h/t: Atheist Republic
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I’m not sure Christianity was invented to “slander this life,” but, in the hands of Christian theologians and apologists, such as Augustine, it certainly became an instrument to do so. It was also a clever means by which to establish the imperative for priestly authority and mediation.