The Facts of Life: Shattering the Myths of Darwinism. A Review.

New Statesman ^ | 28 August 1992 | Richard Dawkins

[f.Christian]

People go nuts from a tiny physical nerve dying---toothache...

can you imagine what spiritual annihilation of a human being/soul will be like...

even for an instant!

[Khepera]

Actually Christianity has done a lot of good for me. Before I was a Christian I wanted to kill people like you (People who disagreed with me) myself. I wanted to shoot them in the head and watch the confused looks on their faces as the blood spurted from them like a fountian.

Now God has entered my life and changed me so much that I no longer have those thoughts and feelings. Is that not an amazing blessing? He has taken away my anger and set me free. Praise God.

[Dimensio]

I think that it stirred them up because they find it disturbing that you like the idea of people suffering for eternity. That's just a guess, though.

[gdani]

Boy that eternity thing really stirred them up father. Why do you suppose that is?

Probably because it carries with it the minute possibility that people like you will be present in some sort of afterlife still wasting time trying to convince people that there is evidence that woman was made from a man's rib, dinosaurs were present in biblical times, etc

[clamper1797]

Actually I would say you stopped a little short in your therepy .. I still think you are a very sick individual

AND I'M NOT JOKING

[BMCDA]

Nature is as it is and not as we want it to be but we can only work with what we observe. And that which is observed are scientific facts. These facts are most certainly not the ultimate facts (i.e. as nature really is) but you cannot work with what you have not observed.

[Khepera]

I cannot imagine it. It would be terrible.

[Dimensio]

Before I was a Christian I wanted to kill people like you (People who disagreed with me) myself. I wanted to shoot them in the head and watch the confused looks on their faces as the blood spurted from them like a fountian.

Wow. You sound like a psychopath, and I'm almost afraid to imagine what might happen if the mental leash you put on yourself should stretch or break.

[gdani]

Actually Christianity has done a lot of good for me. Before I was a Christian I wanted to kill people like you (People who disagreed with me) myself. I wanted to shoot them in the head and watch the confused looks on their faces as the blood spurted from them like a fountian.

Sounds like your problems could have been just as easily solved through heavy medication and/or an extended stay in the psychiatric ward.

[Dimensio]

I may rethink my lack of religion. That anyone could even appear to understand the rantings of f.Christian strikes me as an event of possibly Biblical proportions.

[clamper1797]

Now God the great deceiver has entered my life and changed duped me so much that I no longer only have those thoughts and feelings on "God" threads towards those who DARE have opinions different than mine.

SEEK HELP

[f.Christian]

I'm holding back for the big KO!

[BMCDA]

Hm, religion may not be true but in this case it's definitely useful.

[gdani]

That anyone could even appear to understand the rantings of f.Christian strikes me as an event of possibly Biblical proportions

I think it's referred to as "speaking in tongues". I assume he/she is busily writhing on the floor at this moment.

[clamper1797]

You have already KO'ed yourself ... you really didn't need any help ...

[Dimensio]

But...he's...typing...erf...

*brainlockup*

[BMCDA]

Heck, even Napoleon acknowledged this fact:

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

[far sider]

If you really don't believe in an afterlife, doesn't that make life pretty meaningless?

[Dimensio]

If you really don't believe in an afterlife, doesn't that make life pretty meaningless?

That depends. What is the meaning of life?

[BMCDA]

Or maybe he's handling a snake while typing.