"Most churches suggest that individuals choose their own Lenten observance and decide what they want to give up, but encourage spending more time in prayer, reading the Bible or attending special services such as the Stations of the Cross."
Instead of reading an ancient book they could read a 21st century book about science, for example "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago biologist.
The rest of these comments I didn't write. They are excellent.
"You have to sacrifice to make the gods happy. Does anyone ever step back and think of the absurdity of all this. Not eating a Snickers bar for a while will make the gods happy? Wow. Nutso."
"The problem is that the religious zealots in our country try to enforce their perceptions on everybody through legislation. A wonderful example is abortion. If you don't believe there should be abortions tough. The Supreme Court ruled they were constitutional and a woman's personal business whether you like it or not. Mind your own business for a change."
"What a farce. Another example of a religion exercising control over their 'flock.' This falls in the same junk category as no meat on Friday, ash Wednesday, and prayer before meals. Religion subtly trying to exercise dominance over their hapless lemmings."
"How is it possible to know that 'he has always existed'? How is it possible to know that your imaginary entity is a he?"
"So why didn't He write that it is wrong to own slaves?"
"Why would fasting please any entity imaginary or otherwise? Does this entity want you to be hungry and if so why?"
A deranged fucktard wrote this bullshit: "Christ is God incarnated as a human being. As God, He has always existed and He was active as God during the Old Testament communicating with Abraham, Moses, etc. That is why He was able to confound the Jewish leaders at the age of 12 because He knew the Old Testament as the author. He was able to quote scripture to Satan when being tempted to disobey what He himself had written."
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Sunday, February 25, 2018
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