Just as Santa Claus lays presents*. Or that an invisible sky fairy lays his Holy Load in a virgin who then gives birth to it's own father.
Amirite?
Matthew 7:1 ring any bells, Demonbluster? Better be careful with those 10 Commandments too - that 9th one's a doozy!
*- 'Tis a day Mrs. Claus waits for with antici...
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...pation. Well, he does come but once a year.
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@BigD1987
"No, I never heard that the Easter Bunny lays eggs"
But he does lay cats:
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Ye gods - those bucks'll screw anything with a pulse!
@Joel (emphasis added):
"We human creatures are a little like clams, living in our shells and really don't know very much. Like clams, we instinctively and periodically open up to receive nourishment. Even if we don't realize it, the nourishment we crave and cannot live with out is love which is synonymous with God. We are free to turn away from God, have our wars, govern ourselves and suffer the consequences. But when the time comes, and it does for all of us, we cry out God help us.
PROTIP: 'Clams' has become associated with $cientology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology:_A_History_of_Man
'And he kept talking, he kept talking, and his dad kept giving him speed and all of a sudden he was talking about his history, when he was a clam and all these different situations in early Earth. And out of that came History of Man'
To say nothing of the group that exposes $cientology: Operation Clambake:
http://www.xenu.net/clam_faq.html
'Many engrams, for example, could be traced back to clams. The clam's big problem was that there was a conflict between the hinge that wanted to open and the hinge that wanted to close. It was easy to restimulate the engram caused by the defeat of the weaker hinge, Hubbard pronounced, by asking a pre-clear to imagine a clam on a beach opening and closing its shell very rapidly and at the same time making an opening and closing motion with thumb and forefinger. This gesture, he said, would upset large numbers of people.
'By the way,' he warned, 'your discussion of these incidents with the uninitiated in Scientology can cause havoc. Should you describe the "clam" to some one [sic], you may restimulate it in him to the extent of causing severe jaw pain. Once such victim, after hearing about a clam death, could not use his jaws for three days.'
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So Joel - not just a bad analogy, but the worst analogy one could possibly use. Here's my analogy:
Fundies: Sheep. Fluff-brained creatures, all bleating in lockstep, following each other mindlessly. As they similarly do, re. what they're taught to accept as 'truth*'.
Atheists: Wolves. Independent. Possess superior intelligence. Think for themselves. Who prey on sheep.
*- 'What's true, is true for you.'
-L. Ron Hubbard, founder of $cientology
If you disagree with the above statement, then you've just admitted that Biblical 'Truth' is also lies too. To quote a fellow FSTDTer (emphasis added):
@Xotan
"As to Truth, Pilate asked Jesus, 'What is truth'. Jesus gave no answer. This idiot presumes to know what it is. But Jesus's silence could well have been because the truth is never the same for any two prople."
Therefore, $cientology is as credible as fundie Christianity, or it isn't Which is it to be, Joel? Either way, your 'beliefs are equally lies just are those espoused by L. Ron Hubbard and David Miscavige (current head of $cientology).
Ergo, religious 'truth' = lies. Atheism (based on objective, falsifiable, replicatable scientific discoveries, which have evidence) = fact.
QED.
