(November 11, 2014 at 4:40 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Are Euros in Celsius?

(November 11, 2014 at 1:41 pm)Chad32 Wrote:

Quote:You're free to believe whatever you want to, that's not a right given to you from this country or your native American heritage, that right comes from God before there were native Americans.

Yahweh doesn't give you the freedom to think what you want to. The bible repeatedly says thoughts are as bad as actions. Thou shalt not covet, and if thou lookest at a woman with lust, thou hast already committedeth it in thy heart.

(November 11, 2014 at 5:36 pm)Godschild Wrote:

(November 11, 2014 at 1:41 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Yahweh doesn't give you the freedom to think what you want to. The bible repeatedly says thoughts are as bad as actions. Thou shalt not covet, and if thou lookest at a woman with lust, thou hast already committedeth it in thy heart.

You're so far off context it's not even funny.

GC

(November 11, 2014 at 4:41 pm)abaris Wrote:

(November 11, 2014 at 4:40 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Are Euros in Celsius?

Yes.

And meters instead of inches.

(November 11, 2014 at 6:20 pm)Chad32 Wrote:

(November 11, 2014 at 5:36 pm)Godschild Wrote: You're so far off context it's not even funny.

GC

Orly? I'm quite certain that freedom is the last thing your god is concerned about with us. All it took was one real use of free will, and he cursed the planet and our whole species.

(November 11, 2014 at 5:36 pm)Godschild Wrote: You're so far off context it's not even funny.

GC

(November 11, 2014 at 8:53 pm)Esquilax Wrote:

(November 11, 2014 at 5:36 pm)Godschild Wrote: You're so far off context it's not even funny.

GC

Your problem is that you've swallowed the standard christian platitudes so badly, you don't even feel the need to justify them. It might be license for you to switch your brain off, but when you bray "that's out of context!" it doesn't actually count as a rebuttal until you demonstrate what the correct context is, and how you know this was the original authorial intent.

Until then, it's a total nothing.

(November 11, 2014 at 3:45 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Yet, Austin sprang up in the South. Columbia SC is a place where I have no more fear about being openly atheist than I would in the Midwest. The South can't escape changing demographics, it can only drag its feet.

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(November 11, 2014 at 2:20 am)Godschild Wrote:

(November 10, 2014 at 10:19 pm)PerfectRecall17 Wrote: Honestly what GC is saying is right--that many places in the South are just giant religio-cultural gangs. When people bring other experiences to the South, a lot of people act more or less like a gang. In some places is downright scary.

As someone who's lived in the South for all my life, I've kept up running, martial arts, and studying the heck out of my textbooks so that one day I could get out. You know how freaky it is when you hear the WBC lady talk? There's quite a few here like that.

As someone from the inside of this way of life who defected, I can say it left lasting harm on me.

I'm in college now. But I still suffer from anxiety attacks. I'm paranoid about letting loose about my being atheist. I have to carefully and systematically delete any and all ties to atheism on my computer / phone, when I visit home. The "We" mentality of the South is nothing more than a gang, and it completely screwed me over.

(November 15, 2014 at 2:07 am)PerfectRecall17 Wrote:

(November 11, 2014 at 2:20 am)Godschild Wrote:

I'm an atheist, politically liberal, and a bisexual. Two of those could get me disowned / cut off from my family. All three have been the cause of great internal stress.

And I've had a few close calls.

My parents got "advice" from friends whose son turned out gay, and took my phone and searched through messages and everything. Another time all of my emails. Another time my computer when I had left it unlocked. It makes you nervous / constantly cautious. I was only safe in my head.

The only thing I could potentially find funny is how I somehow turned out to be all of these things.