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The church is neutrality. Wishy-washy, vomitable ritual lovers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018church\u2019 is made up of people who form a shallow-brained, ritualistic, morality-policing system.<\/p>\n\n<p>They are the people who use moral principles to interrogate the good but never want to confront and hold evil accountable. They are twisters of moral words who end up making the good feel weaker, more fearful, and more faithless.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>The Church Has Teeth Against the Good, but Not Against Evil<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo-called \u2018good people\u2019 use the Bible and unjust laws to restrain, check, scold, and police the good through fear and manipulation. But their moral policing loses its teeth when dealing with evil.<\/p>\n\n<p>Evil never second-guesses itself. Evil people can commit evil at any minute without a thought for God or man. But the good are expected to be conscientious, considerate, polite, well-meaning, easily manipulated, reasonable, and willing to be upbraided and cowed by both evil and the so-called good.<\/p>\n\n<p>Utterly intolerable! Can you imagine such madness? Utterly disgusting!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>They Prefer Books and Rituals to the Living God<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey are the people who refuse to listen to the voice of the living God.<\/p>\n\n<p>They would rather listen to books such as the Bible and the writings of saints, which together form just a quick, incomplete starter guide, than to what God is saying in their individual lives and in their era.<\/p>\n\n<p>They love every scripture that talks of hardship and suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>Fourteen Is Old Enough for Fornication but Not Marriage?<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey are the type who see nothing wrong with giving out condoms to fourteen-year-olds but argue against allowing those same fourteen-year-olds to willingly marry.<\/p>\n\n<p>They are willing to condone fornication but, under the guise of wisdom and fearful \u2018what ifs,\u2019 will stand against God’s principle of leaving mother and father to cleave to your wife.<\/p>\n\n<p>So, at fourteen, the young man is ready to fuck your daughters but not to marry one young woman?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>Even a Good Deed Must Be Second-Guessed<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor example, you wish to do a genuinely good deed, like throwing a party and inviting all manner of people to come and eat and drink.<\/p>\n\n<p>But now you’re expected to think: Am I showing off? What will this one think or that one think?<\/p>\n\n<p>It’s always the good who have to second-guess themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>Evil Becomes a Personality<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf the good ever do one thing out of character, suddenly that one act comes under great scrutiny. But an evil person can do evil every time, and that becomes, \u2018Oh, that’s how Francesca is. That’s her personality.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>Useless Cowards<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou want to know why? 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The church is neutrality. Wishy-washy, vomitable ritual lovers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018church\u2019 is made up of people who form a shallow-brained, ritualistic, morality-policing system.<\/p>\n\n<p>They are the people who use moral principles to interrogate the good but never want to confront and hold evil accountable. They are twisters of moral words who end up making the good feel weaker, more fearful, and more faithless.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>The Church Has Teeth Against the Good, but Not Against Evil<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo-called \u2018good people\u2019 use the Bible and unjust laws to restrain, check, scold, and police the good through fear and manipulation. But their moral policing loses its teeth when dealing with evil.<\/p>\n\n<p>Evil never second-guesses itself. Evil people can commit evil at any minute without a thought for God or man. But the good are expected to be conscientious, considerate, polite, well-meaning, easily manipulated, reasonable, and willing to be upbraided and cowed by both evil and the so-called good.<\/p>\n\n<p>Utterly intolerable! Can you imagine such madness? Utterly disgusting!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>They Prefer Books and Rituals to the Living God<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey are the people who refuse to listen to the voice of the living God.<\/p>\n\n<p>They would rather listen to books such as the Bible and the writings of saints, which together form just a quick, incomplete starter guide, than to what God is saying in their individual lives and in their era.<\/p>\n\n<p>They love every scripture that talks of hardship and suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>Fourteen Is Old Enough for Fornication but Not Marriage?<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey are the type who see nothing wrong with giving out condoms to fourteen-year-olds but argue against allowing those same fourteen-year-olds to willingly marry.<\/p>\n\n<p>They are willing to condone fornication but, under the guise of wisdom and fearful \u2018what ifs,\u2019 will stand against God’s principle of leaving mother and father to cleave to your wife.<\/p>\n\n<p>So, at fourteen, the young man is ready to fuck your daughters but not to marry one young woman?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>Even a Good Deed Must Be Second-Guessed<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor example, you wish to do a genuinely good deed, like throwing a party and inviting all manner of people to come and eat and drink.<\/p>\n\n<p>But now you’re expected to think: Am I showing off? What will this one think or that one think?<\/p>\n\n<p>It’s always the good who have to second-guess themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>Evil Becomes a Personality<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf the good ever do one thing out of character, suddenly that one act comes under great scrutiny. But an evil person can do evil every time, and that becomes, \u2018Oh, that’s how Francesca is. That’s her personality.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2>Useless Cowards<\/h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou want to know why? 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