The Problem Is That Once The Untrained

Consider The Wave Of Revulsion That Floods The Average Person When He Or She Hears Of The Practice Of Human Sacrifice By The Aztecs And Other So-called Primitive Peoples. How Savage And Barbaric Such Practices Seem. But When A Christian Or Jew Comes Across Human Sacrifice In The Bible (see Jephthah's Immolation Of His Daughter In Judges 11:30-40), Is He Or She Repulsed?

We Must Never Forget That Both Good And Evil Flow From The Bible. It Is Therefore Not Above Criticism.

If There Is A God, The Phrase That Must Disgust Him Is - Holy War.

Laughter Would Appear To Be A Physical Reflex, Although Even If It Is, This Still Leaves Unanswered The Question Of Why The Human Response To Humor Is A Convulsive Spasm Of The Respiratory Mechanism Rather Than A Crossing Of The Eyes Or A Waving Of The Arms.

The Problem Is That Once The Untrained Mind Has Made A Formal Commitment To A Religious Philosophy - And It Does Not Matter Whether That Philosophy Is Generally Reasonable And High-minded Or Utterly Bizarre And Irrational