Comments on: Why Are Christians So Gullible?

By: Squiggy

Squiggy — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:06:05 +0000

Halo, you’re wasting your time. He’s not so much a jerk as he is a nut.

By: DadWith2Girls

DadWith2Girls — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:52:55 +0000

Halo — “Convert to what? Someone who’s not a jerk?”

I believe that offer was made already.

Someone you believe in got crucified for refusing it…

Jesus the Christ was the most offensive “jerk” that the world has yet seen.

The guy destroyed the money lender’s carnival. He consorted with whores.

And, he never said he was the “the son of god.” (Gotta do some research to locate the actual Christ…. try googling “The Jesus Scholars”)

Your chosen prophet was a radical angry men’s rights activist!

By: Halo

Halo — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:50:51 +0000

Imagine the mindset of a religion that can consign babies who die before being baptized to a cosmic eternal Twilight Zone called “Limbo!”

I can’t imagine that. Catholics are weird. According to Jewish law, children aren’t responsible for their actions until they turn thirteen. Therefore it still goes.

Wow… I’m gonna convert right away.

Convert to what? Someone who’s not a jerk? As for making you feel better, I couldn’t care less. You’ve heard the truth – what you do with it is your business alone. The responsibility for where you end up lies with you. That is soooo American, ain’t it?

By: DadWith2Girls

DadWith2Girls — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:24:28 +0000

Halo wrote — “As for you DW2G, Christians are the only group who aren’t congenitally afraid. We fear no evil.

Besides, even if we were wrong about an afterlife and us going to heaven, we have nothing to fear from death. It would just be an ending. You, on the other hand, need to be very afraid if you’re wrong.”

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I admire an honest ideologue. Difficult to find these days.

So, if Christians fear no evil, why all the fuss about it in the creed, err … faith… err… superstition?

The Devil, Hell, Purgatory, Eternal Damnation, and my personal favorite … LIMBO!

Imagine the mindset of a religion that can consign babies who die before being baptized to a cosmic eternal Twilight Zone called “Limbo!”

Is this comedy or sincere doctrine? (Or, perhaps just paranoia run rampant?)

It is always impossible to know.

“You, on the other hand, need to be very afraid if you’re wrong.”

Is that your very best impression of existentialist guilt-attempting schtick?

Wow… I’m gonna convert right away.

I think Rastafarianism is looking rather profitable these days… JAH LIVES!

I feel so much better now that I know what to believe in, and what to never question.

Thanks, Halo!

By: Halo

Halo — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:08:15 +0000

Chuck, you had me until you fell in with the leftists (like DW2G for example). Whether the war costs 1 trillion or 2 trillion is irrelevant – 9/11 cost us (at the very least) 10 trillion.

I believe in the Iraq war because it’s the right thing to do, not because I like Bush (which I don’t). The war on terror is one of only three things he’s done right – the other two being the Supreme Court, and the tax cuts.

As for you DW2G, Christians are the only group who aren’t congenitally afraid. We fear no evil.

By: DadWith2Girls

DadWith2Girls — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:50:15 +0000

Christians are gullible because they are afraid. (Fear makes one vulnerable…)

Afraid that the superstitions they believe may not be credible.

Afraid that Jesus is not coming back, anytime soon … enough.

Afraid that their sins have not truly been forgiven.

Afraid that “everlasting life” may just be a marketing scheme.

Christians are right to be afraid.

Fear is a survival instinct in the human species.

Thankfully based on DNA, not ritual Sunday morning dissimulations.

By: red pill

red pill — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:15:00 +0000

Many deluded Christians assume that they can affect some sort of earthly paradise on earth. They can’t and it was not intended to be so by their own efforts. Politics is about the animal and there is no merging the real and the ideal. To faithfully practice Christianity as politics is to die quickly. Christianity as a political model is suicide. On this planet, turning the other cheek will get you killed. Giving away all you have will get you dead. Loving all unconditionally will get you abused. Sorry that’s all there is to it. Follow the NT faithfully and you will get to the kingdom of heaven rather quickly. That’s fine if you choose that for yourself, but to force others to do that against their own survival instincts is clearly not what Jesus intended…

By: conservativation

conservativation — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:59:35 +0000

Chuck, you’d have a good point there, except by not even mentioning divorce and the church you have included yourself among the enablers of societal collapse. In fact, ranting about the churches position on the war, while looking the other way as the church coddles feminized policies regarding no fault divorce, is most surely a forest and tree matter.
You, like some of who you criticize, are so filled with yourself that you cannot deign to speak to suck pedestrian issues as marriage and divorce. No way; you must speak of armies and nation states, not parents and children…those are small potatoes.
I’ll go so far as to say that, even though these “feel good” churches have their message wrong on marriage, they do address the topic from the pulpit, at least recognizing that there is a problem. You though want to make church a geopolitical seminar.
They may wish to tickle ears in the audience. You sir are apparently afraid of your wife and her gaggle of gigglers in the pews!