Monday, June 04, 2007 . 6/04/2007

I haven't ranted about religion in a while, and I think one is long overdue. Besides, I've been following a rather amusing discussion on the Infidels.org forums. One could wonder why I don't just sign up there myself and type there, but I get impatient rather easily and that often leads to immature insults, etc, so I'll just leave my rants for my blog.

First of all, the OP asks the question,

"Why are you not interested in the fights that Christians have with each other? I was under the impression that skeptics disliked Christians, and if that is true why are you not interested in our fights?"

I don't think too many atheists are interested in petty religious fights simply because they are so pathetic. All they are is adults fighting over which Invisible Man is better. Then again, this petty squabbling is rather good evidence that a god does not exist, and that religion can be a very dangerous thing. As for atheists not liking Christians, this simply isn't true, at least for me. It's the religion itself that I dislike.

"Right now, Truth is under attack, and much is at stake. Christians are caught in the crossfire of alternative Christian histories, emerging faulty texts, and a cultural push to eliminate absolute Truth altogether. As a result, many churches and Christians have been deceived. Worse still, they propagate the deception that poses itself as Truth! In The Truth War John MacArthur reclaims the unwavering certainty of God's Truth and anchors Christians in the eternal, immovable promises that are found in His Word."

Truth is indeed under attack, but not as this person states it. Truth as in science and what the world itself can tell us. Indeed, ALL Christians and churches have been deceived by their religion. It is nothing but a lie. As for faulty texts, I'd have to say that they are all faulty. How would you decide which is "true" anyhow?

After this rather odd post by the OP, anything else said by him is either about how "unbelievers are in darkness" or quotes from Scripture. I find that quite a lot of religious people "argue" this way, which does nothing. One could just as easily quote parts of Scripture that put to light all the horrible things this Jesus has done or said, such as this:

Mark 9:17-18 & 25 "....Master, I brought unto Thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him; and foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

However, after someone brought this verse up, this was the reply:

"Satan and his servants have been telling the same lies for centuries.

A message to the demons posting on this forum.

I know that you are behind many of the posters posting here. I know that many of them are being influenced by you and are typing out the lies that you fill their minds with.

Only if the people here could see, would they see you hovering over them.

Remember that you have lost the fight in the end and will be cast into the lake of Fire at the due time.

Read this passage of the scripture and fret for your day draws near!

Rev 20: 7-10

Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where ◙ the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever."

So basically he is calling anyone who doesn't agree with him devils, and is making himself look like a paranoid person in the process. It's so pathetic it's almost funny.. here in this day and age, we STILL have people who believe in this garbage! This is something you'd expect to hear in the 1600s, not 2007! It's ridiculous! We are not the ones who have been deceived, not by a long shot. We are not the ones who have been blinded. Rather, it is the people who think there is a god and devils who are in the darkness. While these people sit in the same era for centuries, others have actually done something about learning how the world really works. Praying does nothing, having "faith" does nothing. It is curiosity about the world that makes curing diseases possible, not belief in devils and exorcism!

Putting Bible John behind us now, I want to bring up something else: how people spend millions on new churches or church additions and not to any good causes themselves. Christians like to say that they care about people, when apparently they don't. Sure, there's a commercial that airs every once in a while that asks viewers to give donations for a starving, homeless child, but mostly, any money that is spent by churches themselves are not spent in charity. Building a damn church isn't the answer, praying that everything will be all right isn't the answer, IT IS ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING that is the answer, because apparently your god doesn't give a shit about starving and dying children.

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