Sad...And happening in public. 

Had I been the man's employer/supervisor, I might have given him a warning.  His 'job' was not to be talking religion with the customers, even if they were acquainted.  You want to talk religion, become a minister.  You want to get paid for the job you were hired to do...do your damned job.

I work at a place with security guards.  One happens to be a "minister".  I only had to warn him once not to talk religion.  Around here, you can get fired for less.

The correct question would be "what" made air, not "who. " Who knows this? I know green plants play a part but some natural process had to make the air before that.

Yesterday I was at a grocery store buying some food, and there I met a neighbour at the cash desk. We greeted each other briefly. He's very religional, one of main activists and organizators in local young evangelic group.
So, I watch he's paying for his food, and guess how much he paid. Exactly 666,50 CZK (about 45 dollars)
I wonder if he noticed it.

No.  I got the distinct impression they knew each other.  Possibly they go to the same church.  Didn't I relay that they 'blessed' each other and wished each other a good day?

I hear a woman (atheist) talking to another woman (catholic) about all the holy days in the catholic religion. 

The atheist woman asks "What about Childermas that was celebrated on December 28th?" The catholic woman says "What about it?"

The atheist woman says "They used to whip the children to remind them about the Massacre of the innocents...you know...Herod killed all the children under 2 because he was told the messiah had been born and didn't want to be dethroned."  The catholic woman gets upset and says "They don't whip the children."

So the atheist woman points out several references where yes the chldren were whipped.  The catholic woman points out several references where Childermass is a day for children to play pranks...now.

So the atheist woman points out that the 'Massacre of the Innocents' by Herod doesn't have any archeological or historical proof that it ever occurred.  She asks "why does the catholic church have a holy day to celebrate something that never happened to begin with?"  The catholic woman responds "The catholic church doesnt make up anything...it's in the gospel."

The atheist woman points out that the only gospel in which the 'Massacre of the Innocents" is even mentioned is Matthew and that the Gospel of Matthew wasn't even written by Matthew...because Matthew didn't write in Greek if he was literate at all it would have been in Hebrew.

Funny or just sad?

I just have to clarify something here.  The store employee you overheard talking to other customers, was he relating an earlier discussion between him and you?  When I both read and said "the atheist", I was under the impression it was a previous customer who had been through the line ahead of both the customers the employee was telling the story too as well as ahead of you.

Oh...I misunderstood.

Sorry...english only.  My mother refused to allow me to take a foreign language in high school because my eldest sister failed spanish...and this doesn't look like it could be spanish either.  Must have got our posts 'crossed'.

that was for luminon.  he (or she) mentioned a guy paying in czech crowns, so i spoke to him in slovak (or my butchering of it), since czech and slovak are very similar.

No it would not have been inappropriate, his illogical conclusion on how air was formed is inexcusable and should be explained correctly that air does not mean god exists...it means air exists. As well there are other customers around that are probably far more intelliegent and could be offended by his ignorance.

Thanks, but I don't think he would have understood photosynthesis and probably doesn't believe in evolution.  I also don't know, at that time of day, of the intellegent quotient of the store patrons runs very high.

My bad...

more!  ja rozumiem asi 90% co si pisal, ale velmi taske pre mna odpovedat lebo ja stale iba pamatam slova ked tieto vidim.  a vidis, ako moja gramatika je strasne zle.  moja manzelka studovala v presove.  to je pekne mesto ale kosice je moje oblubene.  jasne tu velmi mi paci.  tu som uz byval 4 rokov!  ale nie v kosiciach ale v dedine pred kosic.  teraz my stavame domcek v dedine.

ja som ti opital ze nerozumies po slovensky lebo som pocuval ze viac slovaci rozumiu po cesky ako cesi rozumiu po slovensky.  to neni pravda? 

Isn't Egyptian history of that period pretty well documented? Why isn't there any evidence that that whole story - including the plagues and the drowning of the Pharoh's armies happened? Don't you think the Egyptians would have made note of such disasters?

I saw a program...PBS or History Channel...that pretty much explained how the plagues could have happened.  No divine intervention needed.  Whether they did happen (?)  Who cares.

If you believe the bible story, you can find evidence to support it.

http://www.biblicalchronologist.org/answers/exodus_egypt.php

More Evidence

The Biblical account of the ten plagues is quite detailed. It describes the pollution of the water supply, and devastation of the livestock and vegetation of the land. The Israelites left, depriving the land of its slave labor, and they carried away much of the land's wealth in the form of silver, gold, and clothing (Exodus 12:36). Also, the army and the Pharaoh were drowned in the "Red Sea," leaving the country with weakened defenses. The Exodus must surely have left a bold signature in Egyptian history. What do the historians find following the reign of Pepy II's successor?

Pepy II's successor was the final Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Grimal says: "The Old Kingdom ended with a period of great confusion." (page 89). Summarizing an ancient Egyptian literary/historical work called Admonitions, which comments on Egypt following the reign of Pepy II's successor, Grimal says:

It was the collapse of the whole society, and Egypt itself had become a world in turmoil, exposed to the horrors of chaos which was always waiting for the moment when the personification of the divine being - the Pharaoh - neglected his duties or simply disappeared. (Grimal, page 138)

This time period was characterized by famine, an expected result of the plagues described in the book of Exodus. This famine was limited to the Nile valley (Grimal, page 139)---as the Bible's narrative would lead one to expect. There was anarchy and a struggle for political power. Egypt's foreign trade ceased and Egyptian mining in the Sinai peninsula "also seems to have been abandoned" (Grimal, page 139). The nation of Egypt had obviously suffered a severe blow---as one would expect from what the Bible tells us of the events accompanying the Exodus.

Chronology

The match between the Bible's narrative of the Exodus and the secular history of Egypt at the end of the Old Kingdom might possibly be brushed aside as coincidence were it not for the fact that this match happens at the right date according to modern Biblical chronology.

Dr. Aardsma's chronology places the Exodus 2447+/-12 B.C. The current "standard" chronology of Egypt places the end of the Old Kingdom---when the evidence discussed above says the Exodus happened---around 2200 B.C. The difference of 247 years between these two dates is close enough for such ancient times to regard the dates as the same. Uncertainties of a few hundred years in historical/archaeological chronologies are normal at such early times in the history of civilization. Nicholas Grimal notes that "The chronological span of the First Intermediate Period [which must be known to date events in the Old Kingdom accurately] is also a problem." Haas et al. have suggested, based on an extensive suite of radiocarbon dates (totally independent of Dr. Aardsma's work), that the First Intermediate Period should be lengthened by about 260 years. This would push the secular date for the end of the Old Kingdom back to around 2460 B.C., indistinguishable from Dr. Aardsma's Biblical date of 2447+/-12 B.C. for the Exodus. Pottery analysis in the Sinai Peninsula by E. D. Oren and Y. Yekuteli is also supportive of this adjustment.

Thus the qualitative match between the Bible's narrative of the Exodus and the secular history of Egypt at the end of the Old Kingdom is supported by quantitative chronology.

Conclusion

Evidence for the Exodus from Egypt is plentiful---as long as one has their Biblical chronology right, and thus knows to examine Egypt's history around 2450 B.C., rather than around the traditional 1450 B.C.

I don't believe the bible story...so its just another story.