I am seriously concerned,
but not surprised, by the large number of stories involving God-botherers. Although I am probably what most would call a fully paid-up member of the God Squad, I can't understand why people so often become twats at the same time that they become Christians.




So, just to say, not all those who would call themselves Christians are weirdos. Just 60% - 70% ish. Oh, and the pick of the bunch is definitely Benny Hinn -- look for a Google video of him.


I have worked with some utter bastards, in a variety of places. But, th two worst were in the same place.

Number one would send me (aged 16) to the offy to buy him whiskey so he could get through the shift. He'd then get me to drop him off at the brothel on my (very obviously branded) pizza delivery moped.

Number two was the full-time carer for his friend, who had suffered colossal brain damge in a car accident, and was wheel-chair bound. Sounds like a nice enough guy, looking after a pal in such difficult circumstances, right?


Number two was thusly receiving a large sum of money from his friend's insurers, as part of the payout, and didn't wish to pay tax, so he was working at a pizza shop to show some legitimate income. Which may have interfered with his care-giving, right? Nope. He just put his friend in the car, and left him parked in the road out back. I was speechless for the first and last time when I found out. I couldn't even summon the words "you are clearly an utter cunt".



Not really bastard-like in my direction I guess, but as the guy couldn't walk, talk, or do anything for himself, someone had to do something. I actually hoped his brain damage was sufficient to stop him realising how he'd been betrayed.
(Exiled Youth [witty comment], Fri 25 Jan 2008, 7:26, 6 replies)

For some reason...
those who are brought up in the Christian faith are generally OK. It's the ones that convert later in life that become overbearing, easily offended, pious pricks.

I like to think that I live my life observing certain moral standards; I don't need faith in an unseen deity to give me that added sense of self worth. (I don't have a problem with people who are believers, by the way - live and let live. It's just not my choice).
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 25 Jan 2008, 9:23, closed)

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"I can't understand why people so often become twats at the same time that they become Christians."

Noticing that you've become a twat and/or finding that undesirable requires the use of logic... believing in a god demonstrates a lack of same (partially at the very least). What's not to understand?
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 10:18, closed)

Misanthrope
Why is it any more or less logical to believe in a god than not to do so when it can't actually be proven either way?

Doesn't seen that there's much real difference between a Christian dogmatic and a militant aestheist - they're both ravingly convinced that their own beliefs are right, both totally unwilling to consider any other possibilities or let people make up their own minds, both got that whole arrogant-superiority thing going on...both fundamentalism, just that (generally speaking) the latter side has better footwear.
/rant
(jennymnemonic, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 12:58, closed)

On the subject of militant atheists
May I refer the above posters to the South Park episode taking the piss out of Richard Dawkins?
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 25 Jan 2008, 21:24, closed)

"Why is it any more or less logical to believe in a god than not to do so when it can't actually be proven either way?"
This is why:

"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
(Musuko, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 16:22, closed)

I think...
The problem with born again christians is that something went terribly terribly wrong during rebirth.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 30 Jan 2008, 11:16, closed)