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There is a distinct difference between Mother Teresa and the Buddhists. The Buddhists speak of training oneself to live with suffering that can accompany life. Mother Teresa was gung-ho on suffering for its own sake. Not taking the money donated to her cause to give pain pills to her dying patients, but allowing them to suffer for the greater glory of God. The same sort of Middle Eastern nuttiness that induces monks and Shia Muslims to flagellate themselves and make themselves bleed.

The idea that in some wacko way people honor God/Allah by cruelly abusing themselves with whips and chains. In Mexico, there is a series of ancient, crumbling statues along the Calzada de los Misterios (The causeway of Mysteries)  from colonial times that lead from the Nation Cathedral about ten miles to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. And at any moment, you will see people, usually women,walking on their bloody knees the entire distance, in hopes that Jesus will pay attention to their prayers.

This is not mystical, it is not miraculous, it is a form of mental insanity. Like Mother Teresa denying pain medication to her poor, dying patients.

Trump is really as bad as Oliver says he is.  He would be a disaster. Far worse than Romney.

I just don't believe YOUR God could exist.

Trump spent at least three years spewing birther crap. And his new crap is the Wall crap.

How do you figure that Adam "had a deal" with God?
God had all the power, Adam had none.

Adam was no more than God's dog. If he disobeyed, he would be punished however God wanted to punish him.  There is no mention that the Ten Commandments were negotiated, either, or the Covenant between God and the Hebrews.

Adam was told that if he ate the forbidden fruit, he would die. But he lived over 900 years longer.
Later, Adam's descendants were not told that if they pissed off God, God would wash them all away. On other occasions, God does propose some sort of tit for tat.

You say I am an atheist, but that is not true. I just reject the God mentioned in the Bible, because no truly just entity could be such a jerk.
So God is not precisely truthful.

There is no real comparison between a wall to keep out invading armies and one to keep out individual jobseekers.

There will be no Wall, anyway. It is just a  Trump ploy. like his birther crap. Crap he spews to raise the rabble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgdO0CQAVw