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The Paradox of Power....
RE: The Paradox of Power....
Pope Francis speaks to a massive crowd on the National Mall, Washington, DC:

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Richard Dawkins speaks to a sparse crowd at the 2012 Reason Rally at the National Mall:

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Estimates of crowd size ranged from a paltry 8,000 to an generous high of 30,000.

(N.B.: God did not show up to dry the atheists off miraculously as He did at Fatima.)
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You'd think a mostly protestant country wouldn't care much for catholics, but it's closer than being an atheist.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The Paradox of Power....
(September 26, 2015 at 5:38 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Archaeological evidence contradicts all four stories that make up the foundations of the Bible

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/24...al-History

Archaeologists keep finding evidence that supports the Old and New Testaments; this find dates back 3,000 years or so:

Israeli archaeologists may have found fabled Maccabees tomb
By DANIEL ESTRIN
Sep. 21, 2015 4:32 PM EDT
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b2dd69492...abees-tomb
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RE: The Paradox of Power....
(September 26, 2015 at 6:21 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Pope Francis speaks to a massive crowd on the National Mall, Washington, DC:

[Image: CapitolPool12__B556DDE5C0F9499EBC9CAB0EA...dXgcyYUWUg]

Richard Dawkins speaks to a sparse crowd at the 2012 Reason Rally at the National Mall:

[Image: 300px-Reason_Rally-Crowd-3.JPG]

Estimates of crowd size ranged from a paltry 8,000 to an generous high of 30,000.

(N.B.: God did not show up to dry the atheists off miraculously as He did at Fatima.)

Yeah we know there are fewer atheists than Catholics.  Nor is Dawkins or anyone else the pope of atheism. 

And unlike Catholics atheists tend not to expect miraculous help.  Like to see this miraculous drying off bit though.  Last Fatima miracle I looked into turned out to be a common desert atmospheric condition plus eyestrain.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: The Paradox of Power....
(September 26, 2015 at 6:21 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Pope Francis speaks to a massive crowd on the National Mall, Washington, DC:

Richard Dawkins speaks to a sparse crowd at the 2012 Reason Rally at the National Mall:

Estimates of crowd size ranged from a paltry 8,000 to an generous high of 30,000.

(N.B.: God did not show up to dry the atheists off miraculously as He did at Fatima.)

I'm trying to figure out your point, here. Atheists aren't as fundamentalist about our claims as you've claimed, nor venerate Dawkins the way you have implied? That non-religion doesn't inspire fanatical devotion the way religion does?

I don't think you've really thought it through, pal.
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: The Paradox of Power....
I think a lot of "Catholics" could easily be brought around to atheism though tbh. I was raised in a Catholic community and hardly anyone my age was seriously into it.

Christianity is disappearing up its arse, outside America anyway. I bet it'll be a fringe minority in Europe in 100 years, you watch.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane"  - sarcasm_only

"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable."
- Maryam Namazie

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RE: The Paradox of Power....
Dawkins draws smaller crowds than Francis because rationality and skepticism are rarer qualities than credulity and ignorance.  Furthermore, crowd size is no indication of the merit or truth of what the speaker has to say:





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‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: The Paradox of Power....
To put it another way, if someone tells me Dawkins is speaking in D.C., I think, "Oh, that's neat."

If someone tells a Catholic the Pope is speaking in D.C., they go "ohmygod it's better than Bieber; drop everything, we have got to go to this!!"
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: The Paradox of Power....
(September 26, 2015 at 6:28 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Atheists aren't as fundamentalist about our claims as you've claimed, nor venerate Dawkins the way you have implied? That non-religion doesn't inspire fanatical devotion the way religion does?

And if they did then the theists would claim that atheism is just another religion.

I never really understood why theists keep saying that. Are they saying religion is a bad thing?
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RE: The Paradox of Power....
(September 26, 2015 at 6:25 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
(September 26, 2015 at 5:38 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Archaeological evidence contradicts all four stories that make up the foundations of the Bible

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/24...al-History

Archaeologists keep finding evidence that supports the Old and New Testaments; this find dates back 3,000 years or so:

Israeli archaeologists may have found fabled Maccabees tomb
By DANIEL ESTRIN
Sep. 21, 2015 4:32 PM EDT
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b2dd69492...abees-tomb

The problem is that places and people are not proof of supernatural occurrences. It just eans the embellished stories are based around real people and places, at best.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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