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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 4, 2018 at 1:20 pm
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(March 1, 2018 at 12:03 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: (February 28, 2018 at 11:33 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Why are the religious so obsessed with being the bedroom police? (or wherever you might prefer such activity)
I really can't feature that. They have this thing that sex is only for procreation. Missionary position attained, sah, for the regulatory 5 nanoseconds, sah. No actual pleasure was induced, sah. All activities were conducted in grim silence, sah.
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Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?
Well, we're mostly atheists so we don't see this world as a veil that will evaporate after it serves its function. We care about the real world because fuck you.
(March 1, 2018 at 9:03 am)Hammy Wrote: (March 1, 2018 at 12:03 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?
Why are right-wingers such stuck up callous douche bags who don't give a fuck about the poor and unfortunate?
It's because they think the world is but a prop and the masses are just extras whose trials and tribulations are the backstory in god's plans for you. Can't really get mad at god if he goes to all the trouble to have millions gassed just to make an important point. Nothing really matters until all this falls away and we can all sit around and talk about our characters.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 4, 2018 at 1:46 pm
Man, I forgot about that passage. So the Bible is actually pro-abortion, not anti. I might mention this to some of my Christian friends to see how they try to get around it...
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 4, 2018 at 1:55 pm
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 4, 2018 at 3:36 pm
Abortion is an abomination because it interferes with God's plans for bashing baby brains of the vanquished.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 4, 2018 at 3:43 pm
(March 1, 2018 at 8:35 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (March 1, 2018 at 12:03 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?
Because we want literally every last person in the whole world, no matter how undeserving, to live longer, happier and be healthier than you.
I want literally every last person in the whole world to live a longer happier and heather life. Period.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 4, 2018 at 3:48 pm
(March 1, 2018 at 6:53 pm)wheatpenny Wrote: 1. Young Earth Creationism (despite what Old Earth Creationists and theistic evolutionists claim, this IS exactly what the author of Genesis believed and tried to convey to his readers.)
If you look hard enough at their rules, most major sects of christianity (including rome) still hold the YEC position to be valid. It's just most don't talk about it.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 7, 2018 at 7:36 pm
Big thread so maybe I missed this, but I'd think a major source of anxiety for all believers would be an overwhelming concern about 'doing it' correctly. Like, is our church's doxology correct? Are we wearing the right clothes? Is vorlon right about worrying about our allowing menstruating women in our facility? Is our minister unknowingly an 'unto the 10th generation' God enemy that cannot lead ANYONE to Salvation? Is our version of the Bible correct? Is there a better denomination I should be attending? When I wear a hat, is the width of the brim correct? I might have blasphemed the Holy Spirit when I was drunk during college, I can't fix that now, can I? Do I go to church and celebrate the Sabbath on the right day? Should I be as Jewish as Jesus was, just to be sure?
How do believers alleviate the real worries that have spawned so many disagreements in their religion?
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 8, 2018 at 3:48 am
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: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 8, 2018 at 3:53 am
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 8, 2018 at 7:04 pm
(March 8, 2018 at 3:53 am)robvalue Wrote: That is fucking awesome Cracked me up!
Lol yeah I've never heard of the guy... but it looks like he's really funny in general. I just checked him out:
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