Jesus drumming his fingers on his desk… “Your numbers are down Mikey. You aren’t going to meet your quota this fiscal quarter. You need to step it up if you want me to put in a good word to St. Peter.”
I remember a few years ago, there were news stories (such as this one from NPR) about how evangelical Christians are or were dominant at the Air Force Academy.
If it turns out to be the Zoroastrians are correct or Yazidism is right boy are a lot of people going to be surprised.
I think it was Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land who said that he wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Mumbo Jumbo God of the Congo was Big Boss all along. The older I get, the more I find myself agreeing.
When I meet The Being Supreme, I really want to be in line behind some Evangelical/Military(let’s say…Air Force)/Church Lady/Republican couple. So I can listen to them kiss ass and start listing how hard they worked, so of course they should get into heaven…
I have a strong hope that God/Bob/YHWH would start snickering, then chortling, and as Jimmy-Joe Junior and Judy Johnson finished their litany of prissiness they’d be met with a guffaw that shakes the very rafters of the universe.
As explained here: Rowan Atkinson Live - The Devil 'Toby' welcomes you to Hell - YouTube
A promo for the book “Atheism Destroys” by Barak Lurie showed up on my Facebook news feed.
Lurie is a purported ex-atheist from Israel who turned to religion based on “logic, science and probabilities”. He’s convinced that atheism is the fount of evil and must be rooted out. From the book blurb:
“Atheism Destroys is the second installment of Barak Lurie’s Atheism Kills series. Whereas Atheism Kills focused primarily on how a world without God has led to horrific mass killings and other brutalities, Atheism Destroys focuses on how godlessness destroys our most treasured institutions and values: free speech, family, relationships, and even courage. Lurie shows how godlessness has been the primary destroyer of many of our liberties. He also shows how godlessness is the root of and primary force enabling drug cartels, the mafia, sex-trafficking, and psychopaths.” (and sex abuse, which as we know is never associated with religious figures).
…“While many atheists proclaim atheism is merely a non-belief in God, Lurie shows that atheism is in fact an ideology which leads to disastrous consequences — much like not believing in gravity, not enforcing laws, or not driving on the right side of the road.”
“Lurie demonstrates that we have no choice but to fight godlessness, and to recognize that without God, we lose all that we value in civilization. Indeed, without God, civilization as we know it will collapse.”
He found God at Stanford, by the way. And he’s a proud vegan.
This is another example of why we should be wary in general of converts who do a complete 180 degree turn from their previous beliefs and traffic in obsessive denunciations of their former allies.
Like St. Paul???
I am in agreement with you, btw. One of my brothers is a reformed sinner. I’m pretty sure he thinks I’m going to hell for voting Democratic and drinking beer (because beer is for men, according to him 
),
I’m guessing every country that drives on the left is full of heathens.
My first thought when I read about cases like this is “I wonder how much of an atheist that person really was, and how much is puffery designed to increase sales?”
Reminds me that I once read in a biography of P.G. Wodehouse that the book that most terrified him was When It Was Dark. Basically, archaeologists discover Christ’s tomb in Jerusalem and dum dum Dummmmmm…there was a body/skeleton in it. This made Christianity collapse almost overnight, and civilization is teetering on the brink. I found it laughable. If there’s no god, why, people will do just anything. Right.
Well, it was written in 1903.
It will probably surprise no one to learn that Lurie is also
an antivaxer obsessed by transgender issues, illegal immigration and “baby killers”.
Especially St Paul.
Next time he says something like that, tell him you need the beer to keep your estrogen levels up. Beer is naturally high in estrogen.
Oh, hey! is that why heavy beer drinkers grow tits as well as guts? 
Yup. Excess estrogen is what causes brewer’s droop.
That’s awfully myopic. In Germany women drink beer all the time.
Weren’t the first bartenders women?
Brewing has been “women’s work” since brewing began.
But women can’t be brewers. They can’t grow those big, bushy hipster beards.
/s
My gf belongs to the Pink Boots Society, an organization that supports women in the brewing arts.