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We may note in passing that he (jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. he did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met him. he produced mainly three effects - hatred - terror - adoration. there was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.
-C. S. Lewis
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We May Note In Passing That He

C. S. Lewis
We may note in passing that he (jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. he did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met him. he produced mainly three effects - hatred - terror - adoration. there was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.
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Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. there was no trace of people expressing mild approval.
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The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. instead judaism, christianity, and islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. in other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.
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And i found jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. he wasn't diplomatic, and yet i felt like if i met him, he would really like me. don, i can't explain how freeing that was, to realize that if i met jesus, he would like me. i never felt like that about some of the christians on the radio. i always thought if i met those people they would yell at me. but it wasn't like that with jesus.
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