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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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I would say the author is a coward, not "unknown".

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At 10:34 PM 9/18/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>Notes on the Christian Imagination
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>In Christianity neither morality nor religion comes into contact with
>reality at any point. Nothing but imaginary causes: god, soul, ego, spirit,
>free-will or unfree-will. Nothing but imaginary effects: sin, redemption,
>grace, punishment, forgiveness of sins. A traffic between imaginary beings:
>god, spirits, souls. An imaginary natural science: anthropocentric,
>complete lack of the concept of natural causes. An imaginary psychology:
>nothing but self-misunderstandings, interpretations of pleasant or
>unpleasant general feelings. For example, the condition of the nervous
>sympathicus with the aid of sign language of religio-moral idiocyncracy:
>repentance, sting of conscious, temptation by the devil, the proximity of
>god. An imaginary teleology: the kingdom of god, the last judgement,
>eternal life. 
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>This purely fictitious world is distinguished from the world of dreams very
>much to its disadvantage by the fact that the latter mirrors actuality
>while the former falsifies, disvalues and denies actuality. Once the
>concept "nature" has been devised as a concept antithetical to god,
>"natural" had to be the word for reprehensible. This entire fictional world
>has its roots in hatred of the natural actuality. It is the expression of a
>profound discontent with the actual. But that explains everything. Who
>alone has reason to lie himself out of actuality? He who suffers from it.
>But to suffer from actuality means to be an abort of actuality. The
>preponderance of feelings of displeasure over feelings of pleasure is the
>cause of a fictitious morality and religion. Such a preponderance however
>provides the formula for decadance. 
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