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Mormons or JWs?

When the snake began speaking whatever language Eve was magically endowed with, do you think she stepped back and said "Whoa, that snake spoke to me, what's going on here?" Or do you think she took it in stride and said "Wuz up snake, how's the wife and kids?"

After god assembled first man from a hand full of dirt and breathed life into his creation, then what? Did Adam arrive on Earth in terminator fashion? Just plopped down out of nowhere to find his own way or did god pre-program Adam with a life time of learning experiences? Did Adam crawl around on the ground for most of his first year and bust his bum learning to take his first step like we all did? Did Adam arrive potty trained or did he learn all that the hard way like the rest of us?

We know that animals with larger brains compared to body size require the most time to raise their young. Fish, amphibians, and reptiles are completely able to live on their own without any aid from their parents from day one. They instinctively know what to eat and how to find it. Did god equip Adam with a reptilian brain?

He has plenty of anxious followers that are foaming at the mouth for the end to come!

for overcoming religious addiction?

Father Booth is the author of the book "When God Becomes a Drug, Breaking the Chains of Religious Addiction." Father Booth developed a list of the symptoms of religion addiction, posted below.

SYMPTOMS OF RELIGIOUS ADDICTION

Inability to think, doubt, or question information or authority

Black-and-white, simplistic thinking

Shame-based belief that you aren't good enough, or you aren't "doing it right"

Magical thinking that God will fix you

Scrupulosity; rigid, obsessive adherence to rules, codes of ethics, or guidelines

Uncompromising, judgmental attitudes

Compulsive praying, going to church or crusades, quoting scripture

Unrealistic financial contributions

Believing that sex is dirty -- that our bodies and physical pleasures are evil

Compulsive eating or excessive fasting

Conflict with science, medicine, and [secular] education

Progressive detachment from the real world, isolation, breakdown of relationships

Psychosomatic illness: sleeplessness, back pains, headaches, hypertension

Manipulating scripture or texts, feeling chosen, claiming to receive special messages from God

Trancelike state or religious high, wearing a glazed happy face

Cries for help; mental, emotional, physical breakdown; hospitalization

http://primal-page.com/booth.htm

sent money to a televangelist?

I'm fascinated by people claiming they choose their beliefs. Am I defective in some way, was I born without a 'belief switch' that would allow me to randomly choose to believe something? I've never been able to tell my mind what to believe. It would be more accurate to say that my mind tells me what to believe. I can choose to pretend to believe something, but that is not believing. People who 'choose' to believe an invisible god that presents no evidence of itself, how do you go about it?

I laughed off the bird and fish kill, but the massive tamale recall has got me worried. Where will it end?

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2011/1/7/tama...

Will this group hit the end times lotto?

I'm getting tired of failed predictions, how many times can a person sell off all their worldly goods and buy a new suit to die in, then nothing happens?

They usually have a good excuse, like "Praise the Lord, Jesus stepped in at the last moment and saved the world!"

Will this be the big one? I'm giving good odds and taking all bets!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_on_re/us_re...