RE: Christian Parents Abuse their Children
November 22, 2017 at 4:29 am
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2017 at 4:30 am by Fake Messiah.)
(November 21, 2017 at 9:31 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 21, 2017 at 9:22 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Well I used to think that. If we're talking about personal experience then the thing that actually prompt me to be more active as an atheist is when I saw all those people you mention standing up against gay marriage with no other reason but because they heard it from their priests. Not just that but vile fairy tale stories about how wicked homosexuals are. It scared me, to be frank, because who knows who is next. Jews? I tell you I became aware that there is something more disturbing in them under the surface.
What's your point? You may not agree with some theists' views on legalizing gay marriage (considering not all of us are against it), but that doesn't mean those individuals are abused, maladjusted people who can't make their way in the world.
Well there you go, it's not an abuse to forbid people to get married for no reason at all and discrimination is apparently thing of choice for some people and freedom for spreading total misinformation about gays. Now I said that was a starter for me a wake up moment, but you don't have to go further then this forum then to see Christians actually defending slavery.
There are some other things like stem cell research. Can you imagine yourself, CL, going to recently departed cancer patient 9-year-old Jacob Thompson and saying to him "Sorry my religion doesn't allow me to approve research so that you can be cured." but no. You people like you don't have scrupulous to do that and as any bully you'd somehow make yourself look like a victim.
Also I saw many cases of teenage girls getting pregnant (because lack of sex ed) and then either booted out of their homes or sent in places where they give birth to babies and then give them for an adoption.
And back to hate. Christians are not just brought up to hate gays but other christian denominations as well. No matter what a show few christian members of different denominations here put up for us, in reality they don't like each-other. For instance I remember neo scholastic explaining me how he has nothing against Catholics, like where did this hoax come by, as if other denominations didn't sprout because they hate Catholics. As an example Raymond D. Bradley a former baptist and a grandson of much-revered Baptist minister and evangelist writes that in his childhood his mother taught him that Roman Catholics are followers of "the whore of Rome" and are not true Christians. So even if neo scholastic for some accidental reason doesn't think that he heard it plenty.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
