I win!

[gridlore]

I've won the March 2003 Atheist Quote of the Month in a landslide! My quote:

4) I was willing to give my life to defend the ideals enshrined in the
Constitution of the United States. In fact as a soldier in the
mid-eighties I expected to die if the balloon went up in Europe.

I wasn't going to get anything but a soldier's grave, and perhaps a
paragraph in my hometown paper. Nobody would venerate my name, and my
death would have been just another day's work for Graves Registration.

Yet I did it. With no promise of eternal godhood. I did it because I
believed in freedom.

Jesus, if he existed, was inconvenienced for a weekend and became God.
His sacrifice is non-existant compared to the one made by every soldier
who ever died nameless on some forgotten battlefield.

By: Douglas Berry
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: WhackAGod

Comments

[arib.livejournal.com]

the balloon went up?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Military-ese for "the war has started." In general, it meant that WWIII had started with a general Soviet/Warsaw Pact offensive in West Germany.

Well said, Doug.

[the-ogre.livejournal.com]

You deserved that, most definitely. Oh, and tell Stoney that "Heathen_Bastard" says "hi!".

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, Doug; it's a worthy quote, for certain.

[fimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Yay you!!

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Enh. I'd say Jesus was a heck of a lot more than "inconvenienced" - as (the other) PotC chronicles in loving detail - but I'll agree with the rest, certainly.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

He was tormented for a day. I went through chemo for three months. I know people who live in agony due to chemo and radiortherapy for years.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

*applause* You definitely deserved the award.:)

Gessi

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Jesus, if he existed, was inconvenienced for a weekend and became God.

Nope. In traditional Christian theology, he was God already. In that system, it's his lack of Original Sin that makes his sacrifice more effective than yours, not the degree of suffering. Not that I agree with that, I'm just trying to explain it.