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A conclusion about theists on this forum
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A conclusion about theists on this forum
Their only issue with the Holocaust is that it was Hitler and a his underlings ordering it and not god.
The reason is say this not because I think Christians are evil. There good people I know that Christian s despite that evil god. However to know this being ordered such heinous crimes and then to watch people like drich or ronedee try to justify it is sickening.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#2
RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
If you're trying to paint all believers with the same brush then fuck off.
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RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
(September 12, 2013 at 9:24 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you're trying to paint all believers with the same brush then fuck off.

I'll be blunt when I say that your one of the only Christians on here regularly that's doesn't try to justify genocide
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
Then I take it back, but try not to generalize so much. ;-)
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#5
RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
Well strictly speaking, there's not much - if anything - that one type of Abrahamic monotheist can say to another who commits atrocities. More specifically, given that there are atrocities in the Bible commanded by God unto the Israelites, you can't actually know that Loony Theist X isn't under God's instructions to do so for some higher purpose. I think Sam Harris pointed this out to William Lane Craig in their debate, and all that Craig mustered (if I remember correctly) was by saying that "Well, on atheism you have no basis for saying anything is evil."

Now I know all theists aren't Craig parrots (then again...), but it's not an easy criticism to brush off. It's a real epistemic and moral issue for theists.
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RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
I don't quite get it, they advocate past genocides that never happened by a deity that doesn't exist. I mean this isn't really outrageous in anything but it's silliness.
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RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
(September 12, 2013 at 11:51 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I don't quite get it, they advocate past genocides that never happened by a deity that doesn't exist. I mean this isn't really outrageous in anything but it's silliness.

It's more of the mindset that would advocate a genocide today, if the got the idea that their non-existent deity whispered the right words to them. Obviously, none of our local crackpots has any chance of being the next Hitler, but it's scary to know that there are people like that living among us.
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RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
(September 12, 2013 at 9:12 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Their only issue with the Holocaust is that it was Hitler and a his underlings ordering it and not god.
The reason is say this not because I think Christians are evil. There good people I know that Christian s despite that evil god. However to know this being ordered such heinous crimes and then to watch people like drich or ronedee try to justify it is sickening.

Ezekiel 22:28
King James Version (KJV)

28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.



Oh yeah, and fuck off too... Undecided
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RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
I don't understand what that quote means, can you please explain the point you think you just made?
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain

'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House

“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

"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
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RE: A conclusion about theists on this forum
(September 12, 2013 at 9:24 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you're trying to paint all believers with the same brush then fuck off.

If You say all nonbelievers go to hell, then shut the fuck up if we paint you with whatever insulting brush that pleases us.
Now go intuit the meaning of shove yourself up your own ass.

(September 12, 2013 at 9:33 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:
(September 12, 2013 at 9:24 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you're trying to paint all believers with the same brush then fuck off.

I'll be blunt when I say that your one of the only Christians on here regularly that's doesn't try to justify genocide

The overweening puddle of mental diarrhea informs us we are all going to hell, which is morally equivalent to wishing for genocide but wanting to be taken for a good man simply because he lacked the means.
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