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Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 11, 2016 at 6:11 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I just find them to be ESPECIALLY false, and unusually lamely inspired.   Joe Smith was particularly inept at birthing a religion, that he succeeded is a tremendous disappointment and provides a disturbing look into the unfortunate compulsive gullibility endemic then as well as now.

Like the book of Matthew. Seriously, Jesus is riding two donkeys? Two fucking donkeys?

And people have been taking this shit seriously for two thousand years...I can't even.
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(May 11, 2016 at 5:58 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: I'm a lot luckier than you, as soon as I junked christianity I never looked back, never had doubts and am not plagued by voices telling me I was wrong. The closest I've ever come is using the phrase "bless you" or Jesus as a swearword on occasion.

I dropped the "bless you" with no problem, I still proclaim on occasion, "jesus fucking christ!". The one I miss though, because I have yet to find a good replacement, is "what on god's green earth were you thinking?".
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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Is there some reason you can't keep saying it?
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
Religious Views: He gay

0/10

Hammy Wrote:and we also have a sheep on our bed underneath as well
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
I hope everyone realizes when I use religious imagery in an exclamation I am either doing it ironically, sarcastically, or both.

Or sometimes, just to be funny.

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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 11, 2016 at 8:26 pm)Losty Wrote: Is there some reason you can't keep saying it?

Just principles.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
As a painter of language, I feel no compunction in using whatever words seem apposite to the situation at hand. Especially if I can make the reader google them to find out what they mean.
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: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
Yeah it's always fun making people do that. Then on the other hand I really ought to eschew obfuscation more often.
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
creomit
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 11, 2016 at 9:45 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Yeah it's always fun making people do that. Then on the other hand I really ought to eschew obfuscation more often.
Not gonna tempt me Big Grin you either Stimbo Wink
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 11, 2016 at 9:55 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: creomit
Or you Big Grin

I shall return, interphrastically.
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