Conversation starters (or stoppers)

Fancy an intelligent discussion, heated debate or unpleasant argument (depending on company)?

Try asking a question like one of the following at Church, Sunday School, parties or family gatherings (excluding funerals).


(Warning: The Wasteland can accept no responsibility for any excommunications, beatings, disownments, or loss of friends/inheritance resulting from use of these questions. )


If Jesus came back, would He be expected to take Holy Communion?
And if He did, would He explode?

If aliens ever come to Earth, how will we prevent them from becoming infected with our religions?

Why do all paintings, church windows and statues portray Jesus as an undernourished white hippy with a beard?

Why don't gods have the common sense to do things without being prayed at first?

If Jesus "died for our sins", why are we always told "Jesus is alive"?
Is He currently dead, alive, undead or in a quantum superposition of the "dead" and "alive" states (collapsing the wave function when He is prayed to)?

Is God an atheist?
If not, which Higher Power does He believe in?
How do you feel about bowing down to an atheist?
Surely, to become nearer to God, shouldn't you become an atheist as well?

For how long did Mary retain her status as a virgin?

How many people will die this year as a direct result of religious belief?

How far would science, medicine and technology have advanced if we never had religion?

How do vegetarian catholics deal with the transubstantiaton of wafer into flesh?
Does God know, and give them a lentil-based product instead?

After the Resurrection, when Jesus' physical body Ascended into Heaven, what happened when He left the upper atmosphere?
Explosive decompression? Picked up by God's UFO? Or is "survival in hard vacuum" one of his unreported miracles?


 

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