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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 13, 2015 at 8:54 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 8:42 pm)Cecelia Wrote: (September 13, 2015 at 5:54 pm)Shining_Finger Wrote: The reason why there are so few black atheists is the same reason there are so few black gays and gay atheists.
They are minority's, and it would be similar to asking why you haven't gotten 3 sixes in a row after rolling dice 20 times.
All the gay people I know are atheists. Granted I only know 5 gay people.
I only know 2 gay theists and i'm like.. well...
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 13, 2015 at 8:59 pm
Rev. Paul was gay and an MCC preacher.
Damn hairy hot too!
Not enough to convert me however.
Dated a guy in college that was real serious about Campus Crusade for Christ. Till they thru him out for being a homo. He was still Christian after that though.
I'm pretty sure I have boinked at least one married Methodist minister too.
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 13, 2015 at 9:06 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 4:11 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: I respect people, not ideas. Ideas deserve scrutiny, not respect.
This is exactly how I feel.
The reason Losty doesn't respect your religious beliefs has nothing to do with how good or bad your religion's followers have been throughout history. No. I don't respect your beliefs because it is not in my best interest to respect anyone's beliefs. Beliefs should be analyzed, debated, and tested. Often. Every time you find yourself getting comfortable with a certain belief you have, it's about time to have a discussion about that belief (preferably with intelligent people who disagree with you). Too many people believe things just because they've always believed them. It doesn't do anyone any good to stop thinking about and considering the things they believe.
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 13, 2015 at 10:05 pm
Wow, Losty.
What you have for breakfast today ?
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 13, 2015 at 10:09 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 10:05 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Wow, Losty.
What you have for breakfast today ?
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 14, 2015 at 1:35 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 5:47 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: (September 13, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Absolutely. There are many Christians who are A-holes. The reason I referred to those slavers as "so called" is because they are not acting in a way that I personally believe "Christian" to be. Except that it is very Christian because the bible endorses slavery, what me to quote it?
Well, the Bible does say you shouldn't beat a slave to death. There's punishment if you do, unless he doesn't die right away but lives on for "a day or two." (Exodus 21:20,21)
[Who wrote this shit?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 14, 2015 at 1:37 pm
Wait so if he lives on for a day or two there's a different punishment or no punishment?
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 14, 2015 at 1:51 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 5:54 pm)Shining_Finger Wrote: The reason why there are so few black atheists is the same reason there are so few black gays and gay atheists.
They are minority's, and it would be similar to asking why you haven't gotten 3 sixes in a row after rolling dice 20 times.
Actually, it has more to do with the Stockholm syndrome. Africans generally adopt the religion of their captors. It was easy for slavers to come in and prove to the Africans that their superstitions were unfounded. As slaves in America Christianity was generally forced on the slaves. Though many rejected it, they had to wear the mask of piety.
Probably you would see more Black atheists if more atheists had been slave owners.
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 14, 2015 at 1:53 pm
(September 14, 2015 at 1:37 pm)Losty Wrote: Wait so if he lives on for a day or two there's a different punishment or no punishment?
No punishment.
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RE: Why i don't respect your religion or your faith
September 14, 2015 at 2:01 pm
As an amateur genealogist, I have learned that many of my ancestors owned slaves. I was re-reading my Great-great grandmother's memoir just the other day. At first, she comes across like a genteel, intelligent, proper xtian wife, who is writing about the 1850's. The prose is just drowned in "the good lord ____" and "the good lord blessed us with ____" ad nauseum. And then there was this statement "After the trip to Texas, the weather turned cold. Thankfully we had plenty of Negroes to help build houses." Further reading shows a woman who has been told all her life that slavery was the will of God, and the natural order of mankind. She believed that Negroes were the "children of Ham" who were cursed by God for disobedience, and that they were an inferior species of human that were happiest when they had the guidance of white xtian masters.
(Every time I think of this I feel sick.) She was completely brainwashed. This message came from someone who prayed for hours for her children and her husband, trying to be the "holy wife" God intended her to be. It would have been almost impossible for her to think any other way -- it was the culture of her time and place.
What I don't get is why so many African-Americans are STILL Christian. Why isn't it associated with the religion of the slavers, that they were forced to accept? Why haven't more African-Americans gone on a search for the religion of their ancestors? I would think that, if I were a freed slave, one of the first things I would reject would be "the Massa's" god. ???
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