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Stupid things religious people say
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A local evangelical preacher (Baptist) disrupted my favorite coffee shop yesterday demanding why the owners allowed a drag event (they hadn't, but were thinking about having one) there--he ranted and raved and "blessed" the room. My special rural hell. (I wasn't there when it happened).
"When you get the message, hang up the phone" --Alan Watts on enlightenment.
 (April 7, 2023 at 5:31 pm)Orbit Wrote: A local evangelical preacher (Baptist) disrupted my favorite coffee shop yesterday demanding why the owners allowed a drag event (they hadn't, but were thinking about having one) there--he ranted and raved and "blessed" the room. My special rural hell. (I wasn't there when it happened). I would love to be somewhere that happens. I've shut down a couple of people who tried evangelising to people. Once on a train on a Friday night, and once in a restaurant when domr prick insisted everyone thank god for their food. Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"  (April 7, 2023 at 5:58 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(April 7, 2023 at 5:31 pm)Orbit Wrote: A local evangelical preacher (Baptist) disrupted my favorite coffee shop yesterday demanding why the owners allowed a drag event (they hadn't, but were thinking about having one) there--he ranted and raved and "blessed" the room. My special rural hell. (I wasn't there when it happened). I can see it now, "Thank Vishnu for this tender steak!"...if he was lucky.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
They really got us with this cartoon
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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"
I don't believe in things I can't detect 😁
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!  (April 10, 2023 at 2:06 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: They really got us with this cartoon A christian once used the argument “Can you see wind?” I think he was in his thirties. It demonstrates that their thought processes are not fully developed. They can develop it if they have contact with a scientist or equivalent. 1. Air is a mixture of nitrogen and other gases and gases tend to be transparent to visible light. You can just change the state to liquid by lowering the temperature. Very few gases are colored. Bromine gas, iodine gas, chlorine, fluorine, NO2 are examples of gases that interact with visible light. Oxygen interacts weekly with blue light (the sky is blue). 2. Wind is just the flow of these gases. You can have flow in liquids as well. You can have flow with solids using pressure. Not believing in atoms and molecules was normal in the early 18xx. I think it was in the later part of 18xx that most of scientists began accepting it since they were able to see patterns in chemical formula. Atoms have been seen since the invention of the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and Scanning and Tunneling Electron Microscope (STEM) [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium#/media/File:[email protected][/url] These are images of CsF, CsCl, CsI in a carbon nanotube https://www.chemistryworld.com/research/...41.article Germanium atoms There is a lot more that I can’t see. I can’t see the Earth’s core. I can’t see that it is mostly composed of iron. I can’t see Japan. I can’t see about 7 billion other humans. I can’t see names, words, languages, software, feelings, music, stories. These are all non physical things. RE: Stupid things religious people say
April 12, 2023 at 9:41 am
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(April 7, 2023 at 5:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Pilgrims impede progress at site of ‘weeping’ statue of Mary The woman is a fraud. I know, what a shock! Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla investigated after claim blood stains on statue of Virgin Mary come from a pig A woman nicknamed “the Saint” has mysteriously vanished from a small lakeside town near Rome where pilgrims have flocked for years to pray before a statue of the Virgin Mary that she claimed shed tears of blood. Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla, known to her followers as Gisella Cardia, originally from Sicily, and her husband reportedly fled Trevignano Romano last week after a private investigator triggered a judicial investigation against her based on his alleged finding that the blood stains on the statue came from a pig. Scarpulla, who in the past had been convicted of bankruptcy fraud, created a foundation through which she collected donations, which she reportedly said would go towards setting up a centre for sick children. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...s-of-blood
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"
RE: Stupid things religious people say
April 12, 2023 at 1:07 pm
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No shit, well just how sick is she, child of god that she is?
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That old Boogeyman of Abrahamic religions: SEX! People are having sex outside of marriage! AAAAA!!!! And thus the world is falling apart.
And this is bullshit I've heard from the Pope as well: they think there is some propaganda pressed on people to have joyful sex "It all started in the 1960s when people were told they are allowed to have sex out of wedlock and the whole hell broke loose"
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"
(April 13, 2023 at 3:09 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: That old Boogeyman of Abrahamic religions: SEX! People are having sex outside of marriage! AAAAA!!!! And thus the world is falling apart. She sounds like she never had a good time ever!
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.
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