If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without …

Richard Dawkins
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If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too? ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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