Religion is so many different things that even authors of biblical texts joked within their texts that it is a "mass of mixed things". But one thing we know it to be is BIG BUSINESS that pays little to no taxes! It is a legal scam, a multi-billion dollar business that we all pay for in many ways.
IF the original authors of biblical texts wrote bawdy & tasteless jokes into those texts, even making fun or light of their own writings, doesn't that indicate that the authors themselves did not believe in what they wrote?
Every dollar churches make is tax-free, so essentially, every American (be they atheists or non-Christians) pays for this by shouldering extra taxes to make up for what churches don’t pay.
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New Testament Joke: 'The Lump'
https://www.academia.edu/14864199/New_Testament_Joke_The_Lump
Just think of it as any interaction, I do a, b, and c, and get paradise when I die? Cool, got any proof this paradise is real? Ok none like at all…
Buddy that’s a scam.