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There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
#11
RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
God also doesn't know fuckall about politics!

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...or-office/


Quote:A List of All the Republican Presidential Candidates Who Thought God Wanted Them to Run for Office
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#12
RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
(October 6, 2016 at 5:48 pm)mcolafson Wrote: ok, it's a good story

But atheists do stupid things, too.
Is there a reason for it?
Or atheists do stupid things without a reason?

Show me 50 atheists, and I'll show you 50 different reasons why they do stupid things. But it will never be because they worship a god who told them to do it.

Sorry, but people who believe they are guided by an infallible deity don't have tu quoque as an option when they fuck up.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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#13
RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
(October 6, 2016 at 5:56 pm)mcolafson Wrote: did she get the horse?
No, but she got part of a horse.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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#14
RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
(October 7, 2016 at 3:47 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(October 6, 2016 at 5:56 pm)mcolafson Wrote: did she get the horse?
No, but she got part of a horse.

I think I saw that movie!
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#15
RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
(October 7, 2016 at 3:34 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(October 6, 2016 at 5:48 pm)mcolafson Wrote: ok, it's a good story

But atheists do stupid things, too.
Is there a reason for it?
Or atheists do stupid things without a reason?

Show me 50 atheists, and I'll show you 50 different reasons why they do stupid things. But it will never be because they worship a god who told them to do it.

Sorry, but people who believe they are guided by an infallible deity don't have tu quoque as an option when they fuck up.

o.k. but then these 50 atheists after they fuck up, turn to religion. Like Lighthouse.
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#16
RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
Sometimes we do .. And sometimes we realize one mistake doesn't justify another.

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#17
RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
Certainly, in the grand scheme of humanity, all humans generally do stupid things.

Religion, however, propagates this irrational idea whereby theists are allowed to be stupid because they have a belief in something that is not real.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
(October 7, 2016 at 6:53 pm)mcolafson Wrote:
(October 7, 2016 at 3:34 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Show me 50 atheists, and I'll show you 50 different reasons why they do stupid things. But it will never be because they worship a god who told them to do it.

Sorry, but people who believe they are guided by an infallible deity don't have tu quoque as an option when they fuck up.

o.k. but then these 50 atheists after they fuck up, turn to religion. Like Lighthouse.
Some do, but I did just the opposite. I saw that religion was fuckin up and turned to atheism. Seen more religious fuck ups than atheist. Most likely because atheists don't follow a book that tells them to fuck up.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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#19
RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
When I make an unutterably stupid mistake, I have no need to turn to religion. I have a wife who is perfectly happy to point out my errors in judgement.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: There's a Reason Why Christians do Stupid Things
(October 6, 2016 at 8:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They do whatever the fuck they wanted to do.  "God" is just an excuse.

Exactly. People do what God tells them to do, as long as they were going to do it anyway. I don't know how it could be any other way, since they are just talking to themselves. I guess sometimes they are talking to people from their past instead, who have drummed into them what God would say.

I can see how people who can't handle how brutal and unfair life can be need a way to justify it all. Religion offers "answers", although they are made up and don't even make sense. They actually end up making things even worse, if you stop to properly analyse them. People don't, I imagine, because they just want the pill.

Personally, I accept that such notions as "unfair" are just human value judgements. Reality is what it is. I have no need to make up stories to accept that.
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