7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations are
so limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons
revolve "backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm not
it's best student! <g>), I can imagine colossal collisions..releasing so
much energy it makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as puny
as a firecracker in a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the "captured"
bodies? Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of gravity
bends a body's path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in
relative warmth from the reflected light from the surface below.
Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they
don't understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they put
half the work into actually understanding the processes that create the
universe we see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance, they
would be rewarded with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find words
to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for JuLy 2007.
Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jul 31, 2007. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.

2) Being stupid is forgivable. Being proud of it is not.
By: raven1
Nominated: Doc Smartass
Seconded: jem

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding
different opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the
possibility that they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and
opinions must be stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist
can rest secure in the belief that the universe approves of the
fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held
beliefs, that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves

------------

3) In response to:

Well anyways does anybody understand what I am
saying? I am here for your input, thoughts, and to share my own
thoughts of god with people that may be lost like I was.

You were polite, until this last paragraph. Allow me to explain why the
insult it contains is so large. I am not "lost" because I do not

in gods. In fact, my discovery of the lack of them is the best thing
that ever happened to me. You should really have thought this out

before you posted here. You admit in the first part of your post that
your own "thoughts of god" are causing you anguish. You then wish to
share them with me? You wish *I* had the self-inflicted wound you have?
Madness. You have a disease that causes you pain. To end the pain, cure
the disease. Humans have created hundreds of thousands of god beliefs.
Simply running from one to the next will not cure you. God-belief is
like the common cold-they mutate so quickly that all you can do is

the symptoms. Wouldn't it be better to simply be virus-free?

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

2) Being stupid is forgivable. Being proud of it is not.

By: raven1
Nominated: Doc Smartass
Seconded: jem

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for JuLy 2007.

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: John Popelish

6) That's odd...when people started applying science to *physical*
illness, they called it medicine rather than bigotry.

Except for the religious folks, of course. They called it heresy.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Michael Gray
Seconded: Robibnikoff

------------

6) That's odd...when people started applying science to *physical*
illness, they called it medicine rather than bigotry.

Except for the religious folks, of course. They called it heresy.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Michael Gray
Seconded: Robibnikoff

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: John Popelish

6) That's odd...when people started applying science to *physical*
illness, they called it medicine rather than bigotry.

Except for the religious folks, of course. They called it heresy.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Michael Gray
Seconded: Robibnikoff

7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations are
so limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons
revolve "backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm not
it's best student! <g>), I can imagine colossal collisions..releasing so
much energy it makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as puny
as a firecracker in a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the "captured"
bodies? Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of gravity
bends a body's path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in
relative warmth from the reflected light from the surface below.

Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they
don't understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they put
half the work into actually understanding the processes that create the
universe we see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance, they
would be rewarded with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find words
to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: John Popelish

7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations
are
so limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons
revolve "backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm
not
it's best student! <g>), I can imagine colossal
collisions..releasing so
much energy it makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as
puny
as a firecracker in a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the
"captured"
bodies? Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of
gravity
bends a body's path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in
relative warmth from the reflected light from the surface below.

Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they
don't understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they
put
half the work into actually understanding the processes that create
the
universe we see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance,
they
would be rewarded with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find
words
to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

------------

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for JuLy 2007.
Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jul 31, 2007. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.

* * * * *

------------

3) In response to:

Well anyways does anybody understand what I am
saying? I am here for your input, thoughts, and to share my own
thoughts of god with people that may be lost like I was.

You were polite, until this last paragraph. Allow me to explain why the
insult it contains is so large. I am not "lost" because I do not believe
in gods. In fact, my discovery of the lack of them is the best thing
that ever happened to me. You should really have thought this out better
before you posted here. You admit in the first part of your post that
your own "thoughts of god" are causing you anguish. You then wish to
share them with me? You wish *I* had the self-inflicted wound you have?
Madness. You have a disease that causes you pain. To end the pain, cure
the disease. Humans have created hundreds of thousands of god beliefs.
Simply running from one to the next will not cure you. God-belief is
like the common cold-they mutate so quickly that all you can do is treat
the symptoms. Wouldn't it be better to simply be virus-free?

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

------------

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for JuLy 2007.
Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jul 31, 2007. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.

------------

7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations are
so limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons
revolve "backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm not
it's best student! <g>), I can imagine colossal collisions..releasing so
much energy it makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as puny
as a firecracker in a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the "captured"
bodies? Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of gravity
bends a body's path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in
relative warmth from the reflected light from the surface below.

Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they
don't understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they put
half the work into actually understanding the processes that create the
universe we see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance, they
would be rewarded with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find words
to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

------------

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: John Popelish

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations are
so limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons
revolve "backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm not
it's best student! <g>), I can imagine colossal collisions..releasing so
much energy it makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as puny
as a firecracker in a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the "captured"
bodies? Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of gravity
bends a body's path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in
relative warmth from the reflected light from the surface below.

Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they
don't understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they put
half the work into actually understanding the processes that create the
universe we see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance, they
would be rewarded with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find words
to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

------------

2) Being stupid is forgivable. Being proud of it is not.

By: raven1
Nominated: Doc Smartass
Seconded: jem

------------

------------

2) Being stupid is forgivable. Being proud of it is not.

By: raven1
Nominated: Doc Smartass
Seconded: jem

------------

3) In response to:

Well anyways does anybody understand what I am
saying? I am here for your input, thoughts, and to share my own
thoughts of god with people that may be lost like I was.

You were polite, until this last paragraph. Allow me to explain why the
insult it contains is so large. I am not "lost" because I do not believe
in gods. In fact, my discovery of the lack of them is the best thing
that ever happened to me. You should really have thought this out better
before you posted here. You admit in the first part of your post that
your own "thoughts of god" are causing you anguish. You then wish to
share them with me? You wish *I* had the self-inflicted wound you have?
Madness. You have a disease that causes you pain. To end the pain, cure
the disease. Humans have created hundreds of thousands of god beliefs.
Simply running from one to the next will not cure you. God-belief is
like the common cold-they mutate so quickly that all you can do is treat
the symptoms. Wouldn't it be better to simply be virus-free?

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

------------

------------

7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations are so
limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons revolve
"backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm not it's best
student! <g>), I can imagine colossal collisions..releasing so much energy it
makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as puny as a firecracker in
a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the "captured" bodies?
Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of gravity bends a body's
path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in relative warmth from the
reflected light from the surface below.

Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they don't
understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they put half the
work into actually understanding the processes that create the universe we
see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance, they would be rewarded
with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find words to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

------------

7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations are
so limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons
revolve "backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm not
it's best student! <g>), I can imagine colossal collisions..releasing so
much energy it makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as puny
as a firecracker in a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the "captured"
bodies? Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of gravity
bends a body's path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in
relative warmth from the reflected light from the surface below.

Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they
don't understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they put
half the work into actually understanding the processes that create the
universe we see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance, they
would be rewarded with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find words
to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for JuLy 2007.

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: John Popelish

By: raven1
Nominated: Lucifer
Seconded: Robibnikoff

3) In response to:

Well anyways does anybody understand what I am
saying? I am here for your input, thoughts, and to share my own
thoughts of god with people that may be lost like I was.

You were polite, until this last paragraph. Allow me to explain why the
insult it contains is so large. I am not "lost" because I do not believe
in gods. In fact, my discovery of the lack of them is the best thing
that ever happened to me. You should really have thought this out better
before you posted here. You admit in the first part of your post that
your own "thoughts of god" are causing you anguish. You then wish to
share them with me? You wish *I* had the self-inflicted wound you have?
Madness. You have a disease that causes you pain. To end the pain, cure
the disease. Humans have created hundreds of thousands of god beliefs.
Simply running from one to the next will not cure you. God-belief is
like the common cold-they mutate so quickly that all you can do is treat
the symptoms. Wouldn't it be better to simply be virus-free?

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations are
so limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons
revolve "backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm not
it's best student! <g>), I can imagine colossal collisions..releasing so
much energy it makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as puny
as a firecracker in a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the "captured"
bodies? Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of gravity
bends a body's path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in
relative warmth from the reflected light from the surface below.

Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they
don't understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they put
half the work into actually understanding the processes that create the
universe we see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance, they
would be rewarded with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find words
to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for JuLy 2007.
Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jul 31, 2007. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.

* * * * *
1) HO! <whack!>

simulating a Zen Roshi correcting and guiding him [V] to enlightenment
with the tender ministrations of his bo-staff. I'd like to ask my fellow
regulars to join me in this; perhaps it may even bring the egomaniacal
twit a bit of enlightenment.

By: raven1
Nominated: Lucifer
Seconded: Robibnikoff

------------

2) Being stupid is forgivable. Being proud of it is not.

By: raven1
Nominated: Doc Smartass
Seconded: jem

------------

3) In response to:

Well anyways does anybody understand what I am
saying? I am here for your input, thoughts, and to share my own
thoughts of god with people that may be lost like I was.

You were polite, until this last paragraph. Allow me to explain why the
insult it contains is so large. I am not "lost" because I do not believe
in gods. In fact, my discovery of the lack of them is the best thing
that ever happened to me. You should really have thought this out better
before you posted here. You admit in the first part of your post that
your own "thoughts of god" are causing you anguish. You then wish to
share them with me? You wish *I* had the self-inflicted wound you have?
Madness. You have a disease that causes you pain. To end the pain, cure
the disease. Humans have created hundreds of thousands of god beliefs.
Simply running from one to the next will not cure you. God-belief is
like the common cold-they mutate so quickly that all you can do is treat
the symptoms. Wouldn't it be better to simply be virus-free?

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

------------

4) These guys are so high on wishful thinking, they think that's what
reality is.

By: Uncle Vic
Nominated: Gospel Bretts
Seconded: Olrik

------------

5) Only an ***** would think that the history of the Christian Church
can be found in the Bible.

By: Al Klein
Nominated: Panama Floyd
Seconded: Uncle Vic

------------

6) That's odd...when people started applying science to *physical*
illness, they called it medicine rather than bigotry.

Except for the religious folks, of course. They called it heresy.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Michael Gray
Seconded: Robibnikoff

------------

7) Y'know, the thing I've always wondered is why their imaginations are
so limited. Why do some planets spin differently? Why do some moons
revolve "backwards"? Ugh. With just a little physics study (and I'm not
it's best student! <g>), I can imagine colossal collisions..releasing so
much energy it makes the yield of our most powerful weapons look as puny
as a firecracker in a thunderstorm.

What a fireworks show *that* must have been! And then, the "captured"
bodies? Eons of lonely, cold existence until a slight slip of gravity
bends a body's path into the warm embrace of a planet...basking in
relative warmth from the reflected light from the surface below.

Why do these morons continue to cower in fear before the things they
don't understand, when the truth is so much more beautiful? If they put
half the work into actually understanding the processes that create the
universe we see as they do into camoflauging their own ignorance, they
would be rewarded with a glimpse of beauty so intense I can't find words
to describe it.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Gail Futoran
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

------------

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: John Popelish

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Here are the rules for the Quote of the Month Contests.

RULES

1. Only atheists and agnostics may participate in the contests.

2. A quote is a valid entry for the contests if:

a. The quote is a brief piece of text

b. The quote has recently been written in alt.atheism (verifiable),
and is original (no quotes by famous authors, for instance)

c. Nomination of the quote is made by an atheist or agnostic
in alt.atheism

d. Nomination of the quote is supported by at least one other
atheist or agnostic in alt.atheism;

e. The quote is not nominated or seconded by the person who wrote it
in the first place (no one is allowed to nominate him- or herself,
but a person can vote for the quote he or she wrote.)

3. There will be two categories: 'Atheist Quote of the Month'
and 'Theist Quote of the Month'. The category for which a
quote must be nominated must be mentioned by the atheist or
agnostic who wants to nominate it.

If a quote is miscategorized (e.g. an atheist quote is mistakenly
nominated in the Theist QOTM category), the quote will be re-directed
to appear in the correct category, with approriate notification.

4. Nominations can be made until five days before the first of the
next month. If quotes are nominated after this period, they will be
considered as entries for the contest of the next month.

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name>)"

5. Each atheist or agnostic who visits alt.atheism has one vote to
cast for each category (two votes total).

6. Voting starts 5 days before the end of the month. During the month,
votes will be ignored. This way, all nominees will have equal chance of
winning.

7. The two winning quotes will be published in the QOTM Archive.

SUMMARY

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1. The lines of the quote.

2. Who wrote it.

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Publish the nomination or support for a nomination in a designated
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2. Votes must be placed in the designated thread.

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3) In response to:

Well anyways does anybody understand what I am
saying? I am here for your input, thoughts, and to share my own
thoughts of god with people that may be lost like I was.

You were polite, until this last paragraph. Allow me to explain why the
insult it contains is so large. I am not "lost" because I do not believe
in gods. In fact, my discovery of the lack of them is the best thing
that ever happened to me. You should really have thought this out better
before you posted here. You admit in the first part of your post that
your own "thoughts of god" are causing you anguish. You then wish to
share them with me? You wish *I* had the self-inflicted wound you have?
Madness. You have a disease that causes you pain. To end the pain, cure
the disease. Humans have created hundreds of thousands of god beliefs.
Simply running from one to the next will not cure you. God-belief is
like the common cold-they mutate so quickly that all you can do is treat
the symptoms. Wouldn't it be better to simply be virus-free?

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for JuLy 2007.
Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread.

------------

2) Being stupid is forgivable. Being proud of it is not.

By: raven1
Nominated: Doc Smartass
Seconded: jem

-

8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: John Popelish

6) That's odd...when people started applying science to *physical*
illness, they called it medicine rather than bigotry.

Except for the religious folks, of course. They called it heresy.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Michael Gray
Seconded: Robibnikoff

3) In response to:

Well anyways does anybody understand what I am
saying? I am here for your input, thoughts, and to share my own
thoughts of god with people that may be lost like I was.

You were polite, until this last paragraph. Allow me to explain why the
insult it contains is so large. I am not "lost" because I do not believe
in gods. In fact, my discovery of the lack of them is the best thing
that ever happened to me. You should really have thought this out better
before you posted here. You admit in the first part of your post that
your own "thoughts of god" are causing you anguish. You then wish to
share them with me? You wish *I* had the self-inflicted wound you have?
Madness. You have a disease that causes you pain. To end the pain, cure
the disease. Humans have created hundreds of thousands of god beliefs.
Simply running from one to the next will not cure you. God-belief is
like the common cold-they mutate so quickly that all you can do is treat
the symptoms. Wouldn't it be better to simply be virus-free?

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: Meteorite Debris