PZ Meyers responds to a Christianist

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I get email
Category: Personal
Posted on: October 1, 2009 8:42 AM, by PZ Myers

Man, those visits to Fargo and Maine sure stirred up a lot of people. I've just been getting an unusually large volume of mail lately, and it's about evenly split: half are saying "Yay, I'm going to read your blog every day!" and the other half are "You're going to burn in hell!" It seems appropriate, then, to at least acknowledge this flood by posting one of them.

Nate is trying to pull a Ray Comfort on me. There's a reason why people call Comfort "Raytard", so he really isn't the right person to emulate.

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So, I score 9½ out of 10, and most Christians, by Nate's admission, score 0-2. That has to sting; here he's dreaming of someday watching the heathen burn in torment from a ringside seat in heaven, but I do better at following the commandments than he does!

But wait, I know Ray Comfort's schtick, so I know what comes next. God has given us these 'laws' that are virtually impossible to keep, so everyone breaks them at some time, but it's OK, because if you accept Jesus in your heart, it gives you license to break all these laws, and still get into heaven. If you're a Christian, you can lie, steal, commit adultery, and even murder, and still get divine approval. And if you follow every single one of the ten commandments, but don't love Jesus, you still get sent to hell.

So what good are these commandments? The people who think the source is credible also get carte blanche to break them, and the only people who are expected to stick to them are the ones who reject the Bible…and they are damned anyway!

So, Nate, I suggest you take your ten commandments and stuff them up your nether orifice. Sideways. No lube. And look! There's no commandment against it!

the rest:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/i_get_email_43.php