Coca-Cola is a commercial product. In many cases, the Bible is given away. While Religion is, unfortunately, also often commercialized, the good book itself seems to be distributed quite freely and indiscriminately.
List Of best-selling Books
It is also a best-seller.
Opiate of the masses Phat?
Every good drug dealer knows that you give out the first doses free, then you charge. How is the bible and associate religion not simply a commercial enterprise? You even pointed out, its on the top
seller list.
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"Debate is an art form. It is about the winning of arguments. It is not about the discovery of truth. There are certain rules and procedures to debate that really have nothing to do with establishing fact ” which creationists have mastered. Some of those rules are: never say anything positive about your own position because it can be attacked, but chip away at what appear to be the weaknesses in your opponent's position. They are good at that. I don't think I could beat the creationists at debate. I can tie them. But in courtrooms they are terrible, because in courtrooms you cannot give speeches. In a courtroom you have to answer direct questions about the positive status of your belief. We destroyed them in Arkansas. On the second day of the two-week trial we had our victory party!"
-Stephen Jay Gould
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