The average human being is only 3 missed meals away from revolution.

She's by far the best thing about that show. I'm not a big fan, but my wife watched it, thus I did too. She is the only 'real' person in a universe populated with soap opera characters.

I have really shitty taste, because I love me some Stephen King. The guy has more consistently entertained me over the last 25 years than any other person except perhaps Spielberg.

I went to high school with a really beautiful girl that had this condition in both eyes, I don't think she had any substantial vision problems and she drove a metallic blue 1964 Mustang that was absolutely cherry, and she never damaged it so she must've been doing ok.

Red light cameras have been shown in DOT studies to increase accident rates due to people slamming on their brakes to prevent getting tickets. More rear-end collisions, more damages, more injuries, more costs.

As someone who grew up getting the shit beat out of them from a very early age, this scene about fuckin' broke me, man.

I see what you are getting at. There is no "normal" because the bell curve for god is only one data point. Whatever God does set the bar for what normal is.

Whatever God does is normal? It's not bad if God does it?

I ended up having a long-back and forth with one of the other posters, and I think I actually made a bit of headway in laying out my complicated relationship with Christianity. You might find it illuminating, you might find it laughable.

Thanks. You are most reasonable, despite my rantings.

If everyone is a sinner, and god loves everyone, why not just let everyone into heaven? Or alternatively, if all it takes is an apology and acceptance, why not a pearly-gate conversion? You have to admit, a deathbed conversion is not all that different from one at St. Peter's feet. And remember, god loves you enough…

I am well-read in the concepts you illustrate in your first paragraph. I have long reflected that the inconsistency of the god of Abraham and the god of Jesus and the god of modern Americans is not one deity, but simply a reflection of what we humans expect god to be. Another reason I view god as a solely human - and…

The story you illustrate of the murderer entering heaven is yet another reason I reject your religion.

I can see the point you are making. But you seem to be taking the stance that morality is a subjective thing. I would argue that morality is not ALWAYS subjective.

I would argue that children aren't born evil. But they are born 100% egocentric. We are each the center of our own universe. We have to teach each new generation to not be an individualistic animal, but how to be a member of society.

I could type and type a long list of reasons, but none of them would make any sense to you. Just as your ability to see it as a guiding force for good is something that I can't see.

God is indeed amoral. One need only read the bible and the crazy, unjustifiable things it contains to come to this conclusion.

I made no such claim. I even explicitly state my lack of being special. You are a troll. You call it crap and walk away without an explanation. Nice tactic. It doesn't work. It doesn't make me want to worship your invisible sky-daddy/monster.

How is it selfish? Elaborate. I'm not throwing a hissy fit, I've simply decided God is not a being that is worthy of my love and admiration and worship. I choose to live by a moral code that follows logic (part of that logic being the Golden rule. Ironically, not a rule Jehovah/Yahweh abides by.).

This "debt" that I am supposedly born with? Yet another piece of the tyranny that I reject on moral grounds.