The Insanity Machine (and the Notion of God)

[MultipleTentacles]

Exactly where do you get off telling me I have no faith? The atheists here, whom I respect, have said unequivocally that they have no faith, or they wouldn't be atheists. I have made no such claim. It is faith talking when I condemn the Book of Revelations. This evil tract, which is NOT any kind of "word of God," is the worst sort of blasphemy. Its sole purpose is to give angry and repressed nuns a stick to beat children with.

Of course the love and wrath of God come at the same time. I have experienced it. And I know exactly what you're doing. You're using the residual effects of a spiritual experience to condemn everyone who you have the slightest disagreement with. You're afraid to criticize the Bible, which was undoubtedly written by people, NOT God, and which clearly exhibits political motives. And until you're willing to criticize this book, and risk the wrath and love of God, all you'll end up doing is destroying people's faith by proxy. You'll be a proxy faith-destroyer for the professional faith-destroyers. The very people who put Christ on the cross.

I'm telling you, if Christ ever comes back, it'll be the Christians who put him right back up on the cross.