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RE: Lets compile a list of everything wrong with christ-insanity
March 16, 2014 at 7:57 pm
(March 16, 2014 at 7:55 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I'd say Christianity is more than "an image of emotional appeal" that it has going for it....I mean seriously, what else is there?
Discipulus laid his cards on the table. It came down to:
1) Jesus gave me the self-confidence I lacked.
2) Atheism makes life appear too scary so I'd rather pick a religion out of the hat.
3) The Gospels are historical biographies.
I'd say that image is all Christianity really amounts to: an image. Nothing more. Nothing less.
I know appeal to emotion is all they really have.
I was just trying to be cordial with a little sugarcoating.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Lets compile a list of everything wrong with christ-insanity
March 17, 2014 at 10:53 am
The more I read Dis' posts, the more I realize that there's never anything substantial he has to say. He'll quote scripture and spout on a bunch of christian nonsense, ignoring most of the posts where he needs to actually take a step back and think.
Your behavior is telling...but not in the great way that you think. You fail to see the hypocrisy in your words and thinking.
I'm so tired of christians saying "oh praise jesus" for everything good that happens, but when things go wrong or something bad happens, it's the devil's fault. Take responsibility for your own life for crying out loud.
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RE: Lets compile a list of everything wrong with christ-insanity
March 17, 2014 at 11:09 am
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(March 15, 2014 at 12:24 pm)discipulus Wrote: Hate consumes you. It is your master and you are its slave because you cannot say or do otherwise.
When did Yoda join the forums?
(March 16, 2014 at 3:21 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Not that we should act on every carnal urge we have, obviously not. But, it would seem that the problem comes in the form of stifling something that's natural to feel and experience.
It makes you wonder why god would make the sexual urge so powerful and so simple to satisfy outside of his "approved settings." You'd think that god would make it so that sexual satisfaction could only be achieved by a man and his wife. Instead, he made it so it can be achieved by a man and his hand. Or a woman and her finger. Or a dog and your shin. This is apparently an example of "intelligent design."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Lets compile a list of everything wrong with christ-insanity
March 17, 2014 at 1:42 pm
The main thing wrong with Christianity is the idea its followers have that everyone must join their religion and think like them, whether they want to or not. If not for this one thing, which drives its followers to annoy people on the streets, shun anyone who doesn't practice their religion, and to force their religion into government where laws are passed based upon that religious belief, I would have absolutely no problem with it. It would be to me just another wacko religion like Scientology.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Lets compile a list of everything wrong with christ-insanity
March 17, 2014 at 2:43 pm
(March 16, 2014 at 7:52 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (March 16, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: At least he's not banging hookers and blowing coke off their asses anymore though.
Wait, what? Are we not supposed to do that?
Apparently not.
I just asked my wife - and I am now squinting at the screen through my remaining eye.
I will not ask again.
According to her - you are supposed to snort coke off their asses - blowing it makes a terrible mess.
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!