I realize that the following is an snarky cartoon, but the logic is compelling.
When an outsider (which includes former insiders) hear the "logic" of Christianity, these are major parts of the story. If people were not socially cajoled to say that these things are true, would anyone say that they make sense?
Michael Morris sums up the dispute: Some Texas public school cheerleaders are insisting on the right to incorporate bible verses into their cheerleading chants. In this short article, Morris has some bible-based chants he'd like to recommend to those cheerleaders. Here's a sample:
This is classic Onion:
Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth. According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.
Today I was saddened to hear of the death of Paul Kurtz. The American Humanist Association provided an announcement:
Humanists and atheists are mourning the death of humanist Dr. Paul Kurtz, former editor of the American Humanist Association’s Humanist magazine and founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, who died on Oct. 21, 2012 at the age of 86. His death means the loss of one of secular humanism’s most prominent advocates.[More . . . ]
I caught this at the "Atheist and Rational Thinkers" page on Facebook
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