Well, there is a lot to be said for the guilt thing. It means you can do all manner of horrific acts and then ask for forgiveness - which is always granted.

Wonderful get out jail card :-)

Bah. After I posted that whine about IntenseDebate it has started working again. Now everyone will assume I am insane.

Wonderful.

You've become the new PZ Myers and oneimage.org has fallen down under the weight of people who have followed your link :-)

(there may be alternative reasons for why I cant connect, but I like that one)

"he woman did everything she could to help her. "

Hmm, is lying no longer a sin? Taking the child to hospital and getting real treatment is noticeably absent from the crazy loon's To-Do list.

Still, you gotta have faith....

Conflating Darwin and Communist population control programs? Interesting fail.

Sadly, this is quite an accurate description of how people perceive atheists/atheism.

I had quite a lengthy argument over the weekend about the "religion of atheism" - basically my opponents were saying that the dogmatic "secular humanists" had formed a religion out of atheism and were trying to supplant the currently established religions with it.

The main things that annoyed me about the whole argument were that the people I was discussing it with weren't even followers of a monotheistic religion and, crucially, when I asked them for examples or evidence of their claims they degenerated into mumbling about being rude to question others beliefs. Infuriating is an understatement.

I faired quite badly here - I can only check off 32, and a good few of them are the result of the required reading lists in school....

I think that Harry Potter should count as multiple entries and having read Lord of the Rings a good few dozen times, that should count for more.

There are a lot of books on that list I will never read - Bridget Jones Diary being a prime example - so I doubt my tally will increase.

This is actually insane.

The bishop is having an argument with an imaginary strawman and then sort of loses it.

Wow.

Is this the effect that talking to an imaginary god has on you?

Well at least it shows the Border Agency has some purpose...