Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President

gerrysteele writes to point out a recent post to the Dilbert blog, in which Scott Adams discusses the atheist ascendancy in America and rationalizes the need for an atheist leader. From the article: "Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. I think that in an election cycle or two you will see an atheist business leader emerge as a legitimate candidate for president. And his name will be Bill Gates."

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Re:End of faith

[MBraynard]

Christianity doesn't actually have a concept of big sins/little sins - a sin is a sin is a sin (pace Catholicism)

There is a problem when people like you who are ignorant of facts attempt to engage in dialogue with the belief that you do have them.

There are two types of sins in Catholic Christianity, and they can be catagorized as Big and Little. To the better educated, they are known as Mortal and Venial.

You are also factually incorrect in your understanding of the Bible as it relates to 90%+ of Christians (Catholics.) The Bible is not a literal rule book and the foundation of the Church is not the Bible but the Church organization itself - from the Pope down to the layity - and the stated basis of the Church's reasoning is... reason (though I understand 99% of the slashherd doesn't agree with this - that's fine - but I am just stating the facts of what is claimed by the organization). The closest thing to a rule book is the Catachism.

Of course, if you get your education on religion from a fictional television show that is as devoid of reality as your facts are, I can understand where you are coming from.