If you believe strongly in the efficacy of prayer, I am coming to you to ask that you please stay home and pray that the right people are voted in during the November elections. I challenge all true believers to exhibit their faith and avoid all polling places on election day...but rather stay home and pray with all your heart that the election be guided by the Lord's blessed hand to go to those who should be in charge.
- The Southern Fried Skeptic
From
JREF 10 Signs you're blinded by your own faith.
#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 that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that humans were created from dirt.
#8 – You laugh at polytheists, but you 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 male first-born 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 consorting 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 the Earth (4.55 billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is about a couple of generations old.
#4 – You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs – though excluding those in all rival sects – will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering, and yet you 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" your choice of religions to be the correct one.
#2 – You define .01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers, and consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% 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 you still call yourself a Christian.
In other news, it seems that NASA is announcing Tuesday whether or not they are going to service the Hubble. It seems likely. And those who enjoy images like this of a nebula acting as an interstellar nusery:
We should keep our fingers crossed. Now that...that's what I would consider spiritual....
"Faith...is believing what you know ain't so" - Mark Twain
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