RE: Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.
September 10, 2015 at 12:30 am
(September 10, 2015 at 12:12 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The only one of those I agree with is making abortion illegal, since it's the killing of an innocent human life. Can't say I've heard any politician in the US say contraception, gay sex, and pre marital sex being illegal though. Are you sure that's what they meant?
A US Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, has openly suggested that the First Amendment was never intended to protect atheists against discrimination (he called the idea "absurd"), but only to keep one sect of Christianity from overpowering another.
As far as the rest of that, I've already posted links to anti-fornication laws, laws against marital infidelity, and anti-sodomy laws. Many of these old laws, based on Christianity-originated legislation, are being struck down, recently, but the point is that they existed in the first place because of Christian legislators and lobbyists. Since the invention of birth control methods, there have been various attempts to combat that, as well, including recent ones in which GOP candidates try to pander to their religious base, but people seem to enjoy baby-free sex a bit too much for it to take hold for the most part.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
