This is a video I watched on another group: Here is a response of a person that received this via email from relatives. I did not write this following but agree with the comments. "Y’know, I looked at that laminin protein for a while and I think you’ve got the wrong god. The protein looks a whole lot more like the caduceus wielded by Hermes, God of Travelers, in the way that the serpent-like chains wrap around the staff." "While laminin is important for cell structure, DNA is the code that makes us what we are, and its structure is another double-helix, like the caduceus. It really makes you marvel at how the Hermes, the God of Boundaries, extends to the very boundaries of our cells! Then I spent a little more time and discovered the protein called porin. Porins are the proteins that allow for diffusion of molecules across cell membranes. They are the very mechanism by which our cells receive nourishment! Now wouldn’t you know it, but the porin looks just like the triquetta of Celtic paganism. Yet another expression in creation of how the power of three San Francisco witches feed all of us. Now whatever you do, don’t let the Muslims know that the molecules in your silver crosses are shaped liked crescents! — “R”R I got a response from one of my cousins: "give it a rest, Russ. just because you don’t believe doesn’t mean I can’t." Which I couldn’t let pass without another Radical Retort…. But ******, I’m not the one clogging people’s Inboxes with spam. I’m not sending out screeds against Christianity, I’m replying to screeds for Christianity that are sent unrequested to my computer. And you should ask yourself how strong your belief really is if my silly replies elicit such a response. No one is denying you a belief that the entire universe was designed by an external intelligence so infinite and thorough that he would structure the entire system of organic chemistry around the same shape that later he knew Imperial Romans would use for torture executions. You’ll find I am a stalwart supporter of your First Amendment right to believe such things, and to paraphrase what Thomas Jefferson once said, your belief in such things neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. However, that same First Amendment means that when I read something silly, I have the right to mock it. Think of me as your god’s special test of your faith. You know me as family, you know me to be a good and loving person, so how could I be so wrong about the most important thing in your world? How can I sail blithely through life, mocking believers, when an eternity of hellfire and damnation await me in fifty years or less? Do you pray for my soul? Are you saddened to know that I will burn in Hell, or do you think God has a special miraculous plan for me? And what of the billions on Earth who do not believe in the salvation through Christ? Do their damned souls make you weep at night? Look, here’s the way I see things — No atheist, Muslim, Jew, Hindi, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Wiccan, Pagan, Satanist, Scientologist, Baha’i, Jainist, Shinto, or aboriginal shaman has ever knocked on my door peddling the idea that I was worthless in the eyes of their Creator unless I agreed with their philosophy. Only Christians do this to me. Only Christians send mass-blast emails to everyone they know assuming they will enjoy it, not stopping to wonder whether such religious conversation might be considered rude or unwelcomed by the recipient. The funny thing is that you Christians are blind to it. Re-read that piece you sent me. Peppered with phrases like “our God” (you know, not the stinky false god of *those* people). There’s a kind of arrogance to Christianity that just assumes everyone else is Christian and if you’re not, well screw you if you’re offended, because we’re right and God built the whole universe just for us. I just don’t let it slide anymore. I had a couple of missionaries come to my door to tell me about Jesus. You’d think that in North America, what with all the cable shows, AM radio stations, megachurches, Christmas carols, hotel bibles, politicians, and well-meaning folks with stickers on their cars, that everyone would have at least heard of Jesus. So why the missionaries? To strong-arm those of us supposedly “on the fence”? So first I play ignorant (”Jesus who? Christ? Never heard of him…”) and then as they tell me that the entire universe was created by an infinite sky wizard for a particular species he created that he loves so much that he must send 99.998% of them to eternal torture and agony unless they telepathically pledge allegiance to the reanimated zombie corpse of a two-millennia-dead ancient Judean troublemaker who was born of a virgin and had the powers of transmutation, healing, reincarnation, and levitation, yet couldn’t escape a pack of Roman guards, and it all says so in the book the sky wizard telepathically dictated to Iron Age Hebrew shepherds… well, I just ask a lot of questions and watch them try to spin a logical consistent tale from all that. It’s endlessly entertaining. Finally, I guess what insults my intelligence most is the way Christians will scan through a science text and see a cross-shaped protein as proof of God, when the actual science that helped mankind understand that protein disproves much of what is held to be fact by most Christians (”intelligent” design, great floods wiping out all but Noah’s critters, earth’s rotation stopping during the battle at Jericho, a human walking on water and rising from dead bodily into the sky, transmutation of water to ethyl alcohol, etc.) Using a computer on the internet to discuss Biblical “proofs” is kind of like using a telescope to see Apollo’s sun chariot." L

EDITED by user on 2008-07-20 11:35:53