March 12, 2010

#711

The modern Christian feels professionally obligated to act jovially and jokingly, to show his teeth in a cheerful grin, to profess a slavering friendliness, in order to prove to the unbeliever that Christianity is not a “somber” religion, a “pessimistic” doctrine, an “ascetic” morality.
The progressive Christian shakes our hand with the wide grin of a politician running for office.

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  1. The original Spanish is:

    El cristiano moderno se siente obligado profesionalmente a mostrarse jovial y jocoso, a exhibir los dientes en benévola sonrisa, a profesar cordialidad babosa, para probarle al incrédulo que el cristianismo no es religión “sombría,” doctrina “pesimista,” moral “ascética.”
    El cristiano progresista nos sacude la mano con ancha risa electoral.

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