Reading an issue of Today that was filled with articles about an SIA stewardess suing a CEO's wife for slapping her and a doctor from KK who had sex with a patient strengthens my belief that you have to pay for your newspapers to get hold of quality news (sans New Paper).
Back to the main point. I was reading a magazine issued by the Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in school today which I succumbed to the promise of freebies and went to their site to do a magazine feedback. Where I chanced upon a video on their home page.
Ignoring the pseudo orchestra-ish music, I was pretty disturbed at the video's theme - It started off showing pictures and stating the low percentages of the Christian population in those countries (a picture of a scantily-clad Betel nut girl to represent Taiwan? WTF?) before giving statistics of the amount of people that is dying everyday and ended off by expressing a need to 'unveil God's glory to the nations'.
We all know there are low numbers of Christians in Thailand, Tibet and Malaysia but there's no need to imprint such facts with pictures of monks and girls in tudungs. Not a very subtle move there.
About the stats of people dying - I understand that 2.6 people die every second but it's a fallacy to attribute such stuff to the lack of belief in the Christian God. People do die.
I have nothing against Christianity but this is an example of the kind of stuff that puts alot of non-Christians off. As an agnostic, 'when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know'. And if God does exist then I would postulate a scenario that one true religion was divided into the various religions and denominations today by human conflict. So which is the true religion in this world where every religion is reaching out to convert more believers? Mark Twain couldn't have said it better in Christian Science:
When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters. When a thoughtful and unblessed Mohammedan examines the Westminster Catechism, he knows that beyond any question I am spiritually insane. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic--for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it. He cannot prove to me that I am insane, for my mind has the same defect that afflicts his. All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it; none but the Republicans and Mugwumps know it. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats and Mugwumps can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. When I look around me, I am often troubled to see how many people are mad.