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Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 10, 2014 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2014 at 5:02 pm by StealthySkeptic.)
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2014/...r-gay-sex/
EDITED because I keep getting Pat and Phil Robertson confused. But this is still one of the best Patheos blogs I've ever read.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
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RE: Pat Robertson Taken Down
September 10, 2014 at 5:00 pm
 I can't believe such a stupid fucker is rich and famous.
(I should point out this is Phil Roberston--the guy known for spewing stupid religious bullshit and not Pat Roberston--the guy known for spewing stupid religious bullshit.)
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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RE: Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 10, 2014 at 5:43 pm
"This is not love. You cannot love people while ignoring everything they tell you about themselves. You are not loving people when you refuse to listen to their stories. You are not loving them well when you decide before hearing them that you already know all that you need to know about them, overruling their own self-descriptions and self-identifications because you are convinced you know better than they do what’s going on inside of them. When you continually speak of people in terms to which they cannot agree, you are not showing them respect or validating them as real people."
This quote was originally from the "Godless in Dixie" review of "God's Not Dead": http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindi...-not-dead/
But I think it applies equally well here.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
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RE: Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 10, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Quote: I keep getting Pat and Phil Robertson
Easy to do.
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RE: Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 10, 2014 at 6:01 pm
I can't wait until the popularity of these idiots fizzles out...it always does around reality "celebrities."
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RE: Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 10, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Quote:This is a god who thought the solution to gay sex wasn’t to make everybody straight or to make gay sex impossible, it was to introduce painful illnesses that cause incredible amounts of pain and suffering and affect everybody, straight or not (but lesbians a lot less) with no explanation for why aside from some piss ignorant hick who really hears god’s voice. This god is either an idiot, malicious as all hell, or both. Even if he exists, fuck him.
Variations of this basically wreck any assertion that god is both just and omnipotent.
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RE: Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 10, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Quote:But I’m thinking, well let’s see now. A clean guy — a disease-free guy and a disease-free woman — they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them. They’re not going to get chlamydia, and gonorrhea, and syphilis, and AIDS. It’s safe.
It seems as if he believes that engaging in gay sex can cause STDs to spontaneously occur.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the CDC doesn't have him on speed-dial.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 10, 2014 at 6:48 pm
If the CDC is the Chronic Dickheads for Christ, he's probably on the board of directors.
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RE: Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 11, 2014 at 10:16 am
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(September 10, 2014 at 6:30 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: Variations of this basically wreck any assertion that god is both just and omnipotent.
Yeah, that whole argument looks really stupid when it can be summed up as "God created AIDS to punish gays, which is why children can get it from blood transfusions".
I've never understood why people want to chalk these far-reaching things to divine wrath. They're perfectly fine with God punishing people with a giant mallet while blindfolded, catching others in the process instead of using the scalpel and microscope he supposedly has in his utility belt. I guess it is in keeping with such great stories of divine justice like the flood and the ten plagues, so, there's that.
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RE: Phil Robertson Taken Down
September 11, 2014 at 11:22 am
Phil Robertson taken down, stripped nekkid, butt fucked, and left in a ditch.
There, finished it off for you !!
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