Jesus!

Oh, I know.
You're going to say 'here he goes again with the Jesus Freaks thing'. But I'm telling you. They totally freak me out. One thing is faith, other thing is blind, dangerous, utter idiocy.
Enjoy the video. And the reading.

Some facts:
>More than 50% of Americans have a "negative" or "highly negative"
>view of people who don't believe in God. 70% think it important for
>presidential candidates to be "strongly religious."
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>"A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to
>get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our
>society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a
>hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and
>the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely
>terrifying."
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>44% of Americans think Jesus Christ will return in the next 50
>years. (22% are "certain" that he will, another 22% think he
>"probably" will.)
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>"According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy,
>Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine
>the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government
>believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would
>be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population
>apparently believes this should be considered a moral and
>intellectual emergency."
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>Only 28% of Americans believe in evolution (and two-thirds of these
>believe evolution was "guided by God"). 53% are actually
>creationists.
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>"Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the
>antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that
>the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is,
>incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented
>glue."
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>87% of Americans say they "never doubt the existence of God."
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>"Had the residents of New Orleans been content to rely on the
>beneficence of the Lord, they wouldn't have known that a killer
>hurricane was bearing down upon them until they felt the first gusts
>of wind on their faces, but a poll conducted by The Washington Post
>found that 80% of Katrina survivors claim that the event has only
>strengthened their faith in God."
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>28% of Americans believe that every word of the Bible is literally
>true. 49% believe that it is the "inspired word" of God.
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>"We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation
>of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of
>God's teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night
>that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her
>father's doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)."
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>80% of Americans expect to be called before God on Judgment Day to
>answer for their sins. 90% believe in heaven. 77% rate their chances
>of going to heaven as "excellent" or "good."
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>"In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and
>material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he
>will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise. Western secularists,
>liberals, and moderates have been very slow to understand this. The
>cause of their confusion is simple: they don't know what is like to
>really believe in God."
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>65% of Americans believe in the literal existence of Satan. 73%
>believe in Hell.
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>"It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is
>doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while
>alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to
>religion--to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions
>and religious diversions of scarce resources--is what makes atheism
>a moral and intellectual necessity."
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>83% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. (11%
>disbelieve. 6% don't know.)
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>"The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one
>occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking
>to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national
>emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the
>claim more ridiculous or offensive."
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>* Statistics cited come from PEW, Gallup, and Newsweek. All
>commentary is by Sam Harris.
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>http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/harris/ltcn_quotes.php
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