(April 11, 2016 at 10:23 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I'm a republican. Just saying.
What's wrong with being a Republican? I said conservative, in the modern sense of the word. Frankly, I'd like to see more people in the GOP who have read a book not penned by their own circle-jerk apologetics factories, who understand what science actually is, and who don't base their ideas about racial relations on the notion that anything other than full-on Klan activities isn't racist. The USA is dangerously right-skewed, politically, compared to the rest of the modern world, to the point that most of our "centrist" Democrats would be considered conservative by a wide measure in any other democracy (I would count Hillary Clinton in that group.)
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.
