I really wasn't sure whether to put this one in Religion or Humor.

You done good!

I know how I feel.. Religion is a bunch of crap!


edit: But, if you believe in.. something, and it makes you feel better about life the universe and everything, Then, good for you. Keep on keepin' on.

Then they weren't atheists...

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H.L. Mencken

No, they just believe in John Lennon.

BTW: Boomer, come around more often.

Silly humans and their beliefs

I believe I can fly

R Kelly

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

-Jesus (John 3:16)

One of the people in the article who was quoted, Helen Catchings, who I am assuming was one of the people polled, lives in vienna, VA. I don't live there but, because I was interested, I looked up some information about the town. It has about 14,000 residents, and about 50 churches. My town also has about 50 religious buildings (churches, temples, whatever) but there are about 40,000 people. That's about 3.5 times more churches per thousand people. I'm only suggesting this but, since the poll was most likely taken by a religious group, isn't it possible that they chose towns that had a higher religious population than others, to get the results they wanted?

Double

See, I never did get the point of this... if he so loved the world, why not give everyone eternal life to begin with, and skip the whole "son" BS? Just to screw with the majority of humans who don't believe? Why? Sadism?

Vienna is a bedroom suburb of Washington, DC - it's hardly a bucolic small town, and it's a generally very liberal, upscale population.

"And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."

Leviticus 20:13

I can feel the love in that verse, eh?


A quick body count of the God of love

.....Then Jesus called his disciples together and said unto them: "What about you? Whom do you say that I am?"

They answered him, saying, "You are the Christ, the eschatological manifestation of the kerygma that is the ground of our being, whose meaning we discover in our interpersonal relationships."

And Jesus said unto them, "What?"






With that said, lets see if this is correct,

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, who was him, so that he, his son, could die to make his father, who he already was, feel better about what his father, who was the son, had done by creating a not so perfect world?


Thea, thea, thea, That's all folks. :)

Yea, I'd have to agree with this. Atheists are sure there's no God. Even agnostics, who aren't supposed to take a stance, take one if they believe in God or a higher power. In either case they people might actually be theists or believers in some capacity. Theists of what, though, I am not sure.

Well, I wouldn't say sure. Dawkins probably says it better than me (this is from an article about the book):