Yep, seems totally legit to me....

[WillParkinson]

[Binkie The Clown]

1. Two points...

1. Mormons (who claim that Jesus visited the Americas)
2. Promised land/chosen people (In the entire universe there are only a few hundred square miles of desert that matter to god. Everything else is irrelevant.)

The rest of the world only exists to supply arms and ammunition to the "Holy Land" and its surrounding territories.

[Arugula Latte]

2. The myopia and narcissism of religion is astounding.

In a 14-billion-year-old universe consisting of 100 billion+ galaxies, the last 2,000 years in the history of one hairless ape species on one little planet are the most important things. Ever.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Stop spewing that sciencey bullshit.

The Earth is only 6000 years old and is the center of the universe. Did you flunk your Creation Science class?

[AlbertCat]

4. The universe:

[Curmudgeoness]

5. OMG.

Is that a nekkid Virgin Mary?

[AlbertCat]

6. Here is the explanation from my tome "The Riverside Shakespeare"

The hand of god holds "Nature" (the naked woman) on a chain. She in turn holds man (represented by an ape!!!!!!! ) on a chain. Man is on Earth at the center. The next spheres represent all the flora and fauna and minerals and things on Earth...in their order of supposed importance.... and related to the 4 elements. Then the spheres of the firmament.... with planets and the sun (the moon is considered a planet. See...no Pluto!) Then the stars. And beyond that the sphere of heaven and its hosts.

[Arugula Latte]

10. Ya know, I kinda sympathathize with people who lived hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

I mean, shit, this stuff is confusing. It would have been very, very difficult to understand our place in the universe, and figure out the basics of astrophysics and such.

But people today ... what the eff is their excuse?

Willful ignorance.

[AlbertCat]

11. what the eff is their excuse?

You'll have to ask a Scientologist.

[Arugula Latte]

12. Maybe Floating Kitteh can explain all.

I do worship felines -- that is the one faith that makes sense to me.

[Curmudgeoness]

13. At least Kittehs are real! nt

[Curmudgeoness]

14. I would have enjoyed that much more

if the man on the chain was more obvious.

[progressoid]

7. Blasphemer!

The Lord moves in mysterious ways etc.

[RussBLib]

9. that phrase covers every possible situation so nicely

for those who don't want to use their heads and think

[edhopper]

8. Though there are a couple billion Christians

they are still a minority of the World pop.
Seems this message that God gave man through himself, who was also his son, but was a separate man so he could suffer, etc...
Wasn't good enough for most. You would think an all powerful being would be better at communicating.

[RussBLib]

15. I'd never really thought of it like that before

Here we have this awesomely powerful being that created the universe, the earth, and everything. But knowledge of that - that rather valuable "information" - would have vanished from the earth but for a few determined individuals who wrote certain stuff down?

Surely no one would dare alter or embellish anything from the "original" information when it came time to "translate" that information for a different group of humans who lived in foreign lands that had never heard of that particular "information" before. Indeed, many of those humans in different lands had their own information; their own stories, tales, and fables that these "foreign" humans considered the "truth" of their origins.

The "dominant" translation was not well-liked by everyone. A group of humans in Asia/Africa developed their own version of the "truth" and those two versions began warring with each other.

Not to mention the whole of American natives murdered by followers of one version of the "truth". One wonders if the native American holocaust would have not happened but for the insane religious beliefs of a large group of people.

What a fucking tragedy.

You talk about a mistake of epic proportions.