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RE: Intro
September 13, 2015 at 5:59 am
Seven years, eh? Curious to know how that happened. Sounds like a deconversion.
Me, I'm a recovering Christoholic, 22 years Jesus-free.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
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RE: Intro
September 13, 2015 at 9:13 am
Welcome.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Intro
September 13, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Yes, there was a deconversion. (I like how spell checkers still don't get that word.)
I was reared Christian; accepted Jesus as my personal savior at age 8; rededicated my life in middle-school; went to Christian high-schools followed by a Christian college (fortunately, an accredited one), where I met and married my spouse. I've been a church treasurer, adult sunday school teacher and eventually an elder. It was while I was an elder I admitted my disbelief.
Most of the aforementioned time, I had little or few doubts. However in the 8 years preceding my deconversion, I began to try to make my religious views jibe with reality as I perceived it. I failed. The bottom line was epistemological in nature. One should be able to find aspects of reality that justify beliefs about reality. I couldn't. Ergo, I am an atheist.
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RE: Intro
September 13, 2015 at 3:41 pm
Welcome, Tinker
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: Intro
September 13, 2015 at 4:01 pm
Welcome aboard, Tinker - or Tina, as my autocorrect wants me to say.
I think we already have a sailor, a soldier and at least one spy - now we've collected the whole Le Carré set.
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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RE: Intro
September 13, 2015 at 5:46 pm
Welcome Tinker Grey!
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: Intro
September 13, 2015 at 9:24 pm
Welcome to the forums
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
