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The Magic Blue Monkey

Would you believe me if I told you there was a Magic Blue Monkey that made the world, loves us and has a plan for us to come join him on his magic planet when we die?

I suspect not. And you would be completely justified in your refusal to believe my proposition. In fact, you would be less than rational if you did so....

What if I were to say the evidence of the Blue Monkey’s existence is all around us and explain that he shaped the first man and woman and all the animals out of dirt about 5,000 years ago and furthermore, I, and countless others have for 2,000 years, personally experienced the presence of the Blue Monkey?

Still not buying my story? Good. You shouldn’t. I have offered no evidence to back it up and science contradicts several of my assertions with compelling evidence.

What if I were to say, we have a book that explains all this. It is a special book. A divine book. A book inspired by the Blue Monkey himself? It is full of wisdom and tells—with eye witness accuracy — the historical account of the Blue Monkey’s precious child coming to earth in the form of a man to die for us so that the Blue Monkey would not have to throw us all into his chamber of horrors. Isn’t that wonderful?! Isn’t that loving?! All you have to do is “believe”.

Still not convinced? But why? I have given all kinds of evidence and besides, what do you have to lose? If you do believe and there is no Blue Monkey and torture pit then when you die you’ll have nothing to worry about. If I’m right though, won’t you be glad you believed?! Of course you will! You would be foolish not too. Yes, it will demand many hours of your time and yes, we give 10% of all our money to the Blue Monkey Brotherhood but the sacrifice of time and money is so worth it.

Boy, still not willing to accept the Blue monkey into your heart and make him Lord and Savior of your life? You are being close-minded. You must open your mind and your heart. The Blue Monkey loves you so much and wants to have a personal relationship with you. I promise you, he will change your life!

I have provided multiple reasons for you to believe and yet you don’t. You know, you actually have just as much faith as we believers do. You cannot possibly know that the Blue Monkey does not exist for you are not all-knowing. You have faith that he doesn’t. Seems we are both believers but I have the benefit of a Blue Monkey that loves me, has a plan for my life, will cuddle me forever when I die and you my friend, will become a human candle.

Well, it’s not really my job to convince you but simply share the good news. The Holy Monkey Spirit must come upon you. I will pray every day that it does.

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“Pretending to be someone or something else is just another alienating message to your soul, your psyche, your essence. Every time you deny who you are becomes a little death. I say, choose life and suffer the consequences.”

~ Dean Wrzeszcz

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Christians praise a God who had a plan for every child throughout the Bible. The children of Noah’s time? Drown them. The children of Sodom and Gomorrah? Burn them. The first-born of Egypt? Kill them. The children of the Anakim? Annihilate them. The children of the Amorites? Erase them. The children of the Amalekites, Canaanites, Hittites? Butcher. Butcher. Butcher. The children of the Perizzites, Hivites, Horites, Jebusites, Zamzumim? Destroy without mercy. Disobedient children? Stone them. Innocent children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of wrong doers? Curse them.

Gn 7:21-23, Ex 19:24, Dt 7:16, Dt 2:20-22, Js 11:21, Dt 20:17, Dt 25:19, Dt 12:29

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Evidence Christianity Warps Common Sense/ Child Slavery

Christians worship a God who thought so little of children that he allowed them to be enslaved for life. Need some extra cash? Sell your daughter to the horniest/highest bidder!

Leviticus 25:44-46, Deuteronomy 20: 10-14, Exodus 21:20-21, Ex 12:29, Tit 2:9, Eph 6:5, Ex 21:4, Col 3:22

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Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Religious Terrorism

Christians praise a God who demanded a man bash in the skull of his beloved wife and turn the smiling face of his brother, child and neighbor into an unrecognizable hunk of bloody flesh for merely suggesting worshiping another god. Note: For large scale religious terrorism, God prefers the sharp edge of swords over stones.

Dt 13:6-15, 18:20

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Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Violence Against Women

Christians praise a God who promised to have pregnant women ripped open with swords; made rape victims marry their rapists; demanded hordes of men stone women unable to prove their virginity and allowed men to beat women to death without punishment as long as the women suffered a day or two before expiring.

Dt 22:20-21, Dt 22:28, Ho 13:16, Ex 21:20

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Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Animal Sacrifice

It was asked, “Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?” Christians certainly think so. They praise a God so pleased by the smell of burning flesh that he demanded a daily sniff for all time. Ah, but don’t dare offer an animal whose testicles have been “crushed, cut, bruised, or torn off” — this God demands his genitalia intact.

Lv 4:27-31, Lv 1:14-17, 1K 8:62-63, Lv 22:24, Lv 4:4-12, Lv 1:5-9, Lv 7:31-35

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Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Disease

Christians praise a God who promised to torture children with horrible diseases and cause flesh, eyes and tongues to rot away.

Dt 28:56, 2 S 24:1-16,Zec 14:12, Nu 25:7-9, Lv 26:15-16, Is 10:16, Zec 14:15, Ex 9:10

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Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Cannibalism

Christians praise a God who’s idea of a good punishment is to starve people to the point that parents eat their children, children eat their parents, and mothers eat their newborns — afterbirth and all.

Ez 5:9-10, Dt 28:56-57

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Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Killing Children

Christians praise a God whose “holy” book demands that parents stone, burn and stab their children to death. Any wonder why there’s more child abuse in Fundamentalist Christian homes than atheist’s?

Dt 21:18, Lv 21:9, Zech 13:3

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Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Human Sacrifice

Christians praise a god who ordered a child sacrifice, accepted a child sacrifice, used child sacrifice as punishment, collected a “tax“ of virgins who are either sacrificed or enslaved and made human sacrifice a law.

Gn 22:2,12, Jg 11:30-39, Ez 20:26, Nu 31:25-41, Lv 27:28-29

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Wanting to keep abreast of the latest nonsense spewed by the enemy, I tuned my car radio to one of the conservative Christian radio stations. Thoughts on forgiveness were being delivered by a Dorothy Bennett who apparently has been enlightening her listeners for three decades now. During Ms. Bennett’s “Daily Devotional” she mentioned spousal and child abuse. What wisdom had she garnered from a lifetime in the ministry? What insights had she gained from speaking with her LORD? Reading her holy book? Christian Conferences? In a nutshell...abused wives should forgive their husbands and ask God to do the same. Likewise for abused children. No suggestion that the behavior should cease. No suggestion that justice be sought. Just a message of submission, forgiveness and obedience. Just poison.