Comment of the day

The Island of Patmos. Image via Wikipedia

A response like the one below almost makes me miss zdenny. A fellow named Patmos Pete responded to this post about Libertarians. In zdenny style, it’s completely disconnected to the topic. But at least zdenny appears to have a mind of his own instead of quoting scripture.

If you’re curious, Patmos was the place the gospel writer John supposedly lived when he wrote the book of Revelation, the book the below comment is from. Patmos is known for its drug cartels stretching back millennia. And like everything in the book of revelation, it’s batshit nuts and is written by the pen of a man drugged out of his mind.

Here’s Patmos Pete’s sober response:

The third message from heaven…

If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Get to know an atheist: Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an atheist American writer whose sixty books included The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In his last book, Letters from the Earth, Twain wrote:

‘You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year… One of his principle religions is called the Christian. A sketch of it will interest you. It sets forth in detail in a book containing two million words, called the Old and New Testaments. Also it has another name – The Word of God. For the Christian thinks every word of it was dictated by God. It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.’