http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/January/Turmoil-in-Haiti-Turns-Woman-from-Voodoo/

Also, a pastor calls his church to repent; voodoo is condemned:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/01/17/lawrence.church.destroyed.cnn

We don’t know if this was judgment. Pat Robertson doesn’t know it either, though many Haitians believe it was. My point is that if this event indeed reminds us that God will judge sin, these videos serve as a powerful testimony that God is glorified and that sometimes we all need a wake-up call.

Now it shouldn’t surprise us that the world would be outraged and infuriated at the idea that God could be glorified in judgment or in natural disasters. But we of all people – those who believe 2 Tim. 3:16 – should be able to grasp and embrace the concept of God’s “severe mercy”.

I wasn’t suggesting that the list contained those with the best argumentation against which your Christian faith could be measured.

I was instead providing a list of well-known nonbelievers who put lie to the notion that one must have Christianity to live a fulfilled and joyful life. Some of the intellectual “lightweights” are individuals who have demonstrated that one can have a meaningful life apart from religion even in very difficult circumstances (Fox, Sweeney, Reeves, Pausch, Armstrong).

You ask: “If your life is as comfortable as you claim, then why spend it debating Christians on a Christian blog?”

First, I didn’t say my life is comfortable – I said it is happier and more meaningful now than it was as a believer. Many Christians spend time debating atheists; is that proof their lives are meaningless? Of course not. I suspect they do it for the same I’m here. One, I enjoy debating people. I imagine you do too. Second, I believe that I can help others escape religion and start making the world a better place. That makes me happy.

Yes, it is off topic. But you took it in that direction by insinuating that Christianity is a silly superstition.

If your life is as comfortable as you claim, then why spend it debating Christians on a Christian blog?

For the record, I’m a religious studies student who has studied Christian, Jewish, and Greco-Roman literature under both atheist and agnostic professors. I’m quite sure that my Christian faith is better measured against their argumentation than by the autobiographical meanderings of the folks you just mentioned. Sweeney? Fox? Armstrong? Buffet?

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

Where is the wise man?
Where is the scholar?
Where is the philosopher of this age?

Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews (i.e. religious people) demand miraculous signs and Greeks (i.e. materialist) look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.

Seriously. You can accuse Darius of wasting his mind, but how do you get by day to day believing there is nothing more after this life? What hope do you have? Is anything of value? Live, drink, and be merry?