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*Points up at the sky*

Who's that.. with the cape approaching the comments section..?!

Jesus Kwiste this is briliant!

I heard a version of this sort of joke a long time ago involving a conversation between a missionary and an Innu.

By the look of the thumbnail I thought it was Jimmy Carr. Humans: they all look the same.

>> ^NicoleBee:

I heard a version of this sort of joke a long time ago involving a conversation between a missionary and an Innu.


Yeah the joke actually dates back to 1974. From "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Anne Dillard.

The quote:
Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary preist, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the preist, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"

There are about 7 billion people in the world. About 2 billion of them are Christians. The Christians had better learn to get along with the Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jews, because chances are that their neighbors won't look a thing like Ned Flanders.

This actually happened to me. A work colleague from a previous employment gave me some literature from his Christian church. Out of politeness and interest, I glanced through it and on the last page it said something along the lines of "The people that have never read this book are saved, but now that you've read it, if you don't join the church you will burn in hell".

I can't remember the exact phrase, but I do remember the terms "burn" and "hell" being used. It seemed a little severe to me and I certainly wasn't grateful to receive his book. He didn't seem to see the funny side of it, either.

sorta like holding a gun to your head... or throwing you in some deep water and saying, "Hope you learn to swim"

don't take that as though i see religion as the answer to anything other than "whats the worst plague to ever affect humanity"

>> ^arghness:

This actually happened to me. A work colleague from a previous employment gave me some literature from his Christian church.


I've been noticing a heightened aggressiveness on the part of Christians lately.

I found a board where one guy goes on and on about how horrible atheists are, then he'll turn right around and say he never said it...then he has this little Igor character of a sidekick that chimes in and tells him how right he is....

And I'm seeing more of it here at VS than I remember.

It almost feels as if the Christians have launched a secret attack on all the non-believers.

I often scoff at those statistics. There is no way they can posibly know those numbers.

We just sent in our Canadian census.
My wife believes in god and she put Christian for every one in our home because that's what she is.
She filled out the survey and sealed it before I ever got a chance to see it.

If I had filled it out, I'd have put something quite the opposite or maybe "Jedi". And I personally do not encourage religion on my kids. I tell them my beliefs and that I stand quite firm on them.
So my son would be 50/50 (he's too young to have a an opinion) and my daughter would side with me.

So, for the record that's 4 Christians.
In reality it's closer to 1/4 or even 3/8 of that.
And that, my friends, is how flawed those statistics are.

>> ^grinter:

There are about 7 billion people in the world. About 2 billion of them are Christians. The Christians had better learn to get along with the Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jews, because chances are that their neighbors won't look a thing like Ned Flanders.

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>> ^arghness:

This actually happened to me. A work colleague from a previous employment gave me some literature from his Christian church. Out of politeness and interest, I glanced through it and on the last page it said something along the lines of "The people that have never read this book are saved, but now that you've read it, if you don't join the church you will burn in hell".
I can't remember the exact phrase, but I do remember the terms "burn" and "hell" being used. It seemed a little severe to me and I certainly wasn't grateful to receive his book. He didn't seem to see the funny side of it, either.


talk about an epic chain letter!!!

That is awesome ... some really lovely timing, I love his pauses. I'm gonna have to look him up.