(December 16, 2015 at 10:39 pm)Quantum Wrote: Those words from an ex con motorcycle building microbiologist! Evie, that you don't get every day!
Technically I was not a microbiologist, but an environmental scientist and field biologist for a regulatory agency.
I did work a semester in the genetics lab, in college, looking at the BAYV variant of the Hantavirus in rice rats (Oryzomys palustris)... ironically, it was the work of finding and trapping the rats to sample that gave me my love of field biology.
Not trying to be a jerk; I just don't want to let live any claims or assumptions that are not factual.
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.
