Well I'll start this thing off with a serious question.Why do a large number Christians who are supposed to be the epitome of love,kindness and caring and other religious folk get sooo damn defensive when ever their "faith" is questioned?and by defensive I mean downright nasty and borderline violent.So for example,I just finished watching "The fourth kind" with my significant other of 14 years who while usually a very sweet,loving nurturing women is also a blatantly ignorant Christian.Now I find the whole ancient astronaut theory fascinating and devour anything on the subject matter that I can get my hands on and this movie kind of brought that subject up.My other didn't get what they were talking about so I briefly explained that all sorts of statues,carvings,murals and other things that seem to depict flying craft, figures in space suits and oxygen masks and what we would describe as an alien have been found.I then went on to exlpain about Erich von Däniken and his theory about ancient aliens visiting early man and maybe even responsible for the Creation of mankind itself.To this she got instantly angry and said "God created us not aliens!"Being VERY wary of giving her my opposing view point on the subject because I know it's touchy with her I replied well it's just a theory,and why is that so impractical when you believe that a magic all powerful being just blinked everything into existence?To me believing in god is the same as believing in Santa Claus the Easter Bunny and faeries.To this she stated that I really did believe in god because I had as child and teenager,that Satan had a hold on me and she was afraid for me because I was going to burn in hell...Yada yada yada getting more and more upset.It was at that point I decided stop right there and drop it because a full blown argument with her just wasn't worth it and for a reason I can't conceive right now I started grinning at her...Well that pissed her right of and she threatened to "smack me right across the fucking mouth if I didn't get that grin off my face"I asked her why she was getting so mad for,we were just having a discussion and then turned to watch TV.
Now this is from a women I love and that loves me,I've received far worse from others and some atheists I know have received threats of physical violence and expressions of "I can't wait till Jesus returns and you burn in the pits of hell for eternity...From Christians who are supposed to love unconditionally and for what? Making the choice to not believe the unbelievable,for requiring that fantastic claims require fantastic proof? I'm sorry but if your beliefs can't stand up to questioning and examination,if you are unable to intelligently discuss your beliefs with out resorting to anger or violence then those beliefs aren't doing you a hell of a lot of good are they.
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