storytime

I note that religions are excellent at adapting to their losses.

aa5874

Isn't it a shame that religions take no note of history that they are always losers.

When will they learn?

The stone worshippers of antiquity must be turning in their graves.

Julio

That is because religion is primarily a BUSINESS with the superstitious weaknesses of its victims.
Nothing else, but emotional victimization; which should be regarded as a moral crime and a violation of the infant’s rights, as a child is early in life put through a process of indoctrination that will hinder the emotional and intellectual advancement of the virgin personality.
Religion is surely an emotional curse.
Take the pope’s “Eucharist” or commonly called the “Host”. That is a most barbaric offense in terms of [almost] permanent injury to a mental development. The innocent catholic is early brainwashed that the sacred wafer is some visible form of some god who needs to be worshiped or else! Do you think that a child reaching adolescence will automatically discard the attack to his/her emotions when a young child?
The pope scores gain in all his religious departments via this malignant process of brainwashing an infant’s mind with weirdness like the “Sacred Wafer”.
The scientific world should stand up against the pope’s Wafer, by proving once and for all that the “thing” is only unsalted wheat flour with traces of common polution!…

storytime

When will they learn? Most probably when they get the courage to investigate some of the things you and other learned atheists post that will tweek their interest and educate them in how ancient men had the brainpower to imagine such stories. Often Christians see ancient man as a sort of zombie type human with no free will, without ability to create scary stories about thunder gods, god-men, miracles etc. It's hard for some to face facts about men deceiving one another with magic tricks and druged potions. Some Christians are terrified of hell and will never even consider the bible as anything but god's truth. But you already know this. So what else can you, and I, and other atheists do but keep a challenging thought in their heads, forcing them to answer to their ignorance, especially in this day and time when Christians are hyped-up to kill, bomb and destroy people who don't believe as they themselves do.

Julio

Correct.
Generally, Christians imagine in their brainwashed minds that atheists are their worst enemies.
I once asked a fundamentalist if he would accept heart surgery by an atheist doctor. He didn’t see a problem to be operated by such a person, because it would have been God who allowed that to happen!
So, I retorted, your God uses atheists to help you in a serious crisis?
Yes, he replied, because maybe God will convert him later and he will praise God for having helped Christians while still an atheist!
Can you win with these brainwashed people?…

Julio

I mean, even if Hegesippus’ documents were found, and prove without a doubt that the so-called canonical gospels were nothing but a superstitious fabrication from the second century, wouldn’t the church still continue to score dishonest gain from naïve individuals like that fundamentalist I mentioned above?