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Listen:

Some object to the Bible because it recounts how that women and innocent children were slaughtered in the wars led by God's chosen leaders, and how can God be a just and loving God and permit such as that? The answer is that the wicked people destroyed in those wars received just punishment for their crimes and the innocent ones who died in the wars were taken home to Heaven and certainly it could be no cruel thing to take a good person or an innocent child to Heaven. It is a certainty that we must all die sometime anyway, and what is wrong in God, Who gave us life, allowing us to die in a conflict such as the cruel wars mentioned in the Bible? ~ Rev. Ben M. Bogard / editor of the Baptist and Commoner, Antioch Baptist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, circa 1930.

There ya have it. History's zombies hissing at us - again. A holy-rollin' Bible thumpin' free fire zone blessing. A vortex of rabid religious apocalyptic glory. A fuzzy-think worldwide-fundamentalist religious errand in the global wilderness mission statement. A fanciful battle plan for Dominion on behalf of a Kingdom of endtimer idiots worldwide. And all of us are just so much kindling for the hellfire furnace maw.

While I'm at it; more posthumous pearls of wisdom from the celebrated prophet of 100% God-fearin' patriotic Christian Americanistan (Americanus moronicus) circa 1930 - the Rev. Ben M. Bogard:

If the worst comes to the worst, we had better let our children suffer from disease and even die from neglect than to instill into their impressionable hearts the idea that the Bible is false.

Sound familiar?
Uh huh...yeah well, while we're at it, some idear's for impressionable minds:

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven… The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste." ~ Mark Twain, The Lowest Animal essay, 1897

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