Michelle must be having a hard time coming up with subject matter. What does this story have to do with anything?

Hey, Boron,
This is Michelle’s blog and she can post on anything she wants to.
Since you guys feel it necessary to monitor her content and jump on her case so much, there are only two possibilities:
1. She’s a HUGE threat to your way of thinking and you feel it’s necessary to be on guard against her influence on the culture.
2. You’re losers who have nothing better to do than pick on a nice lady with a cute smile and glasses.
Rock on, Michelle!

ZZ
I don’t care what Michelle posts and you can find a post of mine where I said that she can post whatever she wants to another poster. Michelle’s narrow-minded, dogmatic and archaic views would be a threat if more people held them because they are a threat to those of us who do not wish to live in a theocracy. So we who love freedom and peace must constantly be ready to point out the absurdities and fallacies behind the things that people like you and Michelle say. Thanks for making this so easy for us.

Does he want his brother back also? You know, the one hiding behind the “left kidney”? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Next Please!

Your Name,
So you’re confirming that it’s #1. Michelle is a huge threat because she points out the frivolity of your worldview. I agree, thanks.

Once again Guy Arthur Superstitious proves that fundy Christians have absolutely no sense of humor. HAHAHA. Next please!

ZZ,
Someone whose worldview is based totally on a belief in magic and supernatural mysticism and the existence fairy beings like demons, angels, seraphs, Jesus, Satan, giants, dragons, satyrs, unicorns, talking animals and vegetation and also believes that vegetation was on the earth (which never moves) BEFORE the sun and moon even existed shouldn’t being saying that OTHER people have a frivolous worldview. Your worldview is as childish and retarded as it could be fella. ROFL!

Gee, Boris, your logic is brilliant! I now realize all my beliefs are false and I’ll embrace secularism. Just so I can remember it better, can you point out the argument you made that actually refutes anything in an intelligent fashion? No? That’s OK. Toodles!

ZZ the things you fundamentalist Christians believe are absurd and the claims you make about them are outrageous. Outrageous claims and absurd superstitions don’t need to be disproved or refuted. They need to be proved and yours can’t, haven’t and won’t be.

Just out of curiosity, Boris, what is your reason for coming here? Is it making Christians ‘see the light’? If so, have you had any success converting people whom you insult? Is it just how you get your kicks? Inquiring minds really want to know.

Tom,
I found this blog while posting on the Lynn verses Sekulow Beliefnet site. I get on these blogs for several reasons. One is that every now and then I can write an intelligent and or funny response to something someone else wrote. I’ve got a book I’m trying to get published and I can practice writing that way. Also I read ancient Greek so I’m always looking for Christians who are trying to learn or have learned Koine Greek so they can read the Greek New Testament. We can Email back and forth if they have the Greek fonts installed and practice writing since this language is a dead language and it is difficult therefore to stay sharp with it. Also I consider myself an anti-theist. “Atheism can be the naked pursuit of truth, but anti-theism is more often the adolescent joy of upsetting and mocking religious people.” – Jim Rigby, pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin Texas. I could go on but those are some of the main reasons. I don’t think I’m going to change the minds of people who are so wrapped up in their religion that they are on sites like this talking about it. But I do make it quite clear to everyone that there are VERY good reasons NOT to believe and what these reasons are. This makes fundamentalists who wish to evangelize well aware that they must lie and lie a lot to promote their religion.

Oh, Michelle, you really must get to know Jim Rigby. You’d have blog posts for weeks. Believe me on this one.

“Inflexible beliefs on matters where one has no experience is superstition whether one is a believer or an atheist.” – Jim Rigby – Perhaps, but on matters where one has no experience – supernatural matters, for example – NOT believing surely makes more sense.
“Atheism can be the naked pursuit of truth, but anti-theism is more often the adolescent joy of upsetting and mocking religious people.” – Jim Rigby – He’s got me pegged right.
“Some people argue that evolution disproves religion. I would say that evolution helps us understand why religion is inevitable in human beings. Our upper brain functions are built on top of a marshy swamp of animal instincts… Much of our most important processes are irrational, even more are unconscious altogether. To say we will be purely scientific and objective is an act of imaginary dissociation from the liquid core of our own being.” – Jim Rigby – He’s saying religion is inevitable because it grows from our primitive instincts and irrationality. I’ll buy the latter proposition. But does evolution help us understand why religion is inevitable, or why outgrowing it is inevitable?
“Hegel defined religion as putting philosophy into pictures. Strange and foreboding topics like… metaphysics can be taught to almost anyone if they are put into story form. While it is important not to accept these images literally, it is just as important not to reject them literally.” – Jim Rigby – I say those images are only blocking the view.

I must confess, Boris, the reasons you listed are reasons I never would have attributed given your earlier posts. If you have more than a tacit understanding of Kione Greek then you probably have a significant edge over your fundamentalist adversaries in the realm of biblical linguistics, translations, and the authors’ original intent in writing passages. I myself am a traditional Christian, and while I don’t consider myself a ‘literalist’ I believe in the supernatural aspect of Christianity (angels, demons, etc.) which in a sense would make me fodder for your average, run-of-the-mill, garden variety anti-theist.
As a former ‘agnostic’ I can attest that there are more than plenty of ‘rational’ reasons not to believe in supernatural phenomenon. My hourly, daily, and sometimes minutely encounter with exterior forces puts me in the position of having to accept that my life is not in my own hands, yet I wish you well in your writing endeavors. If your willing to invest in or know someone who has a printing press with some of the bells and whistles on it and some decent graphics software, I believe for a nominal fee you may be able to copyright and publish your own material. Publishers, from what I hear, charge an arm and a leg into your royalties and have a tendency to get over-involved in the editing and presentation aspects, so it may be worth looking into.
P.S. I’m starting to study Greek Orthodoxy and would be somewhat interested in a correspondence though I don’t know that Beliefnet would be an appropriate place for exchanging emails.
Best wishes to you.