To those who claim their belief in god is comforting, this from Lawrence Krauss in his new book "A Universe from Nothing."
"…the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one’s a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one’s theoretical models."And the truth is that life is hard, unfair, chancy and lethal. So take comfort in religious theories, but you're not going to avoid the truth of life itself.
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So if you don't believe their is a deity, how do you interpret Paul the Apostle and everything he did and wrote? How do you interpret/explain Paul's motivation?
Paul was an expert marketer. He saw the emerging cult as something he could sell outside of Israel. As a former ad writer, I say don't discount the persuasiveness of good marketing. Even such writers find it useful to believe in what they're selling.
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