So much hate from atheists

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/religion-poll-nbc-wsj_n_4957886.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000051

I was reading the comments and some are just downright shocking and very offensive.

Manuela Mcmoura No...Religions were/are responible for blood and tears...for centuries already...

Phoenix Martinez No. Religion has no part in my life, and I'm happier for it. I don't waste my time, money, or effort on fairy tale bullshit anymore. I spend my time learning and reading about science, life, and the cosmos.

Doffing Dardu Christianity, Muslim, Jewish, etc, will be mythology within 400 years (hopefully, as long as we continue to evolve for the better). People put faith in something with such little evidence, yet deny plain facts put right in their face. Ignorance at its finest.

Christian Cochran I do my best to stay as far away from it as I can.

Ben Johnson David, looks like the religion genocide missed one. Stop trying to start shit. We get it you worship your dog. No one judges you or tells you how its wrong to do what ever your doing. Go home, you're an idiot.

Brandon Toner Spirituality is just as unimportant as religion.

Adam Ouannas Yes. Muslim & Proud 

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               Jessica Murray No one cares.

Tara Marshall I gave up on god and religion about the same time I gave up on Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. There's more evidence for either of these childhood myths, quite frankly.

Raheem Johnson That means we're finally becoming smarter!

David Runyan If christ and satan (actually existed) and fell on my street I would fight tooth and nail to protect satan from christ. All we know about satan is that (other than him not existing until the dawn christianity) is that he went to war on the throne, but it doesn't say why he went to war. How do we know that lucifer didn't finally stand up after the flood, after sodom and gomorrah, and all the other acts of genocide committed by god and finally say "ENOUGH" that he would not stand by and listen to the dieing screams of humans? How do we know that it isn't your god who is the tyrannical dictator that we need protection from?

Bob Trieger Hell no. The sooner it's gone for good the better off the world will be.

Nathaniel Patrick Fancypants It's "important" in my life as in, religion and its figureheads are actively a threat to my quality of life in the 21st century and my understanding of what constitutes a free and civil society.

Felix Moshe Bieberology is much more critical to my insentience

Flash Kellish yup, just as much as jock itch.

I'll have some Ham on Nye

I'm so glad that I haven't seen any of my friends say anything negative about my faith here in Facebook after the "Ham on Nye" debate last night.  I feel like I should comment on the debate.

First of all, Nye completely trashed Ham.  But neither one was a winner.  There were two completely different agendas being pitted against each other.  First, Ham's agenda was to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Since I am a Bible-believing, whole-hearted Christian, naturally I was drawn to what he said.  However, Nye's agenda was to promote natural sciences.  I don't believe that Ham wanted to tear down Nye's science, but I did think that Nye wanted to tear down Ham's Christian views.

Kubler-Ross vs. Harmon Models of Grief

Kubler-Ross' 1969 model of grief is too strict.  Here is my alternative.

I don't see grief as being in stages.  I see it as being circular or in a cycle.  I can go back and forth between acceptance and depression.

"What The Hell Was That?"

"What the hell was that?" That was the topic of one of my last papers during the last fall semester of my undergraduate career. 

Dear Friend...

Congratulations, friend. I edited this several times because I keep having things to say that I want to express publicly.

Thank you for being a Conrad, partner in crime, shoulder, crutch, brother, father, uncle, and friend when I needed one. I know I can be the biggest pain the ass known to man, and you have been the brunt of all of my problems lately.  For that, I apologize.  Please know that I love you, and that God loves you.  Read here what Proverbs 12:26 says about finding friends, "One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor."  Friend, you have been a guide to me.  You have inspired me to not give up on music when I wanted to so badly for a while.

But Friend, friendship doesn't come without playful competitiveness.  Paul writes in Romans, "Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor."

In my recent bouts of negativity, you have shown to me that even though I feel alone, you are with me always, just like Job's friends were with him when Satan did all those nasty things to him. "Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him."

I would sacrifice my life for you, Friend.  "Greater Love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)

You keep me strong. "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." (Proverbs 27:17)

You are my brother. "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity" (Proverbs 17:17)

But Friend, remember that there is someone who loves you more than I, and that is God.  "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16).

Friend, in conclusion, I just want to let you know how much you warm the deepest cockles of my heart.  Missing you is going to bring about a great wretched pain deep in the bowels of my gut that will take a long time to heal.

I'm not going to say Goodbye because that implies that our relationship is over and done for.  Instead, I want to say this.  See ya in a few!!!!

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After I posted this, I just so happen to look at the Bible verse in the lower left hand corner.  This is what it was.