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

[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.