"Green eggs and ham" Green eggs = tactical nukes , ham = Jews, because we all know that Jews don't like ham. So we can say with such certainty that Dr. Suess was being prophetic about how the Jews would be attacked with "green eggs"...nuclear bombs. Wow! I'm going to go buy a large red an white striped hat and dress up like a cat.

Stupidity and arrogance comes in all shapes, colors and sizes...choose your lies wisely when searching for a god, for a god first has to exist before one can be saved by one.

A single Ohioan mega-church has a staff of 300 and an annual budget of $40 million! Few businesses reach this level of commercial success. Most Roman Catholic dioceses, with hundreds of parishes and many thousand more parishioners, don't approximate this level of "industry and commerce." If this particular mega-church was isolated, then these extraordinary figures would not be startling. But it repeats itself throughout the country.

Non-denominational, evangelical Christianity is big business. No wonder it is a stalwart defender of unfettered capitalism! And to achieve this level of "industry" requires hoardes of "consumers," many, if not most, are willing to follow the leader right into the political agenda of the religious right. Add their singular ability to "network" with each other, and no wonder their "cross-marketing" has made them such a political force in this country.

I'm not begrudging any of it, although I find their "brand" of Christianity and Politics entirely repugnant. In fact, given the enormous financial success of this "model," why are not others imitating it? Create a "package," follow the mega-church model, and you'll be financially/politically set for life. It's Wal-mart ala religion with some very entrepreneurial pastors.

NOT!!!!!!!!!!

"The UN in Midtown Manhattan will be hit by a sea borne nuclear bomb on 2006Ab3/4 i.e. between Sundown Sunday July 30th and Sundown Tuesday August 1st, 2006"

I can just see it now. The date is June 1st, 2112. A nuclear bomb has just leveled a major portion of Manhattan. You go to the True Bible Code site. It reads, "See, we told ya!"

Equally clearly, Evolution does not prove atheism. There is a certain danger if one argues that it does, firstly that one will give a false impression, and secondly that theists who cannot bring themselves to embrace atheism will instead abandon evolution. This danger is a mirror image of the danger of arguing that theism disproves evolution, which firstly gives a false impression and secondly may cause believers in evolution to abandon theism.

Of course the second result would probably be seen as good by most of this forum's users. Still, I think we should try not to convert people to our views by trickery. An opinion that I regret to say has not been put into practise by all Christians down the ages!

Precisely. When I argue for atheism, I always get, "You sound as bad as a fundamentalist fire and brimstone preacher!" WTF? I guess I'm not supposed to even care--or know anything about--religion, lest I be branded as crazy as they are. As soon as the atheist ventures his opinion, everyone thinks he's secretly religious, else why would he care? I know Dawkins gets this as well. Give me a break.

Bosh! In my book, they'll get *some* marks for honesty with they abandon this foolishness.