Okay, little Timmy made it into amphora number 3. Now it's time for amphora number 4. Are you ready, Timmy? Are you ready to play Jesus's GRAND PRIZE GAME?

I had to save a screenshot of that. Wow. Absolutely priceless.

Does this somehow relate to conversations late at night containing the phrases "Oh God!" and "Did the earth move for you too?"

If you really want to go down that road...

We can change all the statistics to reflect reality: There are 3417 actual Christians in the world. All others claiming to be Christian are liars.

We can get rid of all but a handful of the churches in the world. With such a tiny number of true Christians, that many places of worship are really overkill. Let's turn all that property into city parks.

We can take away the tax-exempt status of all of those so-called Christian organizations. With strict guidelines like yours, they certainly don't qualify as True Christians. All of their ill-gotten gain (shame on them for lying to people for so many years!) can be put to good use by medical charities.

Now be honest: Do you really want to go down that road?

I still think it's kinda sad that I knew -exactly- which video to send you to when I saw the tweet. Is it disturbing that I know of such things?

OOOOhhhhhhh.. That's one I hadn't seen before. I've got a nice one of Pope Bennie though. Happy Blasphemy Day God Damn It!!!!!

Thanks for the conversation, Ryan. I'm glad it's more of conversation than simply ranting back and forth.

It doesn't matter if it's against someone who you think it irrational, it's important to have some damn respect for something that others consider important - even if you don't.

Oh, no. I have to totally disagree with that one. In that case (as in others) it was an idea that they held as being sacrosanct. Ideas don't deserve my respect, particularly ideas that run counter to observable reality.

It'd be the same thing if someone had their grandmother's ashes in an urn, and I came and broke it and pissed in the ashes to show them that it's not their grandmother - it's just ashes. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, you just don't do that and expect people to see you as anything except a vengeful jackass.

No, no, no. That would be both hateful and illegal. That urn with the woman's ashes is someone's personal property, and a memorial to an arguably real person whom they knew and loved.

We really need to draw distinctions between attacks that are personal in nature, and attacks against religion as an institution or as an idea. The difficulty that I've found is that many people who are very devout are unable to separate themselves from their religious ideas in any way. For many people, their religion is their life. I find that to be quite sad, actually.