This one was passed to me by someone who thought it would make an interesting addendum to our "You may be a fundy atheist if..." list. It sure is. It demonstrates just how far down the awareness rung some folks in the Skeptical camp are. Here is the list, with my comments.

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. -- Naturally, this is only an inconsistency for someone who thinks NONE of these gods exist in the first place. The analysis begs the fundamental question of whether atheism has validity. This is one reason why atheists can't make good, funny lists like we do.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt. -- Hmm. From dirt, BY a master hand. The point mixes up material with process.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God. -- With the typical Skeptical miseducation, this incorrectly sees Trinitarianism as polytheism. These folks have no idea what a hypostasis is.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" -- including women, children, and trees! -- When and if this is done by Christians, it is indeed inconsistent. But again and again Skeptics turn their own faces purple and refuse to provide rational analysis of any Biblical situation. See thread on TWeb here.

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky. -- In a typically confused manner, the objection mixes up the point of our complaints. We object to the Greek claims not because of any bias against miracles, but because of the paradigm that the other gods didn't exist and therefore could not have slept with women. The Hindu issue is not even a parallel.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (4.55 billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a couple of generations old. -- Begs the question, of course, of divine inspiration; but otherwise the matter is beyond our scope.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving." -- Rather, you should believe "argument by outrage" is rational, and define "love" in terms of mushy sentimentality. See here.

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity. -- Perhaps so. In contrast, "some idiot" making a list, who would not know a hypostasis from a hippopotamus, may be enough to convince you that Trinitarianism is polytheism.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God. -- The whole matter is misplaced in any event.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian. -- Unfortunately true at times. And ironically, these "many atheists and agnostics" end up knowing less than they think they do.