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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Happy New Year, io9 and many many more!

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I'm pretty sure there are Christians who are jerks...and there are Jews who are jerks, and Muslims who are jerks, and there are atheist and agnostic jerks as well - but should we really go around categorizing the whole because of the few (or even the many?) Until every single Christian tells you that you're going to hell for not being like them, then the blanket statement is false, and since I'm a Christian who never tells anyone they're going to hell for their beliefs or nonbeliefs, the blanket statement will never be true. So, relax...

And it goes for the other side too - if you believe in something, great, fantastic - but keep your damn views out of everyone else's life. Trying to change folks minds about beliefs/non-beliefs is like telling them their shoes are ugly. They made their choices, just like you did. Part of my faith is based on the acknowledgment that I could be completely wrong - as my favorite author and renowned atheist, Douglas Adams, once wrote: "Proof denies Faith." It's one thing to think you're right, to believe you're right, but none of us know with any certainty (except for my dog, and he's not telling, but he did die once and was brought back by the vets, so I'm pretty sure he knows.)

Does the Christian-bashing bother me? Yes and No - no, it doesn't because some of it is valid, some of it is funny, and all of it is the opinion of the authors. If it bugged me, I'd skip that author or the site altogether. I don't need my beliefs validated by other's opinions, and I don't let others opinions invalidate my beliefs.

The part that does bother me is that most of the Christian-bashing that goes on is really Catholic-bashing (Inquisitions, Crusades, etc.) Can't us Protestants get some mud slung our way? Come on, guys, I'm Lutheran - like the Nazis! This is the freaking internet, is there NO ONE willing to call me a Nazi without actually knowing me? Sheesh!

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(And now, 30 irate comments from members of the Flat Earth Society...)

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If this was blog about religion or the lack thereof, then I wouldn't say anything. If I was a political blog and they were taking swipes at one party or another, I wouldn't say anything. But this is a sci-fi blog. Why go out of your way to marginalize a group of your readers? Doesn't make sense.

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