Ignore the hero - thank God!

[Anomalocaris]

Grow up and get over it.

We grew up and got over the indoctrinated reflex to condone superstition.

Oh no! She believes in God, something which in her mind is the highest of the high, and associated a kind-hearted woman who saved her baby with that God! How dare she be so condescending to that woman!

Really? Did she say "thank god", and mean "I thank you as I do god because I am so grateful for your kind heart as revealed in saving my baby"?

I think not.

If the kind woman as a person, rather than as just a assumed agent in baby's mother's christian world, crossed the boby's mother's mind at all, it is probably in the ungrateful context of "aren't you glad your were made a minion to my god who is looking out for me? BTW next to god I can't spare a moment to thank you for a kind heart which I assert to be a credit not to you, but to god?"

Thanking god for human deeds is but one menifestation of the demeaning nature of christianity and of its equally disreputable astranged twin - Islam. It is disgusting. Get over it.

[cheesychoad]

The word ‘Bible’ is derived from the Greek word ‘Biblia’, which means ‘books,’ and refers to the sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. The Bible consists of 66 books and has two parts. The first part is called the ‘Old Testament’ by Christians. It consists of 39 books of the sacred writings of the Jewish people which was written originally in Hebrew, except for some portions in Aramaic.
The second part is called the ‘New Testament’. It consists 27 books which was composed in Greek and records the story of Jesus Christ and the beginnings of Christianity. It is translated in whole or in part into more than 2,000 languages, The Bible is the worlds best seller ever, and the most widely distributed book in the world. Its influence on history and culture, including literature and the other arts, is incalculable.
The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. The United Bible Societies (UBS) estimate they have distributed nearly 9 billion Bibles, whole or in part, since 1947.
In 1989, the American Bible Societies (ABS) distributed more than 106,387,551 Scripture portions in the United States alone. During the same year, a worldwide partnership of Bible Societies distributed well over 650 million Scripture portions and about 15.5 million Bibles.
In 1988, the 1,000th anniversary of the baptism of Prince Vladimir of Kiev, the Soviet Union, in an agreement with the UBS (United Bible Society), received hundreds of thousands of Bibles. According to a recent U.B.S. report, Bible portions are available in 2,123 languages, the complete Bible, in 349 languages, and the New Testament in 841 languages. In 1995, they distributed 565 million Bibles and Bible portions to 200 countries.
The Bible is, some calculate, a $200 million-a-year retail market in the United States. According to a recent national survey concluded in US, the average American home had four bibles and almost all U.S. homes had at least one or more. Most the Americans prefer the King James Version (KJV).

[Autumnlicious]

Your point?

[Anomalocaris]

The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. The United Bible Societies (UBS) estimate they have distributed nearly 9 billion Bibles, whole or in part, since 1947.

Mcdonalds served more happy meals in less time, and saturated fat and bad cholesteral not withstanding, caused fewer wars, retarded less progress, and stunted fewer children.

The Bible is, some calculate, a $200 million-a-year retail market in the United States. According to a recent national survey concluded in US, the average American home had four bibles and almost all U.S. homes had at least one or more. Most the Americans prefer the King James Version (KJV).

They have a long way to go to catch up to underarm deoderant market.

[Doubting Thomas]

You know, it's funny how Christians like to claim that the bible must be the best book ever because it's the best selling book ever, but so few of them ever seemed to have actually read it.

And frankly, the statistics of bible printing doesn't really mean that so many people are reading it. Many bibles are given as gifts, and the damn Gideons think they have to place them in every single fucking hotel room in the entire country (which I love to deface and/or leave the "God is Fake" tracts from normalbobsmith.com in), not to mention bibles printed up for the sole purpose of being handed out on street corners or given to members of our military.

If you really want a good feel for what people are interested in, count up all the religious websites on the internet, then see how many porn sites there are. Then do a cross reference between the IP's visiting both religious and porn sites.

[Cinjin]

I think the issue of 'causing offense' should lie with the woman who was referred to as the 'angel of god'. If that woman is not offended, than neither am I.
As for me - it would depend to what extent I put myself in harms way.

For instance: If I ran into a burning building to rescue some christian's baby girls from a horrific fire, and the result of that action was that I had a third degree scar all over my face and my thumbs had to be amputated - well, you can be pretty damn sure that I'd be pretty fucking offended if all they had to say was, "we thank god for sending that nice man to rescue our babies." Mostly because I'd be thinking - "hey can you get your fucking god to perform a miracle on me and heal my body??!" "No?" "You can't?!" "Well, how nice of your god to send the mortal in to save the babies!" F-YOU!

But, I wouldn't assume that everyone should be offended if I wasn't remotely injured.
On a scale of wrong-doing by christians ... that's pretty low on the meter.