A friend of mine sent this to me and I thought I'd pass it along to Kos readers. With all the recent "Christian" outrage over Dan Savage's speech to journalism students it seemed like a good time to point out the obvious. Lest anyone think I am dumping on Christianity as a whole, this list is all about Evangelicals who will tell you the Bible is the actual word of God and the Earth was created in six days just over 6,000 years ago.
In my case, I was born Catholic, but don't believe. Married to a wonderful man who spent four years in Seminary before deciding being Gay and a priest was more than he wanted to do. He is very spiritual and retains many of his beliefs, but not in organized religion.
Top ten after the orange squiggle.
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but have no problem believing in a triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life, and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (a few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth was a few generations old.
4 - You believe the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your belief - though excluding those in rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01 percent as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99 percent FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.