It is true that some xtians treat non associates like a disease. I have a next door neighbor who has on several occasions accused me of perpetrating some ridiculous action on his property. Stupid stuff like "did you turn on my hose and leave it on?". I'm always just so dumbfounded by the nonsense I can't begin to know how to respond to him other than laughing with a counter question "are you crazy?". When his car was blocking part of my driveway and I told him about it he responded with "Why are you persecuting me?", it is really laughable. The wife comes running out of the house sometimes when I'm out in the driveway to say "Have you been saved, Slip are you saved?", to which I can't help but laugh but the funniest and last time she spoke was when the 250 pound woman came out and with both arms out in front of her and says, "The blood of Jesus runs through my veins, Slip" to which I couldn't help myself with the response "Really? well then you better tell Jesus to get to a doctor because it looks like he has a serious cholesterol problem", it truly is comically entertaining.
On Dec 24, 12:15 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is an enjoyably impudent piece of research from Innsbruck > University. People were observed buying newspapers, using an honesty > box to pay. They were interviewed later - so the person with the > clipboard seemed unconnected with the newspaper purchase - and asked > about age, occupation and attitudes. Men cheated more than women; > people over 50 cheated more than the young; higher education made no > difference; and by a long chalk churchgoers cheated most. This may be > a statistical anomaly. But we all know one thing: religion no more > makes people good than lack of it makes the rest of us bad. > > Secularists take offence too at the way the religious paint > unbelievers as poor desiccated rationalists, not only without values, > but joyless, lacking a sense of mystery, devoid of awe. Yet, > earthbound, there is enough wonder in the infinite capacity of the > human imagination, in a magical world of thought, dream, hope, memory > and fantasy. To be human is not to be particularly rational, the > senses often overwhelming common sense. There is no emotional or > spiritual deficiency in rejecting religions that infantilise the > imagination with impossible beliefs. > > The above is from Polly Toynbee - a Guardian staff writer. > Apparently, buses with atheist adverts have attracted substantial > funding of late. It's the Anglo Saxon New Year - no doubt after a > merry pagan festival we will once again ride out spreading love > (battle axes for tree chopping only!). To be fair we took on Xtianity > as rather better than our gods of fertility and war - though this > seems to have made us even more warlike. Time for a secular peace > campaign. All the best, all. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
