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Is 'sane godworshipper' an oxymoron?

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Religion was not definitively disproved until the eighteenth century, when scholars began subjecting the Judaeo-Christian bible to critical analysis. With the discovery that the Bible endorsed a flat earth, solid crystal skies, and a multiplicity of gods and goddesses, Jewish and non-Jewish, and that the earliest biblical authors had no belief in human 'souls' that outlived the death of the body, religion was as permanently discredited as an immobile earth at the center of the universe. Prior to that time, some of humankind's greatest scientists had been godworshippers. Newton and Galileo come to mind. But with the discovery that religion did not have to be merely disbelieved, but had actually been disproved, it became impossible for any sane, intelligent, educated person on this planet to be a godworshipper. That situation continues in effect.

Anyone can be a godworshipper out of simple ignorance. The author and most nontheists with whom he is familiar only abandoned religion as a consequence of education. Is it possible for a sane student to learn the origins of modern religion, and continue to believe that fifty virgin-born resurrected saviors who preceded Jesus were all fairy tales, but the final copy of a copy of a copy was a fact of history? Certainly not for anyone who has the capacity for logical reasoning that is commonly termed intelligence.

It is no coincidence that the four...

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