There is a tradition of posting weird searches that bring people <\/a>to a blog- even using a poetry format<\/a>. So, what about the GoogleAd links that take people away from skeptics’ blogs?<\/p>\n

I am an atheist<\/a> has links to the-end.com:<\/p>\n

2008: God’s Final Witness
\nUnprecedented destruction will come in 2008, leading to America’s fall<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Oh shit, I blogged about this very site’s endtimes nonsense a few weeks a go. For free. :-()<\/p>\n

Called to be a monk, nun, priest? Take Free Online test Now To see if God is calling you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From vocationsplacement.org. Well, OK, but I think I know the answer already so I’ll skip the online test and check out the free holiday destinations. Lose interest when I see that the destinations are generally states that I don’t recognise by their initials. I can’t find Hawaii. Look, I’m not prepared to pretend to be Catholic and pray for a couple of weeks for Wisconsin. But thanks for the offer.<\/p>\n

Sexed-up Atheism- Dawkins Pantheism adds reverence for Nature, Universe, Life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Pantheism.net<\/a>) Well, no great argument with these people, except that I have a fastidious revulsion at the use of the term “sexed-up” to mean “slightly more interesting”.<\/p>\n

The Enlightenment of the Healy<\/a> (me neither) has an advert for hidden-advent.org:<\/p>\n

Desiring Lord appearing? Expecting Lord\u2019s return? A pleasant surprise is awaiting you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hidden advent? Is that a really obscure pre-Christmas calendar? No. It’s one of the most eye-burningly ugly sites you’ll ever see. It deals with The Work of the Lord’s Hidden Advent In China <\/em> However, the site is even less comprehensible than the title. I click on a link that says<\/p>\n

Typical Cases of Leaders in Catholicism and Christianity in Mainland China who Resist Almighty God Being Punished<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not understanding the English, I have to click the link. I now understand even less than I did before.
\nIt has a series of bizarre tables by province. Eg Henan.(65 Cases Selected)<\/em> I pick a randomly numbered case:<\/p>\n

Liu X from Dengzhou City, female, 48 years old, a believer from the Born Again denomination. In February 1999, someone preached God\u2019s end-time work to her, but she didn\u2019t accept it. In March, another person preached it to her again, but she said: \u201cWhat you believe in is a false way and a cult. I just believe in Jesus. If I were to die, I would die under Jesus\u2019 name.\u201d Two months later, Liu X got uterus cancer, and she lost all her hair after chemotherapy.
\nIn the autumn of 1999, the brothers and sisters preached God\u2019s end-time salvation to her again, but she still resisted and condemned it. Right after that, her innards began to rot. She suffered unbearable pain and failed to respond to any medical treatment. ….. Her oath \u201crather die than believe\u201d was fulfilled eventually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They list “Two hundred cases selected from among tens of thousands of cases”. They all involve people dying a painful untimely death for not accepting the end-times idea. Who’d have thought there could be a religious group that compared unfavourably with the Phelps family?<\/p>\n

Back in the real world, the advert still says “A pleasant surprise is awaiting you “. Loki forbid that they ever try to give a site visitor an unpleasant message….<\/p>\n

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