Choose your reliigion

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There is no such thing as a "boring, generic Christian".  Even Mark Twain, more than a hundred years ago, knew that.
Man is the Reasoning Animal.  Such is the claim.  I think it is open to dispute.  Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal...  In truth, man is incurably foolish.  Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning.  Among my experiments was this.  In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends.  I put them in a cage.  In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit.  In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves.  Finally a monkey.  They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen.  Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares.  Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping.  Then I stayed away for two whole days.  When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh — not a specimen left alive.  These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.
.....Mark Twain, "Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings" (1909), comprised of essays written between 1904 and 1909
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I think under the "None" choice, the key question is not "Are you rich and insane?" but "Are you deluded?"

Then "Atheist" and "Scientologist" could be in the same box under "Yes".

"No" would take you to "Dead"
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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I am a non-proselytize atheist. No flowchart necessary.

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“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.” 

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