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GodlessHeathen

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57. Actions of One

Sun Feb 5, 2012, 08:57 AM

Feb 2012

The actions of one do not color an entire demographic. What about westboro Baptist church jkeering at the funerals of Dead soldiers?
What about the modern day witch burnigs in Kenya by "good christians", one of thier lead proponents is coming into Texas to go on a speaking tour here in America amongst fundamentalists.
Are you an honorable man? Do you stand steadfast against evil? I strive to and I see Christianity as evil.
The christian religion is extortion. The Christian God has a cosmic gun to the worlds head and says "I Love you, love me back, and me alone, and me above all else and obey me (or at least what these men tell you I order) OR I will torture you for all time in the most ghastly fashion imaginable.
This same God set man up from the begining, with perfect foreknowledge he put the tree in the garden knowing man would eat of it, then punished all humanity for the crime of 2, then demanded blood sacrifice of animals for hundreds of years, then upped the ante to a human (divine) sacrifice followed by the ritualized cannibalization of those remains on a weekly basis. This God is unable to forgive without blood(not omnipotent) and was unable to foresee the whole world becoming evil when he made it creating a need for the flood.(Not omniscient).
Like the Christians always say "hate the sin and not the sinner" I think the religion is evil and the people are duped. The idea on its face is ridiculous, if something appears to me to be ridiculous why would I not point that out? Is not pointing out ridiculousness ridicule? Christians often mock and ridicule atheists, why cannot atheists ridicule in return?
Jesus is the ultimate scapegoat, punished for the worlds "crimes". Would you allow another man to be tortured and slain for your crime? I would not but christians not only think this is good, it is the highest form of good, that is a ridiculous notion worthy of ridicule.

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