do.

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Psychological study: Punishing gods enhance social coherence. [View all] DetlefK Feb 2016 OP

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