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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
September 29, 2015 at 3:19 pm
(September 29, 2015 at 2:49 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I don't think that was a threat, at all. I do think that was a personal fantasy of his, though.
I have heard that same exact statement many times, they say something like "well if i didn't believe in god i could just do anything to you, who cares", its a threat that's as thinly veiled as possible, their telling us if we disprove their religion, that's what they going to do, in no uncertain terms.
Religion is actually an awfully lot like organized crime, it extorts, it fleeces, it demands total control of our bodies, hearts and minds to a level that really borders on slavery and will do anything to force that control on us, but its religion so were not allowed to call it criminal.
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
September 29, 2015 at 3:54 pm
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I disagree. He was commenting about moral relativity. There was no conditional referring to his own behavior attached.
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
September 29, 2015 at 4:28 pm
Yes. That asshat has made several anti-atheist statements along that line, suggesting that we have no values and thus will be the death of 'Murka.
This is just an exercise in mental masturbation, trying to create an extreme situation in which we are somehow still unable to say rape is bad.
It's a commonly-expressed sentiment. It's just that going into detail like he did indicates to me a very sick mind.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
September 29, 2015 at 5:00 pm
just for AF's amusement: the Duck Dynasty cast look before the show got under way - very different -
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
October 8, 2015 at 1:36 pm
(September 29, 2015 at 3:14 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: (September 29, 2015 at 3:02 pm)Deepthunk Wrote: Frankly, at this point in my life the very word "goodness" makes me want to friggen puke. I'm not kidding either, the sound of it or sight of it in text literally makes me feel a bit ill. I'm not joking either, it really does.
*ducks and exits quickly*
well, that's nothing new, all fifties music makes me want to blow chunks.
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
October 8, 2015 at 1:41 pm
(September 29, 2015 at 3:54 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I disagree. He was commenting about moral relativity. There was no conditional referring to his own behavior attached.
yeah but actually there is, he's stating in no uncertain terms that, if you disprove my religion, this is what I will do to you.
That's what he meant when he said "if I didn't believe in god I could just do anything", then follows up with what he would like to do. I have heard a hundred variations on the same threat, almost all from Baptists in the deep south, and it is always intended as a very thinly veiled threat. and I do mean thinly veiled.
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
October 8, 2015 at 6:09 pm
(October 8, 2015 at 1:36 pm)Deepthunk Wrote: (September 29, 2015 at 3:14 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:
*ducks and exits quickly*
well, that's nothing new, all fifties music makes me want to blow chunks.
*Smacks Deepthunk on the nose with vinyl copy of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue*
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
October 8, 2015 at 8:05 pm
(October 8, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: (October 8, 2015 at 1:36 pm)Deepthunk Wrote: well, that's nothing new, all fifties music makes me want to blow chunks.
*Smacks Deepthunk on the nose with vinyl copy of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue*
I dont have a clue who youre talking about. this is what I'm listening too while i write.
Suffice to say my taste in music differs a bit.
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
October 8, 2015 at 8:21 pm
(October 8, 2015 at 8:05 pm)Deepthunk Wrote: (October 8, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: *Smacks Deepthunk on the nose with vinyl copy of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue*
I dont have a clue who youre talking about. this is what I'm listening too while i write.
Suffice to say my taste in music differs a bit.
You know I wasn't recommending Jerry Lee Lewis, right?
He said he was sick of hearing the word "goodness", so I put on a song whose main chorus lyric is, "GOODNESS, gracious, great balls of fire!"
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
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RE: religious discrimination by the reigning majority religion of Christendom
October 12, 2015 at 2:23 pm
well, I admit I did think you were recommending Jerry Lee Lewis, I got the joke, but at the same time I thought there was an implication behind it that this was quality music.
which is not to say its terrible, listen to a kids coir sing blessed be the rock for five minutes, then go into a medley of father Abraham, that'll have you shoving sharpened pencils into your ears. I know because I've had to sit through it. remember in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy when the president of the art snobbling council chews his own intestines out over vogon poetry? well I know how that feels because I have had to listen to a medley of blessed be the rock and father Abraham.
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