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Have you ever been so offended?
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 (April 7, 2014 at 1:38 am)Losty Wrote: I wonder if these Christians realize the unnecessary pain they cause by saying stuff like this. Of course, not. They genuinely, mistakenly, believe that they are saving your soul. The loving comments they impart are nothing more than hate disguised by the cloak of love.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter  (April 7, 2014 at 1:38 am)Losty Wrote: I wonder if these Christians realize the unnecessary pain they cause by saying stuff like this.It's another reminder of the harm that religion does. People can say and do the most hurtful things to one another because they are convinced that it is for "your own good" and that they are motivated by love. Misplaced guilt is one of the commonly-used tools of religion, and causes untold suffering to lots of people. And it's all for nothing. A net loss in the greater scheme of things. That's terribly sad.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould  RE: Have you ever been so offended?
April 7, 2014 at 4:46 pm
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2014 at 4:48 pm by heathendegenerate.)
\m/ at my sisters funeral the pastor implied it was my parents fault. he pretty much said, "if you were closer to god, she'd be alive." You think what you heard was bad?
I hate the bible. I love that do as thy whilst stuff.
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April 7, 2014 at 4:55 pm
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(April 7, 2014 at 4:46 pm)heathendegenerate Wrote: \m/ at my sisters funeral the pastor implied it was my parents fault. he pretty much said, "if you were closer to god, she'd be alive." You think what you heard was bad? I would so punch the pastor. Seriously. (April 7, 2014 at 7:52 am)archangle Wrote: nearly? I have done it. Wow are you a sanctimonious prick! Incredible!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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April 7, 2014 at 5:03 pm
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(April 7, 2014 at 4:46 pm)heathendegenerate Wrote: \m/ at my sisters funeral the pastor implied it was my parents fault. he pretty much said, "if you were closer to god, she'd be alive." You think what you heard was bad? At my friend's funeral the priest spent the entire time comparing him to Judas Iscariot, since they both killed themselves. He didn't even know my friend, who was an atheist, and he readily admitted so at the beginning. He then rambled on about how Judas hung himself. It was a not-so-thinly veiled way of saying, "Your friend burns in hell" and was the most despicable, disrespectful thing inspired by religion that I've ever been privy to personally.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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April 7, 2014 at 5:15 pm
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(April 7, 2014 at 4:46 pm)heathendegenerate Wrote: \m/ at my sisters funeral the pastor implied it was my parents fault. he pretty much said, "if you were closer to god, she'd be alive." You think what you heard was bad? That's terrible. Only a horrible person would say something like that. (April 7, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(April 7, 2014 at 4:46 pm)heathendegenerate Wrote: \m/ at my sisters funeral the pastor implied it was my parents fault. he pretty much said, "if you were closer to god, she'd be alive." You think what you heard was bad? Wow that is also awful. Completely disgusting.  (April 7, 2014 at 9:06 am)Thackerie Wrote: If I were you, I'd ignore "advice" from someone who claims to be an an atheist but can't even spell the word correctly. You misunderstand. He is the most athy. Y'know: athy, athier, athiest. 
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.  
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Personally I think responding with hatred prolongs the suffering. You're only hurting yourself. That being said, there's nothing wrong with anger, let it out. If you are strong enough to be the bigger person, which it seems you are, you win. You go girl
Holy hell if I had a family member say anything like that to me there is no way I would be able to keep myself from completely losing my mind on them. That is a completely ignorant way to think and for them to impose that on me about a situation like that would absolutely set me off.
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April 7, 2014 at 6:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2014 at 6:10 pm by Losty.)
I've decided not to respond at all. It honestly hurts my feelings more than it angers me. I'm not dumb enough to think I could change her mind, so responding in any ways will only succeed at hurting my feelings even more.
Thanks to everyone for making me feel better though 
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