RE: This Has to Stop
September 15, 2017 at 10:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2017 at 10:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 15, 2017 at 8:47 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The difference is that no one actually believes in The Great Pumpkin. But if I 100% think that God is real and that Jesus was God made man who came down and taught us things and died for us, of course I'm going to teach my child about Him.-and if someone -did- believe in the great pumpkin..then, suddenly, it wouldn't be disturbing anymore?
Quote:Its insulting and narrow minded that you say i will be abusing my future child and that you think my mom and dad abused me, just because you believe something different.-aaaand there's the hook. You're arguing a perceived insult, not the proposition itself. Not my mommy! Not my daddy! Yes, your mommy and daddy convinced you that the great pumpkin was real so effectively that you plan to do the same to children, yourself.
Quote:I don't think Mohammed or Buddha or Joseph Smith were anything more than completely regular men, and I think their stories are completely false, but i would never call Muslims, Buddhists, or Mormons child abusers for conveying to their children the religious belief that they fully believe are true.Because their lie exposes your own, and that of your parents. However, you're comfortable with tossing The Great Pumpkin under the bus. This is mystifying, since great pumpkin belief does not seem to coincide with militant pumpkinism....or faithful pumpkin bigotry.
To my knowledge there are no Pumpkin Earth Creationists. No Pumpkin dominionists. No Pumpkin Scientists using the power of pumpkin pryaer to heal their pumpkin illnesses..or that of their children. No pumpkin flock donating money to the Great Pumpkin Magesteria that then uses this money to shuffle around Pumpkin child predators. No Pumpkin Pro Life Activists, picketing girls on street corners with babykiller posters. No West PumpkinBoro Church.
Belief in the great pumpkin does not require the acceptance of human sacrifices and vicarious redemption...nor does it carry with it threat or implications of consequence for failure to have faith- or that the lack of faith is, in itself, a failure.
Great Pumpkinism is benign in -all- of the ways that your religion...and muslim's religion, and buddhist's religion, and mormom's religion....is not. But -it's- the fuckin weird one is it? The outlier. The thing that would make you wonder about the parents and the quality of the child's upbringing...........?
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