It’s very accurate in how many non-believers feel about the whole conversation.

Does anyone else tire of this bizarre, cyclical method of thought?

Yes! For someone like me it’s practically embarrassing. =80{

I pasted FB friend, Jim Palmer’s, “11-Step Religious Guide To Sabotaging Your Life” on my wall today and some of his points were similar and spot on:

1. Begin with the premise that there is something hopelessly and incurably wrong with you.
2. Believe that your humanity is an affront to God, and an obstacle to overcome and an evil to repress or eradicate.
3. Pin your hopes on the afterlife, and don’t get too attached to the here-life.
4. Mistrust what you most deeply think and feel.
5. Give others the power and authority to determine what your beliefs, values, opinions, goals, desires and views are.
6. Fear, reject, condemn and close yourself off from anything that doesn’t fit with what you got in #5.
7. Focus on behavior modification, checklists, do’s and don’ts, appearances, obedience, and keeping the rules when it comes to living your life.
8. Make everything black and white.
9. Make sure everything and everyone in life is assigned a label or put into a box.
10. Label science and psychology as “secular,” “carnal,” or “worldly,” and stay away from it.
11. Consider talk of love, unity, harmony, peace, beauty and oneness as foolish or dangerous.

Thought you might enjoy it…

The sex of the child has nothing to do with the lottery.

The point is the location the baby is when it’s born. Not sex.

Afghani children are more likely to grow up in a Muslim home. American Children in a “Christian” one.