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Tell that to Xenu.

To which the best response is: "Free will decisions require correct information. If your God is withholding information, he is preventing free will decisions, not facilitating them."

Is it true that when you play the sounds of sodomy backwards it sounds like Christian rock and roll?

Just having all your teeth would have been a big plus in the attractiveness stakes even 100 years ago.

OK, I know this is a wild and crazy idea from way out in left field, but how about a god who shows up? Appears, and shakes hands, and chats, and holds audiences, and wanders around and appears on TV and publicly corrects people who get his ideas wrong? In multiple places at multiple times...

The only reason I can see to be agnostic is because you think that stories about gods have some privileged status over stories about other hypothetical beings. But the only reason I can see to think that is if you believe gods exist. Otherwise it's just another name, or set of names, in a book...

"Now, the really important thing to remember, when you're being crucified like this, is not to..."

"You'd better watch carefully how I do all these miracles, because when I'm gone you'll have to do them yourselves."

That would be Saint Polly Ann of Cappadocia, I expect. The patron saint of rubble and paedophilia.

"Quick, Jesus, to the Godcave!"

In that particular edition. Or rather, that particular printing of that particular edition. How would it work with e-books?

It's particularly amusing that the claim God doesn't exist comes from a guy who used to be Hercules.

No, "BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!"

Given the social structure of the time and place, many people of 33 would have buried a spouse or two, not to mention several children. Perhaps the Big J had already got his family life over and done with by then.

Me, for one. I haven't drowned anybody. Well, hardly anybody.

Or rolled, in a hoop... http://blog.al.com/strange-alabama/2012/04/hoop_snakes_are_no_hula_hoops.html

So does one stop eating after attaining this enlightenment? Having realised that you have no separate existence and are merely an intangible part of an ineffable whole, presumably such mundane and self-centred activities as eating and drinking should no longer form part of your agenda, and you...

Would you be happier with the formulation: X doesn't exist at location Y at time T, but X exists at location Y at time T+N, where N is an arbitrarily short period of time? And if not, why not?

What proportion of things that are 'finite' have you observed? What proportion of the ones you have observed did you take the trouble to establish the causes of? How big is your sample size compared to -- oooh, say, a sphere with a radius of 46 billion light years, existing over 14 billion...

OK, how? If you know enough about the process to be sure that it happened, you must have some idea of how it took place. So let's have the details. What did it look like when your uncreated, infinite creator made time with himself? No, hang on, that's not what I meant... - - - Updated - - -...