What Shall We Teach Our Children?

The worldwide birth rate is 19.15 births per 1000 population or about 252 births per minute. (Source CIA World Factbook)

Of the 252 born each minute, only 33% are brought up to believe that Jesus is their personal savior. According to Christian teachings and a direct quote from Jesus in their bible (John 14:6) two thirds, i.e. 168 of the innocent newborns per minute are destined for eternal agony. Unless of course one is a Baptist in which case all Catholics are going to hell and since Catholics make up 17% of total world population, the number of those doomed to forever, eternal, agonizing hellfire, soars to 211 per minute. And of course god (being omniscient) knew this all along.

But here’s the amazing thing. Jesus, when he was saying all those wonderful things at his famous “sermon on the mount”, never once mentioned germs. The guy who said “, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.”, forgot to mention germs. It would be well over 1800 years before Louie Pasteur came along with his germ theory of disease. Why didn’t Jesus mention germs? Think of all the agonizing deaths suffered by little children in those intervening 1800 plus years; deaths that could have been prevented if this demagogue would only have had the common decency to remind people that they had these tiny little things on their hands (tinier than a mustard seed) that would make them horribly sick if they didn’t keep their hands clean.

The population on our little blue dot of a planet reached 7 billion last July.

A birthrate of 19.15 per thousand means 135,610,000 of us are added to the population each year while a death rate of 8.12 per thousand equates to 57,652,000 deaths each year leaving us with a net population increase of 78, 093,610 annually or 6,507,800 per month. Think of that!. Six and one half million population increase per MONTH!  And there are more Muslims in that number than any other religion becasue they are the fastest growing religion.

Think of that. Just since July, when the latest population number of 7 billion was announced, the number of us on this small, insignificant blue dot has already increased by nearly 33 million. So just since July, 67% of the 33 million are going to hell. And that's if we are generous and don't include TV preachers who fleece little old ladies out of their Social Security checks each Sunday, pedophile priests, gays, Baptists caught in Hooters etc, etc. The list is too long to go into here. For the sake of simplicity and bookkeeping, we’ll ask god to just let all of em’ enter the pearly gates.

Even then, a bare minimum of well over 22 million just since July 2011 are bound for hell. That's 4,400,000 per month....146,666 per day! This comes directly from Jesus Christ himself. (See John 14:6)

How many adults have the courage and confidence to allow their children to reach the age of 25 before offering them a choice of all the available religions?

I can imagine the conversation going something like this.

“O.K. kids. Here's what we got. First, we got Islam. Islam’s prophet was named Mahomet and he sat in a cave (alone) while an angel named Gabriel, dictated a holy book to him which we call the Koran. He flew a white horse outfitted with wings to heaven and back. (There was a brief stopover in Jerusalem.) The Koran teaches the adherents of Islam that its o.k. to kill infidels if they refuse to accept Islam as the one true religion. I.4 billion believe this. If numbers have anything at all to do with truth you would be well advised to look into the Muslim religion.

Then we got over 2 billion people who believe that people come back alive after they are dead, that snakes and donkeys talked, that virgins get pregnant and about half of them believe they can eat a long dead zealot called Jesus. Their holy book which many view as infallible, teaches that we all got here from two people created by god. Apparently it was o.k. back then to have sex with your sisters and brothers. But its not now! Anyhow this is the religion we call Christianity. Over two billion people believe Christianity is true, so again, if the number of believers lends any credence to a story, this one is even more believable than Islam.


For a real treat, we can offer you Hinduism which has more gods than you can shake a stick at. Although, over all, they don't approach the numbers of Christians and Muslims, they still account for nearly 1 billion, so certainly they deserve a look.

Another one worth mentioning for your consideration is “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,” otherwise known as Mormons. At 13 million, they only make up about two tenths of one percent of our 7.1 billion. We bring them to your attention because some of the most powerful politicians in our country are adherents. People like Romney, Huntsman, Harry Reid and Orrin Hatch. Their founder, another prophet with 33 wives, had the uncanny ability to read otherwise undecipherable text through some magic reading stones. That’s how they got their Book of Mormon. Another reason you might want to consider Mormonism is because they have a revelator in the person of an 84 year old guy in SLC, Thomas Monson. God passes out divine revelation to Tom on occasion and of course Tom then passes the revealed word of god on to his minions, much like Moses, and Mahomet. Other religions might outnumber Mormons by a factor of 200 to 1, but by gosh the Mormons are the only group that still has a real live revelator. And don’t worry about his age. When he dies, another one takes over. (It comes by seniority) In spite of their miniscule numbers overall, there is a lot to be said about having the head guy communing regularly with god.

Last, but by no means least, we can offer you Hinduism. Hinduism has nearly a billion adherents and they have a distinct advantage over the so-called monotheistic religions because they worship a plethora of gods. As Mark Twain famously remarked, “The woods are full of them.”

So there you have it; Muslims who make up 21% of our planet’s population, Christians comprising 33% and divided almost evenly between Catholics and protestants, which are further divided into around 1500 disparate groups and of course the Jews and Mormons, each with around 13 million.

Oh, we almost forgot. There is another group. They call themselves atheists. A means "without." A theism. Without theism. At 18% they outnumber the next ten top Christian religions put together after Catholics and Baptists. You might want to talk to them also. Unlike the others, who demand evidence in every endeavor EXCEPT religion, atheists have the courage to demand evidence in religion also.

Before you make your decision there is another thing we want to talk to you about. Snake oil. There are thousands of snake oil salesmen out there in our little world and you will eventually encounter a few. In order for a snake oil salesman to sell you a magic potion, he has to convince you that there is something dreadfully wrong with you. And of course he just happens to have the very thing to cure your malady. So beware of snake oil salesman. You have reached the age of 25 and appear to be in excellent mental and physical health.  We have taught you to make decisions and draw conclusions based on evidence rather than "belief" or "faith". You now possess the valuable skill of critical thinking and the ability to reason and logic.

As you go out into the world, we have every confidence you will make the right choice and pass your wisdom on to our grandchildren.