Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play

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But one can look around and instantly see proof of atheists, teenagers, and people named Phillip. However, no god has ever been proven to exist,

That's not true at all is it.. Maybe you should say the 'proof' the there is a God is no longer accepted and what proof enough for thousands if not millions to be martyred for their beliefs is no longer accepted.

Other people have died for their faiths and yet I doubt that you use their deaths as proof that their faith is also true. A surprising number of Hindus have been martyred for not becoming Muslim. We have actually had this conversation in a much older thread and I pasted the names of a few non Christian martyrs. All those deaths prove is that people will die and kill for a lie

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Here's another annoying trick,

one might think sin is sin, but it turns out, it depends on who is doing it.  I realize it is damn hard to get today's active Christian to get very worked up about Mark 10:11 in regards to anyone, but you might think Rush Limbaugh might get at least a little static for being on wifey #4, but no sirree, nary a peep.  Slick Willy on the other hand, cheating on Hillary, OMG!!  He's an apostate of SATAN!!  Curiously, adultery is adultery, or so it should be, but it just depends on who's dick we are talking about being in the wrong woman.  Funny thing there.

We hear from time to time, Old Testament stuff is definitely passe, of course, excepting all the gay stuff.  But when we have New Testament Paul out of the blue endorsing something VERY Old Testament, like women shutting the fuck up in church, some of us are very, very confused when there isn't a peep of dissent from any quarter about Joyce Meyer or Tammy Faye Baker spouting off about salvation in their ministries.

Also amazing to me, is how fast everyone in the Christian sphere back in the 80s realized they better keep fucking quiet about Nancy Reagan consorting with a witch/court astrologer.  Seems like somebody might have spoken up, they sure aren't bashful about deriding Wiccans Satanists, and Atheists are they ?   But somebody perceived as being one of their own is suddenly exposed as letting a 'familiar spirit' guide the presidents schedule (over unsecured phone lines, BTW) and suddenly the very folks that should be witnessing the Word to Nancy to get her back on the right side of God are suddenly mute.

So, the intermittent nature of these Godly values, and it being super important to determine who can be rebuked and who cannot be, all add  another layer to that 'mystery of faith' don't it ??

I think that any public figure who calls himself/herself a Christian and is somewhat conservative will have followers who really don't give a damn if that person actually follows the bible. Christians aren't supposed to pray in public but Tebow's one kneed prayers were exactly the opposite of what Jesus taught. For awhile some Christians acted as though Tebow was the second coming of their Lord and Savior