Enjoy.... unless you are a fundie asshole.

The truth is Christian virtue had never been some abstract standard conceived out of nobility of spirit, and next to which real people fall short to various degrees.  It was always a tissue depliciously conceived to corral the gullible and empower the unscrupulous and the opportunistic.

It never set out virtue, it merely unscrupulously borrowed the Good name of existing virtues to serve the ends of the most loathsome and disreputable human scum in history,

Is that a fancy way to say they are lying sacks of shit?

We are on the verge of abortion becoming a sacrament.

Just need one Trumpspawn in a vacuum cleaner bag and we are there !!!

Praise Jesus TRUMP !!!!

(April 22, 2018 at 1:18 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The truth is Christian virtue had never been some abstract standard conceived out of nobility of spirit, and next to which real people fall short to various degrees.  It was always a tissue depliciously conceived to corral the gullible and empower the unscrupulous and the opportunistic.

It never set out virtue, it merely unscrupulously borrowed the Good name of existing virtues to serve the ends of the most loathsome and disreputable human scum in history,

Except when one points out the outlier that is Stalin, it's "he didn't commit atrocities because of atheism" all of the sudden... Christianity has been around for 2000 years, what you describe has existed since time immemorial  and has nothing to do with "religion" but is a product of human nature which is not at all inherently virtuous, hence the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely".

(April 22, 2018 at 2:05 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: We are on the verge of abortion becoming a sacrament.

If males could get pregnant, abortion would already be a sacrament.

Boru

We don't even need a fetus in a bag, we just need the right name on a check.

LOL, that eternal and unchanging God I heard about in 1960s Sunday school is getting whiplash from all the doctrinal changes that have occurred just during my lifetime.

Eh, Numbers 5:11-31 already exists.

As an aside, it's hilarious to read true believers' attempts to justify that passage. "Oh, in most versions, it simply causes the adulterous woman's belly to swell and her thigh (genitals) to rot... it doesn't actually cause abortion or a miscarriage."

Bwuh...? What the fuck do you think would happen to a fetus if that happened to the person carrying it?

The contortions the faithful go into to justify the heinous parts of their religion....

(April 22, 2018 at 2:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(April 22, 2018 at 2:05 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: We are on the verge of abortion becoming a sacrament.

If males could get pregnant, abortion would already be a sacrament.

Boru

Yeah, and if men got breast cancer there would already be a cure.

Quote: it's "he didn't commit atrocities because of atheism" all of the sudden...

He didn't dipshit.  He committed them because people opposed communism not your silly fucking god.

Granted that's a shitty reason too but it doesn't absolve all you jesus fuckers for your murders.