I love your work!! Does that give me permission to correct your use of English? If not, read no further.

You used the phrase, “try and sell”. That’s incorrect; it should be, “try to sell”. Almost every time we use the word ‘try’ it ought to be followed by “to”, as in, “try to find”.

‘and’ can only be used where each word can stand on its own in the sentence, such as, “shot and killed”.

Thanks.

If you’re offended by this, stop reading it, but don’t go criticizing the author or those who find it funny.

but rock on!!!!!!!!!

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Yet he told me to ask you if you’d consider switching religions.

If you will read Quran, You will really find me right after you are done reading all of it.

But I construed it as satire not of Christ himself but of some Western-Christian sensibilities. I’m *always* down for some satire on *that* front, that’s for sure.

“I’m forwarding it to ALL my Christian friends – including clergy!”

Spammer.

For cryin’ out loud, do lighten up…

In between, after reading some of the comments, I wondered if my sense of humor is warped or if I’m really not a Christian after all. Then I decided that maybe we all should lighten up a bit. I agree with the responder who said that he/she thought that Jesus would like it too! Personally, The Little Drummer Boy always makes me crazy too.
I’m forwarding it to ALL my Christian friends – including clergy!

“Wait, Christoph, you’re a militant Deist? That’s a new one. I thought Deists were the kinder, gentler type.”

I’m a lot kinder and gentler than Jesus, is my point.

“I thought that Liberals (Scott Feschuk for example) were shining beacons of tolerance and open-mindedness?”

I respect many people with different beliefs… Christians, for example. Muslims. Mormons. Jews, definitely. Even the odd NDPer (not so many of those, but I try).

However… that does not mean I have to respect evil beliefs. The Qu’ran is a monstrosity and the Torah and Bible are too. Thank God (no irony there: I mean the real Creator of the universe, personal or impersonal, even purely mathematical as the case may be) few follow those faiths literally.

I fight evil beliefs and place myself squarely on the side of goodness and reason to the best of my ability. That means not letting evil go unchallenged, including the evil contained in the Bible, and the evil attributed to the figure known as Jesus.

If you look at most articles written by Canadian publications, the preferred dating format is the American version. In Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, etc, dates are always written out (in whole, anyway), as December 11, 2008 rather than 11 December 2008, as one would see in UK publications.

Just a thought.

Oh and all you arguing the offensiveness fo these statements, the validity of Christianity and the importantance of accuracy in referencing anything regarding your Saviour and the holy text..next time you take a peek of your good Lords picture hanging up in the sanctuary can you please explain to me why he looks so pale? Did he have some rare form of skin pigmintaion problem like Micheal Jackson?

I heart the blog dude but I’m having trouble accessing your online poll. Could you repost the link? Sweet!

BTW I’ve added you to my blogroll – you rock! I haven’t found you on Twitter yet, but I hope you add me as a friend on facebook… ’cause, like… we ARE friends right? I’ve got a TopFriends, You’re Sexy, Snowball Wars, Festive Pointsettia and Li’l Green Patch request with your name on it!

Some of my other friends like drummerBoyz79 says that stuff is like time consuming and all but hey… it ain’t eternal damnation! (ROTHL)

TTFN,

Judester_71

p.s. Will Bella really lose her soul if she let’s Edward turn her into a vampire? Dude, I thought you were supposed to love EVERYBODY! :-(

And it definitely is interesting literature! Very few people read it though.

In my comment above I wanted to make it clear I think Christianity as it’s often practiced is beautiful… I also want to make it equally clear Christianity as it’s actually written is evil.

Don’t think that’s technically true. Hell exists in many religious traditions, most of which predate Christianity. For that matter, the Bible doesn’t go into much detail about it, most of the concepts we have of Hell come from literature such as Dante’s Inferno.

And how boring would life be without this sort of literature? I mean there would be no Buffy, no World of Warcraft and probably no good rock bands.

I also know and have known very decent Muslims. I’m thinking more men and women in my life, but case in point: Freedom loving soldiers fighting to protect their people at great risk from terrible radicals in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Also, just decent, fun-loving people who are charitable of heart, loving of mind, and deep in their soul.

I also know atheists (technically I’m not one: I’m a deist) who are total jerks… what’s more, I know a lot of these people, probably a disproportionate number.

I tend to agree with Christians on most moral issues… however in intellectual honesty, I just simply can’t overlook statements that no “threats” have been made when Jesus Christ in the Bible threatens not just everyone, but me personally, with never-ending torture unless we believe and worship him!

Not even North Korea goes that far, as Christopher Hitchens points out. You can always die.

“Wilaim” considers me a so-called intellectual!

I’ve got to go revise my business cards…

To me it’s very simple: Jesus (if he ever existed at all) threatened me with eternal torture in Hell unless I worship him. I’ve never threatened him nor would I have.

Nonetheless, I feel entirely justified in my criticism of that evil, horrible idea.

Mohammed? He probably did exist and started an evil death cult that is the greatest threat to decent, Western, largely secularized after the enlightenment started breaking through the worst of the religious stupidity (thank God) civilization.

Mohammed had a whacked relationship with a 6 year old girl, Ai’sha, and apparently refrained from having sex with her at the request of the girl’s father until she was 9. Yay for small miracles.

I find that abhorent.

Interestingly enough, Mary mother of Jesus would have most likely been about 14 or 15 when she got pregnant with him. 1-2 years younger than the age of consent in Canada these days, yet we’re supposed to overlook that.

Either we’re wrong — age of consent — or the father of Mary was a molester.

Incidentally, if she existed and was really the mother of Jesus, I vote for “human father” as the most likely explanation.