Do you care enough to Bible thump at my door?

Just got sent an article about a video (see below) made by Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller commenting on a man who tried to proselytize him after a show. To perhaps your surprise, he had nothing but praise for this man. Penn asks, if you believe that by proselytizing you could save someone from Hell and help them find eternal life, how much do you have to hate a man to not try?

I have often wondered this, too. I have often wondered if many Christians deep in their hearts can't really believe that people like myself will not be denied eternal life or if they just really don't care that much if I am. How important is social correctness compared to saving someone from eternal suffering or at the very least giving them eternal happiness.

In thinking about this, I must remind myself that we all have a certain amount of denial in how we lead our lives, perhaps just to stay sane. I, for example, am very seriously concerned by the treatment of animals in society. I not only feel that animals raised for food are brutalized in unconscionable ways their entire lives and in death, but that we needn't be killing animals for food regardless of how well they are treated. But am I on the street corner every day trying to win converts to veganism? No. Am I even vegan? No! Some of it is just laziness, but a very big part of it is to have that kind of passion, one has to constantly ruminate about the endless, unimaginable suffering happening to billions of sentient beings. I think I may, like so many of the animal loving meat eaters out there, prefer to live in a little blissful ignorance.

While some may be more than others, and perhaps as a form of psychic defense, we are all hypocrites when it comes to living our morals.

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Finished week 7 of my 9 week program today! Just 6 more runs to go!

I have not posted any pictures of my evolutionary tree of life (winter solstice tree) yet, nor do I think I will. It is pretty much the same as last year, and I did some pretty good write ups last year. I encourage you to view pictures of my DNA garland, Flying Spaghetti Monster ornament, Galapagos ornaments, and Solstice tree topper:

http://www.musingmanya.com/2007/12/christmas-tree-of-knowledge.html

http://www.musingmanya.com/2007/12/update-flying-spaghetti-monster.html

http://www.musingmanya.com/2007/12/my-war-for-christmas-iii.html

http://www.musingmanya.com/2007/12/post-christmas-satisfaction.html

Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (KJV).