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December 1, 2014 at 2:04 pm
LOL! Totally misread it!
'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: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 2:05 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 2:01 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: (December 1, 2014 at 11:53 am)Losty Wrote: Really? You can't just say hello and welcome?
I'm always skeptical about the intentions of new members
This is the Intro forum, so I don't care about your skepticism; keep it in your pants. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 2:10 pm
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Welcome.
That's the thing about religious forums. If you question or criticise their beliefs they'll ban you or accuse you of blasphemy.
Here, we'll argue with you like mad and there will likely be name calling but we'll usually move on.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 2:11 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 2:10 pm)Beccs Wrote: Welcome.
That's the thing about religious forums. If you question or criticise their beliefs they'll ban you or accuse you of blasphemy.
Here, we'll argue with you like mad and there will likely be name calling but we'll move usually move on.
Stupid crazy lady with a scalpel...
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 2:16 pm
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(December 1, 2014 at 2:11 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: (December 1, 2014 at 2:10 pm)Beccs Wrote: Welcome.
That's the thing about religious forums. If you question or criticise their beliefs they'll ban you or accuse you of blasphemy.
Here, we'll argue with you like mad and there will likely be name calling but we'll move usually move on.
Stupid crazy lady with a scalpel...
Idiotic Natalie Dormer smirk.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 4:27 pm
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(December 1, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: LOL! Totally misread it!
No problemo. I'm glad the confusion is cleared-up, because people would think I am pretty silly for claiming to be an intellectual when I'm obviously not. I try my best not to sound like a cotton headed ninny muggins, but I'm not always successful. 
(December 1, 2014 at 1:31 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: You sound like someone who can offer perspective. I think you will be great here.
Hi, Lemonvariable72. Your avatar suggests that you are a Christian. If that is the case, what do you think about the Christian forum accusing me of blasphemy and flaming for explaining that I thought Christianity and Judaism were both false based on historical evidence? How is that blasphemy? Surely every Christian is aware that some people don't believe. That shouldn't offend them IMO.
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 4:50 pm
Lemon is a Christian?
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December 1, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Not to scare you off your path or anything, but searching for evidence has made many an atheist.
When you start reading the bible and make an attempt to corroborate what you read with reality, history, the beginnings of writing, the origin of humans, the origin of life, the origin of Earth, the origin of the universe, and the ideas and morphology of gods, you'll start chipping away at Christianity. Often the bible IS falsifiable. Until you're left with just God; the guy whose entire existence hinges on the Bible's veracity.
I found that doubting and proving false the bible was much easier than letting go of my personal relationship with God. Still, it fell like dominos once I realized God wasn't a meta-man in Heaven/everywhere, but a theory of mind that existed in its entirety and uniqueness in my head alone.
The nice thing about being on this side of theism is blasphemy has no meaning!
So, welcome Watchamadoodle. I implore you to blaspheme away!
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: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 5:02 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 4:27 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: (December 1, 2014 at 1:31 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: You sound like someone who can offer perspective. I think you will be great here.
Hi, Lemonvariable72. Your avatar suggests that you are a Christian. If that is the case, what do you think about the Christian forum accusing me of blasphemy and flaming for explaining that I thought Christianity and Judaism were both false based on historical evidence? How is that blasphemy? Surely every Christian is aware that some people don't believe. That shouldn't offend them IMO.
Lemon isn't a Christian hehe. I will say that even if it doesn't offend them, it's still blasphemy. As far as I know blasphemy is any written or oral reproach of god.
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 5:39 pm
I like it when you say "oral reproach." 
"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."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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