Monday, January 16, 2006

Dave's Top Ten List #1: Christianity

The following are my top ten reasons why I will never again call myself a Christian.

They are presented in no particular order, and are entered as individual entries. A book could be written about each one (and may be!), but I have kept them as short as I could. Comments welcome.

6 comments:

Uncle Fatso said...

Hey Dave,
Do you drink coffee?

Uncle Fatso said...

Hey Dave,
Do you drink coffee?

Uncle Fatso said...

whoa...wierd...how'd that post twice?!

But hey, do ya?

Dave B said...

Hi Ben! Yes I do drink coffee. I'll be eagerly waiting to see how that questions ties in with the subject at hand.

Dave B said...

S’ok Rowan, you’re entitled. This probably won’t cheer you up any, but it reminds me of a bumper sticker:

“26,000 children will die from starvation today. Why would God answer YOUR prayers?”

This really got me to thinking, and viscerally sums up my feelings about intercessory prayer. Not only is prayer senseless from a logical or moral point of view, it is often a copout. Christians can offer their prayers and go off on their merry little way without doing anyone any good whatsoever.

And for the ultimate in humanitarian irony, I actually saw one of those little chrome Jesus fish on a Hummer. I’m sure a gas-guzzling behemoth was God’s answer to his prayer.

Sorry, guess I’m having an irritable day too!

Dave B said...

Hey Ben! Since you asked me here, I'll thank you here. Thanks for the coffee! It was delicious! That Kona stuff is smoooooth. And to relate this to the subject here, I have a refrigerator magnet that says "Coffee is God"! That concept, at first slightly amusing, becomes deeper the more I think about it. May need more investigating!

Big hugs, Dave