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March 26, 2015 at 4:25 am
I've just about had it with 'Questions' threads. You know the sort - 'Questions for Atheists', 'Questions for Christians', 'Questions for Left-Handed Buddhists Who Walk With A Limp' and so on. In lieu of questions, questions, questions, here's the Answers thread. Post the answers to questions you're tired of hearing - just the answers. Then, in future, when some new passer-by to the board who has just read the Wikipedia entry on 'Religion' and thinks that qualifies them as an expert posts tired old questions we've all heard hundreds of times, simply refer them here and tell them to take their pick.
Here are my own top three:
1. Because translation shouldn't matter.
2. Because I'm not obligated to pay attention to lunatics.
3. Then don't marry one. Sheesh.
Boru
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March 26, 2015 at 4:40 am
4. That's because you didn't wash your hands properly.
5. It's because the mind can perform some incredible trickery.
6. That sort of pain is the result of listening to men who wear frocks and silly hats.
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March 26, 2015 at 4:44 am
(March 26, 2015 at 4:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 2. Because I'm not obligated to pay attention to lunatics.
I think you should definitely pay attention to lunatics otherwise they can end up in the oval office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHmiiggsUHQ
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March 26, 2015 at 4:45 am
7. Why on earth should I?!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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March 26, 2015 at 5:06 am
(March 26, 2015 at 4:44 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: (March 26, 2015 at 4:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 2. Because I'm not obligated to pay attention to lunatics.
I think you should definitely pay attention to lunatics otherwise they can end up in the oval office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHmiiggsUHQ
Who sits in the oval office is slightly less important to me than a cloudy day.
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March 26, 2015 at 5:08 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2015 at 5:08 am by robvalue.)
8. Because I'm not extremely gullible.
9. Because that's a logical fallacy, the same one you've been using all evening and I've pointed out every time.
10. Because you don't know what atheism means despite me explaining it over and over.
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March 26, 2015 at 5:22 am
11. Because fuck you, that's why.
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March 26, 2015 at 5:23 am
12. Because you didn't pay attention in school.
13. Because you were brainwashed as a child.
14. Because your parents are closely related...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
