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Four kids & mom of Catholic family die in a house fire.
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RE: Four kids & mom of Catholic family die in a house fire.
(March 7, 2017 at 9:32 pm)Aroura Wrote: Even if you could link their deaths to their religion (and really, I don't think you can), that's victim blaming at it's lowest.  This is no different than saying overweight people are asking to die of heart attacks and diabetes, or that gay people deserve AIDS.

P.S. CL, I knew there was no correlation, of course, it was a rhetorical question meant to point out how stupid it was to act like tragedy this had anything to do with their religion.  Internet sarcasm fail, I guess.

NO ONE deserves to die.  Do you remember my posting on the upcoming four double executions in Arkansas?!  As for overweight people, yes, some have poor diets, but for others, their condition is almost entirely genetic.  Apples & Oranges if it turns out that this home did not have any smoke alarms, and, I suspect, from the press reports, that it did not.

But, yes, religion (and, let's face it, these people were almost certainly religious -- it was the press, not I, that portrayed them as a "Catholic family with 5 children"!  Re-read the original articles) numbs one's critical-thinking skills by getting people to believe, even halfheartedly, that there's a invisible Sky Daddy whose looking out for them, or that there are invisible fairies and/or unicorns running about the neighborhood, where demons and/or witches abound, not to mention virgin births!  And, let's not forget the crackers that are allegedly turning into the Body & Soul of the Creator of the Cosmos!  Gee, who could profess to believe those ideas, and yet, still think critically, at least while driving, knowing (as I do) that the conversation of energy and/or momentum are absolute facts of nature, hence, life!  Or, who would know, with beliefs like those, of the color temperature relationship of the Universe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature

which means that a house fire is pretty fucking hot!!  But, with fairies and/or unicorns clouding one's mind, who has time to think of that!  By the way, I have smoke detectors on every floor of my home; even installed an additional one that the fire department neglected to install.  And, I have a large fire extinguisher in my basement; it's big and red!

But, gee, with all of these supernatural shenanigans going on, who would worry or not if they had working smoke detectors in their homes?!  Well, some would, some wouldn't.  I guess that it's all statistical, kind of like Nature herself/itself, in that some people can tolerate cognitive dissonance a helluva of lot better than others can!  Ditto for alcohol, I suppose, but in the end, everyone probably has his/her "limit".
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RE: Four kids & mom of Catholic family die in a house fire. - by Jehanne - March 7, 2017 at 9:50 pm

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