2: I’d like to point out that all of the “blood thirsty” crusades were carried out by Christians and that the general Christian populace never objected.

3: there is a Christian and a crackpot section for the hate mail. They just happen to be the same section. I suggest that you look up “Synonym” on Wikipedia.

4: you seem to think that if christianity is wrong, then nothing is right. What if christianity is wrong and the ancient Egyptian mythos is correct? Then not only did you deny yourself a bunch of fun and delude yourself into thinking that you knew what beauty was in life, you pretty much not going to have much of an afterlife.

5: the philosophy of FSM is more like, stop hating people with a different belief as you, because your belief probably is just as silly as theirs. Also, if you can’t provide any evidence of something, it ain’t science.

6: I think we have all at least considered one or more other religion/ lack thereof. How many other religions can claim that? Anyway, after this consideration (probably a lot more of it than any christian ever gave christianity) we decided to keep our intelligence intact.

Great(Great? ad nauseum) grandma WAS a monkey you dumb twit … and yes it HAS been proven.

Evolution is a matter of easily and well-documented PROVEN facts taken from real evidence

Well, what was I thinking, proven facts just don’t count for diddly when it comes to you “Pounders” and you heretical beliefs.

Personally, I’ll stick with the “Pirate Spaghetti Theory” as it at least has some useful humor attached to it.

“Live Short and Defecate”

Doc

Okay, so let’s look at this here - there are organelles in all of your cells called “mitochondria”, which are actually not human at all, but instead a seperate organism, a symbiote of all animal life that metabolizes our carbohydrates for us in return for a home in our cytoplasm.

They reproduce when our cells split, and we pass on our mitochondrias’ “children” to our own children. Since mitochondria are asexual reproducers, they make little clones of themselves with the exact same DNA.

Except for one thing. Unlike animal DNA, mitochondria do not have nuclei to protect their DNA from mutation. Ambient radiation and random/common mutagens that our DNA is shielded against will cause steady, predictable genetic varience in mitochondrial DNA. How do we know the exact rate of mutation? We’ve studied mitochondrial DNA in human, chimpanzee, lab rat, turtle, and pigeon populations over successive generations, giving us a solid basis for comparison. Since obviously these populations are varied in diet and environment, we have a better understanding of what stimulus causes what kind of mutation.

Now if you took a mitochondrial sample from your own skin, and one from your mother, the two should be nigh identicle - perhaps a single mutation if you live in a modern metropolis, and that would even be rare. Your child will share his or her mother’s mitochondrial DNA as well.

Certain mutations in mitochondrial DNA are known as “markers”. The aboriginies of Australia have been isolated for so long that anyone who has aboriginal descent in their maternal line will have a mutation at a certain point in their DNA that is unique to their ancestry.

Modern science has been able to prove our lineage to apes. Through these markers we have created a timeline - from modern humans to proto-hominids (who have fossilized mitochondrial DNA deep within their bones) and then down to ancient apes.

You see, ancient apes are not chimpanzees - chimpanzees have been evolving away from those ancient apes as long as we have. But we split with the chimpanzees much more recently than, say, gorillas or orangutans. We know when this split happened because we have the same amount of time (according to the mitochondrial algorithm) between modern humans and ancient apes, as well as between modern chimpanzees and ancient apes.

So you see, I can prove it. I have proved it.

Your turn.

Thomas Paine, author of The Rights of Man, the first man to name “The United States of America,” and the first man to propose American independence wrote, “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.”

They may have had their shortcomings in some areas, but in the area of religious freedom they were positively inspired, if you’ll pardon the pun.

“If I am wrong, the only thing I have lost is a life that came to live by the 10 commandments and better understand the beauty and wisdom of our founding fathers by understanding their faith.”

This “stance” has been disputed so many times.. by so many people.

Basically.. one argument is.. “if the only reason you are following your “god” is because of a silly little rule that you will go to hell otherwise, you are not a good christian”

Another points out that this is actually a “sucker’s bet”.. If the christian version of hell were the worst of the lot, then you would have a point. But there are other branches and dogmas with hells that are far worse. So the SMART BET, in that sense would be to follow the tennets of THAT faith/dogma/belief system and leave all others behind. Since that is the SUREST WAY to make sure you don’t spend an eternity in the most “hellish of hells”.

I’m more of an athiest

“..as it seems your Christian brothers and sisters thrive in it..”

I was an only child

“That being said, if you go to church and pray..”

I try to avoid that

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Oh yeah, christians sure are a persecuted minority in today’s America! Boo hoo!!

The ‘Crazy’ factor is scaled way down, it’s only a bit judgemental (but still manages to sneak in a shot, calling us “unbelievers”).

All in all, I can only rate it a 2 on the crackpot scale. We need more threats to really crank up that rating.