It's a miracle---my channel is reincarnated and my videos will rise from the dead.

No offense, but I have too little free time to accept FRIEND invites from complete strangers, or even from comparative strangers.

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"And Moses took the rod of God in his hand ..." ~ The Ten Commandments" (1956)

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain

"A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism." ~ Donald Morgan

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." ~ Isaac Asimov

"One of the reasons some modern Christians have such difficulty understanding the teachings of Jesus is that they rip these teachings out of their own, original context and pretend they were delivered just recently, somewhere in North America." ~ Bart Ehrman

"The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that
-- No, No! What makes it doubly sad is that they hardly know the book, much less its origins." ~ Isaac Asimov

"It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers" ~ Bertrand Russell

Don't blame Yahweh for the obnoxious material within the Bible -- humans were solely responsible. THAT is the real context of the Bible. That is the explanation for all scriptures. Humans invent -- and believe in -- gods to serve human purposes. ~ heterodoxism

No prize for guessing that I am an atheist. I am, however, interested in the phenomenon of religion.

I did not write the following article, but it encapsulates my position:
http://users.drew.edu/~jlen...

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance . . . or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window. Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it is all on purpose." ~ Stephen King, "The Stand"