A Compilation of Wit, Thoughts and Observations About Christianity

Because Somebody Had to Do It

By Jake Atkisson, published Jun 18, 2007
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-Christianity has a built-in defense system; anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief.

-To paraphrase John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he temporarily died to save it from himself. But none of that really matters because most people will be tortured for eternity anyways."

-I am impaled on a big giant stick with Christ: nevertheless I somehow magically live; yet not I, but Christ magically lives in me through the Power of the Holy Spook who is also somehow magically Him: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by thinking magically about the Son of God, who loves me from the Sky Kingdom, and magically gave himself for me to appease the murderous anger of the pissed off version of Himself in the Sky Kingdom. - Galatians 2:20, translated for clarity

-Christianity is merely paganism with a more successful advertising campaign.

-It was only in the third century (after 400 A.D.) that Christian communities increasingly used "covert" crosses, which have survived in the murals of the catacombs and on tombstones. They might be an anchor with a crosspiece, a ship with a mast and yard, a human figure with outstretched arms, or a juxtaposition of the initials of the name Jesus or Christ (in Greek or Latin) to produce a cross-like shape. It was in the fourth century that the cross became an openly Christian symbol. By that time crucifixion as a method of state execution had been abolished and the cross ceased to have its former cruel and negative associations. Several hundred years later it was deemed a terrific symbol to use to ward off vampires, demons, etc.

-We Christians neither want nor worship crosses as the pagans do. --Minucius Felix (Christian author, circa 200 A.D.)

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Words fail. I clicked on this one cos I love collections of quotes, little suspecting it'd keep me up all night, dang it! When I ran across the reference to Bruno, I didn't know who that was, & wound up on a blissfully fascinating Wikipedia-fueled journey through Bruno, hylozoism, the plurality of worlds, Tycho Brahe, and a poem called "What He Thought" by Heather McHugh which made me cry. My kind of fun!! On top of all that, your article here is the most valuable source of literary references on this topic all in one place that I've ever seen. Nice work!

Posted on 07/06/2007 at 7:07:00 AM

 
You hit the nail in the head so many times I'm still dizzy. Nice work, nicely done.

Posted on 06/19/2007 at 9:06:00 PM

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