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So I'm sitting here at my parents' house...
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So I'm sitting here at my parents' house...
I am taking over the mortgage on my parents house here in TN. They are moving back to FL in July, and I'm going to move into their house when they leave.

I had to come over before work this morning to take care of some paperwork and other stuff, and I am eating breakfast before taking off for work. They are watching church on TV, which is apparently a new thing. Dr. Charles Stanley is the guy's name. I am eating my Cream of Wheat and listening to this man preach some of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. It's been over 15 years since I've set foot in a church. It was a bit of a shock.

The whole point of this sermon is that wavering faith is the reason Jesus doesn't do stuff for you. That a person whose faith is 'continuously waivering' is not doing Christianity right. Somehow, natural skepticism and reasoning is being vilified. I know in my head this is the kind of thing people believe. But, for the life of me, I cannot understand why as soon as this buffoon says "Reasoning oftentimes doesn't work with God, he is above all that," there isn't a mass exodus out of the super-mega-church complex. BAH!!! Panic

Dodgy
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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No surprise here, preachers discourage skepticism all the time. Doubt is the beginning of the path to enlightenment, and pastors will say anything to stop "Gods people" from embarking on that path.
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RE: So I'm sitting here at my parents' house...
I've tried unsuccesfully with Time Warner and Direct TV to get a discount by not having access to 15 or so Jesus channels.

Some of that shit is unintended comedy gold though. The sincerity with which they say the damndest things in order to separate people from their money must take significant effort.
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Always remember the wisdom of H. L. Mencken.

Quote:What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.
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RE: So I'm sitting here at my parents' house...
And of course the great Robert Ingersoll:

Quote:The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

Quote:Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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LOL they call him a "Dr." What's his Ph.D in? Bullshit? Suckering the dumbfounded?
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"Divinity" a/k/a "all of the above."
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Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?
-Esquilax

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*gag*@ Cream of Wheat.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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(June 8, 2014 at 12:38 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: LOL they call him a "Dr." What's his Ph.D in? Bullshit? Suckering the dumbfounded?

No, I think he went from a doctor of body to a doctor of soul, like Zakir Naik. Lol. He's probably a medical doctor.

Doublechecked, he has a PhD in theology.
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