figmentPez
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Eh, I get it, while most might mock them, that ends up on the wrong subreddit and suddenly it's doxing and death threats, which aren't appropriate even for people who think God is limited by gene... recognition? I guess? Whatever, I'm too tired to figure on that
So, you heretics are denying an omniscient God?
What's more annoying is blanking out these idiots' identity. They've made public statements, so we have every right to know who they are so that we may give them the mocking and shaming they so richly deserve.
Yeah not everybody should be a public figure. I've got no idea what kind of mental health issues anyone has had or how they've had to cope with it. I express my spiritual side with satanism so I can't judge anybody for their religion
Anyone with a large following is fair game for trolling tho
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You know, I'm thinking BEING DEAD would interfere with protein transcription far more than a vaccine ever would, but God can still recognize your unvaccinated, decomposed corpse just fine? OK.
--Patrick
God takes care of his own. For some christians it really is a death cult actively calling for the end of the world
Naval bases. Explains a lot, doesn't it?
I tried to enlist and they just stopped talking to me at all after seeing my health record. And this was before there was anything about my depression in it
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Motherfuckers were amazed by my big brain tho. I always tested well but tests are bullshit anyway
I just checked, and apparently the rev that was there when I was 8yrs old is still running the place.
--Patrick
I'd watch that porn parodyJebus Crimmis
Halforums has always had some of that r/atheism going on.
There is something inherent in humanity that draws us to spirituality and religion, and people gotta learn how to find a healthy outlet for it
Reductionist arguments in general bug me. It's a silly way to think about things
Yeah, we kinda scared off steinman due to that.
Mind you, steinman also believed in Creationism which...I don't know. He was a man of science, wasn't he? I can't fathom how a man of science could possibly believe in that.
What part of religion says that vaccines make it so god cant recognize you?
I mean young earth Creationism and intelligent design creationism are different so who knows. The latter is basically just claiming a god exists but science describes the created design. It includes the big bang theory, evolution, etc. I think it was all created, but the creation includes the big bang, 4.5 billion years of earth hanging around, etc. I myself think evolution's case is overstated (not that it doesn't happen) and I'm pretty scientifically literate, but even saying that will get people labelling me an anti-science nutjob, while I would say, no it's a reasonable stance based on the evidence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
None? I wasn't defending that claim, I was being snarky about folks here calling religion a death cult and linking that to the golden rule.
Meh. My youngest stepson is a rabid athiest--meaning he has to loudly and vociferously rail against Christianity every chance he gets. Me, I think people who do that have some kind of hangup--like those ex-smokers who have to be super obnoxious about smoking now that they're on the other side of it. Like, they're shouting to the world, in order to keep convincing themselves.
Me, I don't care what people believe, so long as it doesn't get in the way of my life, and so long as my evidence-based medical care isn't replaced by leeches (except, insofar as when leeches are actually medically appropriate such as to prevent venous congestion in skin grafts and reattachment surgery, etc).
As for my own beliefs, I'm ambivalent. My sunday-school-teaching grandparents would point to the bible, while written by men, as divinely inspired. I would point to one of a thousand other tales, also written by men, that make the same claim. Who am I to believe? So I don't worry about it. I just try to be a good person, and get on with life. If there's some magic sky man at the end of my journey that can't weigh my actions and set aside my quibbles about 'worship', and sends me to some version of hell because I didn't say the right words addressing the right diety, then fuck 'em. He's a terrible god anyway and not worthy of my adoration.
Me, I don't care what people believe, so long as it doesn't get in the way of my life, and so long as my evidence-based medical care isn't replaced by leeches (except, insofar as when leeches are actually medically appropriate such as to prevent venous congestion in skin grafts and reattachment surgery, etc).
As for my own beliefs, I'm ambivalent. My sunday-school-teaching grandparents would point to the bible, while written by men, as divinely inspired. I would point to one of a thousand other tales, also written by men, that make the same claim. Who am I to believe? So I don't worry about it. I just try to be a good person, and get on with life. If there's some magic sky man at the end of my journey that can't weigh my actions and set aside my quibbles about 'worship', and sends me to some version of hell because I didn't say the right words addressing the right diety, then fuck 'em. He's a terrible god anyway and not worthy of my adoration.
I used to feel the same as Tin, mostly. But lately I think the laws of society are in place as a way of upholding racist institutions while religious laws are a way of upholding sexist institutions. One is to control people of color, one is to control women (and also exclude people of differing lifestyles).
That may not be how it necessarily started, but it's very much what they are used for today, and have been for a long time.
If Jesus is/was real, he'd be horrified at those who proclaim to love him and then ignore his teachings.
That may not be how it necessarily started, but it's very much what they are used for today, and have been for a long time.
If Jesus is/was real, he'd be horrified at those who proclaim to love him and then ignore his teachings.
Ok this is actually pretty insulting. Live and let live is nice, but one of our two political parties is trying to force everyone to live by Christian morals whether they want to or not.
I always say I would like Christians a lot more if they acted more christ-like.
GasBandit
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Nothing pisses off a republican more than accurately describing what Jesus would do, and then encouraging them to follow suit.
I got into a debate on the phone with a relative not too long ago because I've been holding firm to my agnosticism and she thought I should be going to church. The whole "moral compass" thing. I got tired of it. I uncorked a little of the old GasBandit and just came out and said that no person of faith is verifiably a good person - only an athiest can truly be said to be good. Because an athiest can truly act morally without coercion, whereas every Christian lives under the threat of hellfire if they are not good and thus an unquantifiable amount are only "good" out of fear of eternal reprisal (and still many fall despite having a metaphysical gun held to their eternal life).
If you are only good because you fear the wrath of god, you're not a good person, you're just a well-monitored criminal. And if you are a good person but still burn in hell because you didn't kiss Hank's ass, then God is undeserving of reverence.
Anyway, how this ended up being articulated was "but that's socialism!" "It's only socialism if it's taken from you unwillingly. If you give it of your own volition, it's just charity - something God allegedly is very keen on. And if you love your money more than you love your neighbor, it seems to me the Son said something about rich people and eyes of needles."
Sheesh, am I going to have to turn in my libertarian card? I mean, I did it more as a rhetorical exercise to antagonize an annoyance, but the fact remains that I did go to bat for socialism as a Christian tenet.
Unless Emrys is lying about her age, you already had to.
When you see the heavens and the earth, you get this sense that this could not have come from random chance.
Least that's what my church pastor tells us on occasion when he geeks out on science.
It's been a rough few years. But when it comes to agitating hypocrites about their morals, remember the wise words of Faith Petric: You ain't done nothin' if you ain't been called a Red.
Unfortunately, "we" scared Steinman off not simply because he felt we did not respect his beliefs, but because "we" also wished his children would get cancer (and that came straight from the man himself). I'd take Steinman and his Mormonism any day of the week, despite not believing a single drop of it, over the toxic bile that passes for common 'civilized' discourse on a certain few of our subforums.
You're also self-described not a Christian, so why would you? Describing a trait belonging to a group doesn't mean you're suddenly one of them.
GasBandit
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Well, moreso because I was advocating socialism for someone whose goup is tacitly linked to capitalism.
Hey, she's moving to Texas, I'm not moving to Canada
