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30 Now that soul is supposed to be the doer of good and evil so much so that the body is merely its instrument. Virtue and sin are so much connected with the Christian soul-idea, that Christianity even claims monopoly-rights over certain virtues. Thus we hear of Christian charity, which however is found nowhere more than in Atheistic Communism. Isn’t the Church of England called the Conservative Party of Prayer? And doesn’t the Conservative Party stand for Capitalism and imperialism? Wasn’t Christ described to us last time, by my reverend opponent, as a totalitarian dictator? If that is so, weren’t the Jews quite right in trying him as a warcriminal? With regard to sin we heard also the following statements: “Sin is a tendency to deviate from a course leading to well-being. Man is born with a tendency to leave the straight road, and by his own merit man is not able to overcome this tendency to evil. Therefore God evolved the plan of redemption.” But if sin is an inborn tendency towards the gutter—and God made man thus—and if man is incapable by himself to get up again, how can that ever be an offence? And how can that ever be called justice, if man is pushed from the gutter into the drain—nay, into everlasting hell-fire? But “God does not want man to go to hell”. Then who else wants it? Who created man with evil tendencies, and who created hell? Would the whole plan of redemption not have been much simpler, if God, instead of sacrificing his only Son and afterwards cursing the Jews for having done it—if he had created man with a tendency for good? But God is love; and love is not reasonable. I know it and admit it: I have lost my faith by reasoning too much; I have not always been as the little child, which alone has the privilege to enter the kingdom of heaven. But then, if God is my creator and he has given me intellect and reason, why should I not be allowed to use them? I used my reason and lost my faith. Who is to blame?
31 I will conclude with a note of harmony. It was said that “Christianity cannot be dissected to find out its working.” And I fully agree there. For if you dissect it, it explodes!
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Page 7 and 8: Foreword In the 1940’s the studen
Page 9 and 10: Outlines of Buddhism Notes of the f
Page 11 and 12: 9 Buddhism does not become supernat
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Page 19 and 20: The Inconsistence of Christianity B
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Page 23 and 24: 21 as Mahātma Gandhi has done all
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Page 38 and 39: 36 For us life means a certain prop
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Page 46 and 47: 44 for that is craving. The motive
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