Good points, Cheese. I've always maintained that the greatest problem with much of organized religion is its use of a reward system to manipulate the actions of its members--many churches today have little intellectual or spiritual capital to trade with the members beyond this notion that they can be rewarded in the afterlife. Personally, I am much more concerned with the notion of leading a compassionate life than the notion of salvation. If I end up in some sort of heaven, great; if I end up in some sort of hell because I didn't believe in the divinity of Christ, well, then I'll be content with the knowledge that God is ultimately unjust, and that there are a hell of a lot of good people down there with me.
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