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The Fear Card
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 (January 10, 2012 at 8:13 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Murder as many people as you like, you can go to heaven. Refuse to believe, you go to hell. Hitler = murderer Jews = nonbelievers Wow.
God is a personification of ourselves, what we wish to be, and that which we do not understand.
If I'm a murdering nonbeliever, does that mean I get sent to purgatory?
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan   RE: The Fear Card
January 16, 2012 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2012 at 2:50 pm by Xavier.)
[i]Murder as many people as you like, you can go to heaven. Refuse to believe, you go to hell.[/i]
This is the same nonsense I've got told by some Christians and they still have the nerve to claim that Jesus and the God of the Bible are the highest form of justice and goodness - a God that first and foremost only really cares if you love, worship and acknowledge him, and everything else you do is of trivial importance compared to that. That makes God and Jesus extremely vain and malevolent. tThe concept of hell doesn't scare me because I know its all BS anyway but I guess it could intimidate some agnostics RE: The Fear Card
January 16, 2012 at 4:39 pm
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2012 at 4:40 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(January 16, 2012 at 2:50 pm)Xavier Wrote: The concept of hell doesn't scare me because I know its all BS anyway Think about it for a minute. 'Hell' I mean. If you think about it without prejudice (I know, I know, that's impossible to expect from a Xtian...) Hell is sooo much more appealing than Heaven! All the interesting people go to Hell. All the party lovers. All the horny broads...! Etc. etc. So guess what they all will be doing all day everyday, into eternity!  Party time! Shame hell is fake too, isn't it?   Gets my vote Rokcet...see you there?? 
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
 (January 15, 2012 at 10:08 am)Napo Wrote: I have a feeling houseofcantor would be a brilliant public speaker.Thanks.  "Blue Suns mercenary" is representative of the Blue Suns faction as will in expression of becoming; mine is an active faith. Atheists usually cringe at the word, faith; but there ain't no shorter way to tell it at this time. When I get back east, I intend to form a crew and go live; that faction might have a different name. I was thinking of writing to Electronic Arts: Since we all know EA stands for Evil, Ascendant; how would you like to support the Blue Suns faction of atheism as a corporate sponsor? Whadda think? ![[Image: twQdxWW.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2FtwQdxWW.jpg)
RE: The Fear Card
January 18, 2012 at 2:26 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2012 at 2:26 am by KichigaiNeko.)
Has possibilities
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
RE: The Fear Card
January 18, 2012 at 2:43 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2012 at 2:44 am by Rokcet Scientist.)
(January 18, 2012 at 2:43 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote:(January 17, 2012 at 8:37 am)houseofcantor Wrote: "Blue Suns mercenary" is representative of the Blue Suns faction as will in expression of becoming; Syntax error. If you conclude gibberish, there can be no meaning. If you merely wish to be insulting, try using some intelligence.
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