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The worst kind of Christians are the kind who tell you that Christians built this country. This may be true, by and large. This country was built with the blood of slaves on the bones of Indians. Wait. Let's savour that a moment. I am not even trying to make a value judgment one way or the other upon genocide or slavery at the moment any more than the early Christian Americans were. I just want to point out that Christians, who claim to represent love, infinite mercy, and turning the other cheek, built this country by committing genocide against the native peoples, just like the Nazis did to the Jews, and by enslaving people just like the Egyptians did to the children of Israel. I wonder if Jesus personally sanctioned the mass butchery of the natives. I wonder if Moses was up there in Heaven thinking, "Now it's my turn to drive me some slaves!" I'm not sure about that.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. --Exodus 21:16

Now, here's an interesting quote:

He that smiteth a man, so that that he die, shall be surely put to death. --Exodus 21:12

Hmm. Maybe those Christians who built this country were not such big Christians after all. Maybe they were just HYPOCRITES! Sound familiar? But wait. Maybe I am being too hasty. It turns out that Moses, in fact, was actually quite a little captain of genocide himself, not to mention being a perverted pederast. When he goes to war with Midian under God's personal direction he gives the following orders:

15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. --Numbers 31

And listen to this. The Bible is supposed by these fundamentalist psychos to be the inerrant (that means without mistake) word of God. But wait, they say. The New Testament trumps the Old Testament, presumably because God was errant for a few little mass child rape and butchery incidents. Jesus was sent to reform God, apparenty. None of this makes any sense, kids.

One form of Christian crap that really irks me is the kind that says we should not allow abortion because it is against God's law. Okay, let's see what other laws God gives us in his infinite mercy:

Exodus 21:17
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 31:15
Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:10
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:11
And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 24:16
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.

Okay, you guys who want to go back to illegal abortions because they are against God's laws. How about we go back to all of God's laws? Curse your dad or your mom? Death! Go the the Wal Mart on Sunday? Death! Woah, dude, that means no Super Bowl, either. Boff a married woman? Death! Get lucky with your stepmother? Death! Have a homosexual encounter? Death! Exercise your freedom of speech to say that God does not exist, like I am doing here? Death by stoning, no less. God is against freedom if he is against freedom of speech. Wait. I thought our sons and daughters were fighting in Iraq for freedom--the same freedom that allows me to express my opinions--the same freedom that God would have me put to death for. Is God's inerrant word un-American?

For better or worse, that is what the inerrant Bible says. Is that the kind of society that you want to live in? Also, note that the Bible holds going to the Wal Mart on Sunday as an equal infraction to homosexuality.

The Bible? Not a good thing to base our lawmaking on. Get over it. Think for yourselves.

Another little myth these martyrs like to tell themselves is that Christianity is under attack in the US. Well, I am certainly attacking it intellectually because we are free to speak our minds in the US. If this is what they mean by attack, I suggest they visit Faluja to understand the concept of attack. Criticism is not attack. It us just freedom of speech. Get over it, you little babies. If you don't have the stomach for freedom, move to Saudi Arabia.

Perhaps they think they are under attack because the government gives their churches full tax-exempt status. You see, money is the root of all evil, so the government is not taking the evil away from them, making it harder for them to get into Heaven than a camel trying to get through the eye of a needle. I, on the other hand, as an atheist, get my evil money taken away from me by the government. They are under attack because they are not allowed to erect monuments to their religion in public buildings. It is history, they say. This country was founded by Christians with Christian values. We are a Christian country. They are attacking our history and heritage like the vicious yankees are attacking the grand history of the confederacy in banning the stars and bars!

Let's take a walk back in history. What was the first flag of the US? Hmm. A snake with the caption, "DON'T TREAD ON ME." I guess the snake did show up in the Bible. The next ones were pretty much circles of stars in an argent field, with red and white stripes over the rest of the flag. Okay, so thirteen pentagrams were on some of the earliest flags. Now we have fifty pentagrams on the flag. I wonder why there have never been any crosses on our flag? Everbody else had crosses. Most still do. Maybe that is because most of our most most important "founding fathers" WERE NOT CHRISTIANS. In fact, they were Deists. A Deist is defined by Webster's as "One who believes in the existence of a God or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason." One who DENIES REVEALED RELIGION. CHRISTIANITY IS A REVEALED RELIGION.

Which founding fathers? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and many others. They were certainly not completely hostile to Christianity. In fact, some admired Christianity very much--so much so, Thomas Jefferson actually rewrote the Bible, eliminating all miracles attributed to Jesus and the resurrection. He also wrote, "And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." Jefferson also supported a "Wall between church and state."

Have you got a dollar? Look on the back. There is no crucifix, but there is a pyramid with an eye at the top. It does say "IN GOD WE TRUST" but which version of god are they talking about? That is not altogether clear. -Heretic

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