Religionectomy Is Impossible
Posted by Vikas Acharya on November 26, 2016
I heard someone say this:
“Belief in God is like cancer.”
Cancer, of course, is a bad thing.
Cancer should be removed.
Cancer harms people.
Cancer kills.
God, in contrast, is life.
He cannot be removed via a surgical process.
“His brain is filled with Faith! We must operate immediately!”
Belief in God is not like cancer.
It’s like Down’s Syndrome.
Down’s Syndrome is in every cell in the body.
It saturates a person.
It defines a person.
You can’t ‘remove’ it.
Why would you want to?
There are few things on Earth as delightful as people with Down’s Syndrome.
They smile incessantly.
They laugh infectiously.
They light up every room they inhabit.
If ‘joyfulness’ had a face, it would be the grinning mug of a person with Down’s Syndrome.
Perpetual childhood is the goal of Christianity.
“Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for…
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