The Devil is among us

[Talulah]

I think there are a lot of people out there today who think there's no such thing as God, and the reason behind it is simple. It's the Christians. There are these devils out there who must be working for hell itself, who strive to make christians the lamest, judgmental, pain in the A creeps they can. By the time they are done trying to "guide" people, they have people running and screaming the other way! That wouldn't be what any God would want.

[harris7]

that was close, i thought you were on to me

[JaggedEdge]

I hope all that is a metaphor.

[Lucifuge]

Considering that the Devil is Christianity's best friend. I think you might be on to something.[/sarcasm]

[Inferius]

Humans are stupid.

[Marable_hebrew]

Humans are stupid.

I must admit,there's not many humans out there i like in real life either,.

I know there is alot of of nice people out there, what ive
had the pleasure to meet and spend time with, shared priceless life eperiance's with, but the majority seem brain washed to me :/ anyways, totally of topic but, thought id just work off what i quoted lol

[bud breath420]

yaknow i agree with Talulah.. most of my my family are christians they tried so hard to put god into my head but all they did was pushed me away from the idea.. and them

That and the whole fact their is children dieing in third world countries everyday kids under the age of 10 that havnt even had a chance at life if God is so all giving why doesnt he stop that shit, im going to stop before i start ranting.. I believe theres something after death but not god....

[BlueBear]

Ranting at it's finest, this So Co is something, and so are ya'll, Bonvoyoge, Adieu. Never mixed this stuff with apple juice.

"I have no intention, my good Michael," said Professor Lucifer,
"of endeavouring to convert you by argument. The imbecility of
your traditions can be quite finally exhibited to anybody with
mere ordinary knowledge of the world, the same kind of knowledge
which teaches us not to sit in draughts or not to encourage
friendliness in impecunious people. It is folly to talk of this
or that demonstrating the rationalist philosophy. Everything
demonstrates it. Rubbing shoulders with men of all kinds----"

"You will forgive me," said the monk, meekly from under loads of
white beard, "but I fear I do not understand; was it in order
that I might rub my shoulder against men of all kinds that you
put me inside this thing?"

"An entertaining retort, in the narrow and deductive manner of
the Middle Ages," replied the Professor, calmly, "but even upon
your own basis I will illustrate my point. We are up in the sky.
In your religion and all the religions, as far as I know (and I
know everything), the sky is made the symbol of everything that
is sacred and merciful. Well, now you are in the sky, you know
better. Phrase it how you like, twist it how you like, you know
that you know better. You know what are a man's real feelings
about the heavens, when he finds himself alone in the heavens,
surrounded by the heavens. You know the truth, and the truth is
this. The heavens are evil, the sky is evil, the stars are evil.
This mere space, this mere quantity, terrifies a man more than
tigers or the terrible plague. You know that since our science
has spoken, the bottom has fallen out of the Universe. Now,
heaven is the hopeless thing, more hopeless than any hell. Now,
if there be any comfort for all your miserable progeny of morbid
apes, it must be in the earth, underneath you, under the roots of
the grass, in the place where hell was of old. The fiery crypts,
the lurid cellars of the underworld, to which you once condemned
the wicked, are hideous enough, but at least they are more homely
than the heaven in which we ride. And the time will come when you
will all hide in them, to escape the horror of the stars."

"I hope you will excuse my interrupting you," said Michael, with
a slight cough, "but I have always noticed----"

"Go on, pray go on," said Professor Lucifer, radiantly, "I really
like to draw out your simple ideas."

"Well, the fact is," said the other, "that much as I admire your
rhetoric and the rhetoric of your school, from a purely verbal
point of view, such little study of you and your school in human
history as I have been enabled to make has led me to--er--rather
singular conclusion, which I find great difficulty in expressing,
especially in a foreign language."

"Come, come," said the Professor, encouragingly, "I'll help you
out. How did my view strike you?"

"Well, the truth is, I know I don't express it properly, but
somehow it seemed to me that you always convey ideas of that kind
with most eloquence, when--er--when----"

"Oh! get on," cried Lucifer, boisterously.

"Well, in point of fact when your flying ship is just going to
run into something. I thought you wouldn't mind my mentioning it,
but it's running into something now."

Lucifer exploded with an oath and leapt erect, leaning hard upon
the handle that acted as a helm to the vessel. For the last ten
minutes they had been shooting downwards into great cracks and
caverns of cloud. Now, through a sort of purple haze, could be
seen comparatively near to them what seemed to be the upper part
of a huge, dark orb or sphere, islanded in a sea of cloud. The
Professor's eyes were blazing like a maniac's.

"It is a new world," he cried, with a dreadful mirth. "It is a
new planet and it shall bear my name. This star and not that
other vulgar one shall be 'Lucifer, sun of the morning.' Here we
will have no chartered lunacies, here we will have no gods. Here
man shall be as innocent as the daisies, as innocent and as
cruel--here the intellect----"

Did I say adieu, don't drink and post

[afghooey]

"The Devil is among us"

[Nylo]

I understand where you're coming from. Even though I believe heaviliy in an Almighty God, there are plenty of Christians sects who don't think I'm going to reach salvation because I don't worship the way they do; and we agree .

It really comes down to the sad but true fact that fanatics attract more attention. People that are willing to push their agenda get more media coverage and attract more sentiment to what they're doing.

The same can even be said for atheists. I highly doubt many of you are a bunch of goat-blood drinking, narrow-minded fools. Stereotypes don't do any of us any good. It's always the lowest common denominators of each of our groups that screw it up for the rest of us.

[justinsane]

All you need is Love