Reply #10: What's really scary is when [View All]

otherwise intelligent people trade one addiction in for another.

Mr Pip and I have some friends...a married couple...who are recovering alcoholics. The husband is quite intelligent...the wife...ehhhh....she sort of follows along what her husband believes. Anyway, they call themselves Catholics although they wear a Star of David along with a cross.

They are, to put it mildly, fanatics.

And when we all get together (a few times a year) they never seem to miss a chance to try and convert us...or at least inject references to GOD into some conversation...usually it involves stories about people whose lives have been changed/saved by Faith and God. Gays who have been "turned around" and gone straight because "God talked to them"...that sort of nonsense.

So this past weekend we're sitting around talking about the Swine Flu and this, apparently, is just the opening needed for a lesson on God's power. The story involves a bum who is a drunk and he steals a bottle of booze from some other bum and he knows he's going to be in big trouble and maybe even killed. But lo and behold, he has a revelation!!!!! In the darkness of his crappy little hovel in the bowels of the city, he has a vision.... It's GOD...in the form of one of those 4th of July sparkler type lights, only instead of a white light, it's GOLD. He throws away the bottle and vows never to drink again.

they call this "spirituality"

I call it bullshit.


these people honestly believe all of this crap, and they believe that God is a great big Santa Claus in the sky that they pray to and POOF!!! they get needed money or whatever.

And God plays practical jokes on people by leaving a few dinosaur bones around so we can find them and "test our faith"

etc., etc.


Otherwise intelligent people believe this stuff and it scares the hell out of me

:scared:



Atheist/agnostic/heathen for so long I can't even remember