Because that could be only reason you are an atheist. So dear friends, atheists especially, pick up that dusty old bible of yours wherever you have been keeping it, jump to the new testament and Jesus will minister to you on every verse. Can I hear a loud Amen.
And then if you are lucky, you might just marry an international healing evangelist willing to compete with the local shaman in a village of your choice. Amen.
But this works well if you try it while undergoing a traumatic episode in your life. You can start with the 30 no-pay- trial period before you purchase the full version. What are you waiting for?
Or maybe you have the stomach for this. I didn’t.
Random thoughts 
My mother gave a new bible to us as a wedding gift. I never opened the box. It is still up on the bookshelf. I think it might sell better at my garage sale if I don’t open it up and read.
I do have another bible from my grandmother when a small child. I could look for that. It is quite old and might be worth something. So won’t put it out in the garage sale.
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Hahahaha.
Maybe try dusting it first, you might just meet da lawd
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Thank you, master.
I will call upon my servant of almost 50 years to do the dusting.
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Hahaha
Let’s hope they will do a good job
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She was convinced she needed a savior. I wonder if she read the Upanishads she’d be convinced she doesn’t? I wonder what religions she had to compare it?
Being a people pleaser and an atheist—may just be too needy to go it alone.
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Jim just follow her lead. Read your NT and you will find da lord ready to receive you
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Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. I’m living proof the scripture is wrong.
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You are an example of those who don’t follow the ways of the lawd. Just admit it, you like sin haha.
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You know what’s funny is I’m less tempted to do those sinful things as an atheist. I guess the devil left me alone because he already owns me. He’s a clever one he is.
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The good Christian will tell you, you borrowed your marality/ ethics from his worldview.
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That good Christian must’ve drank all my beer!
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that is very possible
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When I get hold of a Gideon Bible, usually in a hotel room, I sure open it. I leave lots of helpful annotations, and suggestions of chapters for people to read.
That first story reads like the standard three-part christian “testimony”. Carefully crafted, coached, and utterly fake and unconvincing to anyone outside the christian bubble. As a reminder, a testimony looks like this:
1. A pre-conversion past that will sadden, horrify, or titillate tribemates. Hopefully, it accomplishes all three. Oh, this person’s life was just awful before conversion! They were soooo far gone! Maybe they were rich and high-rollin’ or dejected and lonely, but whatever the case, they were completely the opposite of the tribal ideal.
2. OMG CONVERSION MOMENT! The convert sees the light! Hooray Team Jesus! Often, this stage involves a miracle claim.
3. Life after deconversion. After conversion, the tale-bearer does a 180. Life now looks completely opposite from the first stage. Now, they fit completely into the tribe’s ideal for members.
(Hat tip to Roll To Disbelieve for this description.)
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There is no creativity in both of the confessions. It’s actually laughable
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“Julie” (in the article) said, “These were the words I exactly needed someone to say to me, so reassuring,” .
Had those words been in a book other than the bible, one wonders if they too would have been “reassuring.” IOW, does the “location” of words make a difference in their effect? Hmmmm?
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Good question, Nan. That’s also what Jim is asking. Did she try the Upanishad or Koran?
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In the almost 55 years we’ve been married, we’ve never had that waste of paper in any of our houses.
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Pat, you need it, even as a door stopper or mosquito killer
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Nope, I can pick rocks up off the ground for door stoppers, & screens keep bugs out. I can spend my cash on much better items…..like silly food or something.
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There Is no way you are meeting with the lord and becoming wife to an international healer
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Nope, not a chance, too boring, & bigamy is not my thing anyway.
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As I commented on the post in the first link, what a crock of b.s. If there is a god such as the religious people believe, then he is cruel and evil, for look at the state the world is in today.
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I think she is doing marketing for their
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Before the World was Created, there was the Grift. And the Grift became Marketing. And the Lord-CEO saw that it was Good.
1 Trumpalonians 1-3
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Grifting is a byword of many such organisations
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so sad. No likes on my Book of the New New Testament quote. I thought I was being cle-vuh. Hahahhahahahahahahaha. Praise Be the Grift! The Grift was with the CEO, and It was Good!
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It was the 8th day & god saw grifting was good and made it permanent
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These are vanilla testimonies. I feel bad for the second lady’s husband and her kids. He’s lost his wife to the church. She’s going to be pressured to indoctrinate the kids. So very sad.
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I , too, thought it was sad.
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We had to recite that toom by heart and every failure was rewarded with the whip of the cane by one of those holy sisters dressed in black robes. so by the end of our school years, we celebrated by burning the pile of our new testaments.
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so i guess you are not going to try to meet da lord in any new testament any time soon 🙂
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