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Monthly Archives January 2010

Not eating broccoli is a sin

People who don’t eat broccoli are sinners and will go to Hell. Fortunately, if they eat broccoli on the last day of their life, they will be saved. If you don’t believe me, look it up in the Bible.
The 41st president of the United States didn’t eat broccoli. He hated broccoli, [...]

Posted 25 January 2010 † ThomasD § General Religion § Satan Wrote the Bible ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Another fundamentalist inconsistancy

Question: Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative?
I asked my friend from college: “Work! I thought you retired?”
“Yes, I do work. I took a couple of years off and went back to work as an auditor-appraiser for the county assessor office. I put values on personal property (boats/airplanes) and business equipment and hand the [...]

Posted 24 January 2010 † ThomasD § General Religion ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

The Real Irony of Psalms 109

Rational debates with Christians usually end in one of two ways: 1) it’s just a leap of faith or 2) You have to look at the outcomes. Mmmm outcomes like 9/11? the Middle East? Northern Ireland? How about the suggestion that the president be assassinated?
The following is from a posting on the Daily Kos. I [...]

Posted 16 January 2010 † ThomasD § Ethics § Satan Wrote the Bible ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Who wrote the Bible

Anyone who thinks God wrote the Bible should read Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart D. Ehrman. A biblical scholar, he has studied the texts of the Bible in their original languages. “As I realized already in graduate school, even if God had inspired the original [...]

Posted 15 January 2010 † ThomasD § Satan Wrote the Bible ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,