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Don't Understand The Appeal Of Christianity To People
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(August 26, 2015 at 6:04 am)Neimenovic Wrote: If they had strippers and waffles I would've stayed.....but noooooooooo, let's eat tasteless wafers and bugger little kids -_-

Eating the flesh of a zombie and fucking children is obviously very appealing to some people. 

I try not to judge.  Dodgy
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RE: Don't Understand The Appeal Of Christianity To People
(August 26, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It's just a childhood indoctrination thing. At worst your parents will drag you to church, and if you don't toe the line you're punished.

In my case it was more of a chance to spend extra time with grannie, while she told me stories about how much Jesus loves me. I also believed Santa and the Easter Bunny were real at the time, so stories about talking donkeys and getting a bunch of animals on a boat and someone spending three days inside a whale weren't so far fetched.

Absolutely, Chad.  That shit is nice when kids are young and innocent.  When fully grown adults profess to believe in them it is just fucking creepy.
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I went to some crazy raves in my youth and it now turns out I should've been going to church instead.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ohmhZVjaqQo
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(August 26, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It's just a childhood indoctrination thing. At worst your parents will drag you to church, and if you don't toe the line you're punished.

In my case it was more of a chance to spend extra time with grannie, while she told me stories about how much Jesus loves me. I also believed Santa and the Easter Bunny were real at the time, so stories about talking donkeys and getting a bunch of animals on a boat and someone spending three days inside a whale weren't so far fetched.

I don't understand why other people don't just grow out of it though the same way they grow out of belief in Santa Claus as I did, even with the child indoctrination. The whole thing is so unrealistic and completely contradicted by evidence.

Why didn't child indoctrination ever work on me?  Dodgy
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RE: Don't Understand The Appeal Of Christianity To People
The extremists who will kill you over it, and the fire and brimstone preacher who wants to instill the "fear of god" into you. Also propaganda. Because killing someone and spilling innocent blood can make you a better person somehow.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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(August 26, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I also believed Santa and the Easter Bunny were real at the time, so stories about talking donkeys and getting a bunch of animals on a boat and someone spending three days inside a whale weren't so far fetched.

Santa hadn't arrived in my country when I was little. But I certainly had a stronger belief in the Christkind and the Easter bunny than I had in god. The former brought cool presents after all, while the latter didn't do anything at all.

Also, my parents didn't drag me to church that often. Christmas and Easter was about all. My most vivid memories are of freezing my ass off at christmas and falling asleep during mass.
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(August 26, 2015 at 5:57 am)Imaginos7 Wrote: When I was a kid and had to go to church I just found it boring.
I thought that the hymns sucked and din't like having to sing, didn't like church organ music or having to say prayers.
I didn't connect at all with the stories of the bible.
Wouldn't you think the whole thing of going to church would have evolved to be something fun and enjoyable in order for people to want to do it.

There will be no fun having or joy making.

Why would a violent sociopathic god want you to have fun?
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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(August 26, 2015 at 12:49 pm)jesus_wept Wrote: I went to some crazy raves in my youth and it now turns out I should've been going to church instead.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ohmhZVjaqQo

That reminds me of the music video for the song "Turn down for what".   Clap
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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I'm still having trouble with the 'all ya gotta do is believe in Jesus to achieve Salvation' and the subsequent 40,000 schisms over that pretty damn simple precept.

How did The Jesus manage to fuck that up so completely thoroughly ??
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Believing that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, is one of the few strings that connect 2.5 billion people on the planet. Everything else is up in the air.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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