Comments on: God the Product, the Son and the Holy Spirit http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/ Helping Mankind Overcome Religion Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: PhalsePhrophet http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-157 PhalsePhrophet Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:28:14 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-157 My local area has 4 or 5 of these mega-churches. We call them god incorporated. Our local paper gives free press to each one often. At least one claims to take in $50,000 per week on Sunday collections alone. They do pay taxes on the profit from merchandise sales but not property taxes on the prime real estate they sit on. Most caim to be non-denominational, evangelical churches whose pastors make no excuses for their wealth. One pastor managed to lose over $50,000 in an investment scam to a traveling Christian scam artist who was offering unusually high returns to the faithful. Meanwhile, we have rampant homeless people camping on our rivers and vacant lots, people with little to eat and families without health care coverage. Product is the correct call on the god they are selling. A product, which if taken literally, should be banned to anyone under age and stamped with the proper warnings against, violence, mature subject matter, and high chance for addiction.

My local area has 4 or 5 of these mega-churches. We call them god incorporated. Our local paper gives free press to each one often. At least one claims to take in $50,000 per week on Sunday collections alone. They do pay taxes on the profit from merchandise sales but not property taxes on the prime real estate they sit on. Most caim to be non-denominational, evangelical churches whose pastors make no excuses for their wealth. One pastor managed to lose over $50,000 in an investment scam to a traveling Christian scam artist who was offering unusually high returns to the faithful. Meanwhile, we have rampant homeless people camping on our rivers and vacant lots, people with little to eat and families without health care coverage.
Product is the correct call on the god they are selling. A product, which if taken literally, should be banned to anyone under age and stamped with the proper warnings against, violence, mature subject matter, and high chance for addiction.

]]> By: vagodin http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-145 vagodin Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:19:36 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-145 I once attended a wedding at a mega-church and saw something I thought I would never see in a church, a security guard with a gun. I wasn't aware that churches were being robbed on a regular basis. Where's their faith in the big guy?

I once attended a wedding at a mega-church and saw something I thought I would never see in a church, a security guard with a gun. I wasn’t aware that churches were being robbed on a regular basis.

Where’s their faith in the big guy?

]]> By: Charles Watkins http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-137 Charles Watkins Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:23:32 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-137 Aw c'mon, they're not using coffee bars to get people addicted to caffine so they'll come back for more. It's not as if they had cornered the market.

Aw c’mon, they’re not using coffee bars to get people addicted to caffine so they’ll come back for more. It’s not as if they had cornered the market.

]]> By: I Am http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-126 I Am Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:05:46 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-126 George: Don't hold back. :) You'll particularly enjoy the "God is a Dick" series I'm planning. I'm currently imagining it as seven parts. I post my multi-part topics on Sundays, and I have four more parts of "Origin of Religion" to get through first, so it will be about a month.

George:

Don’t hold back. :)

You’ll particularly enjoy the “God is a Dick” series I’m planning. I’m currently imagining it as seven parts. I post my multi-part topics on Sundays, and I have four more parts of “Origin of Religion” to get through first, so it will be about a month.

]]> By: George Skillman http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-123 George Skillman Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:06:20 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/05/31/god-the-product-the-son-and-the-holy-spirit/#comment-123 I have no comment regarding incentives to become an atheist as far as "what's in it for me" but I am really annoyed when atheists allow fundamentalists to seem to have the moral high ground and athiests merely say, "Christianity sounds good but unfortunately it's just not true". I too have considered myself an "Evangelical Atheist" and have wanted to found a "church" of such a denomination. I call all fundamentalists to repentance! Fundamentalist Christianity is not merely false, it is wicked! Thou shalt not worship false and evil gods! Behold the sins of Jehovah: 1) Genocide against the people of Jericho 2) Murder and coercion: Yahweh took away Pharoah's free will, using Pharoah as a puppet so that he (Yahweh) could show off his power by murdering the innocent first born male children of Egypt. 3) Condoning slavery in both the old and new testaments 4) Murder and the denial of freedom of religion in the murder of the prophets of Baal 5) Genocide and animal abuse in the Genesis flood I want to set up tables across from where Jehovah's witnesses are found to call them to repentance! I want to steal the membership roster of my local Mormon Church, don a white shirt and tie and knock on THEIR doors to inform them that it is wicked to worship a god that implies the inferiority of non-white races by turning people's skin dark when they displease him. I want to shake a bloody corpse in front of fundamentalists and exclaim how dare they criticize a woman for aborting a fertilized egg when their own god has no respect for human life, evidenced by the crimes he supposedly commits in the Silly Babble (excuse me, the Holy Bible). I want to call fundamentalists to repent from their wicked philosophy of moral relativism: they claim the old testament rules are no longer relevant after the death of Jesus on the cross. What can be a more wicked case of moral relativism! They seem to think that slavery and polygamy was not a sin for Abraham but it is now. What hypocrisy! Fundamentalist Christians have NOTHING to do with true American values. They plan to step aside at Armageddon while their evil god denies religious liberty and protections from cruel and unusual punishment as he casts our fellow Americans into his gulag called "hell". Atheism is the BASIS for religious tolerance. Religions that threaten the constitution of the United States are tolerated BECAUSE they are FALSE! If fundamentalist Christianity is TRUE, then the president of the United States, from his promise to defend the constitution of the United States, must prepare the armed forces to fight against this evil monster! But don't worry about the evil god Yahweh. As everyone really knows in his inner-most heart-of-hearts, he doesn't exist. Jesus was half-right when he said that the Saboth was made for man rather than the man for the Saboth. Jesus just didn't go far enough. Man makes his gods to serve man, not the other way around. I have yet another exhortation to fundamentalists in the hopes that they admit the truth they know in their hears and will repent of their wickedness: It's been 2000 years and he's STILL dead. Give it a rest. George Skillman gskillman@hotmail.com

I have no comment regarding incentives to become an atheist as far as “what’s in it for me” but I am really annoyed when atheists allow fundamentalists to seem to have the moral high ground and athiests merely say, “Christianity sounds good but unfortunately it’s just not true”.

I too have considered myself an “Evangelical Atheist” and have wanted to found a “church” of such a denomination.

I call all fundamentalists to repentance! Fundamentalist Christianity is not merely false, it is wicked! Thou shalt not worship false and evil gods! Behold the sins of Jehovah:

1) Genocide against the people of Jericho
2) Murder and coercion: Yahweh took away Pharoah’s free will, using Pharoah as a puppet so that he (Yahweh) could show off his power by murdering the innocent first born male children of Egypt.
3) Condoning slavery in both the old and new testaments
4) Murder and the denial of freedom of religion in the murder of the prophets of Baal
5) Genocide and animal abuse in the Genesis flood

I want to set up tables across from where Jehovah’s witnesses are found to call them to repentance! I want to steal the membership roster of my local Mormon Church, don a white shirt and tie and knock on THEIR doors to inform them that it is wicked to worship a god that implies the inferiority of non-white races by turning people’s skin dark when they displease him.

I want to shake a bloody corpse in front of fundamentalists and exclaim how dare they criticize a woman for aborting a fertilized egg when their own god has no respect for human life, evidenced by the crimes he supposedly commits in the Silly Babble (excuse me, the Holy Bible).

I want to call fundamentalists to repent from their wicked philosophy of moral relativism: they claim the old testament rules are no longer relevant after the death of Jesus on the cross. What can be a more wicked case of moral relativism! They seem to think that slavery and polygamy was not a sin for Abraham but it is now. What hypocrisy!

Fundamentalist Christians have NOTHING to do with true American values. They plan to step aside at Armageddon while their evil god denies religious liberty and protections from cruel and unusual punishment as he casts our fellow Americans into his gulag called “hell”.

Atheism is the BASIS for religious tolerance. Religions that threaten the constitution of the United States are tolerated BECAUSE they are FALSE! If fundamentalist Christianity is TRUE, then the president of the United States, from his promise to defend the constitution of the United States, must prepare the armed forces to fight against this evil monster!

But don’t worry about the evil god Yahweh. As everyone really knows in his inner-most heart-of-hearts, he doesn’t exist. Jesus was half-right when he said that the Saboth was made for man rather than the man for the Saboth. Jesus just didn’t go far enough. Man makes his gods to serve man, not the other way around. I have yet another exhortation to fundamentalists in the hopes that they admit the truth they know in their hears and will repent of their wickedness:

It’s been 2000 years and he’s STILL dead. Give it a rest.

George Skillman
gskillman@hotmail.com

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