Facts for the Intelligent, Civil, and Moral

- The church did not officially condemn the use of torture until 1816

- The word Islam means "Peace"

- Suicide is forbidden in the Qur'an

- Muslim martyrs believe 72 virgins await them in paradise

- The founder of the Snake-Dancing Pentecostals Faith, George Hensley died... of a snake bite...obviously

- In 2002 the GDP of all Arab Countries did not equal that of Spain

- Spain translates as many books into Spanish each year as the entire Arab world has translated into Arabic since the 9th Century

- Members of "Heavens Gate" Cult failed to spot the spacecraft they knew must be trailing Hale-Bopp comet, they returned the $4,000 telescope they purchased, believing it to be defective.

- 28% or Americans believe in Evolution

- 72% believe in angels

- 53% of Americans are creationists, people who believe the entire cosmos was created 6,000 years ago. This is incidentally a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue and beer.

- These 53% of the population would have to believe that dinosaurs lived 2x2 on Noah's Ark

- 40% of the American population is convinced Jebus will return to judge the living and dead sometime in the next 50 years

- The bible does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by someone living in the 1st Century

- Jebus Christ, who as it turn out, was born of a virgin, cheated death and rose bodily into the heavens, can now be eaten in the form of a cracker. A few Latin words spoken over your Burgundy, and you can drink his blood as well.

I'm almost speechless...there really are no words...Get off this pale blue dot of mine!

Embarrassingly yours,

J

Quotes

"Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends"
- Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)

"Everything is what it is because it got that way"
- D'Arcy Thompson

"Pray: To ask that the law of the Universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy"
- Ambrose Bierce

"Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things, But for good people to do bad things-that takes religion"
- Steven Weinberg