Amen

 

We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your moldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this-year's-fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.

Robert G. Ingersoll
The Gods and Other Lectures (1892)

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Ya know, I get so damn weary of Christians, when asked (or when not asked) to present some evidence (I usually ask for their best single favorite bit of evidence and I am always let down) for the existence of their god, they usually (always) reach 2,000 - 6,000 years back in time and quote some few bible verses or they march out their favorite logical fallacy - the argument from incredulity - citing that they just can't see how the pretty flowers, the butterflies, the beautiful sunset, and all the twinkling stars could have possibly come into existence without their god.

And why do they have to reach so far back in time and completely ignore and dismiss the scientific explanations - because - THEY HAVE NOTHING!  And deep down in their psyche, they know this.  And they know this because they can't present even one single "this-years-fact".  They know that they have to reach thousands of years back in time because they have nothing that happened yesterday, last week, last year, or in the past 50 years - NOTHING!  

Ingersoll uttered those words some 140 years ago, and since then the Christian god has (still) done absolutely nothing.  

Never before has a mythical god been so completely and utterly impotent.

bob

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