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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 1:43 pm
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(August 26, 2013 at 11:38 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: He was testing her faith/resolve if you read it. His initial reaction would have been typical for a Jewish holy man and no-one around him would have raised an eyelid. Jesus parable of the good Samaritan more than demonstrates his stance on the racial/ethnic equality of mankind you simply can't make the claim that he was a racist this is very easily refuted.
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm
Quote:The main problem with former Christians you see who lost all their faith is that the faith was purely emotional and culturally transmitted.
Horseshit.
You espouse a doctrine which was enforced through cultural oppression for centuries and now that you have lost that ability you see it going down the crapper.
Xtianity cannot survive the loss of the ability to kill non-believers. It is one reason the churches are emptying in Europe and starting to empty in the US. About fucking time, I say.
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 3:12 pm
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 3:43 pm
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(August 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Horseshit.
You espouse a doctrine which was enforced through cultural oppression for centuries and now that you have lost that ability you see it going down the crapper.
Xtianity cannot survive the loss of the ability to kill non-believers. It is one reason the churches are emptying in Europe and starting to empty in the US. About fucking time, I say.
No one needs your bullshit.
People who are (or who will become) well educated and care about what is actually true need a religion based on reason as much as emotion, faith and culture. Otherwise they will become atheists. Many people are culturally raised in their faith from birth and/or never question it but they have a simple faith that isn't under any challenge. The problem in Europe is state controlled churches/religion, belief in God isn't necessarily declining. Europes religious future could well be in Islam. Though I'd be about about pleased to see it as you will be. As long as it's Western/moderate Islam I suppose that's ok.
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 3:58 pm
(August 26, 2013 at 3:43 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: People who are (or who will become) well educated and care about what is actually true need a religion based on reason as much as emotion, faith and culture.
Let us know when you find one. I'll be over here, looking for hen's teeth. I figure it'll be a more fruitful search.
Quote:Otherwise they will become atheists.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 4:10 pm
Well of course its a bad thing. We eat babies, rape, steal, murder and serve Satan remember!
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 4:19 pm
(August 26, 2013 at 3:58 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Let us know when you find one. I'll be over here, looking for hen's teeth. I figure it'll be a more fruitful search.
I've found one here.
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Would you like me to find some more?
Quote:You say that like it's a bad thing.
I don't think the "unyielding despair" is a particularly good thing, but if you like it.
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 4:27 pm
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(August 26, 2013 at 4:19 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: I've found one here. What you've found is no where near as cool as this...
(August 26, 2013 at 4:19 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: I don't think the "unyielding despair" is a particularly good thing, but if you like it.
That's funny. I think the glass is half full...
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 4:31 pm
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(August 26, 2013 at 4:19 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: I don't think the "unyielding despair" is a particularly good thing, but if you like it.
How an idea makes you feel has no effect on if it is correct or not.
If a doctor tells you, you have cancer, you do not disbelieve that because you don't like the idea. Some people do disbelieve but only after the shock has worn off
And the sheer arrogance of that bloke in the video, I only had to watch 20 seconds until I got fed up. Five ways to look at god, worldviews, and he has the arrogance to put Christianity along side atheism, theism, deism. As though christianity is different to every other religion in that respect. Absolutely pathetic. Not to mention atheism is not a world view at all. It is a single position on the existence of a god/gods. It is a reaction to theist claims, nothing more. He also got the definition of atheism wrong, it does not mean, god does not exist, it means we do not believe that he does. That does not mean we believe he doesn't exist. Theism in general has not made its case. In court you are either guilty or not guilty, never innocent or not innocent. Just because you vote not guilty does not mean you think the person is innocent. Look at Ojay. The reason they voted not guilty is because the prosecution wasn't any good, there was not enough evidence to convict him so they voted not guilty. God or Infact any god is 'not guilty' of existing.
There, rant over.
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“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
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RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
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