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RE: Battling Atheism
March 21, 2015 at 9:53 pm
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(March 21, 2015 at 7:21 pm)Delicate Wrote: (March 21, 2015 at 3:00 pm)Stimbo Wrote: No, not really. I tend not to move in religious circles.
The bitterness in your posts suggest otherwise.
With the greatest of respect, kindly piss off you judgemental prick.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 21, 2015 at 9:59 pm
(March 21, 2015 at 7:51 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: If they actually cared, instead of going through the motions, they might actually do something to help.
To be fair though, they actually think they're doing something when they pray for you. They aren't, to be sure, but they believe they are.
So the intent is usually there for the people that are earnest.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 22, 2015 at 9:08 am
Also, what's the deal with actually telling you that they're praying for you? Apparently it only 'works' if the subject of the prayer knows about it. I'd be far more impressed if someone prayed without my knowledge, recording the date, time and content of the prayer, and then I experienced whatever effect they were going for.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 22, 2015 at 10:03 am
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Notice how apologists like to use this "putting a happy face on Atheism" arguement as some sort of a scare implying that there's an ugly face of Satan under this "happy face mask" while having no problem with putting a happy face on religious wars, torture, persecution and hypocricy.
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 22, 2015 at 3:00 pm
(March 21, 2015 at 9:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (March 21, 2015 at 7:21 pm)Delicate Wrote: The bitterness in your posts suggest otherwise.
With the greatest of respect, kindly piss off you judgemental prick.
Sounds like you've been waiting all year to say that.
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 22, 2015 at 3:49 pm
(March 22, 2015 at 3:00 pm)Delicate Wrote: (March 21, 2015 at 9:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: With the greatest of respect, kindly piss off you judgemental prick.
Sounds like you've been waiting all year to say that.
Ditto! And I've been waiting all year to say that! Finally the opportunity presented itself. My prayers have been answered. "And the measure by which you measure shall be measured back to you." I eagerly await the bounce back!
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 22, 2015 at 5:28 pm
(March 21, 2015 at 7:21 pm)Delicate Wrote: The bitterness in your posts suggest otherwise.
Your username suggests that you should be acquainted with the real world. As for someone being "delicate", delicacy isn't really your strong suit.
I feel we will have immense fun with you. The holier-than-thou routine usually is 
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 22, 2015 at 8:41 pm
(March 22, 2015 at 9:08 am)Stimbo Wrote: Also, what's the deal with actually telling you that they're praying for you? Apparently it only 'works' if the subject of the prayer knows about it. I'd be far more impressed if someone prayed without my knowledge, recording the date, time and content of the prayer, and then I experienced whatever effect they were going for.
It's the "thought" that counts...
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 23, 2015 at 12:43 am
(March 22, 2015 at 5:28 pm)LastPoet Wrote: (March 21, 2015 at 7:21 pm)Delicate Wrote: The bitterness in your posts suggest otherwise.
Your username suggests that you should be acquainted with the real world. As for someone being "delicate", delicacy isn't really your strong suit.
I feel we will have immense fun with you. The holier-than-thou routine usually is
If I wanted to hear your thoughts I would fart into a megaphone.
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RE: Battling Atheism
March 23, 2015 at 2:39 am
Pervert.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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