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Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

Robert Sheaffer
Atheist, Mean, Doubt
Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”

The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires a considerable degree of free time, health, and an outlook of confident positivism. Thus, the religious authorities work hard to make and keep people feeling sinful, unworthy, and unhappy.

Robert Sheaffer
Religious, Hard Work, Opportunity

Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.

Robert Sheaffer
Passion, Race, Sight
Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”

To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.

Robert Sheaffer
Honesty, Successful, Artist
Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”

Eventually economic growth reaches the point at which the accumulation of wealth in the families of achievers becomes so significant that the hatred and envy of success become stronger than the desire for continued economic growth, and a period dominated by resentment begins.

Robert Sheaffer
Envy, Hatred, Growth
Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”

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