[GreenOgre]

Christianity:
The belief that some cosmic wizard cast a spell and created everything in six days. He will make you live forever if you telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master and he will remove an evil force from our soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Makes perfect sense to me.

[Colofornian]

Atheism:
The belief that impersonal cosmic nothingness that literally "knows" nothing about...
...communication, emotions, love, design, purpose, personal life forms, interactive system dynamics, ethics/morality, extremely complex informatics contained within cells/DNA, etc. etc...
...somehow randomly replicated its impersonal nothingness into first a material something and then on to extremely detailed/complex multiplied diverse somethings and someones which/who do have the above characteristics & attributes...
...and "IT" "accomplished" this not only with intricate living, breathing products but contextually as well via mysterious perfect and semi-perfect environments to sustain such somethings and someones...

This "it" with-so-much potential process outcomes somehow apparently existed forever regression-wise...
...& you now have to philosophically bow -- especially on most campuses these days -- to such materialistic naturalism as your impersonal lord & master...
...& -- given that humankind is continuing to generationally "evolve" and "progress" -- it must also somehow be removing the naturalistically unexplained evil present in humanity's soul.

Makes perfect sense to me. (And it takes even greater faith that I or most could possibly muster! Gotta commend your degree of faith, GreenOgre!)

Now go be a good venture capitalist and harness all that green wind power contained in tornadoes and hurricanes -- and make sure each tornado and hurricane delivers you an assembly line of newly-minted autos and watches. Yeah, we know...perhaps each tornado/hurricane MAY only deliver one segment of the entire "assembly-line" process needed to eventually create a car. But, hey, keep at your faith in such random processes...in multi-hundreds of millions of years, you might just have that 1976 Ford Pinto ready for shoppers! And then "natural selection" will bound to kick in...'cause everyone knows that a 1976 Ford Pinto would need to instantaneously reinvent itself as something else...or it wouldn't survive in any given year's market!

[svcw]

An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” said the atheist. “How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?” as he smiled smugly.

“Okay,” she said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”

The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl’s intelligence, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.” To which the little girl replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don’t know shit?”

Was that you on the plane?

[Elsie]

Makes perfect sense to me.

(mohammed is the false prophet of a false god.)

HMMMmmm...

I'm having trouble reconciling both these statements coming from the same person...