do you actually believe that some guy with horns on his head and a funny red tail holding a staff with spikes on it is down in some place where there is fire everywhere and good people who are Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, Homosexual, ect and people who don’t know about Christianity are down there burning forever and ever just because they believed in something else that made them feel special or kept their family together. meanwhile murderers, killer, druggies, and other people who have wronged in life asked for forgiveness from "god" are up there in a cloudy, happy, sunny place thats not on earth, or in outerspace, but in some place where you float around with some guy who sits on a throne with a grandfather beard and watches everything that goes on in earth, and leaves the rest of the universe alone…if people like Gandhi, Lance Armstrong, Ellen Degeneres, and so on go to hell to burn in eternal pain and suffering then God doesn’t exist

thought some of you may be interested in this.

"VERSUS, the exclusive cable television home of the National Hockey League (NHL), garnered a 2.6 national HH rating and averaged 2,955,348 viewers for its Game 3 telecast of the 2009 Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday, June 2, with the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-2 defeat over the Detroit Red Wings at Mellon Arena. The game, which peaked at a 3.5 HH rating between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m., was the highest-rated and most-watched Stanley Cup Final game on cable since 2002. VERSUS, for the 8:00-10:45 p.m. time period, was the most-viewed cable network in the country and the top-rated network overall (broadcast and cable) among all key male demos.

The 2.6 national HH rating is the best rating ever in the history of the network, beating both Lance Armstrong’s final ride (7/24/05) and Game 5 between the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks in the Conference Finals (5/27/09) which both earned a 2.1 HH rating. Among average viewers, the Game 3 telecast topped the network’s previous high set during Game 2 of the 2008 Stanley Cup Final (2,608,371). VERSUS’ Game 3 telecast showed a 37-percent increase in HH rating (2.6 vs 1.9) and 19-percent growth (2,955,348 vs 2,479,977) in average viewership over the average of Games 1 and 2 of the 2008 Stanley Cup Final between the Red Wings and Penguins.

Locally, VERSUS garnered a 15.1 HH rating in Detroit and a 26.1 HH rating in Pittsburgh, making VERSUS the top-rated network (broadcast and cable) for the time period in both markets. VERSUS was also a top 5 cable network for the time period in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Washington, DC and Philadelphia, among others.

VERSUS entered the 2009 Stanley Cup Final with tremendous momentum based on ratings and viewership gains in the regular season and through each round of the playoffs. The network’s coverage of the 2009 Conference Final round was the highest-rated third round on cable since 1998 with HH ratings up 25 percent and average viewership up 30 percent from 2008. The third-round growth came on the heels of VERSUS airing the highest-rated Conference Semifinals on cable since 1997 and seeing 32-percent viewership growth in that round, 22-percent viewership growth in the Conference Quarterfinals and a 21-percent increase in viewership during the regular season."

This is a big step for the NHL. How do you think the ratings for game 4 will be going up against game 1 of the NBA?
Bob- This is the only night where there is a conflict. The NBA is skipping 2 nights so their Game 2 is Sunday.
Bob- This is the only night where there is a conflict. The NBA is skipping 2 nights so their Game 2 is Sunday.
James- I would watch the NBA if it was tomorrow night, but they have it on the same night as the NHL, so I will not be watching.

Why does adversity bring some people closer to God whereas with other people it has the opposite effect.

With some people like Mattie Stepanek adversity in their life brought them closer to God.

With other people it has the exact opposite effect. For example,Lance Armstrong, the cyclist who had testicular cancer is on record as saying "If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts"

Why didn’t adversity bring him closer to God ?

For those who don’t know of Mattie Stepanek . He was a child that suffered from muscular dystrophy and wrote poems about God, love and peace. You can see him and hear one of his poems at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdA3qenidiM

Atheists don’t tell me it’s only because he was a child, there are countless of other adults that became closer to God through adversity.