charles moyer wrote:

>  for a guilt-ridden generation, guilt being the one
> and only necessary element to fuel the furnaces of the Judeo-Christian
> soul-processing plant of the self-righteous.

I would dissent from this on the same grounds that I dissent from
Freudian analysis, red-baiting, or other ways of shifting the conversation
from its substance to the supposed motives of the participants. Someone
may express a proposition X because they feel guilty, because they
are hypnotised, because they are working a swindle of some sort,
or because they think the listener will be flattered by it. All these
"explanations" are quite irrelevant to the validity or non-validity of
the proposition. I dislike Christianity as much as anyone might -- but
Christianity's impact varies according to specific historical conditions.
In the midst of a peasant struggle, for example, you can get liberation
theology, and in a utterly individualized social order such as the U.S.
you get, among other things, the Southern Baptists ordering women
to accept the servant leadership of their husbands or something like
that.

Carrol