Answer’s in Genesis is “an an apologetics ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively.”
It’s also the source of the following video depicting a white kid aiming a loaded gun at the camera while some man states that “if you don’t matter to God, you don’t matter to anyone”:
The message, of course, is “if it weren’t for my firm belief in the existence of Hell, I’d shoot your ass”, which is a rather common brand of fuckwittery amongst Christian apologists and extremists.
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times. Atheism has no morality. It’s a materialist position that, combined with evolution, will cause death and ruin where ever it appears. In the grand scheme of things atheism reduces the importance of the Holocaust, making it no worse than stomping on a roach.
In short, it’s pure evil.
The right thing, of course, is not just plain theism. It’s “God” and in America, God is Jesus of Nazareth, the one and only begotten son of God and the ultimate get out of jail free card.
The problem with that card is that you never actually go to jail. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done. As long as you’ve got that card, you will never see the inside of a prison. That card is a permanent feature in Christianity and has no expiration date nor exclusions. Every Christian gets one and it covers every crime one can imagine and then some.
The only punishment for criminal and/or immoral Christians happens right here on this planet in their respective life times. Once a Christian drops dead, that’s it. There’s no trial, no judgment and no punishment for anything they may have done in their lives.
I found this “science project” over a Possum Momma’s place and thought it would be amusing to answer them.
Question: Do unchristians make less moral choices than Christians?
Hypothesis: The Bible is the perfect guide to life that shows us how to be moral people. Without believing in the Bible you can’t know God and he can’t guide you and give you rewards for being a good person. I think people who aren’t Christian will be less successful.
Experiment: I will interview thirty people and ask them if they are Christian. I will give them the same questions so I have a control sample. I think they are immoral if they score lower than 15.
Questions I will ask. There are 20 points available.
Have you ever spoke the name of our Lord in vain? – Does Jesus Christ on a pogo stick count as being “in vain”? How about Jesus fucking Christ?
Have you ever killed another human being? – Nope, but I did join an organization that paid me to be ready to kill other humans beings. You may know it as the US Army?
Have you every lied? – Of course not!
Have you ever had [sexual] relations before marriage? – Yep. Had fun too.
Do you go to church every Sunday or once a week? – I’d rather shoot myself in both feet.
Do you gossip? – I do not “gossip”. I tell the truth.
Do you give to charity? – Yes, but only to ones that fight you bunch of nutballs like the ACLU & FFRF.
Do you listen to rap or heavy metal music? – I prefer death metal personally.
Have you ever had an abortion or been pro-choice? – Since 1/3 of all pregnancies terminate naturally, yep – I’ve hand an “abortion” and I’m very much pro-not forcing women to breed against their will.
Have you ever read Harry Potter or Spiderwick Chronicles or the Golden Compass? – There’s only one thing worse than generic fiction and that’s fantasy which is just one step short of being religious.
Do you see movies with unwholesome content? – Who is this “unwholesome content” you speak of? Are you insulting my partner, kid?.
Do you pray every day? – Only on days that don’t end with a “y”.
Do you believe that God is the creator of heaven and earth? – Of course not. The FSM did that.
Are you overweight because you eat too much? – Nope. I was born a stick and I’ll die a stick.
Do you take pride in accomplishments other than service to God? – Wrong question, kid. The question should be “do you give God credit for the good you do and blame yourself for the bad you do?”. You should really quit fiddling during the sermon and pay attention.
Do you put God and Jesus first? -No, but for the hell of it, lets say that I do. What do I do if God and Jesus get in a spat and start giving contradictory orders? Do I obey God or Jesus?
Do you view pornography? – No, but pornography isn’t the problem and is in fact a result of your religion’s insistence that the only thing a woman is good for is fucking when we aren’t fetching you a beer, picking up your dirty socks or popping out one of your brats.
Do you practice temperance in every thing you do? – No – I’m quite proud of my ability to drink most people under the table.
Are you quick to anger? – No, but I’m quite gifted at making others angry by being unflappable.
The questionnaire is rigged of course. There’s only three possible outcomes. You’re either a Christian and “moral”, a Christian and not “moral” or a “UnChrisitan” who is not “moral”.
I recently re-posted a satirical work about civil rights for homosexuals that resulted in at least one comment about what the Bible says about homosexuals. Now, technically I think that commenter got it wrong as the Bible says nothing about women having sexual relations with other women, but what I want to address here is [...]
One of the more popular myths is that religion is a necessity for morality. With it to guide us and keep us in line, we would all be out raping, murdering, stealing and otherwise making life hell for our fellow humans. But, is that true? Sam Harris in The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos writes: [...]
Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. — Robert A. Heinlein
