XPost: az.general
From: heaven@dead.net
#11 - when 245 people are killed in a plane crash you thank god for
saving the 3 people who weren't killed. The disparity between the
number of dead and living somehow never enters your mind as you think
this "loving god".
On Fri, 11 May 2007 21:50:18 -0700, Michelle Steiner
wrote:
>Top Ten indications that youčre over-obsessed with religion:
>
>#10 You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by
>other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of
>yours.
>
>#9 You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people
>evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical
>claim that humans were created from dirt.
>
>#8 You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a
>Triune God.
>
>#7 Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed
>to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah
>slaughtered all the male first-born babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and
>ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including
>women, children, and trees.
>
>#6 You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims
>about gods consorting with women, but you have no problem believing that
>the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who
>got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
>
>#5 You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in
>the scientifically established age of the Earth (4.55 billion years),
>but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age
>tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is about a
>couple of generations old.
>
>#4 You believe that the entire population of this planet with the
>exception of those who share your beliefs though excluding those in
>all rival sects will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering,
>and yet you consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
>
>#3 While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have
>failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor
>"speaking in tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" your
>choice of religions to be the correct one.
>
>#2 You define .01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered
>prayers, and consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you
>think that the remaining 99.99% failure was simply the will of God.
>
>#1 You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do
>about the Bible, Christianity, and church history but you still call
>yourself a Christian
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