Meet Isaiah Kalebu. He’s a True Beliver™ of the truest kind. When his God tells him to do something, by golly you can bet he’ll get it done. Even when what his God tells him to do is to brutally rape and kill a lesbian couple:
God makes a lot of questionable demands of his followers. Demands like, “Hey, take your kid up on the mountain and sacrifice him to me!” Or “Hey, strip down to your trunks and swim to Liberty Island!”
Sometimes you have to wonder if God isn’t a bit of a perv. Why the hell else would he tall Nigerian Islamic faith healer Bello Maasaba to take on so many wives? Oh, and he’s fathered over 185 children too:
True Believers will do some crazy things to try and prove to an atheist that God is real. For example, during a recent “Ask an Atheist” event at Virginia Tech freshman student Alexander M. Huppert thought he had come up with an irrefrutable argument that God does exist:
Yet another child falls victim to a delusional parent:
NANTUCKET (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – Police say a Nantucket woman accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter told a priest and hospital officials that God told her to push a rose down the girl’s throat to ward off the devil.
I really, really hope this is a Poe. I fear that it isn’t.
There seems to be some debate over whether TamTamPamela’s YouTube videos are sincere or some of the more convincing trolling you’ll see. Personally I’m not sure, but I’m leaning towards it being legit.
One leg up Christianity has over Islam is that most practitioners have long ago abandoned the prosecution of blasphemy laws whereas it’s still a serious crime in many Islamic nations. It doesn’t help when the authorities take a zero-tolerance approach to anything that could possibly be conceived as being blasphemous whether that was the intent . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Muslim Business Card of Death edition.
Remember the entry I wrote back in January of this year about 88-year-old nutcase Harold Camping and his prediction that Jesus would return on May 21st of 2011? I mentioned that he had made an earlier prediction of the same sort for 1994 which, if you’ve been paying attention, didn’t come to pass. I also . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: End of the World edition revisited.
It’s not just the Christians who allow their faith to get in the way of common sense and critical thinking. Sometimes it’s the more nebulously defined crystal huggers.
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