The Mushroom Kingdom could be fun, but if you planned on having sex in the afterlife, the Mushroom Kingdom would like to remind you that the only chick you've got a chance with is in yet another castle.

Can't it be both?

Thank you Mario, but your god is in another castle.

Not true. There's also Rosalina and Daisy, both of which are hotter than Peach and never get kidnapped. You can find them down at the kart track most days.

If Equestria were a real place, I'd live there forever.

Birdo gives me silver balls.

Forgiveness isn't loving... you heard it here first, folks.

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Your understanding of Christianity is about as primitive and childish as Brian Fischer. Congratulations!

I'm sorry; that was unkind. You were probably just trying to make a joke, and Lord knows that's the perfect kind of joke to make when a clip features someone like Brian Fischer. I'm just a bit tired of smug ignorant atheists mocking a cartoon caricature of Christianity and thinking they're being clever.

Anaxagoras, if you have the time, please set me straight. I will remain a smug, ignorant atheist until someone tells me what I'm getting wrong.

His understanding of Christianity is, in broad outlines and minus the humorous way of expressing it, the understanding of it possessed by the vast majority of Christians now and in the past.

1. God created humans and by eating a mysterious fruit brought condemnation on themselves and all of their descendants.

2. A plan to escape this condemnation was concocted by God. It required that God's son (AKA God) would be horribly tortured and murdered. God chose to do it this way rather than say simply letting bygones be bygones.

3. But this type of escape is only available to those lucky enough to (a) be born after it happened, (b) believe points (1) and (2) and maybe a few more, and perhaps, if your sadism is now near satisfied, (c) be a good person where 'good' often involves things are manifestly not good.

If you want to retreat to some nice, sanitized version of Christianity where God actually loves us rather merely says so, be my guest. But don't pretend that it isn't a retreat.

It does still beg the question of why God had to sacrifice himself (in the form of Jesus) to himself (God) to change a rule that he (God) had made in the first place.

And it's not like this is Christian theology's biggest problem, but it does touch on another, which is its adherents believing that the Bible is somehow one continuous narrative when it was written by many different people and the books that make it up were voted on for inclusion. I mean, even the Gospels don't tell the same story, nor do they tell the similar parts in the same way, yet everyone thinks that the nativity is in each one, that the virgin birth is in each one, etc.

Just a heads up to the believers - read your own fucking book and you'll be just like the rest of us. Well, most of you will. Some of you are just going to stay broken. We'll deal with you when the time comes.

Amen to that.