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A bad day.
#21
RE: A bad day.
Well, they worship two to three gods, too, so go figure.
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#22
RE: A bad day.
Quote:Love is the Greatest of the Christian Virtues.

Christian theologians have traditionally identified faith, hope, and charity (love) as the three Christian virtues (Three Theological Virtues). Of the three Christian virtues, love is the greatest. Christian virtue love is “agape” love defined as unmerited favor. This is a love that is selfless, unconditional, and voluntary loving-kindness.

See Scripture Commentary: 1 Corinthians 13:13 advises us that love is the greatest virtue.

You could point something like this out to your sister.

Quote:do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

One Jesus Christ there, offering some helpful advice Tongue
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"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Einstein

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.

- John Lennon
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#23
RE: A bad day.
(July 13, 2011 at 2:27 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Well, they worship two to three gods, too, so go figure.

Well they're three, except they're one but three in one and yet three separate beings all part of one divine substance so it's still just one even though it's three...
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
...      -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
...       -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
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#24
RE: A bad day.
Heretic, doesn't it feel rather gross to have to trot out christian scripture to save an atheist from their fucked up strictures?
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#25
RE: A bad day.
(July 13, 2011 at 2:54 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Heretic, doesn't it feel rather gross to have to trot out christian scripture to save an atheist from their fucked up strictures?

I appreciate the irony of it, but yes, it makes me feel kind of dirty. Fucking christians!
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"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Einstein

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.

- John Lennon
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#26
RE: A bad day.
Quote:You could point something like this out to your sister.


She'll just come back with this:


Quote:25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.


These fuckers can always find something to back up their outrageous beliefs.
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#27
RE: A bad day.
It helps when everything you believe depends on a 2-3000 year old tome that was written in languages you cannot read. "Interpretation" is everything to a make-believer.
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#28
RE: A bad day.
(July 13, 2011 at 3:12 pm)Epimethean Wrote: It helps when everything you believe depends on a 2-3000 year old tome that was written in languages you cannot read. "Interpretation" is everything to a make-believer.

I think this hammers home the point beautifully, believing this excludes you from rational debate from the word go.
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"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Einstein

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.

- John Lennon
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#29
RE: A bad day.
I don't believe my sister is smart enough to come back with any witty remark, or even anything other than "Bible, something something, it's bad, wrong" or something like that. She's really not the smartest.

Other than that, I feel like such a wimp, but I really miss that damn cat. :X
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#30
RE: A bad day.
(July 17, 2011 at 5:43 pm)8BitAtheist Wrote: Other than that, I feel like such a wimp...

Why do you feel like a wimp? Is it because you feel like you should stand up to your sister? If she is as religious as you say and stupid to boot, there would be no persuading her to change her mind.
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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