Why praise the lord! Praise him..........................................
... for unquestioning, unreasoning faith.
... for evil - free will, the fall - check out genesis (Phil Collins really knows his theology)
... for the Crusades - How does God have anything to do with the crusades?
... for disease - see the 1st answer
... for child molesting priests - see the second answer, preists are not God's automatons you know.
... for the Spanish Inquisition - I think you'll find that was Monty Python
... for those funny bishops hats - no more rediculous than valor tracksuits, and we can't blame the big man for those
... for the mass murder of early Christians - by the Christian emporers of ancient Rome - see second answer
... for creating Satan - I think you'll find when God 'created' Satan he was a good guy, he turned - his fault.
... for four conflicting versions of the resurrection - what are they?
... for the sexual mutilation of eight day-old babies - see the second answer
... for the lack of evidence of any gods existence - faith - sometimes more relevant than proof, and more heartfelt than certainty.
... for all the different religions - what's wrong with that (and I think that only 2 share the same God? (could be wrong), so he's only to blame for 2 at most - and if one's right the other is wrong!
... for fundamentalist bombs - there are people who are just into that sort of thing, if they're not religious fundamentalists they'll be something else fundamentalists. The clue is in the suffix "mentalist"
... for child abuse - see second answer
... for the Mormon bible - what?
... for condemning homosexuals to death - no-one is condemned to death without chosing to. There is nothing in the bible saying you cannot be a homosexual (check it out - Leviticus)
... for gay priests - waht about them?
... for earthquakes - the fall - first answer
... for Atheist priests - what? How does that work?
... for slavery - answer 2
... for Catholic opposition to contraception - answer 2, not biblical, man made nonsense
... for all the starving babies in the third-world - answer 2
... for unfulfilled prophesies - name them.
... for the Dark Ages -
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... for all the absurdities in the Bible - name them
... for Jehovahs' Witnesses - what about them?
... for condemning masturbation - catholic nonsense again, not biblical
... for making the sun orbit the earth - that's a real bummer, wouldn't life be better if it was that way!
... for human sacrifice - what do you mean?
... for removing all the marsupials from the middle-east - pests! (answer 2)
... for tele-evangelists - I agree! They're awful! But then again, how is the big man to blame?
... for unmarried teenage pregnancy - answer 2
... for talking serpents - I think the world might be more fun if more animals could talk!
... for freezing cold churches - scrimping vicars, or too little money coming into teh church to afford to heat it. Dropping church attendance, secularisation of society, selfish attitudes, the fall.
... for allowing six millions Jews to be slaughtered in World War 2 - allowing? Oh come on. that's like saying it's my fault that the twin towers were attacked!
... for World War Two - see above
... for Psalm 137 - what's wrong with 137?
... for Christian Jews - how on earth does that work? You're one or the other
... for unanswered prayers - maybe the answer came, it was either A - not what you wanted or B - you weren't listening
... for the four corners of the earth - it's ROUND I TELL YE!
... for a flat earth - see above
... for forbidding murder - yeah world would be a much better place with more murders.
... for commanding murder - when?
... for Christianity - what's wrong with it.
... for Anglicanism - he didn't!
... for Catholicism. - he didn't! (both answer 2)
... for Mormonism - see above
... for Judaism - what's wrong with it?
... for speckled cattle
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... for Heavens' Gate -
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... for inconsequential miracles - like?
... for all those mind-numbing sermons - answer 2
... for dinosaurs -
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... for all the evidence of life after death - see the faith answer
... for Hitler's unflinching Christian faith - Hitler was a mentalist! We all know that. He also enjoyed a bit of Wagner - is it his fault? If Hitler had been a better Christian (did what the bible said) WWII would not have happened!
... for melting snails -
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... for the fiscal impropriety of German Christian Democrats - answer 2
... for witch burning - answer 2
... for creating everything - in six days - good work if you ask me
... for the 50/50 chance of entry into heaven - rubbish - it's your own choice
... for hardening the Pharaohs' heart - is this exodus? I can't remember
... for giving Christians the ability to drink poison -
... for Creationist pseudo science - answer 2
... for Papal infallibility - catholic nonsense (answer 2)
... for hot-cross buns - I agree, fowl things!
... for happy-clappy music - I think you mean to blame the carpenters, not god.
... for David Koresh - who?
... for circular logic - see A2V
... for the Ku Klux Klan - answer 2
... for religious intolerance - answer 2 (most religions preach tolerance, check them out)
... for multiple interpretations of the Bible - makes it easier for people to understand
... for talking donkeys - Bethel had the talking donkey wasn't it? see above talking animal thread.
... for multiple versions of the bible - see above but one
... for the Koran - nothign to do with him
... for Christian Serbs - what's wrong with them?
... for Muslim Bosnians - nothing to do with him
... for Catholic Croats - what's wrong with them?
... for temptation - the fall, answer 1
... for childrens' vunerability to suggestion - what? would you liek a sweetie?
... for culture destroying missionaries - answer 2
... for Hell - I think you'll find that one was Satan's idea, also see the fall
... for six hundred thousand different species of beetles - good work for 1 day!
... for the death toll in Northern Ireland - answer 2
... for Christian racial segregation - totally against the bible, answer 2
... for resistance to scientific truth - that's not god, that's people.
... for the Reverend Jim Jones - who?
... for rock-hard pews - answer 2
... for four footed insects - what?
... for Christmas - Cav loves Christmas!
... for the confession/absolution thing in Catholicism - catholic nonsense, not biblical, answer 2
... for the Marionite Christian snipers - A2
... for allowing lying in the name of religion - A2
... for the Spanish conquistadors - A2
... for easter eggs - as if you don't eat them, A2
... and praise the Lord for all those religious nutters - A2
But most of all, Praise the Lord -
... for ATHEISM! - Sarcastic git