4:5.4 The barbarous [[idea]] of appeasing an [[angry]] [[God]], of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of [[Deity]] through [[sacrifices]] and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a [[religion]] wholly puerile and [[primitive]], a [[philosophy]] unworthy of an [[The Enlightenment|enlightened age]] of [[science]] and [[truth]]. Such [[beliefs]] are utterly repulsive to the [[celestial]] beings and the [[Supreme Creators|divine rulers]] who [[serve]] and reign in [[Grand Universe|the universes]]. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that [[Atonement|innocent blood must be shed]] in order to win his favor or to divert the [[Fiction|fictitious]] [[divine]] [[wrath]]. | 4:5.4 The barbarous [[idea]] of appeasing an [[angry]] [[God]], of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of [[Deity]] through [[sacrifices]] and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a [[religion]] wholly puerile and [[primitive]], a [[philosophy]] unworthy of an [[The Enlightenment|enlightened age]] of [[science]] and [[truth]]. Such [[beliefs]] are utterly repulsive to the [[celestial]] beings and the [[Supreme Creators|divine rulers]] who [[serve]] and reign in [[Grand Universe|the universes]]. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that [[Atonement|innocent blood must be shed]] in order to win his favor or to divert the [[Fiction|fictitious]] [[divine]] [[wrath]]. |