Jesus did no such thing. Christians certainly have done this. But this is their problem. The huge irony here, is that what Jesus is consistently angry about is the hypocrisy and judgement of religion and its leaders. So when Christians get judgmental they are the ones who Jesus is condemning. The story of the fig tree was talking about the same thing – how the religion of these religious leaders were not producing any fruit.
Actually we are born devotees of the spaghetti monster and we should stay that way.
Absurd claims like this are easy to make and nonsensical. It is the same kind of absurdity which has Christians claiming atheists are lying about their disbelief in God. Honesty requires listening to what people say – what they actually decide themselves about what they believe, and that is what makes someone an atheist, Christian, Hindu, or something else.
If there is a God, then He is doing an awesome job hiding Himself
LOL this just came up in the other thread about the universe itself seems to be hiding itself.
As for many of his comments about scientists and the condemnation of them by Christians I cannot agree more. These Christians are frankly just condemning themselves and creating this kind of reaction against Christianity. Christianity is a wide spectrum and many portions of it is bad religion, so much so that I consider atheism better than these (in general). But then I can say the same thing about atheism. Some of that is also bad… responsible for the murder of millions of people… and even the worst of Christianity is better than them.