I’ve been hearing a lot of this “God bless America”, “In God We Trust”, and “The United States is a Christian nation”. I’m gonna have to call bullshit on that.
If hell were real, the vast majority of Americans - Christians (especially) included - would find themselves there in death. Lucky for them, hell is a fictional place created by the same people who created the guidelines on getting there. Ironically, the same people that claim to be religious and follow the bible are the ones breaking these rules today. They are either full of shit, or completely deluded. Well, actually, probably both. Here’s why:
Let’s start off with this stat: 76.5% (159 million) of Americans identify themselves as Christian.Stats Keep this in mind and then look at the following stats:
1. 45% of American marriages end in divorce. This explicitly pisses god off: Malachi 2:16a: “I hate divorce, says the Lord God of Israel.” According to the Bible, God’s plan is that marriage be a lifetime commitment. Matthew 5:32 also states that: “But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.”
You bunch of sluts you. Strike 1 Christian Americans.
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2. 66% of Americans are overweight and 31% of Americans are considered obese. What’s big sky-daddy have to say about this? Proverbs 23:20-21: “Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.” Proverbs 28:7: “He who keeps the law is a discerning son, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.” Proverbs 23:2: “Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.”
I’m not sure, but I’m guessing suicide rates by knife wound aren’t as high as gluttony rates. Disobeying the bible? Big no-no. Strike 2.
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3. $711,000,000,000 - U.S. Military Expenditure (2009 data)What about Matthew 5:38-42 which states: “…If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.” Luke 6:27-31 also states almost the exact same thing.
Great way to piss off god. Strike 3 - looks like he won’t be blessing America.
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4. Christians make up ~79% of the prison population in America. I should hope I wouldn’t have to provide “biblical proof” that murder, stealing, rape etc. are sins, but just in case:
Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21: “13. You shall not kill, 15. you shall not steal.” Deuteronomy 22:25-28: “But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die”.
That’s strange, I thought atheists were the immoral ones…
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5. 23.5% of people living in America are not christian That is quite a high %. God would be furious. After all you can’t have any other gods before him, and you must believe and worship him.
Looking at these stats, it’s easy to see that the vast majority of people in America are either a) not christian, b) christians who don’t actually follow their filthy book and so can’t be considered true christians or c) full of shit and don’t know what they believe.
The country is full of blasphemers and heathens: not something you’d expect from a christian nation. There are countless other examples of why - you just have to open your eyes.
Tags: America, Atheism, Christianity
January 5th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Religion is just one tool of fascism. With an irrational idea such as “god” or “communism” as its authority, rulers can demand blind obedience, rally a mob of believers, and wage war and violence against anything they choose. Following the Bible isn’t the purpose of Christianity, it’s enforcing the will of whomever is in charge using the slave labor of its frightened followers. If you are not an individual who thinks for himself using honesty, reason and evidence as your guides you are part of the problem.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:00 am
As someone who works in a prison I always see people in here crack addicts, pedophiles, rapists, nurders, etc.
When in here most of them will tell me they are people of god… christian god, muslim god, whatever… They just happen to be a serial rapist outside of prison is all.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Hello again,
Wow! For a blog that receives SO many daily hits, there sure are dreadfully few responses…..could be the material (wink, wink, just having fun).
First, a response to your post:
Why do you assume that all people who “call” themselves Christians actually “follow Christ” on a daily basis….meaning they don’t really take their “religion” seriously at all (some only twice a year). Proof: 10% of members tithe weekly in abundance for the 90% who never do. So, I guess thanks are in order….give it those “Christians”….guilt them into paying!!
Second, a question or five for you:
1. What’s the difference between a implicit vs. explicit Atheist? Which are you?
2. What is the difference between strong (positive) atheism with weak (negative) atheism as contrasted by Philosophers such as Antony Flew, Michael Martin and William L. Rowe? Which are you?
3. What’s the difference between apatheism & contemplative atheism? Which are you?
4. Do you argue for Epistemological atheism or Metaphysical atheism?
5. What is your view of atheistic (or humanistic) Judaism and Christian atheists.
By the way, it doesn’t sound like Athiests are all on the same page either!
Jim Richardson
January 6th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Jim, of course not all atheists are on the same page. We’re on more pages than even the Christians. That is because atheists do not follow a belief system. Atheism is simply the lack of belief in god. That’s it. There are no other “rules” or “doctrines” that atheists have to ascribe to.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Andrew,
That was kinda my point as well- not all Christians are on the same page either theologically or experientially. I know you posted these stats in fun, but I don’t think the original statistician gets this.
I have to agree with you, a lot of “Christians” will no doubt be disappointed to discover where they will find themselves on the other side of eternity, but then again I suppose thats one of those judgmental Christian statements.
Now you’re absolutely 100% positive that hell is a fictional place, right?
Take Care and thanks for your kind response at my blog ;-)!
Jim
January 7th, 2009 at 10:54 am
That’s quite an elaborate criticism. Americans do have flaws and so as their scattered belief of Gods and religion.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Personally I’m not an aethiest but rather agnostic, but I agree people should have dropped religion when we realized that the earth is round. In other words today we have facts on why things are the way they are and we don’t have to say that an invisible God sent a guy 2 stone tablets with laws on them. However I think that when in jail the reason why many prisoners become christian is because they have lost hope and from personal experience a lot of families stop visiting there loved ones in jail all they have is Christianity to turn to which is sad but it’s all they have. By the way I don’t want to spam or anything but if you’re interested in games check out my blog Video Game Blog
February 5th, 2009 at 2:42 am
I don’t feel that anyone has the right to pass judgement on anyone especially infidels. People are sinful by nature, and pointing out people’s flaws doesn’t do anything to disprove God. I don’t understand why people get so frustrated at the idea of people having something to believe in. I don’t understand why atheists try to point out the worst parts of Christianity to make it seem bad when at it’s root it’s pure. People who actually try to live faithfully aren’t the ones in those statistics. People in general fall by the way-side because they’re human not because they’re christian. I’m also tired of hearing people rambling on about how all the major tragedies and wars were caused by christians when we all know those things were done in the name of greed and not God. Like in the case of Christopher Columbus, no true Christian would count on their faith to get them across an ocean and then enslave, torture, and kill people for gold and glory, these things are not the ways fo a true christian. Those who actually live in way of a true christian find our lives blessed and wonderful. There may be trials, as with everyone who has lived, but it is meant to make people stronger. So please calm you spirit and see what christianity is meant to be for yourself, and stop counting on statistics to encourage discrimination.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Kuylain wrote: “I don’t understand why atheists try to point out the worst parts of Christianity to make it seem bad when at it’s root it’s pure.”
—Pure? my ass! Christians across the centuries (the majority of whom doubtless believed they were merely adhering to their God’s “pure” Word) burnt gay men, or “Sodomites” as they (we) were called, at the stake, attached weights to their legs and drowned them in the sea, scorched and hanged them, castrated them, tortured and dismembered them and then left their bodies to the elements, birds and other animals, as “unworthy of burial,” and all of this for their having committed “peccatum illud horribile, inter Christianos non nominandum,” “that horrible sin not to be named among Christians.”
Christianity’s horrific and murderous history of persecuting non-heterosexuals so thoroughly disqualifies it from pronouncing judgment on ANYONE, period! Begone, you hypocritical Evildoers!
It is Christianity which must, by its actions, be judged. Just to place things in historical perspective and get that disgusting, wholly undeserved, angelically “blessed and wonderful”, condescending and self-congratulatory smirk off your face, all we have to do is check those history books that haven’t been distorted, ignored, censored out of existence, or heterosexually white-washed to fit the Christian Straight Man’s Pompous Self-Image:
“TANTVM RELIGIO POTVIT SVADERE MALORVM”
["How many evils have flowed from religion!"]
——Titus Lucretius Carus, (ca. 99 B.C.- ca. 55 B.C.), Roman poet and philosopher.
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To “look back on the history of homosexuality in the West,” writes Louis Crompton in “Homosexuality and Civilization,” “is to view a kaleidoscope of horrors: Justinian’s castrated bishops; the dangling corpses of Almeria; the burning of the ‘married’ couples in Renaissance Rome; the priests starved to death in cages in Venice’s Saint Mark’s Square; women burned, hanged, or beheaded on the charge of lesbianism; men tortured and burned by the Spanish Inquisition; Indians savaged by Balboa’s mastiffs or burned in Peru; the deaths at the quemadero in Mexico City; the men and boys of Faan; and the scores of men and adolescents hanged in Georgian England. All these atrocities were committed with the certainty that they were the will of God, necessary to stave off the kind of disaster that had overwhelmed the Cities of the Plain.”
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“The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.”
——Thomas Paine (1737-1809) English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual.