“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

As I was cruising Digg (social news site, “wisdom” of the pre-pubescent masses) today, I ran across this gem. It’s no surprise that Digg, like most popular online communities, openly mocks Christians for what they consider religious blindness and just plain stupidity. This is the social network that votes for conspiracy theories, and stories about Brittany Spears, but that’s beside the point (lets just say it’s a good thing 14 year olds don’t run the world).

This site has a list of stupid quotes harvested off the ‘net from “Christian” chatrooms and forums. It is a colection of the craziest and most asanine quotes I think I have ever read. I can imagine the overweight guy brushing his cat off the keyboard on Feburary 19th last year to write the following post, cat landing and scurrying through the pile of Wal-mart bags and McDonalds wrappers, towards the TV set that has it’s knob broken off and is permanently set to TBN. He (KettleWhistle) sits down, logs on to the Israel Forum and writes his 5,000th post:

http://flatearth.meetup.com/

What is called ‘Science’ today and ’scientists’ consist of the same old gang of witch doctors, sorcerers, tellers of tales, the ‘Priest-Entertainers’ for the common people. ‘Science’ consists of a weird, way-out occult concoction of jibberish theory-theology… nothing good has ever come from ’science’ — In fact, technology is not in any way related to the web of idiotic scientific theory. ALL inventors have been anti-science. The Wright brothers said: “Science theory held us up for years. When we threw out all science, started from experiment and experience, then we invented the airplane.” By the way, airplanes all fly level on this Plane earth!

The Fact the Earth is Flat is not my opinion, it is a Proved Fact! While all we need to know is that the Bible says the Earth is flat (Is.40:22, Ez.7:2, Dn.2:35; 4:10-11,20, Mt.4:8)… but for a second can you imagine what these so-called ’scientists would have us believe — If the earth really was round, that would mean there arre people who are HANGING DOWN, HEAD DOWNWARDS while we are standing head up? But since the theory allows to travel to those parts of the earth where the people are said to hand head downward, and still to fancy ourselves to be heads upwards, and our friends whom we have left behind us to be heads downwards! LOL! What foolishness! TheWHOLE THING IS A MYTH – A DREAM – A DELUSION – and a snare, and, instead of there being any evidence at all in this direction to substantiate this popular theory, it is plain proof that the Earth is Not A Globe!

Also, be sure to know the Sun and Moon are about 3,000 miles away are both 32 miles across. The Planets are ‘tiny.’ Sun and Moon do Move, earth does NOT move, whirl, spin or gyrate (1 Sam.2:8, 1 Chr.16:30; Job 9:6, 38:4-6; Ps.96:10, 104:5, Is.13:10, Mic.6:2). Australians do NOT hang by their feet under the world… this is a FACT, not a theory! Also a Fact the Spinning, Whirling, Gyrating Ball World Planet, Globe Idea is Entirely 100% now and at all times in the Past, a RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE… a Blind Dogmatic Article of Faith in the Religion for the Blind unreasoning beast of prey. No earthly reason for a Sane, Upright Member of the Elite True Christians to subscribe to it. Also a Fact, today the Elite of Earth ALL live on the Flat World. Only the illogical, unreasoning “herd”… prefers the way-out occult weird theology of the old Greek superstitution earth a spinning ball! Both Copernecious and Newton, the inventors of the “modern” superstitions (400 year OLD modern) have said: “It is not possible for a Sane reasonable person to ever really believe these Theories.” Thus sayeth Newton-Copernecious. What sayeth THOU?

It is truly sad that people believe these things, but it’s even sadder that they represent themselves as believers and spread their opinions online. If we think we’re isolated to finding these people on the internet though, we’re terrible mistaken too. There’s a church here in whatcom county(link takes you to the internet archive, their site’s gone dark) with the following quote in their STATEMENT OF FAITH (You know, those things where you say there’s only one God and he loves us and sent his Son to die and rise from the dead so we could be made like him and brought back to communion with God?):

We believe that God, through his Son Jesus Christ created all things. There is nothing in this universe or in Heaven that was not created by Jesus Christ. We do not believe there are other life forms on other planets or any other place in the universe. We are silent where the Bible is silent…

Why can’t moderate, normal, intelligent Christians get the same attention?! I guess the headline “Normal guy expresses opinion and religious conviction in a way that is respectful and inspiring” wouldn’t get a lot of Diggs.