(jeer) I couldn't help but notice that David Greene's "atheist nutbar" contest went nowhere. Just like a small child, if you ignore him long enough he stops crying. (/jeer) Okay, so: (drum roll) With 11 votes, the Theist Quote Of The Month for January of 1999 is: --13-- "Plagues are good and God knows this. Without them he couldn't teach us how to stop them." Written by Jerry Myers Nominated by Peter Kelly, seconded by Charles Ward Congratulations Jerry! Number 6 took a very close second with 10 votes, and number 10 came in third with 8 votes. Here again are the nominations, and the voting record: --1-- "Well, thank goodness we have you here to pass judgement on a putatuve being whose reality you can not comprehend." Written by "one_brow@yahoo.com" Nominated by Puck Greenman, seconded by Dave Holloway --2-- (In response to (regarding solipsism):) >>If this is all in my head I'm more fucked up than I thought. "Of course you are, we all are. that's the point of religion." Written by Ted Seeber Nominated by Gully Foyle, seconded by stoney VOTES: MishtaEcks Tom Stoudt George Ricker Oranguboy * * * * --3-- (Referring to the "spiritual death" of Adam and Eve:) "Whether you accept this or not is irrelevant to whether it is true. You seem to be someone who is doubtful and confused, and probably addicted to reasoning." Written by "one2one@foto.infi.net" Nominated by Bill Felton, seconded by Elroy Willis VOTES: Elf Roy Fulmer Jessica Wolfman Chaos Theory Dave Holloway Nemo Kamian * * * * --4-- "Self-righteousness? God has given us a reason to be self-righteous." Written by kaalee Nominated by Liz, seconded by Steve Knight VOTES: Liz Ed Stobenau David Shipley * * * * --5-- "Atheist morons will blindly accept anything you tell them." Written by David Greene Nominated by Frank Wustner, seconded by Dave Holloway VOTES: Jim Griffin Carl Funk Frank Wustner Gregory Greenman Charles Ward * * * * --6-- "If you are [an athest], then for you to believe a GOD does not exist, a God must exist." Written by John Totina Nominated by mike, seconded by Jessica Wolfman VOTES: Scott Davidson John Hattan Fish Darryl L. Pierce HRGruemm Craig Hoyer G&G Chris Nelson PinkyMan Ichimusai * * * * --7-- "if you are so great and there is No God.. Create a Universe oh supreme being of self .. You can't do anything but talk nonsense..." Written by Dore Williamson Nominated by Jeff/addesign, seconded by Dirk Tebben * * * * --8-- "Christians are concerned that non should perish even though the perishing may have self destruct tendencies." Written by Dave Eddy Nominated by Stoney, seconded by Michelle MALkin VOTES: Stoney * * * * --9-- "It is not, however, our job to persecute, as the lord reserves this right." Written by jlowrey539@nls.net Nominated by Randy Day, seconded by Frank Wustner VOTES: Brian King * * * * --10-- "I am NOT opposed to slavery if practiced within Biblical guidelines." Written by John F. Nominated by Treelo, seconded by Bill Felton VOTES: raven1 Czar Chris Hall Zerbinetta John Patrick Andrew Bean yang hu maff91 * * * * --11-- "I don't believe in killing off people indiscriminately for adhering to false religions. But that doesn't mean that any heretic who wants to take the name of God on his lips and commit blasphemy should be tolerated unconditionally." Written by John F. Nominated by Treelo, seconded by Bill Felton VOTES: Nicolas P. Demers * * * * --12-- "As far as Satanic Back Masking on Christian albums . . . have you ever actually, TRULY listened to them and heard the message? I doubt it. Besides, even if you did supposedly hear it, you can hear anything if you care programmed and told to hear it." (comment: the key words are "programmed" and "told.") Written by "Christian Rocker" Nominated by John Patrick, seconded by Fish * * * * --13-- "Plagues are good and God knows this. Without them he couldn't teach us how to stop them." Written by Jerry Myers Nominated by Peter Kelly, seconded by Charles Ward VOTES: Keith Brannen Peter Kelly Tezcatlipoca Wingedbeast Paul Koeck John Mayne mike Rev. Jerry Xalan BeatMan44 Peter Kirby * * * * --14-- (In response to:) >How come he confused man's languages anyway? Or is that just another >metaphor or fable? "No metaphor or fable, He really did confound (change) man's once single language into many languages. Why? To confuse us and slow us down in our 'progress' as a civilization." Written by Frank Nominated by raven1, seconded by Petteri Sulonen VOTES: Pat Kiewicz Tukla Petteri Sulonen Nilone Elroy Willis * * * * Quotemeister Dave