Dear Believer
by Dan Barker Dear Believer, — You asked me to consider Christianity as the answer for my life. I have done that. I consider it untrue, repugnant, and harmful. You expect me to believe Jesus was born of a virgin impregnated by a ghost? Do you believe all the crazy tales of ancient religions? Julius Caesar was reportedly born of a virgin; Roman historian Seutonius said Augustus bodily rose to heaven when he died; and Buddha was supposedly born speaking. You don’t believe all that, do you? Why do you expect me to swallow the fables of Christianity? I find it incredible that you ask me to believe that the earth was created in six literal days; women come from a man’s rib; a snake, a donkey, and a burning bush spoke human language; the entire world was flooded, covering the mountains to drown evil; all animal species, millions of them, rode on one boat; language variations stem from the tower of Babel; Moses had a magic wand; the Nile turned to blood; a stick turned into a snake; witches, ...
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Onanite
Sean the non-American Irishman. Also a proud member of the Irish Republican Army 8-)
The distant moon of Europa, which orbits Jupiter, is covered in ice, but underneath the ice is liquid water, because the moon´s core is active - because of tidal forces caused by the giant planet it orbits. Deep in these lightless and relatively warm, but still very cold oceans, there live blind, featureless worms that feed on bacteria, which feed on chemicals from "black smokers" on the ocean´s bottom. These worms grow very slow and live long, although they have no sense of time since there are no seasons in the lightless, slimy silt on the bottom of thaticy ocean.
Now, there worms of course excrete as well. And there is a species of even smaller and more featureless, sessile organism which feeds on the faeces of these blind, pale worms.
And even these humble, eyeless critters that eat the shit of worms, think homophobes are pathetic losers.
Anyway... more power to Michael Moore. I wish more people would go out and get silly like he does. The more powerful the court, the more desperate a jester is needed.
The stupid, it hurts! Take it off! Take it off!
Fred Phelps and his gang clearly have some serious issues of their own; as offensive and annoying as they are, I don't think they are a real threat to anybody aside from the grieving families they victimize (for which they deserve to be locked up in an asylum, if you ask me). The real threat, in my opinion, is the blatant religiously-motivated claptrap that finds its way into political discourse, and is so frustratingly difficult to eradicate once it has taken root. Case in point: The various "Protection of Marriage" acts rest upon absolutely nothing (at least nothing I have been able to discern) more substantial than religiously-condoned bigotry. What unthinking sophistry to suggest that marriage would become "meaningless" if the same privileges were to be extended to same-sex couples.
As I've said many times, within a century this will all be a non-issue. People will look back at this era with the same disdain that we now feel toward those inexplicable and embarrassingly recent times when women did not have the right to vote and blacks had to sit at the back of the bus. But, if history is any guide, Christians will one day proudly proclaim that it was by their initiative that same-sex marriage became legitimized. Mark my words; it will happen.
In the name of science ,....amen!
You forgot "...paranoiac delusional bigots...with a passion for minding other people's business that can only be called deliberately insane."
Other than that, good job!
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