Trooperman said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

The most popular religious affiliation in the most populous country today is "agnostic/atheist".

That is about to change very quickly, my friend.

Time to get some popcorn, relax, and enjoy the show. We are in for one heck of a ride this year...

Lol. No it isn't.

So, would you consider deconversion if this time next year the number of atheist and agnostics are still on the rise and this year ends up not being anymore heck of a ride than the last several?

Clearly, you've received some insider information from God regarding some of the bad things he has planned to do to people (in the name of fighting evil and spreading the light, of course) this unlucky 13th year of the 2000's, if those things don't come to pass (as they never do when such predictions are made), will that shake your faith any?

Just curious. I'm really not trying to mock. But I do find the claim you made to be a little bold, and the popcorn and relax part a little alarming (though that is based on an assumption that the "heck of a ride this year" is going to be some sort of calamity, I suppose it could be something wonderful and miraculous that your are expecting).

As for Demonic Ewok: On the old forum software, the avatar uploading feature was broken, so we only had so many pictures to chose from. Since there was only a small pool of avatars, a lot of users all had the same avatars. One of the avatars was an Ewok with photoshopped glowing red eyes. It was pretty awful looking, which I assume is why I had never seen another member using it, and so in the interest of uniqueness, I adopted it as my own.

Once we got the new forum software and could upload our own avatars, I immediately uploaded the same old tacky avatar and continued to use it for the longest time.