RE: Religion's affect outside of religion
September 22, 2015 at 7:33 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2015 at 7:34 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(September 22, 2015 at 5:48 pm)Godschild Wrote:(September 22, 2015 at 12:36 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: How is "I am a former evolutionary biologist and my fiancee, who is a devout Christian, still is one" bragging about myself?
You're going to sit here and try to tell me that you know working, publishing biologists who are Creationists?
Listen thick headed dude, I said nothing about what type of scientist they were in either post, your reading things into posts to satisfy your own ego. Your bragging that you know more about the Bible than any other Christian and I'd bet there are some here who know much more. See.
GC
No, you listen, "thick headed dude", only a biologist would be qualified to speak on the veracity of evolutionary biology. So I presumed they were biologists because I didn't want to presume that you'd be so dishonest as to cite (for instance) an engineer as an expert on evolution any more than I'd cite a biologist as an expert qualified to make statements about engineering.
Forgive me for offering you the benefit of the doubt. My mistake!
And since you're getting so harpy on what was and wasn't read into a post, for the sake of ego, let's be really fucking clear right now.
I didn't say "than any other Christian". I said "one of the only Christians I know who knows the Bible as well as I do". (Emphasis mine.)
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.
