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SATAN'S SLY GAME:
THE FALSE RELIGION OF PEOPLE-WORSHIP

lowed into daily life, they would be deprived of all kinds of
worldly blessings and lead a life of monotony. They think that
living a life of religious morality will prevent them from enjoy-
ing life. Of course, this idea has nothing to do with reality.
Religious morality creates the most comfortable social life in
which the individual human spirit will be the most content and
the most productive. Those who adopt this high morality and
escape the "facts of life" deception possess the soundest mood in
their society. They will take pleasure in the beauties of life and
play a major role in bringing about a society of peace, tolerance,
and self-sacrifice.
But the shallow mentalities of those divorced from religious
morality permit them to think of practicing virtue as a sign of
weakness and naiveté. For example, they believe that, no matter
how much a person sacrifices himself for another, he will always
get selfishness and unfairness in return—and therefore, it would
be silly to act in such a way. For this reason in many societies a
person who makes self-sacrifice is regarded as " a well-inten-
tioned but naive" one—a person doing a good deed for someone
else free of charge and getting no acknowledgement for what he
has done. In real life, as far as they are concerned, one should re-
turn selfishness for selfishness, grudge for grudge, hostility for
hostility and enmity for enmity.
Ignorant society regards it as silly to be kind and make
amends with anyone who constantly does you wrong, and to
forgive that person for the bad things he has done. In response to
such moral virtue, people in that society would belittle the good
person, asking, "How gullible can you be? If that were me, he'd
soon get what's coming to him!" According to the "facts of life"
espoused by those who ignore the moral teachings of the

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