WHAT ARE YOU ALL INSANE? DO YOU THINK LEAP YEARS AND LEAP SECONDS WERE IN THE BIBLE? DID YOU KNOW THAT THE VATICAN DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THAT THE EARTH REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN UNTIL 1882? ARE YOU OFFENDED BY THAT? THE ENTIRE WESTERN CALENDAR SHOULD BE OFFENSIVE TO YOU. IT'S COMPLETE HERESY. IT'S BASED ON ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY POPULAR OR ANY OTHER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. UNLESS YOU BELONG TO THE CHURCH OF TIMEX YOU SHOULD FIND THE ENTIRE NOTION OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, ATOMIC CLOCKS AND GREENWICH MEAN TIME TO BE COMPLETE SACRILEDGE.

I think that would have helped.

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The anger should have started on the 2nd.

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If any of you can take something away from this, just do yourselves one favor. When the things you've misplaced your confidence in let you down [and they will], don't make the mistake of thinking that God will too. Apologize and believe, and He will fix your life.

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I would like to offer that service to them now.

I believe they need it.

Christians: your story is a myth, and I mean that not just in the anthropological sense of "a story, or a belief system," but in the more common sense of that word, meaning, "something that is not true...something totally made up."

History, science, archeology, even REALITY, all fail completely to support your fun little story of magic and guilt and violence. Virgin births don't happen, though there's no shortage of historical messiah figures from both before and after Jesus of Nazareth who were allegedly born that way; the miracles of Jesus were primarily written about decades and even generations after they allegedly took place; and the original book of Matthew completely failed to mention that Jesus ever came back from the dead--kind of an important detail, you might think.

Anyway, every religion on the planet has their beliefs--their myths, if you will--so wanting special preference for Christianity's unprovable story really just sounds petulant and irrational. You should no more be offended over Christianity's beliefs being referred to as myths than you should over hearing the beliefs of African tribesmen and Navajo medicine men referred to in that way.

Really, grow up, and get the hell over yourselves. If you want to continue believing stories that have no more facts to back them up than anyone else's unprovable stories, then you might want to grow some thicker skin while you're at it. Or at least shut up about it all.

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