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Stupid things religious people say
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"There's no such thing as evidence, only interpretation."

Sorry but this has to go in here.
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Archeology of fairy tales.

The Christian Broadcasting Network is promoting Ron Wyatt's pseudo-archaeology. In this video, it's how these pseudo archeologists found Noah's ark in Turkey. They are also incorporating the work of Ken Ham.



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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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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Christians had a "Great Pro-Life Hope," but then he kicked Jesus in the balls and punched the Virgin Mary in the face when, in a position of power, he told people it was okay to use condoms for AIDS prevention and then made friends with the devil (Hillary Clinton).

Quote:How a Great Pro-Life Hope Disappointed His Allies

Of the Christian conservatives whom Ronald Reagan appointed to high office after winning the presidency in 1980, none excited evangelicals like his pick for surgeon general, C. Everett Koop.

Koop, they were sure, was a true believer in the Lord and the pro-life cause. He was a ruling elder at a renowned evangelical church. He had spoken at Wheaton College. He had opposed abortion even in the early 1970s, before most evangelicals had joined the pro-life movement.

Given Koop’s evangelical and pro-life bona fides, his nomination to be surgeon general polarized members of Congress along predictable ideological lines. Pro-choice liberals strongly opposed him, while pro-life Christian conservatives relished the chance to see one of their own in a position of national influence.

But to the dismay of pro-life Christians, Koop did almost nothing to address abortion as surgeon general. Instead, Koop spent most of his political capital fighting smoking and AIDS. Koop’s approach to AIDS especially rankled some conservative culture warriors because his proposed solution was to encourage condom use rather than abstinence alone.

He developed a friendship with Bill and Hillary Clinton since he supported their universal health care plan. And he never fully patched up his strained relationship with conservative evangelicals who thought he had abandoned his principles.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/0...servative/
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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Dude has never had sex with a woman and has never been married.

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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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William Lane Craig weights in on how the "mentally retarded" people are not as vile as non-retarded people.

Quote:William Lane Craig Shocks Theologians by Rejecting Original Sin in Infants and Special Needs Children

“If you believe with Roman Catholics and Reformed and Lutheran theologians that Adam’s sin and guilt is imputed to every individual human being descended from Adam, then infants and the mentally disabled are going to also need salvation to be applied to them in some way because they carry the guilt of Adam’s sin,” said Craig in a short video posted to his ministry’s account on X.

“On the other hand, if, like me, you’re not persuaded that this doctrine is biblical, then infants and the mentally retarded are not born sinful and therefore have no sin that needs to be pardoned or forgiven,” he added.

“Jesus, I think, clearly believed that these little children were saved, were the recipients of God’s salvation,” he continued. “And that would make much better sense than, I think, saying that they were all born vile and corrupted sinners.

As reported by Protestia, Craig’s comments were seen as a denial of the doctrine of original sin, which states that all were born unto sin due to Adam’s sin.

https://www.crosswalk.com/headlines/cont...ldren.html

And while this whole discussion is mentally retarded, as all theological discussions are, WLC has a point: since mentality retarded people can not give 10% of their paycheck to the church and people like WLC to buy their way out of hell, they are either predisposed for doom or are already saved.

So when people ask, "What is so bad about people being religious?" - this is one of the reasons. Imagine how much better the world would be if people did not waste their mental power on things like finding subliminal satanic symbols in everyday things or wondering if Jesus has a grudge against "mentally retarded" people, but instead used that energy to do something useful for society.
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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Candace Cameron Bure says 'the enemy' attacked her home: 'The devil has no authority'

Actress Candance Cameron Bure posted an Instagram Story on Wednesday to share with her followers that she believes she and her family were targeted by the spirit of the devil after days of family members, including herself, being "irritable" towards each other.

"It's been cranky in my house for the last few days to the point that it's weird,” Bure revealed in a video message. “Like my house is usually really peaceful and happy. Everyone's been irritable, including me, and everyone is just like at each other. It's been like three days now."

"It finally hit me,” she continued. “I'm like, 'Oh, there's a spirit of irritability, there's a spirit of crankiness, there's a spirit of confusion. Oh, the enemy's attacking!"

"I think so easily, we forget and we want to just blame one another when things go wrong. And we forget that there's a very real and powerful enemy at work every single day of our lives,” the “Fuller House” star noted.

"That enemy is the devil,” Bure clarified. “He's real and he's at work, but the devil has no control or authority in my home.”

"I call upon the Holy Spirit. I pray out any evil spirits that are in here,” Bure continued. “And I put on my worship music, it's just filling my home. So my home is filled with Scripture and God's Word, God's power, God's truth, and I just keep reminding myself of that.”

https://www.christianpost.com/news/canda...-home.html
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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(May 18, 2025 at 12:08 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Dude has never had sex with a woman and has never been married.

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To be fair, we don't know that he's never had sex with a woman. Wink

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‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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(May 19, 2025 at 4:12 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Candace Cameron Bure says 'the enemy' attacked her home: 'The devil has no authority'

Actress Candance Cameron Bure posted an Instagram Story on Wednesday to share with her followers that she believes she and her family were targeted by the spirit of the devil after days of family members, including herself, being "irritable" towards each other.  

"It's been cranky in my house for the last few days to the point that it's weird,” Bure revealed in a video message. “Like my house is usually really peaceful and happy. Everyone's been irritable, including me, and everyone is just like at each other. It's been like three days now."

"It finally hit me,” she continued. “I'm like, 'Oh, there's a spirit of irritability, there's a spirit of crankiness, there's a spirit of confusion. Oh, the enemy's attacking!"

"I think so easily, we forget and we want to just blame one another when things go wrong. And we forget that there's a very real and powerful enemy at work every single day of our lives,” the “Fuller House” star noted.

"That enemy is the devil,” Bure clarified. “He's real and he's at work, but the devil has no control or authority in my home.”

"I call upon the Holy Spirit. I pray out any evil spirits that are in here,” Bure continued. “And I put on my worship music, it's just filling my home. So my home is filled with Scripture and God's Word, God's power, God's truth, and I just keep reminding myself of that.”

https://www.christianpost.com/news/canda...-home.html

It's always demons with these people.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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People today are so obsessed with rationality and reality that they ignore angels and demons, allowing darkness to infiltrate their lives and suffer from diseases that angels could cure. That is why we need to change our society, beginning with the educational system, so that we start paying attention to the supernatural.

Quote:Pastor Breaks Down Why Christians Simply Can’t Ignore Angels and Demons: ‘We Have Emasculated the Gospel’

Allen Jackson, pastor of World Outreach Church in Tennessee, is on a mission to get people thinking more deeply about angels, demons, and the supernatural.

“The most important part is imagining that there are spiritual forces that are impacting your life today without any question,” he told CBN News.

The preacher said there’s been an obsessive move toward rationalism since the Enlightenment — one that has led too many to lose touch with the “spiritual dynamic.”

Jackson said angels are pivotal to the Gospel narrative, serving a primary purpose to help people understand what’s unfolding.

“The whole Gospel story can’t really be understood apart from the angelic involvement,” he said. “Gabriel [who] goes to visit Zechariah is the opening narrative for the story of John the Baptist, and Gabriel going to see Mary and Joseph, the angels that ministered to Jesus after his temptation in the wilderness, the angels that ministered to him in Gethsemane as he’s preparing.”

“It seems to me we’re more willing to trust in a presidential election than we are in the beings that God has made available to us,” he said.

Jackson said some people might avoid the supernatural for fear it feels strange or weird. There’s also the element of uncertainty around issues like healing, which could further spark reluctance among some to fully engage in related conversation.

“I think we have emasculated the Gospel,” he said. “And we’ve been doing it in our formal education systems, and I had the privilege of studying in some celebrated academic settings, but most of them were pretty faithless.”

Jackson said people have to be comfortable realizing Jesus himself clearly believed in angels and demons — and modern scholars shouldn’t be afraid of it.

“We have to be willing to walk this out and live like we believe the Bible is true,” he said.

https://www.faithwire.com/2025/05/19/pas...he-gospel/
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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