Blasphemous "How-To" Book

[TwentyOneSix]

A recently published book has come to my attention and I feel it is necessary to warn my fellow Christians about literature's newest strike against religion. The author purports to make religion into a hobby that anyone can do, and goes as far as to insinuate using scrap materials out of one's garage to build pagan idols for worship! These people sit around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and doing lord knows what else, they put some words on paper and think they're good enough to be the lord himself! What's worse, the misguided and ignorant masses blind to the guiding light of god are buying into this filth! This book not only insults Christianity, but the entire concept of religion itself!

This is why we shouldn't teach public school children to read and write; the liberal public school system indoctrinates them into a hollywood-controlled and godless society by strictly enforcing atheism on them, and then our tax dollars teach these pitiful brainwashed kids how to commit travesties like this! If we could only limit the teaching of literacy to good, law-abiding, religious, private school children then things like this wouldn't happen.

Here's a link in case anyone doesn't believe me:

[Pazuzu bin Hanbi]

1. Video games are worse than television and rock music put together;
2. While I can't bring myself to tolerate their worship of the devil-god "Allah" or their violence towards the Christian world, I must say that the Muslims are at least correct in not over-sexualizing women. Hollywood has turned good Christian girls into prostitutes by obliterating their values and encouraging a lifestyle of skimpy outfits and promiscuous sex.
   
   In short; yes, I would agree that coating a woman from head to toe with cloth and allowing her to have her purity is a far sight better than brain-washing her into a sex slave.
3. I prefer good, Christian literature where all who reject the word of god are damned to eternal hellfire for their sins.
4. I don't see how a slow suicide by caffeine and tobacco is "enjoying life".
5. Science is a ramshackle explanation for how the world came to be by people who deny the works of the lord.
6. I've lived my life without a computer, but my wife insists on having one. I only began using the internet recently to see if there's something to the rumors of it being a method of communication and not just a way of corrupting children and trading pornography.
7. I'm supposed to believe that god didn't create me and all your science can offer in the way of evidence is a lot of gibberish about carbon and such.
8. I'm talking about the scientific theory that the Earth is encapsulated in a shell of gas, an "atmosphere", or the "ozone layer" those hippies are always whining about. Apparently you do think it's a magic forcefield, last time I paid any attention to "science" I was told that without this shell there'd be nothing to hold breathable air on the planet.
9. Africa is a continent of sinners and devil-worshippers, God sent them a plague as punishment for their wicked ways.
10. Sony is a Japanese company, headed by the devil and managed by demons, with the intention of destroying God's favored nation.
11. I was beginning to think this entire website was one big satan party.
12. the twisted machinations of your filthy sinful mind cannot change that.
13. This is why we shouldn't teach public school children to read and write; the liberal public school system indoctrinates them into a hollywood-controlled and godless society by strictly enforcing atheism on them.
14. That's exactly what I'm talking about! Your shooting games make weapons of murder look "cool" so you go and try them for real. It's only a matter of time before you're trying them out on real people.
15. Rockstar's "Bully" is a murder simulator where you play the role of an abused child who has to take revenge on his classmates for calling him names, using machine guns and rocket launchers and driving over them with cars. I've also heard it contains scenes of explicit homosexual behavior, and that the ESRB gave it a 'T' rating to expose younger players to the gay lifestyle.
16. I'm glad you find the proliferation of satan in today's youth culture so very entertaining. Oh it'll be a laugh riot when your children go to hell, won't it Chuck?
17. It has also been brought to my attention that the game "Mass Effect" rewards players for global genocide, as well as encouraging homosexuality and bestiality.
18. Like violence, exposing children to homosexuality will make them want to try it. And then they're gay, and their souls are damned to hell for all eternity. If that's not bad enough for you, the gay also have AIDS, which kills people all over the world. Thus, being gay is like committing murder.
19. Japan is an island populated by heretical demon-worshippers. They make TVs and video games, what more evidence do you need that Japan is the pathway to hell?
20. When your parents make you watch pornography instead of reading to you from the bible, it destroys your soul and leaves you brainwashed by hollywood.
21. Japan's low crime rate simply proves how amoral they are, to legalize things we would call crimes.
22. “AkiThePirate wrote:
    Do you believe in the Neutrino?
    Do you believe in the Quark model?�
    
    I don't even know what those things mean, are those the deities physicists worship?
    
    I've never heard of your religion.
23. God created America first when the world was only just made. For centuries, America was the only nation in the world, but God wanted his people to populate widely and so he pulled small insignificant pieces off of America and made them into the other nations of the world. But then, barbaric devil-worshipping red men took over the greatest nation in the world. It wasn't until brave Christian soldiers sent by god himself liberated this land from the devil's minions that it could be called America again.
    
    I find your lack of historical knowledge unsettling.

I think I have to nominate this chap as my favourite new poster. A prime example of ‘Religion in Entertainment’. Or do I mean ‘Entertainment in Religion’? Either way: .

In fact, I suspect this guy may have authored the book he linked in his OP and used it to advertise it sneakily!

despite playing more than my share of video games, I don't know where to get drugs either

Psst! From a drug dealer .

[Slopeshoulder]

No names.
But as an op-ed columnist in today's NY Times wrote, 5% of the population is just plain crazy. Not mentally ill (that's 26% in any given year), just immune to reason and wisdom. Worth bearing in mind.

[otseng]

I am actually quite glad you have no children as it means we have fewer wholly deluded for the next generation.

How dare you mock my wife's inability to conceive? I have nothing more to say to you.

Even though that is a shame for someone to be infertile (I did not know of this so I do apologise for that) I do wonder how you, someone who appears to love god so would rationalise this? Your god has made your life partner infertile? What has she done to deserve that?

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[sineporf]

I am actually quite glad you have no children as it means we have fewer wholly deluded for the next generation.

How dare you mock my wife's inability to conceive? I have nothing more to say to you.

Even though that is a shame for someone to be infertile (I did not know of this so I do apologise for that) I do wonder how you, someone who appears to love god so would rationalise this? Your god has made your life partner infertile? What has she done to deserve that?

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Scotracer has a point because the fewer of the children we have influenced by reasonless religion, the less chance we have of other children becoming wholly influenced and wholly enveloped by it, lessening their ability to think. The reason behind this is that a child who has a strong religious background can argue better and cast down a kid who is unknowing of faith, having ENORMOUS influence on that kid's propensity to see things from any other perspective. I've experienced this and it's horrible to be a minority rejected because I wouldn't take either side, but I was stronger willed to overcome mindlessness and have found truth.

And to the person who posted that video games are wrong, I suspect that the reason you said this is because they actually make me and others think in ways that are contrary to "YOUR" faith. This mindless absolutism is a problem as we have no way to communicate to you because you will not open your mind, making your arguments for your faith pointless because those who do not favor or believe in your faith have no point of reference from where you draw your material other than a holy book or a preacher.

[Lux]

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Scotracer has a point because the fewer of the children we have influenced by reasonless religion, the less chance we have of other children becoming wholly influenced and wholly enveloped by it, lessening their ability to think. The reason behind this is that a child who has a strong religious background can argue better and cast down a kid who is unknowing of faith, having ENORMOUS influence on that kid's propensity to see things from any other perspective. I've experienced this and it's horrible to be a minority rejected because I wouldn't take either side, but I was stronger willed to overcome mindlessness and have found truth.

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[nimesh0775]

A recently published book has come to my attention and I feel it is necessary to warn my fellow Christians about literature's newest strike against religion. The author purports to make religion into a hobby that anyone can do, and goes as far as to insinuate using scrap materials out of one's garage to build pagan idols for worship! These people sit around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and doing lord knows what else, they put some words on paper and think they're good enough to be the lord himself! What's worse, the misguided and ignorant masses blind to the guiding light of god are buying into this filth! This book not only insults Christianity, but the entire concept of religion itself!

This is why we shouldn't teach public school children to read and write; the liberal public school system indoctrinates them into a hollywood-controlled and godless society by strictly enforcing atheism on them, and then our tax dollars teach these pitiful brainwashed kids how to commit travesties like this! If we could only limit the teaching of literacy to good, law-abiding, religious, private school children then things like this wouldn't happen.

Here's a link in case anyone doesn't believe me:

In this age, everyone is taught to read and write. And there is no need to change that. Only one has to distrbute widely the literature describing God's glories. focus on the positive action one can take.

[Logomachist]

In fact, I suspect this guy may have authored the book he linked in his OP and used it to advertise it sneakily!

If not the author himself than at least a clever marketing campaign. There's even a slim chance that TwentyOneSix is sincere but his church is being fed reverse psychology marketing material and told to spread it around to "warn" the world. ...unwittingly spreading this book at he thinks he's warning the world against.

Getting back to the OP, has anybody taken a look at this book? I'm thinking that the topic could be handled positively or negatively, but everything I've seen on the Amazon site suggests that it's not a well-intentioned manual for forming a real religion but a satirical parody that if followed has the potential to develop into a dangerous cult, sort of like Scientology.