The 2012 Darwin Creationist Twit - Result!

The coveted Darwin Creationist Twit Award for 2012 Results:

In third place with

athiest u are such idiots. u believe intellgent desine by monkys but notGod ??

— josh (@jtrubo) October 12, 2012

is @jtrubo

Well done to @jtrubo for doing so well with what was a really late entry, only just making the deadline.

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In second place with two candidate entries:

@RosaRubicondior Incorrect. Many interpret the fact that the universe is shaped like an atom as (cont) tl.gd/iapb9r

—Absird Charles (@Absird) July 14, 2012

@VorianK @RosaRubicondior which? A galaxy or Boron? twitter.com/Absird/status/…

—Absird Charles (@Absird) July 14, 2012

is @Absird.

Very well done, @Absird. A valiant effort which I thought would take some beating for its pompous idiocy. Two very good candidate tweets there.

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However, the clear winner with:

@scouse_dot but how do you grow an ear if you don't know there is anything to hear?

— Mr Duck (@loadsofducks) July 17, 2012

is @loadsofduck with an entry so moronic that it proved impossible to beat for it's sheer ignorant stupidity, even by the exceptionally strong entries from @Absird.

Well done, @loadsofduck,DCT for being the 2012 Darwin Creationist Twit of The Year. Don't forget to impress your friends and followers by putting those much sought after letters after your name.

Apologists' Glossary

In recognition of the frequent need of religious apologists to re-define everyday words to make their arguments appear to work and look logical, I have produced this handy glossary. It can also be used by normal people to decode apologetics and turn it from gibberish into normal English.

Allegory

Anything in a holy book which science has now shown not to be true and which no one in their right mind would now believe was ever meant to be taken literally. Allegories do not need to be for anything; they just need to be too silly to be taken literally now we know better.

Big Bang

1. Silly idea that nothing went bang and made everything, so the evidence for it can be ignored.
2. Not as sensible as the idea that a magic man made from nothing made everything from nothing so he would have somewhere to create me.

Climate Change

Something which isn't happening and which has nothing to do with the different weather we are having. Anyway, God will take care of it and it doesn't matter anyway because Jesus will come back soon.

Disproved.

1. Any scientific idea about which there may be the slightest uncertainty or which is not completely understood in absolute detail, or which any person claiming to be a scientist has ever questioned at any time in recorded history, if it casts doubt on a religious dogma.
2. Anything which contradicts the holy book of the religion being defended.

Evidence.

1. Something which can safely be assumed to exist if it would support the religious idea being defended.
2. Something which arrogant, elitist scientists keep going on about.

Evolution.

1. The belief that chimpanzees have human babies, invented by Stephen Dawkins who is friend of Karl Marx.
2. A scientific process which is impossible because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
3. An old idea that everyone knows has been disproved.
4. The scientific explanation for how all the different species evolved from two of each kind in just 4,000 years after Noah's flood.

Fact.

Anything presented without supporting evidence in support of religious dogma. May be given addition power by being appended with an exclamation mark and used at the end of a sentence.

False.

1. Pertaining to anything tending to disprove a religious dogma, no matter how well supported with evidence or reason.
2. Anything which contradicts the holy book of the religion being defended.

False Witnessing.

1. Telling lies - something forbidden by one of the Ten Commandments, so no Christian would ever do it.
2. Definitely not claiming to have evidence for a god when there is none, or making claims for which there is no evidential support.
3. Also, definitely not accusing people who you don't agree with of doing things they haven't done.

Faith.

1. How to tell that all other faiths are false.
2. Believing things for which there is definitely really good evidence which convinced the people who told me what to believe. No doubts about that at all. Honestly! Anyway, I wouldn't believe it if it wasn't true. Why can't other people see that?

Fool.

Anyone who doesn't agree with a religious dogma.

Foolish.

Any claim, fact or logical argument which tends to falsify the religious dogma or argument currently being used.

Good.

1. Pertaining to any act called for in a holy book, regardless of its effects on other people.
2. Pertaining to people who claim to be members of the religious sect being promoted, regardless of their behaviour.

I know it to be so.

Cf. Fact!

Just a theory.

1. A guess with no supporting evidence.
2. Description of any body of science together with the supporting evidence, research findings and consensus of opinion of experts in the field, which contradicts anything in the holy book or religious dogma being promoted or defended.

Let's agree to disagree.

I've run out of arguments and can't refute anything you've said but I'm not going to admit I've lost because I might have to change my opinion.

Literal Word Of God.

1. Everything written in the holy book being promoted. Utterly beyond dispute.
2. Unless it's just too absurd to be believed, or embarrassing, then it is allegorical - but still literally true, obviously.

Love.

The passive-aggressive act of condescending to people who disagree with you in an attempt to intimidate them.

Lying For Jesus/Allah

The paradox of religious apologists denying doing it when caught in the act.

Metaphor.

See Allegory. Normally applies to a instruction in a holy book which, if done today, would be socially unacceptable or even criminal. What it is a metaphor for is often an ineffable mystery which only devout people can understand.

Moral.

1. Pertaining to anything done in the name of the god being defended or called for in a holy book, regardless of the effect it has on other people, especially non-believers.
2. Pertaining to any act done to promote the sect being promoted, including deception, misrepresentation, false-witnessing and violence, threatened or actual.

Real.

Pertaining to something which can't be demonstrated to exist but which would need to exist for a religious dogma to be true.

Reason.

1. Not to be trusted if it gives the wrong answer. What St Paul and Martin Luther warned us not to use but didn't say why.
2. What people who don't trust God use.
3. What William Lane Craig and other religious apologists brilliantly prove God is real with.

Saved.

Pertaining to Christians who believe they have been saved from their god because they believe it exists.

Science.

1. When contradicting a religious dogma, an unreliable philosophy depending on an unproven materialist view of the universe, which never produces anything worthwhile in terms of knowledge, understanding or progress.
2. When believed to support a religious dogma, indisputable and infallible method for proving what's true.

Scientist.

1. When agreeing with the religion being promoted, brilliant and indisputable authority.
2. When disagreeing with the religion being promoted, mad, elitist, fraud who thinks he knows more than God/Allah. Probably a Communist, rapist and devil-worshipper.
3. Anyone with letters after his/her name, even if not qualified in a science subject, especially if called 'doctor'.
4. A Creationist who has watched the Discovery Channel or who owns a science book.

Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Science which makes Evolution impossible.

Sinner.

Everyone. If Catholic, someone who has sinned since they were last let off by a priest. Some people are obviously sinner than others.

True.

Pertaining to anything which would support religious dogma if it were so, especially in the absence of any supporting evidence.

Witnessing.

The act of saying anything at all which might, if believed, persuade another person to join the religious sect being promoted.

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Top Five Christian Cults

Within religious circles, one man's cult seems to be another man's mainstream religion, but a few things seem to characterise modern 'New Age Religion' cults, apart from mysticism and rituals:

• Autocratic rule. Often claimed by 'divine right'. Usually dominated by one charismatic man regarded as the font of all 'wisdom' and frequently claiming direct divine guidance and instructions.
• Women play a subordinate role. Women are expected to be at the disposal of the senior men.
• Many cults are apocalyptic, believing some great disaster is about to befall the world, or the Second Coming of Jesus is imminent, and their leader is a prophet sent to prepare the world for it or to provide an elite who are to survive the apocalypse.
• Fundraising is a major preoccupation, with members either required to raise money by begging or selling the cult's produce, or to donate a large proportion, even all, of their income.
  
• Extremely rich leaders.
  

In fact, in many ways, the social structure of religious cults closely resembles the social structure of gorillas and the common chimpanzee.

1. 

   Elijah

   Church of Bible Understanding.

   This cult was started in New York in 1971 as 'The Forever Family' by a fundamentalist Pentecostal Christian and vacuum cleaner repair man, Stewart Traill, who had been expelled from the Pentecostal Church. He claims to be a reincarnation of Elijah, to know the exact date of the 'Second Coming' and to possess a unique ability to understand the true meaning of the word of God. Members were required to live in a commune and donate 90% of their earnings to the cult. All aspects of members lives are carefully controlled by a process of harsh criticism and public humiliation.
   
   The cult branched out into the carpet cleaning business, with "Christian Brothers Carpet Cleaning", and used van sales. As part of President Bush's 'Faith Based Initiatives' the cult is reported to receive US Federal Government funding for a 'mission' in Haiti where it indoctrinates Haitian children in return for food and clothing.
   
   Stewart Traill is reputed to have amassed a considerable fortune.

2. 

   Shoko Asahara

   Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth).

   A Japanese cult drawing partly on aspects of Christianity, particularly the Bible Book of Revelations. The cult was started by Shoko Asahara in 1984 in his one-bedroom Tokyo apartment, initially as yoga and meditation school.
   
   From this the cult diversified into publishing and, following an intense advertising campaign in which it claimed to offer a cure for physical illness and the realisation of life goals through positive thinking, it became one of the fastest growing religions in Japanese history. It's teachings were a mixture of Christianity, ancient Japanese teachings and the science fiction books of Isaac Azimov. Secretive religious practices involved the use of hallucinogenic substances like LSD, electric shocks and being hung upside down for prolonged periods.
   
   From this, the cult moved into extortion, holding cult members against their will and murder of opponents. Following a failed bid for election to political office as the 'Supreme Truth Party' the cult effectively declared war on society and began to amass weapons and manufacture sarin gas. This was used in a deadly attack on the Tokyo underground on 20 March 1995 in which 13 commuters were killed and up to 5,000 more were affected. On 5 May 1995 the cult attempted to detonate several hydrogen cyanide devices on the Tokyo underground, each of which was capable of killing up to 20,000 people. Asahara and several senior cult leaders were convicted and sentenced to death for the killings but to date, the sentences have not been carried out. [Update: Asahara and six followers were executed in 1918 as a punishment for the 1995 attacks and other crimes and the remaining six on death row were executed on 26 July that year. On New Year's Day 2019, a cult member drove a car into a crowd in Tokyo, to protest the executions, injuring at least 9 people, 1 seriously]
   
   The cult is still in existence, maintained by donations and has officially apologised for the attacks and claimed to have changed its ways. Its existence is guaranteed under Japan's constitutional freedom of religion.

3. 

   God

   The Unification Church (Moonies).

   Invented by South Korean Presbyterian Christian Sunday school teacher and electrical engineer, Sun Myung Moon, who declared himself to be the Christian Messiah, the 'Moonies' believe God has chosen South Korea to create Heaven on earth. One of Moon's practices was to hold mass ceremonies in which tens of thousands of followers were married to partners randomly allocated by Moon.
   
   Being God of course meant that Moon needed as much money as possible, so no donation was ever too large. In later life, he concentrated more on material things like running his multi billion dollar business empire than on the spiritual needs of his followers.
   
   Bizarrely for a god, Moon died on 3 September 2012.

4. 

   David Brandt Berg

   Children of God (now known as the Family of Love and Family International).

   Children of God for formed by 'Christian and Missionary Alliance' pastor, David Brandt Berg amongst the Californian Hippy communities in 1968. It taught that sex, even with children, was natural and right. Female members of the cult were sent out to sell sexual favours to men to show God's love, and to solicit donations to the cult in a practice called 'Flirty Fishing' or 'FFing'. A refinement of this technique was to work through escort agencies ('ESing'). In effect, the cult was an organised prostitution and child abuse ring.
   
   

   I am quite satisfied that most of the women who engaged in this activity and the subsequent refinement of ESing, (which was finding men through escort agencies), did so in the belief that they were spreading God's word. But I am also totally satisfied that that was not Berg's only purpose. He and his organization had another and more sordid reason. They were procuring women to become common prostitutes. They were knowingly living in part on the earnings of prostitution. That was criminal activity. Their attempts to deny this must be dismissed as cant and hypocrisy. To deny that the girls were acting as prostitutes because 'we are not charging but we expect people to show their thanks and their appreciation and they ought to give more for love than if we charged them' is an unacceptable form of special pleading. The 'FFers handbook' told the girls that fishing could be fun but fun did not pay the bills. 'You've got to catch a few to make the fun pay for itself. So don't do it for nothing'. - Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Ward – 1995^[11]
   
   

   Source: Wikipedia - Family International

   
   

5. 

   Jesus' Relative, An Evolutionary Kingdom Above Human

   Heaven's Gate

   Based on the Christian Bible Book of Revelations, Heaven's Gate was the last in a series or renamed and reinvented cults invented by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. Following a heart attack during which Applewhite claimed to have had a NDE he decided that he and his nurse, Bonnie Nettles, were the 'two witnesses'.
   
   

   And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
   
   

   Revelations 11:3

   
   The cult taught a mixture of apocalyptic Christianity, science fiction inspired partly by the TV Series 'Star Trek', and a bastardized version of evolution. Marshall claimed to be directly related to Jesus and so to be a member of an "Evolutionary Kingdom Level Above Human". Apparently, their mission was to warn that earth was about to be cleansed, renewed and refurbished prior to recycling.
   
   In three batches over the three days 24, 25 & 26 March 1997, Marshall and 38 Heaven's Gate cultists committed suicide so they could be taken to the 'Next Level' aboard the spaceship Marshall had told them was behind the Hale-Bop comet. Only one member survived, having left the commune a few days before so he could continue the cult's work.

Of course, as we can see from this small sample of Christian cults (weren't all Christian sects, and indeed Christianity itself, once cults?) one essential ingredient for cult formation is a supply of gullible and credulous or otherwise vulnerable individuals ready and willing to suspend their own rational thought processes and so be exploited by the cult leaders, often in return for nothing more than a sense of belonging to a group. For an understanding of how this works, see 'Whatever Possesses Religious People?'.

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Top Five Reasons People Are Leaving Faith

These are my top five reasons why there is such a massive increase in agnosticism and outright disbelief in gods at present.

You may of course have different ones...

Behaviour of believers.

• Access to news

has shown people how religion gives excuses to believers to act in ways which could not be excused any other way. Religion is behind most regional conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Sudan, the Middle East, India/Pakistan, the Philippines and the developing religious tension in parts of Western Europe. International terrorism is now almost entirely religiously.

Law For Creationists

A great deal of Creationism depends on people misunderstanding simple words, which is why the most lucrative market for those who peddle creationism for a living is to be found in the less well educated parts of the world, and why the creationist package includes a mistrust of education and an admiration for ignorance as part of the deal.

An example of this can be found daily in the social media where the term 'theory' is assiduously and carefully 'misunderstood' in it's scientific context and given it's lay meaning. This helps creationists dismiss science as merely guesswork and claim wrongly that the Theory of Evolution therefore does not have any supporting evidence.

Why Religion Is For Bird Brains

If you're wondering why religious people love rituals, the answer can be found in an experiment involving birds - pigeons to be exact.

The great Harvard Professor of Psychology, B.F.Skinner showed how pigeons become religious when given random rewards that have nothing to do with their behaviour.

This was a spin-off from the experiments on 'operant conditioning' where he showed how pigeons can be trained to carry out an action by associating it with a reward. For example, pigeons can be trained to peck a green light if they get a pellet of food every time they do so. Skinner wondered what would happen if the reward was completely dissociated from their actions.

Religion Kills [Updated]

Massacre of the Innocence, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

One of the great lies religious people tell is that religion is a force for peace; that without religion there would be no morality and nothing to stop people rushing around killing one another. Like so many other claims made by religious people the facts directly contradict the claim.

Here is a list of religion-inspired massacres, i.e. a single event of mass killing inspired by religion or specifically of followers of a different religion, often merely a different sect of the same religion as the killers.

This is a work in progress, and probably always will be, as there will probably never cease to be excuses for religious massacres.

The Birth Of Jesus - Southern Version

This is interesting. There seem to be three different accounts of the impregnation of Mary and the birth of Jesus; two Christian ones in the Bible and a Muslim one in the Qur'an. The weird thing is, the then recently-converted Christian King of Abyssinia thought the Muslim one was the authentic version!

What's maybe even more weird is that none of them bear more than a passing resemblance to one another.

First, the Bible versions:

Version 1

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

The Heavenly Peace Of Jesus

Hong Xiuquan

An interesting BBC Radio 4 program a couple of days ago on the "Taiping Rebellion" in Southern China, 1850-1864. What made my ears prick up was the fact that this rebellion was lead by a fundamentalist Christian zealot.

I'll come on to him later; first a little background:

At the time of the rebellion, China was ruled by the Manchurian Quing Dynasty which was regarded as foreign by the Han Chinese. The Manchus had invaded China from the north east in 1644 taking advantage of the disarray following the collapse of the Ming Dynasty during a peasants' revolt in Beijing.

China, under the Qing Dynasty in the mid-19th century, suffered a series of natural disasters, economic problems and defeats at the hands of the Western powers; in particular, the humiliating defeat in 1842 by the United Kingdom in the First Opium War. The Qing government, led by ethnic Manchus, were seen by much of the Chinese population, who were mainly Han Chinese, as an ineffective and corrupt foreign regime. Anti-Manchu sentiment was strongest in the south among the laboring classes and it was these disaffected who flocked to join the charismatic leader Hong Xiuquan, a member of the Hakka community, a Han-Chinese sub-group that inhabited southern China but traced their ancestries back to northerners in the Song Dynasty. Having arrived too late to acquire the best land, they were engaged in constant conflicts.⁵ Among these serious problems were the prevalence of female infanticide, creating massive imbalances with shortages of women being worst in the primary Taiping centers.

Wikipedia - Taiping Rebellion

Why Science Is Right And Religions Are Wrong

Interesting Huffington Post poll out today. More Believe In Space Aliens Than In God According To U.K. Survey.

Some of the reason given for belief in aliens were absurd, of course, but, in contrast to a belief in gods, there is sound logical argument for thinking that life, and thereby possibly intelligent life, would exist elsewhere in the universe.

The maths is relatively simple: leaving aside Earth, there are so many, maybe half a trillion, galaxies in the universe, each with somewhere around a trillion stars, that the probability of several, maybe very many, stars having a planet on which life evolved approaches certainty.

Even Christians Have To Obey The Law.

Excellent news today from Reading Crown Court where a Christian couple have been ordered to pay compensation to a gay couple whom they had discriminated against in 2010, using their superstition as the pretext for their bullying and denial of basic human rights by refusing to supply them with hotel services on the grounds of their sexuality. See BBC News - Gay couple win Berkshire B&B refusal case.

This case follows an almost identical one in Bristol which resulted in damages being awarded to a gay couple who had been similarly victimised by the Christian owners of a Bed & Breakfast Hotel in Marazion, Cornwall, in 2008. The case was upheld by the Court of Appeal last February. The message from these landmark cases should be crystal clear to Christians, and indeed any other religious minorities seeking to impose their bigotry on the rest of us.

What God Thinks Of Disabled People

Are you disabled in any way? Do you have even the smallest blemish? A mole or a birthmark maybe? Do you know anyone who is? A friend or relative? That girl or boy down the street with a squint? Even just a little bit disabled? How about that lame man or that woman with a harelip or someone needing to wear spectacles?

In fact, given that no one is perfect, doesn't everyone have a defect of some sort?

Here's what the Christian god thinks of imperfect people:

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

Leviticus 21:16-24

Unintelligently Designed Creationists

You have to pity Creationists. If only they would (or should that be 'could'?) think things through!

I blame the leaders of this money-making industry and right-wing political control cult; people like Ken Ham, Duane Gish, Kent Hovind, Michael Behe and William Dembski who feed off these unfortunate victims in return for worthless pseudo-scientific pap, and so release them ill-prepared in terms of reasoning ability and facts, onto the Internet to try to push their lost cause to people who actually understand biological science, as though that was ever going to be remotely possible. It almost constitutes child abuse, even for the chronologically adult Creationist children.

How Christians Lie To Us - Fact And Fiction

This is the second and last blog dealing with Christopher Hitchens' book "The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice". In the first ("How Christians Lie To Us - Birth Of A Myth") I used Hitch's description of how Malcolm Muggeridge invented the Mother Teresa of Calcutta myth almost out of thin air to illustrate how (mythical) sanctity and 'miracles' can be created almost at will for a credulous audience eager for such things.

In this one, I'll use the testimonies of those who witnessed Mother Teresa and her 'Missionaries of Charity' at work to contrast the reality with the myth of tender, loving care for the needs of the sick and dying which the Catholic Church and much of the uncritical media have assiduously manufactured.

How Christians Lie To Us - Birth Of A Myth

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Reading Christopher Hitchins' book, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice I came across this wonderful example of how both the myth of a miracle and the myth of sainthood are produced by cynical self-interest and a cavalier approach to truth, honesty and intellectual integrity.

The origin of the Mother Teresa of Calcutta myth can be traced back to a 1969 TV documentary and a 1971 book, both entitled Something Beautiful For God by Malcolm Muggeridge, a pseudo-intellectual convert to Catholicism. Muggeridge had started out as a left of centre satirist but had moved later in life to be a right wing fundamentalist moraliser who, as part of Mary Whitehouse's self-appointed cabal of Christian bigots, had tried to get banned, amongst many other things, The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour on the grounds that it contained the words "Pornographic priestess; boy, you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down".

As we said at the time, Muggeridge was all for a liberal attitude to sex - until he got too old for it himself.

Time To Vote For The Darwin Creationist Twit Award

So the final list of candidates is now complete, albeit with one late entry which was too good to be left out.

Vote by commenting below. By all means canvass for your candidate but only one person, one vote please.

Note to candidates: You should not vote as your vote will not count for yourself but trying to do so might well improve your chances of winning by showing people you think the award is an honour.

Remember, folks, the award if for the best candidate who by a tweet so outstandingly moronic that it helps to reduce the meme of creationism in the human meme pool.

There are 20 outstanding candidates:

Christians! Should You Be Reading This?

From a true-believing Christian's point of view, reading and learning about anything but the Bible is to be avoided. The problem is, it can lead to 'knowledge', the acquisition of which was the original sin for which Christians say we all need to beg God's forgiveness and for which he supposedly sacrificed his son in a bizarre, barbaric blood sacrifice ritual which no one at the time seems to have noticed and of which no one now seems to be able to explain the mechanism.

This time it's mostly in the New Testaments where the Bible shows it's real hostility towards learning and the acquisition of wisdom. Paul particularly, and perhaps understandably so, seems especially worried in his epistles that people are going to learn stuff which might make them question rather than just accept his authority on things.

Do You Agree With God About Slavery?

If you're a humanist and/or an atheist you'll have no doubt at all: abolition of slavery was one of the great social advances and righted a monstrous and hideous wrong. But, if you're a Christian who looks to the Bible for your morals, and you agree with us that slavery was wrong, perhaps you should think again. You either have to believe you have higher moral standards that the people who wrote the Bible, or you believe there is nothing wrong with slavery.

The first thing to point out is, there is not a hint of condemnation of slavery anywhere in the Bible. Throughout the Old and New Testaments there is nothing but acceptance of slavery as a perfectly normal part of everyday life; something that doesn't raise the slightest concern or a hint of a moral qualm. There are even instructions on how to treat slaves, when and how to kill or beat them, who you can own, etc.

In the Bible, slaves are not even regarded as human beings. Take these two passages:

So You Think You're A Christian?

Bible warning sticker.

It's a constant source of amazement and amusement how so many people claim to be Christians whilst acting like anything but a Christian. For example, in Women. Are You Free Or Christian? I showed Christian women should see themselves and behave according to the Bible and the founding fathers of their religion. In this blog, let's look at the way good Christian parents should be treating their children, again according to the Bible and some well-known apologists for Christianity.

Firstly, a warning. Almost all of what the Bible tells you to do to and with your children is very probably illegal, especially if you live in a civilised society. Under no circumstances should you do the things the Bible tells a good Christian parent to do in respect of your children. The least you could expect would be to have them taken into care.

Here goes:

Women. Are You Free Or Christian?

For some reason, good Christian women seem to be abandoning their faith in droves. In fact, it's hard nowadays to find a woman who still holds to her proclaimed Christian faith. Even nuns would probably recoil in horror at the suggestion that they should still believe what their faith tells them they should believe.

The problem is, they're either too afraid to admit they've left their faith, or they don't actually realise they've done so, probably because so few of them read the Bible and no preacher is going to tell them the truth, least of all a male one.

Here's a short list of what Christian women are supposed to believe. Let's see how many actually do believe it. Shout out in the comments section if you're a Christian woman and actually believe any of the following, which I've numbered for ease of reference: