The mind is a terrible thing to waste..

It's time to get serious. Last night I found The Landover Baptist Church. I was shocked when I read some of the threads in that forum. I checked it out for a couple of hours and got more and more enraged as the minutes went by. Then I found out it was all a parody. And what a parody! I must say that I was really relieved when I read the threads in a whole different light. The thing is that it looks so real that fundamentalist right wing christians have joined, and think that they have found likeminded people. It made me think of this bunch: The Westboro Baptist Church. Unfortunately the latter are for real.

It pisses me off that people like that are allowed to walk free. They should be behind bars. We have to draw the line somewhere. I guess it would be easier to swallow if it was an isolated case. But looking back through the history of religion, it's just one thing after another. From the crusades to the burning of witches to the holy wars of today and killing science for 1,500 years, religion has done more bad than good.

If we, just for one second, pretend that there really is a god, and he (it's always a 'he', not a 'she') created man in his own image, I suspect that he gave us a brain. Could it be, that in most cases, he forgot to turn it on? A little thinking have never hurt anyone. Instead of taking everything the "good book" says for granted, why not try a little logic? Stop believing, start knowing.

I think I stop todays post by just giving you a little list. I will be back!

TOP TEN SIGNS YOU'RE A FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN:
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 we 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 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 sleeping 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 Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few 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 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" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers.  You 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 still call yourself a Christian.


I found the list at Evil Bible.com