Monday, August 26, 2013

Anne Frank and Hell

Christians believe that to avoid Hell you must accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Anyone who does not accept Christ as their Lord and Savior goes to hell according to this doctrine.

I think we can all agree that Adolf Hitler was a truly evil person and if anybody deserved to burn in hell forever it would be him. (Although it's interesting to note that in his autobiography he claimed to be a Christian but never mind.) But what about Anne Frank? She was a Jew so she never accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.

So if you want to tie conservative Christians in knots, ask them if Anne Frank is in hell with Adolf Hitler. And yes, this is a fair question.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Perfect

From an atheist character in the new Netflix show, "Orange is the new Black".  I wish I could articulate my viewpoints this well but then I'm not a Hollywood writer with years of experience who goes through who knows how many rewrites to get this:

I can’t pretend to believe in something I don’t, and I don’t [believe in this]… I believe in science. I believe in evolution. I believe in Nate Silver, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Christopher Hitchens, although I do admit he could be kind of an asshole. I cannot get behind some Supreme Being who weighs in on the Tony awards while a million people get whacked by machetes. I don’t believe a billion Indians are going to hell. I don’t think that we get cancer to learn life lessons. And I don’t believe people die young because God needs another angel. I think it’s just bullshit. And on some level, I think we all know that…

I disagree about Hitchens.  He was always more or less polite to those who were the same to him.  But if they weren't, he could use words like weapons.  

Friday, August 2, 2013

Why millennials are leaving the church

Why millennials are leaving the church – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs

Love the part "and I proceed to bang my head against the podium".  Evangelicals (particularly on the right) are all about style changes rather than message changes.