Combatting Kristianity

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“Religion is all bunk.”
~ Thomas Edison (1847-02-11— 1931-10-18)
born 1847-02-11 in Milan, Ohio, USA
died 1931-10-18 in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.

“The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved — Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are literally patriarchal, — God the Omnipotent Father — hence the loathing of women for 2000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”
~ Gore Vidal (born 1925-10-03)

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.”
~ Voltaire [François Marie d’Arouet Voltaire] (1694—1778)
born 1694-11-21 in Paris, France
died 1778-05-30 in Paris, France

Kristian Quotations

“I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good… Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time. We don’t want pluralism.”
~ Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue
The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 1993-08-16

“I want to say to all you Scribes, Pharisees, heresy hunters, all of you that are going around pickin' little bits of doctrinal error out of everybody’s eyes and dividin' the Body of Christ… get out of God’s way, stop blockin' God’s bridges, or God’s goin' to shoot you if I don’t… let Him sort out all this doctrinal doodoo!… I refuse to argue any longer with any of you out there! Don’t even call me if you want to argue… Get out of my life! I don’t want to talk to you… I don’t want to see your ugly face!”
~ Paul Crouch, President, Trinity Broadcasting Network

“One of the problems with sex education… is that it also strips kids — especially girls — of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.”
~ James Dobson, Focus on the Family

“Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.”
~ James Dobson, Focus on the Family

“In every classroom in the state [of California, students are] being taught homosexual propaganda and these other politically correct, postmodern views.”
~ James Dobson, Focus on the Family, recommending that parents remove their children from California’s public schools.

“State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse.”
~ James Dobson, Focus on the Family

“In winning a nation to the gospel, the sword as well as the pen must be used. Democracy is a heresy against God!”
~ R.J. Rushdooney, Director of the Rutherford Institute, founder of the Christian Reconstructionists

Jerry Falwell, evangelist

“Homosexuality is Satan’s diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.”
~ Jerry Falwell

“AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.”
~ Jerry Falwell

“I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One’s misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status.”
~ Jerry Falwell, USA Today Chat, quoted from The Religious Freedom Coalition, “The Two faces of Jerry Falwell”

“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s chariotters .”
~ Jerry Falwell

“If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.”
~ Jerry Falwell

“The Bible is the inerrant… word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.”
~ Jerry Falwell, Finding Inner Peace and Strength

“Let us pray it is not so, or if it is, that it will not become widely known.”
~ Wife of the Bishop of Exeter on hearing of Darwin’s theory of the common descent of humans and apes.

Pat Robertson, evangelist

“We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, 'We’ve had enough,' we are going to take over.”
~ Pat Robertson, speech given to the 1980-04 “Washington for Jesus” rally, quoted from Robert Boston, The Most Dangerous Man in America, p. 29.

“There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore.”
~ Pat Robertson, address to his American Center for Law and Justice, November, 1993. Let’s see, now: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' How could the prohibition against Congress making laws respecting an establishment of religion be anything but the separation of church and state?

“Individual Christians are the only ones really — and Jewish people, those who trust God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — are the only ones that are qualified to have the reign, because hopefully, they will be governed by God and submit to Him.”
~ Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, 1985-01-11, defending his stance that only Christians and Jews are fit to hold public office.

“You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don’t have to be nice to them.”
~ Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, 1991-01-14.

“The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.”
~ Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992

“Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals — the two things seem to go together.”
~ Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, 1993-01-21, ignoring the facts that the Nazis killed homosexuals as ruthlessly as they did Jews and that Satanism emerged with Anton Szandor LaVey.

“I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.”
~ Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, 1992-04-18, suggesting that South African white people’s votes ought to count more than other votes because they are in the minority.

“There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.”
~ Richard Lederer

Martin Luther, founder of protestantism

“Stab, smite, throttle, slay these rabid mad dogs without mercy, with a good conscience to the last ounce of strength, for nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful or devilish than a rebel. He that shall be slain on the side of law and order is a true martyr before God, earning eternal bliss; he that perishes on the side of rebellion is doomed eternally to hell. Such times are these that a prince shall win heaven by bloodshed sooner than others by prayer…”
~ Martin Luther (not all Kristians are modern)

“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”
~ Martin Luther

“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.”
~ Martin Luther

“Reason is the enemy of faith.”
~ Martin Luther

“Be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils… they know they are steeped in manifest vices mently, just as the devils themselves do. And where you see or hear a Jew teaching, remember that you are hearing nothing but a venomous basilisk who poisons and kills people… The devil with all his angels has taken possession of this people… Jews, Turks, papists, radicals abound everywhere. All of them claim to be the church and God’s people in accord with their conceit and boast, regardless of the one true faith…”
~ Martin Luther

“What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church… a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.”
~ Martin Luther

“Doubt is truth’s best friend; faith its worst enemy.”
~ Roedy (born 1948-02-04)

What Is This Essay Up To

1. To stop the killing based on religious intolerance.
2. To stop economic exploitation based on religious bamboozlement.
3. To discourage superstition.
4. To encourage speculation to be labelled as such. Religion should have to live up to the same standards of truth in advertising as any anything else. It should demonstrate what it claims on the material plane. Otherwise, how are you to tell it from wishful imagining?
5. To stop people from people from tormenting each other in the name of religion.
6. To stop Christians from voting themselves special status above other religions.
7. To keep purely Christian notions from being enacted into law. Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.

1. That you should treat others as you yourself would want to be treated.
2. The importance of love, truth, kindness and non-violence.
3. Ritual. People like music, candles, incense, ceremonies, history, costumes and special foods. Ideally everyone would be permitted to share in the rich traditions of everyone else.
4. Community.
5. Techniques to motivate you to get along with your fellow humans.
6. Hints at how to apprehend the great unspeakable mysteries of life.

1. In John 14:12 Jesus told his followers they would do works even greater than his. He did not put himself on a pedestal. He asked people to look to God, not to him.
2. In Matthew 16:27 he explained that you will be judged on your works, not your faith.
3. Jesus mocked elaborate priestly garb in Matthew 23:5.
4. In Matthew 21:12 Jesus chased those selling doves from the temple.
5. In Matthew 25:40 he warned that the way you treated the least of your brothers would be way you would be judged.

“I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.”
~ Napoléon Bonaparte

“The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn’t be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.”
~ Gore Vidal (born 1925-10-03)

There is only one truth and a million falsehoods. The only thing mankind can unify around are the common truths. That means everything else will have to go.

Most of what I say also applies to other fundamentalist religions such as Islam. However, I focus on Christianity, since the reader is more likely to be Christian than Muslim, and it is best to focus on one’s own flaws that those of another. Islam has already been over-vilified, mostly with false accusations.

Why Combat Kristianity?

“Dear Jesus
Please save me from your followers.”
~ Anonymous

When I say “combat Kristianity” I primarily mean combat the narrow-mindedness, intolerance and cruelty done in the name of Christ. But I also mean, combat the phony magic and superstition. I don’t mean combat Jesus’s love-everyone philosophy. My complaint is not with Christ, it is with those of his followers who are intolerant. Christians are non-judgemental and Kristians are judgemental. You can fight schizophrenia because you love schizophrenics. You can fight Kristianity because you love Kristians and want to seem them freed from their nightmare and introduced to true Christianity. My goal is to convert Kristians to either ethical atheism or, failing that, to true Christianity.

Jesus said “You are your brothers’ keeper.“ He urged people to live a simple lifestyle that puts minimal stress on the environment. I fully agree. I don’t want to promote selfish or Satanic behaviour. Whether we should discourage Kristianity has nothing whatever to do with whether God exists. I tackle that in an essays on god and the real god. The Kristian description of God is bogus. It is a composite of the wishful thinking of a motley collection of old men, with nothing divine about it at all. It is a con, possibly motivated with good intentions, but nevertheless a con. There many unkind things about Kristians in this essay. Obviously these remarks don’t apply to Christians, but they do apply to the many Kristians, the ones who meddle in the affairs of non-Kristians. However, all Christians deliberately believe an improbable story, mainly, because doing so makes them feel warm and fuzzy, not because there is much evidence for it. That is not particularly noble.

People are often quite puzzled why I would combat Kristianity. I lead a relatively ethical life. I spend a lot of time writing about ethics. Why would I so vehemently oppose Kristianity?

1. When a con artist tricks a mark with a phony penis enlargement cure, a phony weight loss pill or even a phony investment, he usually only manages to rip each victim off only once. Christian con artists, particularly the TV evangelists and faith healers, on the other hand, take their marks over and over throughout their lives. Further they prey on the weakest and poorest members of society.
2. An secular con artist merely relieves his marks of money. Christian con artists do that and also every imaginable form of evil, including suppressing scientific truth, destruction of the environment, justifying genocide, justifying economic exploitation, justifying war, persecuting gays, motivating theft…
3. What does a body do when someone they love dies? They indulge in wishful thinking. They make up a pathetic story that they are not really dead, then try to sell it to others, to shore up the fantasy. It does not matter they have not a stick of evidence for this fantasy. What does a body do when they wants to kill someone and steal their land? They indulge in a grandiose fantasy, that they are God’s chosen one, and as such they have a right to take anyone else’s life and property. What does an body do when he wants to plunder, rape and kill wantonly? He indulges in wishful thinking that God wants him to do this for his country, so that makes it all ok. He convinces himself his victims are not really dead, so that too makes it even more ok. What does a body do when he notices he is aging and those around him are dying. He indulges in fantasy that a God will severely punish anyone who checks out early. So he happily tortures those terminally ill, forcing them to live on and on and on no matter how bad the pain, congratulating himself like some medieval inquistor for his mercy. He indulges in wishful thinking that something indescribably wonderful awaits only him, and a few of kind, after death. The push to eliminate religion is the attempt to release the world from wishful thinking. It is one of the many forms of untruth.

   “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
   ~ Mahatma Gandhi

4. Kristians in the US military use harassment and violence to force Kristianity on non-Christian soldiers. Further, these hypocrites use forced group Kristian prayer to salve the consciences of military serial killers to persuade them their atrocities are morally justified.
5. A vitamin A capsule, costing $0.02, will overnight cure a child in the third world of blindness. Another, every six months, will keep it at bay and also give substantial protection against other diseases. Even the poorest Christian could single-handedly afford to bring sight to more people than Jesus reputedly healed, but instead they choose to send these blind children useless bibles.
6. Kristianity is essentially a lie used to trick others into behaving a certain way. I object to this on three grounds:
   1. It is not only untrue, it is a lie.
   2. It leads people to behave even worse than if they did not believe the lie. In other words, the lie is poorly crafted and maintained and used for all manner of ulterior motives, such as persuading people to wage war or persuading people to allow sexual access to their children.
   3. It morally cripples people. They don’t learn the real reasons why you should behave well. It builds moral principles on sand.
7. Kristianity was a parochial, jingoistic, petty religion created by a backward desert tribe who were so bloated with pride, that they imagined themselves God’s chosen people with right to steal, rape, plunder and murder people of other peoples. Only through the bizarre auspices of Emperor Constantine, did this intensely regional religion get foist on the entire planet. It is not a world class religion.
8. According to CTV news 2008-04-15 the Catholic Church priests have sexually abused more than 5 million children, and the bishops collectively helped in the coverup. That does not even count the children molested by protestant clergy. Priests abuse their power of fear of after death punishment to coerce adults and children into sexual acts and to extort money.

9. I don’ care about the pollitics, the fact of the matter is, these crazy fuckin terriosts think they have to kill us to go to heaven and get their virgin’s. We need to bury all these asshose’s in pigskin!! And for that pussy that made that comment about the christians, I am a christian, and I will kick your ass if you threaten my family, how do you like me now you fuckin pussy!! God Bless America and to Hell with terriosts!!
   Tony Joe, proud and ignorant American Kristian, posting on the Blog To Discuss The Iraq War.

   American Kristians use their religion to justify killing any Muslim, man, woman or child. This is a virtue in their eyes. Yet when a Muslim kills an American soldier who illegally invaded their country unprovoked, it is the ultimate crime. Kristianity teaches contempt for logic. No wonder, because even the god they worship behaves partially, irrationally and abominably.
10. Kristians are encroaching on the airwaves. They used to confine themselves to Sunday broadcasts, now they buy up time 24/7 so there are nearly always at least three Kristian broadcasts going on at once. They lie repeatedly as Kristians do, and con money out of the viewers. This lets them buy up still more air time. They masquerade their shows as talk shows, unsolved mystery shows, counselling shows, science shows, news broadcasts, medical shows and pretty well every genre. The gullible public hear the Kristian lies repeated so many times, never questioned, and they fall for the con. What is even worse, the stations become corrupt from all that ad money and allow Kristian propaganda to permeate legitimate news shows. Because they are Kristians they can make any false advertising claims they want, say slanderous outrageous crap and no one dares say boo. What really galls me is part of my cable bill each month goes to support this crap. I have no option to cut that funding off.
11. Pastor Robbin Leeroy Harper was eventually convicted of multiple child rapes and molestations after many years of his flock looking the other way because they were intimidated by the bogus moral authority of the Christian church. For years, he used his religious authority to bully and terrify his flock, even meddling to the agree of arranging their marriages.
12. Kristians are so presumptuous. The refuse to see that “making your peace with God” has nothing at all to do with Kristianity. They mean “submitting to the authority of meddling, fallible, human, Kristian con men”. Kristianity is only one of 10,000 possible religions. They worship a malevolent, petty spirit, hardly worthy of the title god.
13. Kristianity is based on myth and lies. It is a giant con. If you are a Kristian, this is not likely how you currently see your religion. In my series of essays, I will explain how you can know with complete certainty that this is so. Over the centuries, the Kristian con has been kept alive by three sorts of people:
    1. Outright charlatans who enriched themselves by conning people with the lie that giving them money would curry favour with god.
    2. Ignorant people who unquestioning accepted whatever they were told by their “betters”.
    3. Patronising people who felt it was OK to lie to people to make them behave.
14. Imagine living with a primitive tribe of people who worshipped an evil sky god. They impose terrible suffering on each other thinking this is necessary to placate the sky god. They are completely superstitious with no appreciation of logic, science, reason or common sense. Living with Kristians is little different. They mindlessly torment homosexuals to please their god. They torment the terminally ill, forcing them to stay alive to suffer as long and deeply as possible. They do all in their power to hurt young women who get pregnant. Instead of helping people out of drug addiction, they spend billions to keep them trapped. They spit on the homeless and torment them by confiscating even their meager belongings. They make war on tiny harmless nations stealing their resources and imagine their god not only approves but commanded this piracy. What is perhaps most infuriating is the they feel profoundly virtuous about their evil deeds and look down their noses at everyone else. They are not only ignorant fools, they are proud of it. There is nothing to recommend either evil sky god except that believers will treat you better if you pretend to believe too. Religion thus becomes the ultimate hypocrisy.
15. Kristians teach a silly and primitive form of morality, namely that you should treat your fellows well only to avoid being tortured eternally after death by devils. When a Kristian realises what utter BS this is, suddenly there is no reason to behave well. It is much better to tell children the truth.
16. Kristians love to brag that “God spoke to me” or “Jesus spoke to me”. How the hell would they know what God or Jesus sounds like? All they heard was a weird voice in their head. How do they know they were not just talking to themselves? People can easily imagine the voices of parents or loved ones, and what they would say, so why not a stranger? How do they know that voice was not Satan himself tempting them to puff themselves up with pride that God would single them out like some prophet of old? 5:37 makes it clear God does not talk to people. Normally we put people in mental hospitals when they obey voices only they can hear. But when they label the voice God or Jesus, we give them a get-out-of-hospital-free card since the delusion is so common. Hearing voices is a sign of mental illness, not a holy annointing. However, most of the time all they are doing is bluffing — you had better do as I say because God told me this personally. It is just another trick in the con man’s bag.
17. I have such contempt for Kristian athletes who thank God for helping them or their team to defeat a rival, as if God would be so petty and so partial to interfere in something so trivial as a football game. I feel the same way about ditzy women who win singing or beauty contests, claiming somehow God rigged the contest in their favour. The ego behind such a claim is mind boggling.

18. Benny Hinn, evangelist

    There is a huge of amount of good will in the world. This naturally would go toward such activities as helping those less fortunate both at home and abroad, visiting the sick, caring for the elderly, helping those hurt in natural disasters, funding research on disease, adult education, caring for the environment… The list is endless. However, Kristians hijack this good will. The money goes instead to fund the lavish lifestyles of the televangelists like Benny Hinn. Kristians trick people into imagining that feel-good activities like praying, singing, testifying and prosletysing are actually doing somebody a service. Kristianity seduces people into substituting these sham virtues for the real thing, and imagining themselves superior to those who actually do feed the hungry and clothe the naked as Jesus commanded.

    “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”
    ~ Matthew 7:21

    “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
    ~ Ezekiel 16:49

19. Local churches provide services to the community. The church hall might be used for the Boy Scouts. They might feed or house the homeless at certain times of year. They may do domestic counselling. They provide a safe place to socialise. The congregation sometimes gets together to help out members of the community stricken by tragedy. They sometimes advocate for those too weak or poor to advocate for themselves. They help the people organise around community issues. They organise people on issues such as abortion, gay rights, black rights, ending hunger… They also do many negative things that I have outlined elsewhere. However, televangelists, in contrast, are purely parasitical. All they do is con the public into sending them money, falsely promising healing, abundance, after death luxury accomodation etc. They give back nothing other than a bit of spectacle and musical entertainment. They use all manner of trickery to con the gullible out of their meagre savings. Televangelists are partly responosible for the declining attendance at local churches. People are lazy, and stay home and watch TV, and imagine they have done their duty. The TV con men are willing to promote that illusion.
20. Kristians always shout to give the illusion of conviction and to disguise the fact their words are either unimportant, tedious, untrue or nonsensical. Hitler did the same thing.
21. I have no problem with Kristian science fiction, such as Heaven Can Wait, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twice in a Lifetime, It’s a Wonderful Life, Defending Your Life or Bedazzled. These are usually morality tales tolid in an entertaining way. They don’t pretend to be literal truth. In contrast, preachers pretend every word they utter is incontestible truth, even patently whacko things like utter certainty God will strike with lightning, or send category 6 hurricanes if the congregation don’t part with sufficient funds or pass some law to harrass gay people. They perform fake “healings” on shills and silly old women desperate for attention who have little wrong with them. They fake messages direct from the almighty. You wonder who would be stupid enough to fall for such transparent and ancient cons, cons that were obvious even to the audiences of the snake oil salesmen. The illusions involved are nowhere near the quality of today’s stage magicians like David Copperfield, and Criss Angel. Yet there are hundreds of millions desperate enough or brainwashed enough to fall for them. These preachers are literally mind parasites, who prey on the vulnerable. In the animal kingdom, the Polyergus red queen ant invades a colony of another ant species and tricks them into treating her as the true queen. Through clever manipulation of pheromones (scent communication chemicals) she tricks the entire colony into slavery, raising her brood and caring for them. Her own brood are degenerate and cannot even care for themselves. That is not that outrageous a metaphor for how a preacher sponges off the body politic.
22. Kristians are bloody liars, endlessly repeating their lies on TV and radio and from the pulpit, as if by repeating the lies often enough they might become true. Every study has shown prayer is utterly ineffective, but they keep lying that it is absolutely fail proof. Nearly every scientific assertion in the bible turned out to be false, but Kristians pretend it is 100% reliable. Kristians promise riches, healing and whatever else they think will sell, if you but give them money. These lies need to be combatted like any other false information does, e.g. that tobacco is harmless or that garlic will cure AIDS. We won’t put up with this sort of chicanery and false claims from drug makers. Why do we tolerate it from Kristians? Some of them raise money to helping starving Africans, and keep most of it for themselves, and they are never prosecuted for fraud. Freedom of religion as been abused to permit flagrant con games to be perpetrated on the public without any constraint.
23. Kristians, realising there is no evidence for their beliefs and plenty to disprove them, resort to an infuriatingly dishonest argument. They not only move the goalposts, they invert them. They assert atheists are cold and unfeeling (without evidence, as usual). They claim Kristian gullibility as a virtue, that the Kristian “ability” to believe nonsense is a special skill. Of course this “skill” would also let them believe urban legends, superstitions, paranoid delusions, myths, rumours, not to mention the risen Elvis.
24. In I John 2:7-12 and again in II John 1:5 Jesus gives the new old commandment: Love everyone unconditionally. Kristians give the Old Testament precedence over Jesus’s prime directive.
25. The arrogance of Christians galls me. They freely admit that every one of the 10,000 plus religions but theirs is arrant nonsense. On what grounds to they imagine only they got it right, even though their religion is even more preposterous than average and even though their religion borrows brazenly from a dozen others? They are so outrageously conceited and without any evidence to justify it. They back their claims with nothing but repeated assertion and double talk. What makes their claim of unique superiority even more outrageous, is they pride themselves in not studying any of the alternatives.
26. Christians maliciously try to claim that natural selection is pure chance. Most are willfully ignorant. But even the ones who do understand the difference still try to bamboozle others with that monstrous straw man lie e.g. equating natural selection with a hurricane in a junkyard producing a Boeing 707.
27. 

    In interests of fairness, the stork theory of baby creation will be taught alongside Christian creationism in American science classes.

28. There is a tribe in the Philipines that torture pigs by sticking wooden spears into them. The more the pig squeals supposedly the more spirits enter the pig and bring good fortune on the village. The longer the pig squeals before it dies, supposedly the more good fortune. Why on earth would spirits want to enter a suffering pig? What evidence is there that this sacrificial magic works? What evidence is there than any sacrificial magic works? The only example I can think of is painlessly sacrificing the best seeds to the “gods” to bring benefit. Sacrifice is usually an excuse for sadism. Kristiantity focuses on of pointless sacrifice and pain.

    “I think it’s interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do you think when Jesus comes back, he’s really going to want to look at a cross?”
    ~ Bill Hicks

29. Kristianity is an S&M/guilt trip. Christianity is a love trip.
30. Deuteronomy 23:19 and many other places forbid usury — accepting interest on a loan. This is an unusual commandment to follow in the modern age, though it was strictly adhered to in the middle ages. Only non-Christians could offer interest-style loans. Why is usury so bad? It creates an instability. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Kristians ignore this important commandment.
31. No one in their right mind would counsel solving your personal and ethical problems by consulting an Afghan sheep herder who augured by examining the entrails of a dead goat. Yet Kristians demand we do something even sillier, namely consult the myths of illiterate shepherds who have been dead for 4000 years, who knew utterly nothing of modern life.
32. Kristians care more about the dead than the living. They are far more concerned about what happens to corpses than living people. They feel duty bound to obey the dead, even though the dead do not care or create consequences.
33. Kristians miss the entire point of Christianity. It is a metaphor to guide you in spiritual growth. Kristians ignore the deep meaning. The wisdom Christianity contains was borrowed from dozens of predecessor religions. Kristians use Christianity to keep themselves in a state of spiritual stupor.
34. Kristians claim to know with absolute certainty when in actuality they are utterly clueless. They pretend to have solid evidence when in fact they have nothing to back them up at all, just a gut feeling based on childhood indoctrination and an ancient book of myths, no different from any other ancient book of fanciful myths. They made it all up, the same as every other religion. They have no evidence and they are willfully ignorant of the mountains of evidence that debunks their preposterous claims. Further they dishonestly distort the evidence against their claims. Kristians claim their religion is absolute truth when in fact it in founded on a work of fiction and defended with lies and deception. It is just preposterous as the founding a religion on the science fiction novels of L. Ron Hubbard.
35. The Bible conflicts with what we know to be true in medicine, astronomy, psychiatry, physics, chemistry, biology, parasitology, criminology, geology… Even if you give the Bible extreme latitude as only metaphorical, it is still wrong. It represented the best thinking of people two millenia ago. Precious little of what it had to say is still relevant. Ironically, a book designed to guide people to a more moral life is now leading them to hatred, intolerance and foolishness. People confuse God and the Bible. God is a truth that lives in your heart. The Bible is just a book to help you find that truth.
36. The central ceremony of Christianity involves ritual cannibalism, It is done very daintily on white linen, but still the idea is barbaric.
37. Catholic and Southern Baptists continue to encourage prejudice against women. They refuse to allow women to take part in the leadership of the church. Women were chattels in Biblical times, and Kristians want to return to those times.
38. Enough of this silliness! Kristians are like bratty children who make some silly assertion then stick to it no matter what, just to annoy you. Kristian assertions are so absurd, they must be pulling your leg, but they never give up and never admit they were just trying to piss you off.
39. When the King James Bible was written, it was written in deliberately archaic language, even for the time, in order to trick people into thinking these were truly the words of an ancient God.
40. Kristianity is a camouflage that criminals of every description use to fool people into trusting them. Kristianity is at its very core a giant con. Priests since time immemorial have tricked and extorted people into tithing to them, and handing over political power.
41. Kristians take great pleasure in tormenting gays, treating them as second class citizens. In the past they did the same with blacks, using the bible to justify their petty snobbery. What is so galling is the hypocrisy. They pretend to do this in the name of love and good will. They hate fun, love and kindness. They despise people who enjoy their lives. They want everyone to lead lives as cramped and miserable as theirs. Think of John Ashcroft and his clothing the statues and refusal to dance. Kristian argue that not only should homosexuals be forced to be celibate as punishment for being born gay, but that Kristians should treat gays as second class citizens and make their lives miserable whether they are celibate or not. Yet they hypocritically claim this stance is consistent with the Gandhian notion of hate the sin and love the sinner. They enjoy using gays as scapegoats to vent their petty venality.
42. There may be a God, but the Kristian description of the creator of the universe is not correct. See the two essays The Real God and Is there A God?. Kristians are spreading slander about the creator of the universe. The Old Testament depicts Him as a petty, incompetent buffoon. The Qur’an has a somewhat better description, but no mere words can possibly do God justice.
43. My essential beef with Kristianity is its dishonesty. It presents as absolute fact statements that are mere speculation backed by nothing more substantial that a deep gut feeling that they must be true. Kristianity bandies the word truth around as if it had an exclusive hold on it, but it is utterly careless about the usual rules of evidence. There is far more evidence for alien abduction than for even the existence of Jesus, much less the claimed resurrection from the dead. if Jesus really were so amazing, how come nobody bothered to write down anything he said while he was alive? If three Kings proclaimed him the Messiah at birth, why was he raised has a humble carpenter? How come his followers did not even bother to protect his birth, death and resurrection places as holy shrines? How come there is no secular record of him? It sounds like the story was ahem, enhanced considerably after his death for better sales appeal. Christians have only the flimsiest evidence for their beliefs, so they bluster and bluff, claiming infallilibily and absolute truth. They have been shown time and time again to be simply wrong. Being wrong is forgivable; claiming exclusive access to absolute truth is delusional.
44. The debating tactics of Kristians are based on lying and deception. One of the frequent tricks they use is falsely claiming famous people like Einstein believed in their God. Yet Einstein made in very clear he did not. He suffered great opprobrium in his time for expressing his atheism.

    “It was of course a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god, and I have never denied this, but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
    ~ Albert Einstein

45. Jesus harped on three themes:
    1. Don’t chase wealth.
    2. Look after the poor.
    3. Don’t judge or seek revenge.
    Yet consider a Kristian like George W. Bush. He totally ignores Jesus’s three biggies, yet considers himself pious man. Exposure to Kristianity seems to make people immune to Jesus’s message. They imagine they have already heard and absorbed it, when they are the ones most in need of it.
46. Here is just one example of scientific dishonesty Kristians resort to in order to sell their Bible stories. To demonstrate the feasibility of the story that 7 trumpets brought down the 20 foot thick walls of the city of Jericho, they built a wall of bricks and subjected it to over 20,000 watts of acoustic bombardment. Since the wall had not even set, predictably it collapsed. Of course the containing room of 15.24 cm (6 in) of concrete did not. However, the makers of Mysteries of The Bible failed to point that out. Even that level of sound will kill people.
47. We don’t mind an arrogant genius like Pierre Trudeau who won’t suffer fools gladly, however, an arrogant twit is insufferable. Fundamentalist Kristians infuriating. Why? They make the assertion that the Bible is the literal word of God. Then they insult everyone’s intelligence by offering not a shred of evidence to support such a fantastic claim. As Carl Sagan said: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. Since they are the ones making such an extraordinary claim, the burden of proof should be on them. Yet fundamentalists think they are exempt from the customary rules of evidence. They don’t have even the most rudimentary understanding of what evidence is. They attempt to circularly prove the truth of the Bible by quoting parts of it that proclaim its truth. Even when you show them over and over how the Bible could not possibly the literal word of God, (e.g. my Noah essay), they refuse to see and make up the silliest excuses to hold onto their delusion. They want it to be true so it is true.

    “Beware the man of one book.”
    ~ Roman proverb

48. Fundamentalist Kristians make the assertion that the Bible is the literal word of God. Then they demand others accept that unlikely notion as Absolute Truth, purely on blind faith. That God is the author of the Bible is unlikely because surely God would have written a much better book than the Bible with its factual errors, inconsistencies, vagueness, rambling, psychotic advice and irrelevancy. Labelling it 100% God’s work is blasphemy. With the faith non-argument, (just have faith it is the 100% word of God), you could equally well assert that Dr. Seuss’s The Cat In The Hat was the literal word of God. In contrast, Islam offers some weak proof that the Qur’an is the literal word of God, namely that the poetry of the Qur’an is the best ever written in Arabic, ostensibly beyond all possible human skill. The Qur’an too blasphemes Allah. No written words could do otherwise.

    “Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
    One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.”
    ~ Kabir, mystic Hindi poet.

49. Kristians such as Jerry Falwell knowingly misrepresent the theory of evolution to the public. Their lies have approximately half the population of the US rejecting the theory. Even after being repeatedly corrected, Falwell continues to assert that evolution is a random process akin to throwing the parts of watch in the air and having them assemble themselves into a watch. Natural selection, the force that does the shaping, is not in the least random. Its mindless, relentless push to perfection is what gives the illusion of a designer. Random mutation just provides raw fodder of the selection process. You could think of the process of the natural selection as like a primitive spell checker a child might use. It points out the mistakes but does not correct them. It is up to the child to randomly try new spellings until they get it right. Out of this process, with sufficient patience, can come perfectly spelt papers, far beyond the powers of an unaided child.

    “Mutation is utterly random, but selection is extremely choosy!”
    ~ Ursula Goodenough, Mind and Life conference 2002

50. The majority of Americans believe a god will reward them after death with eternal infinite bliss, and reunion with loved ones including pets. There is not a stick of evidence to support this. Americans swallow this crap from endlessly repeating it to each other and absurdly optimistic wishful thinking. What makes this belief even more preposterous is these Americans are the greediest, most callous people on earth. According to their own bible, they are doomed, certainly not the apple of their god’s eye.

    “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
    ~ Ezekiel 16:49

51. The world is so warped by the insane logic of Kristians that people can avoid mandatory vaccination only for irrational religious objections, but not for rational medical concerns.
52. Kristians such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson con people into handing over control of their lives and income to them, by claiming God speaks specifically to them, and hence that they should be treated with almost as much respect as the Bible itself.

    “The secret is surrender. Commitment to Christ involves surrender of the intellect, the emotions and the will — the total person.”
    ~ Bill Bright, Jesus and the Intellectual

53. So the religious leaders of the planet pander to this hunger, knowingly offering false certainty. Each group claims an exclusive hold on absolute truth. Yet at most one can be correct. This means at least 99.99% of them are offering bullshit. Why do we offer such reverence to a pack of liars?

    “The world longs for authority, finality and conclusiveness. It is weary of theological floundering and uncertainty. Belief exhilarates the human spirit; doubt depresses.”
    ~ Billy Graham

54. Kristians are so utterly sure their particular sect is the very best possible, even though they deliberately shield themselves from exposure to anything else. It is intellectually dishonest to pretend you know more than you really do.
55. Kristianity causes a form of brain damage that affects taste. Kristians become attracted to the tackiest imaginable music, decoration, books, TV, greeting cards and inspirational messages. Watching someone go Kristian is like losing them to Alzheimers’.
56. Kristians have effectively brainwashed everyone into thinking that almost anything if done with a religious motivation must not be interfered with. This includes child abuse, self mutilation, exposing children to poisonous snakes, brainwashing, disrupting the funerals of homosexuals, and of course income tax evasion (which they have made legal for them alone, not for groups of atheists). Freedom of religion means Kristians have a perfect right to make fools of themselves. However, they should be prevented from harming others, including their children, in the process.
57. The Vatican during WW II lifted not a finger to help the Jews. They could have threatened to excommunicate Catholics who engaged in those murders. After the war, they helped Nazi war criminals to escape. Then they got into the business of laundering money for the Mafia. The Vatican cons poor peasants in the third world to pay for the extravagance and opulence of St. Peter’s Basilica.
58. Kristians are obviously aware that not everyone agrees with them and that they can’t provide much evidence for their beliefs. In other words, they know they are basing their lives on speculation and gut instinct. Obviously, even Kristians have plenty of experimental evidence that loving your enemies and treating others kindly does work. God’s creation speaks to man in a million ways besides books. These are much easier to read that ancient texts. Why do Kristians insist on closing their eyes to God’s clearest messages? Why do they refuse to see the awe in Quantum Physics? The physicist at least tries to learn how God thinks. I suspect the reason is the Kristians, too suspect their security blanket is a sham, and want to shore up their belief in its magic by talking others in to believing in it.
59. Childhood brainwashing makes Kristians so dense they cannot for the life of them see the difference between rejecting the divinity and rejecting the Kristian description of the divinity. It never even occurs to them their description is largely wrong.
60. Christianity teaches gullibility as a virtue. There were not even any first hand witnesses to any of Jesus’s so-called miracles. Can you imagine someone today making wild claims like that with only hearsay as evidence, e.g. someone insisting that you believe a spacecraft landed making a crop circle with the only evidence that some unnamed person told him it happened 130 years ago. It is utterly absurd. What is even more infuriating is Christians don’t seem to notice it is absurd, or sometimes that believing the absurd is a virtue. Once people are softened up to pretend to believe the idiotic, they can be lead about like pigs with rings in their noses. They are then easy to con and fleece, the true purpose of Christianity.

    Consider what it would take to get you to believe in the existence of the Loch Ness monster or sasquatches. Would a single second hand account do it? And Loch Ness monsters and sasquatches would not even be miraculous, just surprising. Why he gaping inconsistency in standards of evidence?

61. Have you even tried to debate with a Kristian on anything, e.g. software piracy? They have only a very limited repertoire of ancient ideas they use as the answer to any question, like one of those dolls you pull the string on that parrots a pat phrase. Further, like the Church lady, Kristians see evil everywhere. Kristianity destroys the ability to have or appreciate a new idea. Ironically, the people who seem to have an inkling of what Christ was actually trying to say are not even Christians.
62. On 2008-11-02, a 13-year old Muslim girl reported she had been raped. Instead of confronting the alleged culprits, the girl was lead into a stadium where she was stoned to death for adultery by 50 men. The justification for that was a book, the Old Testament, claimed, without evidence, to be absolute truth by Jews, Christians and Muslims. This violent, cruel book of superstition does not deserve deference, especially among non-believers.
63. I went to see a lecture by Dr. Charles Taylor cmt@philo.mcgill.ca the eminent Canadian philosopher and theologian. Even though he was obviously a respected academic, I decided even he was a Kristian. He skirted the issue of science as a factor in the decline of Christianity in his lecture on the rise of secularism over Christianity. He tried to paint scientists as closed minded in comparison with Kristians. Consider the source of radical new ideas over the last hundred years. He attacked a straw man accusing evolutionists of claiming to have a complete handle on the causes of evolution. He has it backwards, Kristians are the ones claiming absolute and complete truth. Science is always provisional — the best truth so far. He talked of “religious knowledge” when there is no such thing, only religious speculation. If it were knowledge it would be agreed upon fact, not religion. He was willing to jump through hoops to read the Bible in such a way it did not conflict with observed fact, e.g. to conform to Galileo’s observation that the earth is not the centre of the universe. He told several stories of people losing their faith. The tragedy was the pain of disillusionment. He seemed to imply that religion was a balm for that pain and that avoiding that pain was what was important. Whether the beliefs were true seemed completely immaterial.
64. The United States is the richest country on earth and the most Christian. How does America help the rest of the world when it comes to the AIDS epidemic? It could save millions of lives by providing sufficient medicine. This would come out to about $5 a citizen. Do they do it? No. Instead they sue the South African government for providing its citizens with low cost generic AIDS drugs. Yet Kristians are almost infinitely smug about their virtue. See Mécedcins Sans Frontières for details. They did not go to the aid of many other countries beset by terrorists, but threatened every country on earth unless they came to America’s aid.
65. Kristians don’t understand that their values are not universal. They insist that all children, both Kristian and non-Kristian alike be indoctrinated with Kristian values. For example, instead of giving teens factual information about the risks of various activities for passing various sexual diseases and for pregnancy, or the consequences of either, they want to hide this information from them. Instead they want all children inculcated with religious opinions such as “all sex outside marriage, even masturbation, is wicked” and “abstinence and marriage are the only acceptable approaches to preventing venereal diseases”. The African experience has proved the futility of this approach, yet the Kristians are slaughtering a generation of children on the altar of Kristian virtue.
66. Kristianity is humbug. It is based on untruths. I oppose all untruth even supposedly harmless ones. I oppose Kristianity on the same grounds that I oppose people who tell me professional wrestling is real, horoscopes can predict the future, that $9.00 a minute TV psychics have access to supernatural information and that the earth is flat. Kristianity makes claims that are demonstrably not true (as well as other outlandish ones that cannot be either proved or disproved). The best known miracle, the loaves and the fishes is a lie. The fishes were added later, to incorporate the fish symbol. The fundamental miracle, Christ rising from the dead, is even contradicted by the Bible, which states that the people seeing the supposed risen Christ did not recognise him. There are more people who claim to have seen the risen Elvis than the risen Christ. Kristianity is built on sand. True religion does not need magic tricks. The Truth is true.
67. Kristianity encourages intolerance, particularly toward gays and people of other faiths.

    “Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”
    ~ Voltaire [François Marie d’Arouet Voltaire] (1694—1778)

68. Kristianity is the number one cause of teenage suicides. Most teen suicides are gays tormented by Kristian lies about homosexuality or tormented by fellow teens egged on by their Kristian inspired intolerance for homosexuals.
69. If an adult tells you about their conversations with an imaginary magic friend, you might tactfully lead them to seek psychiatric treatment. Yet if a Kristian does the same thing, we leave them stew in their delusion. Kristianity masks all manner of mental illness. It is a socially acceptable form of insanity. We look the other way, afraid to deal with the organised wrath of the Kristian delusionals. Kristians mistakenly mistake any random internal voice as the voice of God.
70. Kristianity encourages a careless disregard for the environment. God will clean up after us (or destroy it all soon). Kristians believe there is no need to limit our population growth. According to the Kristians we have “dominion” over all other species — only man has any value. True Christian consider themselves the good stewards of Planet Earth. Kristianity believes that God created the entire universe for man’s pleasure alone. No other species has any value other than to serve man. This is toxic conceit. They treat the universe is like cosmic toilet paper.
71. Kristians are not only misinformed about science and physics they lie about them and insist on teaching those lies to children. If they will lie about something where they can so easily be caught, how can you trust them with matters you can’t check up on? Kristianity is just a synonym for insincerity and hypocrisy. Christ repeatedly asked people to be truthful, yet Kristianity is fundamentally the art of telling beautiful lies, supposedly for the good of others.

    “What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church… a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.”
    ~ Martin Luther

72. Jesus warned people it was unwise to make material goods the center of your life. See Matthew 6:19. ???? 6:29 However, the Kristian charismatic movement urges centering your life around an expectation of abundant earthly wealth caused by gaining special favour with God. Even Christians are alarmed about this heresy.
73. Kristianity is anti-scientific. It treats gullibility as a virtue. The Bible would have you believe volcanoes are caused by God’s wrath, nothing whatever to do with plate tectonics. People still believe this nonsense in the third millennium. There is almost no evidence to back up Kristianity’s claims so they make it a virtue to have faith without evidence! There are more people who claim to have been abducted by an alien, to have seen the risen Elvis or to have seen a sasquatch than ever claimed to have seen the risen Jesus. This does not bother the Kristians. Who needs evidence? They want it to be true, so it is true. End of argument. Kristianity is self-deceptive, pathetic, childish, wishful thinking. If Kristians would grow up and get over their fear of death they could let go of these outlandish fairy tales. I find it so disgusting when otherwise sane people furiously try to convince themselves that Santa Claus really does live at the North Pole, despite all evidence to the contrary.

    “So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
    ~ Bertrand Russell (1872-05-18— 1970-02-02)

74. Miss America went on TV and says that her “faith” in God is what helped her to persevere — not God, her “faith” in God. That is no more a demonstration of the existence in God than would her attestation to her faith in a lucky rabbit’s foot. Making yourself believe something you don’t truly believe is true, in the hopes of some gain, is ignoble.
75. Kristianity is intellectually dishonest. For example, Kristian “scientists” put out a seeming objective scientific documentary on the Shroud Of Turin, trying to make people believe it was the shroud of Christ. However, they left out one key detail — the cloth was carbon dated to the middle ages. They also claimed the red stains were real blood, not mentioning other scientists concluded they were iron pyrites. These creationists make snake oil salesmen look honest. They are not simply misguided, they are out and out liars. What is worse they have the political power to have their nonsense replace the truth in schools. This is just carrying on the long standing tradition of deception. Saints’ bodies “miraculously” did not decay. The church never let on they mummified them.
76. The Kristian church is hypocritical. It preaches poverty while its leaders live in opulence.
77. Kristianity is paternalistic and meddling. Kristians presume they know better than everyone else how others should run their lives. They keep trying to enforce their religious beliefs into law to force everyone to worship in the Kristian way. They suffer under the delusion, that as Kristians, they have some special divine authority to tell everyone else what to do, using force if necessary. Moslem fanatics are even worse in other countries, but in my part of the world, Muslims tend to leave others alone. Further, Kristians think they have the right to choose everyone else’s reading material both in print and on the Internet.
78. Kristian fundamentalists don’t accept the notion of separation of church and state. They are so sure their particular sect has an exclusive handle on the truth, they want the state to enforce it on everyone else. They want their prayers said in schools. They want their religious rules posted in public buildings. They want their religious restrictions on marriage burned into law. They want tax dollars to go to Christian organisations. There want their illogical religion-based rules on abortion and euthanasia legally enforced on everyone. They argue that historically the church and state were once one, and that is how it should be again.
79. Though Jesus was keen on the rich helping the poor, the Kristian line is that the poor deserve their plight, and to help the flow of wealth from the lazy poor to the industrious already wealthy, taxes should be increased for the poor and decreased for the rich. This is the agenda of the “religious” right.
80. Kristians see no possibility of any difference between their book and God’s eternal commandment. If anyone disagrees with them they are obviously disagreeing with God. It never occurs to them that their view of God is mostly wrong, or even that they could be wrong.
81. Imagine that I started a new religion, the Whackites. Imagine that I managed to con 10,000 people into signing up and tithing. We Whackites are recognised as a religion under the income tax act. We whackites have some holy rites. One is, when dining in public, stripping to our underwear, and squirting Dairyland™ Aerosol Whipping Cream on each others’ heads and on the heads of any other people present as a holy blessing. It is the holy semen of the Divine One. Refusing to accept it is rejecting God. If anyone objects, or ridicules us, we file assault or discrimination charges under the hate crimes act. We demand others respect our religion.

    Religion is just superstition with a strong emotional attachment. Religious freedom is the right to do silly things, even self-destructive things, without requiring a logical reason. However, religious freedom should not give one the right to enforce silly behaviour on others who don’t want to play. Kristians imagine non-believers must also conform to their supersitions.

82. Consider the Whackites again. We Whackites believe it is incredibly immoral to carry any form of ID. We sue in the supreme court for our religious freedom. The supreme count humours us by ordering all id be banned for all Canadians and replaced by digital photographs and electronic image identification. If society can humour a religious nuttiness with minimal accomodation, e.g. Sikh RCMP officers wearing turbans, then fine, but if it inconveniences others or endangers them, or costs them significant amounts of money, then I say piss on them. They have no right to do things that effectively impose their nutty beliefs on others. Religious freedom should only cover actions that don’t unduly impose on non-believers. Kristians imagine non-believers should also conform to their supersitions. I find outrageously silly that I have a better chance arguing in court based on an irrational religious belief than on a rational one.

    I think it is wrong to treat religion as different from any other superstitious or irrational behaviour. Religion deserves derision and disrepect. Feigning respect helps hold these erroneous and often cruel or harmful beliefs in place. If a mental patient told you he liked drinking cups of human blood, you would not encourage this delusion. Yet when a Christian tells you the same nonsense, most people feign hushed respect. If a mental patient told you his pet cat tells him what do you, most people would try to talk him out of this delusion. When a Christian tells you a snake had a seductive conversation with one of his ancestors, most people listen respectfully trying hard to disguise their incredulity.

83. Kristians can’t seem to understand that the only reason they are Kristian is because their parents spoon fed it into them when they were too young to resist, or when some evangelist pushed it into them they were under extreme emotional stress. To people without that experience, Kristianity seems just as silly as the Roman gods. If Kristianity had some inherent truth, appeal or logic, it would not require brainwashing to install it.
84. Sometimes Christian faith exquisitely enhances compassion. Consider Albert Schweitzer and Mother Theresa. However, Kristianity tends to bleed people dry of natural mercy and compassion. Kristians want everyone to live by the same mindless rigid rules agrarian villagers used thousands of years ago. They demand that people die hideous, painful and degrading deaths from terminal illnesses. They self-righteously meddle in other people’s lives without understanding. In the name of virtue they demand that the terminally ill have no recourse to physician assisted suicide no matter how unbearable life becomes. It is none of their business. They are not the ones doing the suffering. See the essay on euthanasia for more details and also the essay on medical marijuana. Ironically, Christ railed against this rule-based judgementalness more than any other sin. Still the Kristians block their ears to his words.
85. The religious right are a political force. They are dangerous when given the reigns of government. In an age threatened by global warming and overpopulation, it is folly to entrust handling such problems to people who think the best way to deal with them is wishful thinking (i.e. prayer), pseudoscience (i.e. creationism) and consulting experts who lived thousands of years ago before these problems even surfaced (the Bible). These people are seriously addled by their religious beliefs. The most famous was Interior Secretary (analogous to the Canadian Environment Minister) James Watt of the Reagan era. He said that there was no need to protect the forests because God was going to restore them in a few years anyway. He resigned in 1983. As of today, God still has not magically restored the forests. He will guide us to do the work, but he won’t do all our work for us. James Watt cited Genesis as justification for schemes to “subdue” the Grand Canyon and the national forests.
86. Man has been an unmitigated disaster on the planet, causing more species to go extinct than the asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs. You would think Kristians, who scrupulously torment homosexuals to please God, would have some compunction about vandalising His handiwork, but they do not. American Kristians are the cheerleaders of global habitat destruction.
87. Kristians force Kristmas down everyone else’s throat. It has degenerated to a festival to celebrate gluttony and greed. Kristians admit this, yet they get huffy when a Jew, atheist or pagan says perhaps public tax money should not be spent setting up Kristmas decorations. They seem to think the state is not supposed to promote any one particular religion over the others, unless that religion is Kristianity. This Kristian assumption of superiority, deserving of special privilege, is so galling to people of other faiths. Kristians can’t even see they are doing it. They just assume they are morally superior to everyone else. They never stop to rethink whether that is really true. They think the modern world is anti-Christian when in reality it reeks of Kristianity. Like a bad perfume, you can’t get away from it.
88. Church Kristianity distracts people away from becoming true Christians. Christ himself warned against this. A modern Church Kristian prides himself on irrelevancies like church attendance, taking communion, singing in the choir, donating to TV evangelists, believing the doctrines of some sect, affluence and heterosexuality. At the same time he votes to tell his government to make life as comfy as possible for the rich and as miserable as possible for the poor and sick. He spends his time and income only on himself and his family. Like Dana Carvey’s Church Lady, he gloats over the sins of others. He forgets the message to the churchgoers in Luke 13:26-27.
89. Kristianity is stuck in the past. Even though most modern Kristians have never even smelled a sheep, Kristians persist in using metaphors designed for illiterate shepherds. Much has changed in the last 5000 years — cities, medicine, science, international travel, global warming, the WTO, the population explosion, the energy crunch, global pollution… Kristians try to pretend nothing has changed since the fabled days of Moses. They avoid confronting the problems of today by hiding in the past.
90. Judaiism, Christianity, Islam and Bahai are founded on the notion of sacrifice. If somebody does a foolish or wrong-headed thing, by some inexplicable magic, supposedly the effects will be erased by killing a pigeon, destroying some perfectly good food, or by deliberately creating suffering for yourself, e.g. deliberately getting yourself crucified. What sacrifice really means is “doing that which is hard and which helps everyone”. Creating misery that helps no one, then labelling it sacrifice is just sado-masochism.
91. Kristian prudery kills. A right wing religious zealot, Bill van der Zaalm gained power in British Columbia in the early 1980s. As premier, he banned all education materials on HIV for both children and adults alike. I, like many others, laboured under the delusion AIDS was just more hysteria — like the rumoured killer gonorrhea from Viet Nam. I contracted HIV in ignorance as did many other people at that time. Van der Zaalm later called for concentration camps for HIV+ people. The courts blocked him. The churches have consistently blocked teaching safe sex and birth control to the young. I spent many hours of my life trying to convince young people to take safe sex precautions. Without official backup, that was almost an impossible job. The young were convinced they were immortal. Kristian prudery kills kids. Yet these hypocrites consider themselves more moral than everyone else! They gloat when the young contract HIV, claiming it is God’s punishment for not remaining virgins. Kristian prudery is cruel. In the name of Kristian virtue, fathers and mothers have disowned their daughters. Kristians are slaughtering a generation of children on the altar of Kristian virtue.
92. The fundamental value, the core Kristian family value, is persecuting homosexuals. That puts them in the same category as Nazis, whose core value is hating Jews. Kristians started out with a superior morality, and degenerated into a hate group.
93. Kristians consider themselves more moral than anyone else, yet they meddle in everyone else’s affairs that are no concern of theirs. They don’t see anything wrong in that behaviour. They imagine they have the right to dictate the reading and viewing material for other fellow adults. They think their religion gives them the right to treat everyone else as children.
94. Kristianity encourages passivity. Instead of doing something about the evils of the world, Kristians sit at home and twiddle their thumbs, all the while imagining they are doing something highly virtuous and useful. They call this inactivity “praying”. We heard a Muslim pilot of an airliner in serious trouble idiotically repeating a prayer “I put my fate in God’s hands.” instead of attending to the problems at hand.
95. Kristianity is so crass. Kristians can’t even donate to help a child in Africa without contanimating that simple act of compassion with religion and the implied after-death rewards.
96. Most modern religious music, except for Gospel, is cloying and insincere. It is an insult to offer such drivel to the Creator of the Universe.
97. The celibate priesthood is a medieval idea that should be dropped. It leads to pathologically repressed individuals who take out their sexual and sadistic feelings on helpless children in their care. There has been scandal after scandal in Canada about priests and nuns abusing children both sexually and physically.
98. Whenever there is a death, Kristians swoop down and start feeding their dogma to the bereaved. The bereaved are upset and susceptible to childish stories of false hope. Even my aunt Edith’s funeral was turned into a 30 minute informercial for Kristianity, even though my aunt and most of the guests were atheists.
99. Kristians are unwilling to leave others in peace who don’t believe their myths. Even the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are fueled by the popular will to punish the Muslims for rejecting Christianity and the divinity of Jesus. The Muslims revere him only as prophet.

    Thomas Jefferson, US president

    “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket.”
    ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-04-13—1826-07-04)

    It seems to me though when Kristians act vigilante style to punish people for religious sins, then the government should step in to curtail them.
100. The US constitution forbids any sort of religious test for holding office. Kristians violate this flagrantly by grilling candidates on details of their religious faith. Candidates flout their faith in violation of Matthew 6:5.
101. Nearly all the hateful email I receive is from nominal Kristians. Non-Kristians simply disagree. Kristianity makes people insanely self-righteous. I years past I received thousands of death threats from Kristians due to my gay lib stance. Some even send Trojans and viruses piggybacked on their email. Some have attempted to censor my newsgroup posts with forged cancels. If Kristianity had a salutary effect on people, should it not be the reverse?

     “The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.”
     ~ Joseph Sobran

102. Kristianity is silly. Consider the recent agreement between the Catholics and Protestants over the centuries old rift over the definition of “justification”. The crux of the disagreement was Martin Luther’s belief that the process of forgiveness of sin came through faith alone, and was an act of God, while the Catholic church taught that justification required Man’s cooperation with God. How could anyone tell if God had forgiven? How could anyone even know if God cared if people sinned? Pretending to know, with absolute certainty, such unknowable matters is dishonest. Kristianity is speculation, based on wishful thinking, masquerading as truth.
103. Kristianity is juvenile. Kristians are like children who believe in teddy bear magic to protect them from harm. Continually petitioning the deity for special favours reminds me of a 2-year old pestering his mom for cookies.
104. Kristianity destroys the mind’s ability to reason. Kristians are incapable of noticing when they are being illogical. They are so sure in their guts they are right that they will resort to any dishonest tactic to promote their views.
105. Kristians greatly exaggerate the seriousness of consenting sexual activity between teens and adults, even when there is little danger of pregnancy or disease transmission. They will happily hound the older member of the couple to suicide, and do their best to persuade the younger that they have been ruined for life, creating a self-fulfilling prophesy.
106. Kristian prudery and their belief in their divine right to meddle in others' lives, gets in the way of finding workable solutions to the problems of prostitution and drug abuse.
107. A Kristian zealot noticed a 10 year old boy engaging in sex play with his sister. She had the boy hand cuffed and arrested and held without bail, and charged with incest. She cared not a whit that she was permanently traumatising both the boy and girl by convincing them both they had done something unspeakably evil.
108. Kristians are so disgustingly obsequious in their relationship with God. It is as if He were Genghis Khan, and they were afraid to utter any criticism no matter how justified. They dishonestly pretend God is infinitely kind, when it is patently obvious, that the Kristian God is far more cruel and uncaring than any human. The good news is the real God is nothing like the depiction in the Old Testament. God even has a sense of humour.

     Richard Dawkins, geneticist

     “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous, proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
     ~ Dr. Richard Dawkins (born 1941-03-26), The God Delusion chapter 2

109. If people have no regard for truth and evidence, and simply make up myths and proclaim them as literal truth, there is no way they will ever be able to agree. These lies will be an eternal excuse for killing each other. People who love truth and respect evidence don’t have this problem. They can resolve disagreements with debate, experiment and observation. Two people seeking the real truth will necessarily home in on the same thing if their minds have not been contaminated by religion or similar brainwashing.
110. The whole idea of Kristian Triumphalism is that everyone has to believe and follow the same rules for it to “work”. Kristianity was thoroughly tried. Life under Kristian tyranny in the middle ages proved utterly unbearable. We refer to those times of deep superstition as the “dark ages”. In modern times we have Islamic states like Saudi Arabia and Iran. These countries have to pay huge premiums to get skilled workers to go there. Very few people can stomach such repressive regimes. Theocracies are anti-democratic. Yet still we have right wing fundamamentalists trying to subvert our modern democracies back in to Kristian dominated theocracies.
111. My complaint is not just with Kristians, but with religious fundamentalists of all stripes. The Muslims and Jews in the Middle East are at each other’s throats because each believes they have an exclusive handle on the truth and that all others are worthless infidels. We had a Jewish rabbi offering public prayers to God to destroy all Arabs. It is time everyone learned that their sacred texts are just the best-effort conjecture of dead people. Ancient texts have even less validity than modern day conjecture about the big questions and about how a society should be organised. They are just books to help you find God. The books are not God. If God spoke to you directly, you might be scared silly, thinking you were losing your mind. If you open such a book “at random” and read the message, you are giving God a channel to communicate to you. The channel is limited by what is available in that particular book.
112. Kristians draw others into their delusion, not with argument, but with emotion and wishful thinking. They don’t care if their tales are true. They are enamored with how wonderful it would be if they were. Music, ritual and awesome architecture give Kristianity an authority, reverence and solidity that it does not really have. Kristianity is like a cloud. From a distance it looks substantial, but when you get up close, you discover there is nothing to it.
113. What a ludicrous notion, that the world needs still more breeding when it already bursting at the seams and there are unwanted children parked in foster homes!
114. Kristians ruin the political process. They park their brains and fall under the spell of evil preacher/con men who command them to vote for corrupt candidates who support war, persecution of gays, discrimination against minorities, destruction of civil liberties, unconditional support for Israeli apartheid, economic imperialism, abandoning the poor… All the crooked candidate needs to do is utter a few magic pass phrases such as “born again” or “partial birth abortion”. Kristians consider it wicked to think for themselves. They vote without understanding and in droves thus foisting these evil candidates on the entire body politic.
115. Channel surf. You can always tell the Christian shows even when the people are not talking about God. How can you tell? They blather. They just talk off the top of their heads telling you what they think ought to be so, but speak with authority and conviction. They never give specific verifiable information. They dumb down every issue. They take pride in their ignorance. They repeat pat phrases. They shout, even when describing the mind-numbingly obvious.
116. Christian faith healers get away with bullshit that would make a snake oil salesman blush. Holy olive oil soap, magic prayer shawls, miracle spring water, green prosperity prayer handkerchiefs… that will cure any ill. Christianity excuses any humbug or lie as far as the law is concerned.
117. Kristians exploit children to sell their lies for them. The children are more convincing than their con men handlers because they are too young to understand they are saying things that are not true.
118. Kristians claim superiority over everyone else. They claim to have the one true religion and the only path to God. This may seem like innocuous boosterism, but it is a dangerous attitude. When someone is utterly convinced that God sanctions all their actions, no matter how much they fly in the face of common sense, they will do some pretty horrendous things, believing the end justifies the means. Kristianity was at the root of Naziism. I am not saying that all Kristians are Nazis, but that the belief in Kristian superiority got out of hand in Nazi Germany, and lead to killing Jews and gays on a massive scale. In a similar way, the KKK is a perverse outgrowth of a belief in Kristian superiority. To this day, Kristians feel perfectly justified in persecuting members of “pagan” religions, because in their eyes they are blasphemous. Kristians have no compunctions about forcing children of other faiths to participate in Kristian festivals at schools, yet they are totally unwilling to let their children experience the festivals and rituals of other faiths.
119. Sado-masochism is a sexual perversion. Kristians have elevated it to the highest virtue. Kristians have a morbid fascination with the gory details of the crucifixion. Perhaps Jesus’s suffering helped elicit some compassion, but the suffering in itself was pointless. It helped no one. It just added to the universal load of suffering. Further, all that hand wringing and crying over it helps no one. That too just adds to the load of universal suffering. Weeping over the long dead Jesus just distracts from doing something useful about the suffering going on now. Suffering for the sake of suffering is just masochism.
120. I feel fury whenever I see Kristians milking the public with pathetic images and violin music for funds ostensibly to help starving children in Africa. They spend the money on bibles and tracts. They hold out dribbles of water and food if the kids renounce their current religion. Doing so guarantees social ostracism. What these kids need is food, shelter and medicine, given unconditionally. What Kristians do is as absurd as forcing the kids to pretend to worship the great pumpkin in return for a few handfuls of jelly beans.
121. Kristians sometimes encourage people to avoid medical treatment. My young friend Damon is now dead because of his Kristian beliefs. He refused medical treatment trusting that God would heal him. His Kristian friends killed him by lying to him about the efficacy of prayer.
122. Kristians have zero regard for the environment. Not once have I ever heard one preach on the protecting the environment or treating other species well.
123. In Moslem countries, five times a day the call to prayer blares out over loudspeakers. In Christian countries, churches toll their bells monontonously for hours at a time. Neither shows any consideration for those who might not want to hear the cacophony. Their religion is so all-fired important it overrides any normal consideration about annoying others with the noise.
124. Kristians confuse God with the bible. The bible is a book written by ancient men about God. Whether it is correct or not means bugger all about the nature of God or whether he exists. Kristians seem to imagine that rejecting the biblical description of God is the same as rejecting God. To me, the bible is a calumny. The bible depicts the creator of the universe as a petty buffoon. Those who accept the bible are rejecting the real god, the true creator of the universe, if there is one.
125. On 2000-12-17, I heard a televised sermon by a plump, bespectacled fundamentalist preacher with an accent like Trent Lot’s, speaking to an enormous auditorium of followers. He called for:
     • increased discrimination against homosexuals.
     • blocking access to pornography on the Internet. He knew better than other adults what was suitable reading material for them.
     • beating children with sticks to make them fear God. He said that children should be “trained” using the same techniques used for training animals. Perhaps someone should hand him a modern animal training book. Beating does not work. Rewards do.
     • He taught that all rebellion against authority was wrong, and that Hollywood should not encourage it.
     • He said that children need to be brainwashed constantly “over and over and over” to force the “word of God” into their minds for a lifetime.
     • He said that women should attempt to get pregnant, even when they did not like children or when they felt they could not provide a suitable environment to raise the child.
     • He taught that the state should not help the elderly.
     • He explicitly called for the abolishment of the separation of church and state.
     • All the problems in today’s schools can be traced to the removal enforced recitation of the Lord’s Prayer.
     I find those opinions wrong-headed. We did agree on a few matters, however:
     • Children have an obligation to look after their parents.
     • Principles are more important than making a fast buck.
     • Charles Manson’s abusive childhood contributed to his murderous behaviour.
     • The problems of assault with a deadly weapon, rape and drugs facing today’s schools are more serious than those of 1948, talking, running in the halls, and gum chewing.
126. What passes for modern Kristianity has nothing whatsoever to do with Christ’s message from his Sermon on the Mount. Instead it has been known to preach child beating, laissez faire capitalism, old testament retribution, persecution of homosexuals, abandonment of the poor especially in the third world, pseudoscience, racial stereotyping, overbreeding, religious intolerance, deliberate ignorance, magical beliefs about the causes of prosperity, gun ownership, heavy military spending and morbid preoccupation with other people’s sex lives.
127. Kristians claim that without their dogma there would be no morality. That is not true. Science has found that morality is hard wired into the human brain, and starts to appear even in infants. Kristianity warps this natural sense of fair play, teaching people bigotry and cruelty also focussing on petty arbitrary behaviours that don’t matter.
128. Kristians don’t even believe the their own BS. They tell you that when they die, they will go to live with Jesus in bliss and eat off golden plates. Yet they are so afraid of death, they will not only demand expensive, painful medical procedures to prolong their own lives by a few weeks, they also insist everyone else, including non-believers, suffer any amount of pain to procrastinate death. If they truly believed their stories, they would rejoice when an elderly person died.
129. Kristian con men saturate the air waves with lies endlessly repeated. They have been successful in persuading the majority of Americans to abandon science, and embrace a blood-thirsty ancient cult. Most Americans claim the earth is only a few thousand years old, and that evolution is bunk. Science means simply studying reality carefully and objectively to find out what is actually true. Science means carefully having others cross check every claim with experiments before it is accepted. Kristianity is the hubris to imagine you already know everything without looking. As a result, America has fallen way behind other nations in the mastery of science and technology. Americans are headed back to the extreme superstition of the middle ages lead by ignorant Kristians. Why are Kristians leading the population back to such ignorant times? The more ignorant and superstitious people are, the easier they are to con.
130. Kristians have a perverted, racist and sexist sense of values. American Kristians believe it is perfectly ok to maim, murder and torture Iraqi children. In fact they cheer it on and funded it to the tune of $40,000.00 USD per family. They believe sex is evil and should only be permitted in church-sanctioned unions between two people with differing numbers of X chromosomes. In their view, lifetime monogamy is mandatory. If anyone violates their religious code they hound them for years, forcing them from office, making the lose their jobs and attempting to drive them into exile or suicide. They don’t believe in freedom of religion for anyone but themselves. Other people’s sex lives are none of their bloody business. They are outrageous busybodies and prudes.

1. No other group but Kristians actively attack me or try to deprive me of my civil rights. They are my only personal enemies. They do this simply because the people I fall in love with are usually male. They are the ones who threaten to kill me.
2. Kristianity is widespread and widely respected. In contrast, only a very few people torture children, and when they do, we soundly condemn them. People don’t yet realise that Kristianity is not just misguided and foolish, but also actively evil.
3. Kristians destroy the wonder of the universe. They want to replace the sparkling reality with a pedestrian myth. Kristians refuse to let themselves know which was the first flower ever to grace the planet.

Archaeology

Tom Harpur, theologian

“There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!”
~ Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Biblical scholar

Modern archaeology has shocked Christians by showing that Abraham, King Saul, and King David never existed. The conquest of Caanan never happened. There was no escape from Egypt or 40 years wandering in the wilderness. There were no camels in the holy land at the times claimed in the Bible. Further nearly every Biblical story was plagarised from the earlier cult of Horus, sometimes word for word. The Gospel of John was not written until 130 years after Jesus’s death and the others not until 170 years after. Other Gospels were burned. There is no secular record of any of the astounding things Jesus purportedly did, e.g. raising Lazarus from the dead or the saints rising from the graves at his resurrection. What is most shocking of all is the preponderance of evidence leads scholars to conclude Jesus is a fictional character. See jesuspuzzle.org for a summary of some of the evidence. It took hundreds of years for the details of his life to jell. For a real person, most detail is known during his lifetime, and gradually the halos are added after death.

Because there was no historic Jesus, then all the rest is bunk too. The entire religion industry is founded on a lie the insiders have known about for 200 years.

For the complete story, see The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light by Canadian Anglican theologian Tom Harpur.

	recommend book⇒Tom Harpur
		hardcover
	ISBN13:	978-0-88762-145-1
	ISBN10:	0-88762-145-7
	publisher:	Thomas Allen Publishers
	published:	2004
	by:	The Pagan Christ: recovering the lost light
Tom Harpur is an Anglican theologian. He presents the evidence that Christianity is plagiarized from earlier religions and has no historical basis. The Jesus story is intended to be taken as allegory, not literally. The Jesus cult developed over time, starting with a set of aphorisms, and gradually adding details of Jesus’ life, much the way the story of Superman was elaborated. This suggests there was no historical Jesus. amazon.ca is the site mostly likely to have the book in stock since Harpur is a well-known Canadian theologian.
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The Core of Jesus’s Message

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Can you see even the vaguest resemblance between this message and modern Christianity?

Why Not Leave Well Enough Alone?

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not entirely absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
~ Bertrand Russell (1872-05-18— 1970-02-02)

Obviously not all Christians fit with the extremely negative portrait I just painted of Kristians. Though I have used the terms fundamentalist and Kristian with great contempt, my disdain applies mainly to the meddlers. Not all fundamentalists and Kristians are meddlers. True Christians are easy to get along with. They may be deluded, but they are well-intentioned and relatively harmless.

Mother Theresa did her great works motivated by a desire to please God and the Pope. Martin Luther King found the courage to risk his life in combating racism, under the delusion that God would protect him. Bach wrote the world’s most beautiful music inspired by his protestant faith. My friend Joyce Cousins on Quadra Island helped all kinds of people free themselves from alcohol. Her constant inspiration is “What would Jesus do?” There seems to be no cure for alcoholism or drug addiction other than handing the problem over to a higher power. There are religiously motivated charities who pitched in to help out the Kosovo refugees. Maya Angelou would not have her charisma without her deep faith. Christianity must be given credit for taming the Roman brutal life philosophy. The Christian group World Vision ensures North Americans cannot ignore the grinding poverty in other parts of the world, even if they do spend most of the money they collect on things other that food for the children. The Bible is a collection of the best wisdom of a thousand years. It may not be perfect or perfectly relevant, but it still has great value.

You have to judge a religion not only on its ideals, but how it affects most of its adherents. The Old Testament is full of intolerance and hate. The hate it brings into the world spawned acts like the crucifixion of Matthew Shepard. The white supremacist church that Buford Furrow (the man attacked a Jewish community center killing three little boys) belonged to and Westboro Baptist Church would be extreme examples. The Old Testament has acted for centuries as the moral underpinning for both slavery and racism. TV evangelists are the main source of intolerance in the world. They teach smugness. Judaiism and Islam similarly cause their adherents to become narrow-minded and intolerant, even though the Qur’an itself stresses tolerance. The Old Testament teaches retribution. In other parts of the world, particularly the middle east, Judaiism and Islam cause even more trouble than Christianity, though they behave themselves reasonably well in North America.

24 hours a day there are Kristian infomercials on TV, usually several at any one time. The makers of these commercials make unsubstantiated claims for Kristianity, most commonly that accepting it will cure you of fatal diseases or make you prosperous. If any other product were making such claims, they would be pulled off the air if the advertisers could not prove the claims.

The advertisers solicit funds for “God”. This is preposterous. The creator of the universe does not need human money. He is ostensibly the creator and owner of the entire universe. If he had need of anything he could just manifest it. The money is for the advertisers to spend on earthly goods for themselves and to fina