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RE: Damned atheists
September 11, 2018 at 6:17 pm
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(September 11, 2018 at 8:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Young Christians are leaving the church – Here’s why
Yeah, because if I had a club with a large membership and all of the sudden people started leaving it in droves, my first assumption would be that the problem lies outside of the club. I'd never assume that the goings-on inside the club had anything to do with it.
That would be absurd.
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RE: Damned atheists
September 11, 2018 at 6:35 pm
(September 11, 2018 at 1:49 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Perhaps we are too hard on ourselves. We really should be focused on getting theists to blow Jesus out of their rectums.
I could not possibly agree more!
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RE: Damned atheists
September 26, 2018 at 7:39 am
Petition: Remove "In God We Trust" From American Currency
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio...n-currency
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned atheists
November 29, 2018 at 12:57 am
Quote:Many of our nation’s churches can no longer afford to maintain their structures—6,000 to 10,000 churches die each year in America—and that number will likely grow.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...gs/576592/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned atheists
November 29, 2018 at 9:23 am
(November 29, 2018 at 12:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Quote:Many of our nation’s churches can no longer afford to maintain their structures—6,000 to 10,000 churches die each year in America—and that number will likely grow.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...gs/576592/
That's the best news I've heard all month. 
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RE: Damned atheists
December 3, 2018 at 3:03 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned atheists
December 3, 2018 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2018 at 4:04 pm by Angrboda.)
The only problem with the Satanists' argument is that the ten commandments has a plausible rationale as a representation of culture and tradition where a statue of Baphomet does not. That argument however is undermined by the fact that such representations of the culture and tradition of law and morals in the U.S. end up being exclusively Christian, and a complete absence of representations of the Code of Hammurabi and other historical contributions to our tradition and culture is evident. The logical defense of that is that our culture has been largely Christian so it makes sense that relevant cultural traditions to be memorialized would be Christian. However, it's not clear that this defense doesn't support rather than undermine the contention that a plaque of the ten commandments is not religious, but essentially secular and neutral. It clearly appeals selectively to one segment of the population to the exclusion of the interests of other segments of the population.
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RE: Damned atheists
December 3, 2018 at 6:59 pm
School district apologizes after teacher tells students Santa isn't real
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/natio...189672002/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned atheists
December 3, 2018 at 7:13 pm
(December 3, 2018 at 6:59 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: School district apologizes after teacher tells students Santa isn't real
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/natio...189672002/
Oh ffs.
Most kids know or suspect it by age 7 or 8.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Damned atheists
December 3, 2018 at 8:57 pm
(December 3, 2018 at 7:13 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (December 3, 2018 at 6:59 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: School district apologizes after teacher tells students Santa isn't real
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/natio...189672002/
Oh ffs.
Most kids know or suspect it by age 7 or 8.
I figured it out at age 7 when I noticed that Santa had the same handwriting as my mother.  ...and I damned well kept my pie hole shut, since admitting figuring it out might have deprived me of presents.
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