Expelled Exposed!

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America's favorite book

According to a new Harris poll, America's favorite book is a book most Americans have never read -- the Bible.

Richard Dawkins once famously said that "if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)." The same could be said about someone whose favorite book is the Bible.

Of course most people who that say about the Bible have never read it and are therefore ignorant of its contents. But anyone who has actually read the Bible and still considers it her favorite would fall into one of Dawkins' other categories: stupid (consider the absurdities), insane (Have you read Revelation lately?) or wicked (approving of 1 Samuel 15:2-3 among hundreds of other cruelties).

It's time to stop pretending that the Bible is a good book. It isn't. (Except for Ecclesiastes.)

If those of us who have read the Bible stop calling it good, maybe ignorant people who have never read it will stop believing it to be good (their favorite book, even), leaving the Bible to those who could honestly call it their favorite book: the stupid, the insane, and the wicked.

'Expelled!' -- and soon to be swimming in a lake of fire

You have to feel sorry for the makers of the 'Expelled!' movie.

First they expel PZ Myers from the 'Expelled' move (while letting Richard Dawkins in), and now they lie about their carefully screened pre-screenings.

Next thing they know they'll be swimming in the lake of fire right along with the unbelievers.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. Revelation 21:8

(Is the devil pointing at Ben Stein?)

The worst beasts in Allah's sight

The Quran (24:45) says that all animals were created by Allah. But not all animals were created equal.

Take apes, pigs, and dogs, for example. Here's what the Quran says about them.

And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated! 2:65

(Worse is the case of him) whom Allah hath cursed, him on whom His wrath hath fallen and of whose sort Allah hath turned some to apes and swine. 5:60

So when they took pride in that which they had been forbidden, We said unto them: Be ye apes despised and loathed! 7:166

Therefor his likeness is as the likeness of a dog: if thou attackest him he panteth with his tongue out, and if thou leavest him he panteth with his tongue out. Such is the likeness of the people who deny Our revelations. 7:176

But there are some things that Allah likes even less than apes, pigs, and dogs.

Lo! the worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the deaf, the dumb, who have no sense [Non-muslims]. 8:22

Lo! the worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the ungrateful who will not believe. 8:55

Lo! those who disbelieve, among the People of the Scripture and the idolaters, will abide in fire of hell. They are the worst of created beings. 98:6

So there you have it. Non-muslims are "the worst beasts in Allah's sight."

Now that you know who (and what) you are, why not join with the Sons (and Daughters) of Apes and Pigs?

How could anyone be a Lutheran?

Okay, I admit it. I don't know how any sane, honest, moral person could believe in the Bible, Quran, or Book of Mormon.

But I am even more surprised that anyone could be a Lutheran.

Here's what Martin Luther wrote in On the Jews and their lies:

It serves them [the Jews] right that, rejecting the truth of God, they have to believe instead such abominable, stupid, inane lies, and that instead of the beautiful face of the divine word, they have to look into the devil's black, dark, lying behind, and worship his stench.

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Now let me commend these Jews sincerely to whoever feels the desire to shelter and feed them, to honor them, to be fleeced, robbed, plundered, defamed, vilified, and cursed by them, and to suffer every evil at their hands -- these venomous serpents and devil's children, who are the most vehement enemies of Christ our Lord and of us all. And if that is not enough, let him stuff them into his mouth, or crawl into their behind and worship this holy object. ... Then he will be a perfect Christian, filled with works of mercy for which Christ will reward him on the day of judgment, together with the Jews in the eternal fire of hell!

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There is no other explanation for this than the one cited earlier from Moses, namely, that God has struck them with "madness and blindness and confusion of mind." So we are even at fault in not avenging all this innocent blood of our Lord and of the Christians which they shed for three hundred years after the destruction of Jerusalem, and the blood of the children they have shed since then (which still shines forth from their eyes and their skin). We are at fault in not slaying them.

Is there a Lutheran out there who can explain it to me?