You know less than many atheists about your own religion and its sooty history, but still think God prefers you to people who are intelligent and examine the evidence?… You mock the idea of gods having sons by women, but still believe God impregnated a human twelve year old girl who gave birth to Jesus—a god who defied death and ascended into heaven, thereby making his human mother the Mother of God… A test of Christian belief.
Someone has put this little questionnaire on the web.
Do you:
mock the idea of gods having sons by women, but still believe God impregnated a human twelve year old girl who gave birth to Jesus—a god who defied death and ascended into heaven, thereby making his human mother the Mother of God…
feel insulted when science shows we evolved from ape-like proto-humans, but willingly accept the bible that God made us from mud…
disbelieve all the evidence for the scientifically established age of the Earth, but happily believe dates recorded in the bible by ancient people with no scientific knowledge…
think phenomena like speaking in tongues and hysterical ecstasy show God at work, but the modern sciences, like psychology, history, geology, biology, and physics, upon which our civilization depends, cannot convince you even of demonstrable truths…
deny the existence of any gods venerated by other religions, but complain of lack of respect or even blasphemy when someone denies the existence of yours…
laugh at polytheists, but believe the “One True God” is a Trinity…
condemn the atrocities of other gods and their followers, and atheists like communists, but support our leaders bombing innocent Arabs, and regard it as divine that Jarvey slaughtered the Egyptian’s babies before the Jewish Exodus, and ordered Joshua and the Israelites entering the Promised Land to kill everything living, women, children, and cows… but young girls they could keep for themselves!…
think everyone except those who share your particular beliefs will permanently burn in hell forever, and still claim Christianity has a loving God and is a religion of love…
think prayers are answered though conceding it works only for those who truly believe, sure proof then that no one does truly believe because no convincing scientific evidence has ever been produced to confirm that prayers are answered, but rather has shown they are not…
know less than many atheists about your own religion and its sooty history, but still think God prefers you to people who are intelligent and examine the evidence?…
There will never be any trouble in filling the creative jobs, and far more people who have to do dull monotonous work could be trained to creative or constructive jobs. … It’s quite unfair for people to have to do boring jobs that machines could do—there’s nothing intrinsically good about work.
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