(August 8, 2013 at 2:44 am)oukoida Wrote: I got crucified another 12 times...
Once is enough for most I would think!
As for me, I was never much of a believer. In my teens and 20s, somewhat of a deist/don't care-ist and then gradually morphing into the atheist bastard pig dog I am today.
During my morphing, I was married to a semi-fundy Christian and our marriage was crumbling. During the trying to save it phase, I went with her to her well-to-do mega-Church; an attempt at placating. Plenty of BMWs, Mercedes and $50K SUVs in the parking lot. You know the type. A lot of godly doctors, engineers, managers I would suppose.
The preacher was one of those young earther, evolution deniers, and prattled on about how, due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, evolution was impossible, ergo JEEBUS, and the sheep in the audience didn't raise an eyebrow. Truly sad for a mostly educated audience, eating up the pablum without comment.
Meanwhile, I guess I couldn't keep the expression of disdain and disgust from my face as my soon to be ex was obviously unhappy with my reaction and demeanor. She suggested I go "talk" to this preacher afterwards, but I said there is nothing I can say to someone who thinks the world is 6,000 years old and doesn't know the first thing about thermodynamics and yet has the gall to piously intone on the topic in front of thousands of people as though he were an expert.
I've not been to a service since.
