Ten signs you are an unquestioning Christian

10. You vigourously deny the existence of thousands of gods named by other religions but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of your God.

9. You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from lesser life forms, but you have no problem with the biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8. You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a trinity God.

7. Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in Exodus and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in joshua including women, children, and animals.

6. You laugh at Hindu beliefs that defy humans and greek claims about Gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the holy spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5. You are willing to spend you life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of the earth ( 4.55 billion years ago) but you find nothin wrong with believing dates recorded by pre-historic tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that the earth is a couple of geerations old.

4. You beleive that the entire population of this planet with the exception of tose in all ribal sects will spend eternity in anj infinity hell of suffering. Yet you consider your religion the mose "tolerant" and "loving"

3. While modern science , history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise some idiot rolling around the floor speaking in tongues may be all the evidence you need.

2. You define 0.01 as a high success rate when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer. And you think that the remaining 99.99 % failure rate simply is gods will.

1. You actually know a lot less than many Atheists and Agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history but still call yourself a Christian.

religion rant

Not really being in the ranting mood I would liek to state some good ideas to think about. If christianity is "the" religion to believe in, why are there so many sub-divisions as I call it. With-in christianity there are anglican/catholic/pentecost/etc. I mean do you think, hypothetically speaking if God cares whether or not you wear a skirt? Do you think he cares if you eat meat on friday? If there truly is a all powerful force watching over us, I'm sure he would be worrying about the countless children being abused/raped/murdered/tortured/enslaved rather then if you wear a skirt or not. I find it amazing how people roll on the floor whilst having convulsions at the pentecost church, I find this completely absurb to hear. God does not talk to humans, humans talk to god- then fill in the gap themselves by thinking its God but it's just them. So in conclusion, a church divided is no church at all.

The 10 commandments

The 10 commandments, sent down from the heavens from the all mighty God himself for us humans to abide by in order to enter the heavenly kingdom upon death. The first four are blatant religious propaganda, basically a plug for the Hebrew God.
The remaining six are dangerously held up as exhaustive and inspired by those who apparently haven't read them. For example, one wonders how lying and envy make the big list of don'ts, but not rape, torture, child abuse, racism, slavery… And surely nobody still seriously believes that black and white moral guidelines are of much use in a greyscale world. "Thou shalt not kill".. but what about in genuine self-defense? "Thou shalt not bear false witness".. but what about lying to the Nazi officer who asks if you are hiding Jews? True morality requires judging each case on its own merits, not just overlaying the same clumsy morality stencil on everything. Also, not to mention that the entire list of the 10 commandments were completely plagerized word for word from the Egyption religion which by the way pre-existed christianity by about 2000 years. Christianity is nothing but the hand-me-down blanket of numerous other religions combined into one. Infact the story of how the 10 commandments were received is plagerized.

The God you know and love.. or maybe not

This world was created by a conscious entity we call God correct? This all knowing, all loving, fatherly figure managed to produce an earth full of hatred, racial hate, child labor, famine, poverty, hunger, death, murder, suffering and so on, what kind of God creates this? Here are some interesting quotes from the bible:

Who should we kill? - Homosexuals (Lev.20:13, Rom.1:26-32) -
Adulterers (Lev.20:10, Deut.22:22) -
Disobedient children (Deut.21:20-21, Lev.20:9, Exod.21:15) -
Women who are not virgins on their wedding night (Deut.22:13-21) -
All non-Christians (parable told by Christ - Luke.19:27) -
Those accused of wickedness by at least two people (Deut.17:2-7) -
Anyone who works on the Sabbath (Exod.35:2-3, Num.15:32-6) (not even to kindle a fire, and no exclusion for ambulance drivers)
Women - It is “shameful” for a woman to speak in church (1Cor.14:34-5) -
A man must OK his wife’s words if they are to have force (Num.30:8) -
A woman must not teach or hold authority over a man (1Tim.2:12) -
Lot saves the messengers from the men of Sodom by offering up his virgin daughters to “do to them as you please” (Gen.19:8) -
“Kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourself every girl who has never slept with a man” (Moses - Num.31:17-8)

Slavery - God supports slavery (Lev.25:44-6, Exod.21:2-8, Eph.6:5, Col.3:22) -
Instructions on how to sell your daughter as a slave (Exod.21:7-8) -
When to give your slaves “severe” or “light” beatings (Luke.12:42-8) -
OK to beat slaves only if they don’t die within 2 days (Exod.21:20-1) -
How to mark your slave: drive an awl through its ear (Deut.15:17)
Marriage - It’s best if all people remain unmarried. Marriage is a lesser-of-two- evils compromise for Christians too weak to resist their sexual urges, “for it is better to marry than to burn.” (Paul - 1Cor.7:1-2, 8-9, 25-6, 38) -
The rapist of an unwed woman must buy her and make her his wife (apparently a far more 'holy' union than a genuine, loving same-sex relationship - Deut.22:28-9)

Justice - If a man suspects his wife of cheating he can serve her a cursed drink; if she becomes deformed, then that proves her guilt (Num.5:12-31) -
42 children killed by bears for calling a prophet ‘baldy’ (2King.2:23-4) -
OK to beat your children with a rod - it wont kill them (Prov.23:13-4) -
God commits, orders, or endorses every form of atrocity known to man (pretty much pick a page of the Old Testament at random)
Do the Old Testament laws still apply? - Every “jot” and “tittle” (Christ – Matt.5:17-9)

Here are some more interesting quotations about Jesus Christ
Christ, what a role model…
- Christ tells us we must "hate" our entire family, and even our own life, if we want to be one of His disciples (Luke.14:26)
- Those who abandon their families will be rewarded (Matt.19:29)
- "For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother... And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." (Christ - Matt.10:35-6) -
“I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Christ - Matt.10:34)
- If you don’t have a sword, sell your clothes to buy one (Luke.22:36)
- Curses fig tree for not bearing fruit in off-season (Mark.11:12-4, 20-1)
- Didn’t want to help girl because she was a “dog” gentile (Matt.15:22-8)

Of course there are several good passages in the Bible, the ones that are carefully selected by your minister for Sunday readings. But if you find some chocolate in a pile of dog feces you don’t eat it, right? No. The good is tainted by the bad that surrounds it.

Here is a quote that is something to think about

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Epicurus (341-271 BC)

Why do people believe in a religion/god?

Why is it that people believe in god? Could it be because in order to have peace and tranquility after death we have to have faith and pray for our sins? Who told you you were a sinner? Your church told you that you were a sinner, but don't worry there is a cure and your church just so happens to possess it. Some might say that your church has merely cut you in order to sell you a band-aid. The truth of the matter is, most if not all christians ( im going to refer to christians because I am the most familiar with it) are christians because they were born and raised in a christian environment. My point being if you were born in say Pakistan you would be muslim. There is nothing special about your religion and furthermore there is nothing that makes it the "true" religion to choose. If you were born to believe that trees could talk and raised like that, you would believe that trees could talk, sounds silly right? Well how does believing there is a sanctuary in the sky run by an invisible man in the clouds who sees and hears everything? When you break it down most people do NOT even question there beliefs. A good percent of christians havn't even read the bible im guessing. Thus believing in something they have not even read. So if you are a die hard christian, take it upon yourself to do some research and become more educated in the matter.