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Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
Quote:I've given Kudos to Christians with whom I adamantly disagree, if they make a post that is insightful, honest, and/or well-written

So have I..... on those exceedingly rare occasions where they say something that isn't totally asinine.  It was a child-rearing technique:  catch them doing something good and praise them for it.


For catholicks, child-rearing techniques are a whole different animal.
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 10, 2016 at 5:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:I've given Kudos to Christians with whom I adamantly disagree, if they make a post that is insightful, honest, and/or well-written

So have I..... on those exceedingly rare occasions where they say something that isn't totally asinine.  It was a child-rearing technique:  catch them doing something good and praise them for it.


For catholicks, child-rearing techniques are a whole different animal.

Mini who said that? And where? There's this cool quoting feature...
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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Hammy Wrote:and we also have a sheep on our bed underneath as well
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 10, 2016 at 5:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: For catholicks, child-rearing techniques are a whole different animal.

Evangelicals are as bad. Only not that organised. There have been quite few incidents of child molseting, holidays with gay hookers, while preaching the anti gay gospel, and even attempted dog fucking. Only this last year.
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 10, 2016 at 5:46 pm)Losty Wrote:
(May 10, 2016 at 5:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So have I..... on those exceedingly rare occasions where they say something that isn't totally asinine.  It was a child-rearing technique:  catch them doing something good and praise them for it.


For catholicks, child-rearing techniques are a whole different animal.

Mini who said that? And where? There's this cool quoting feature...

https://atheistforums.org/thread-42987-p...pid1271361
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 10, 2016 at 6:40 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:
(May 10, 2016 at 5:46 pm)Losty Wrote: Mini who said that? And where? There's this cool quoting feature...

https://atheistforums.org/thread-42987-p...pid1271361

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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: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 10, 2016 at 1:15 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Why there's a controversy about the "proper" use of Kudos is beyond me.

Allow me to answer your question with two images, TRS:

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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 10, 2016 at 1:47 pm)Losty Wrote: When Squishy kudoses me I always assume it means he's giving my butt a cyber squeeze.

Everytime I see "squishy', it brings this to mind.



You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
Well that was creepy
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
Religious Views: He gay

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Hammy Wrote:and we also have a sheep on our bed underneath as well
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
It was a truly bizarre series. I loved it.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
(May 10, 2016 at 7:14 pm)Losty Wrote: Well that was creepy

It has been a little creepier here lately than usual . . .


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 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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