Four kids & mom of Catholic family die in a house fire.

[Faith No More]

"No one deserves to die."

But apparently if they're Catholic they deserve to be ridiculed when they do.

[Jehanne]

"No one deserves to die."

But apparently if they're Catholic they deserve to be ridiculed when they do.

I deplore the loss of life in that tragedy, and I am not ridiculing them; rather, I am ridiculing their moronic beliefs.  And, yes, I think that religious faith does correlate with overall levels of stupidity.

[Whateverist]

Uh wood stoves on the second floor have nothing to do with Catholicism or political affiliation lol.

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No.

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Ah I see. 

You're using this horrible tragedy as a way to bash Catholicism by saying they died because they're stupid because they're Catholic. 

Sickening.

Religion is a sickness, Catholicism in particular.  I have more respect for a typical drug user; at least they admit that theirs is a chemical fantasy as opposed to an intellectual one.

Personally I find bigotry and the need to persecute a group of people you don't know as being all the same and deserving of your mistreatment to be a sickness and reprehensible.  I condemn it.

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And, as we all know, the less educated you are, the more likely you are to believe in dumb religious ideas: that every issue is black, white and simple.

Fixed that for you. Care to parade out your outstanding educational credentials which have led you to shit post this way?

[Thumpalumpacus]

"No one deserves to die."

But apparently if they're Catholic they deserve to be ridiculed when they do.

I deplore the loss of life in that tragedy, and I am not ridiculing them; rather, I am ridiculing their moronic beliefs.  And, yes, I think that religious faith does correlate with overall levels of stupidity.

You've yet to show that their faith is a cause in their deaths; indeed, you've acknowledged that you'll have to await reports from the investigation simply to see if your premise holds water ... yet here you are, quadrupling down.

Religious faith often warrants ridicule, but using a tragedy like this as a springboard indicates to me an essential absence of empathy in you. Change "Catholic" to "atheist", and insert yourself as the surviving father. How would you feel reading a similar thread on a Christian forum?

[Joods]

I deplore the loss of life in that tragedy, and I am not ridiculing them; rather, I am ridiculing their moronic beliefs.  And, yes, I think that religious faith does correlate with overall levels of stupidity.

You've yet to show that their faith is a cause in their deaths; indeed, you've acknowledged that you'll have to await reports from the investigation simply to see if your premise holds water ... yet here you are, quadrupling down.

Religious faith often warrants ridicule, but using a tragedy like this as a springboard indicates to me an essential absence of empathy in you. Change "Catholic" to "atheist", and insert yourself as the surviving father. How would you feel reading a similar thread on a Christian Catholic forum?

ftfy.

[FatAndFaithless]

I deplore the loss of life in that tragedy, and I am not ridiculing them; rather, I am ridiculing their moronic beliefs.  And, yes, I think that religious faith does correlate with overall levels of stupidity.

You've yet to show that their faith is a cause in their deaths; indeed, you've acknowledged that you'll have to await reports from the investigation simply to see if your premise holds water ... yet here you are, quadrupling down.

Religious faith often warrants ridicule, but using a tragedy like this as a springboard indicates to me an essential absence of empathy in you. Change "Catholic" to "atheist", and insert yourself as the surviving father. How would you feel reading a similar thread on a Christian forum?

Yeah...using a tragedy as an opportunity to ridicule an utterly unrelated facet of the victim's character or beliefs reflects more on the one doing the ridiculing.  Imagine if there was a terrible car accident that killed a pedestrian bystander...then Jehanne says something like "The pedestrian was a Trump supporter and supporting Trump is moronic."

[Thumpalumpacus]

You've yet to show that their faith is a cause in their deaths; indeed, you've acknowledged that you'll have to await reports from the investigation simply to see if your premise holds water ... yet here you are, quadrupling down.

Religious faith often warrants ridicule, but using a tragedy like this as a springboard indicates to me an essential absence of empathy in you. Change "Catholic" to "atheist", and insert yourself as the surviving father. How would you feel reading a similar thread on a Christian Catholic forum?

ftfy.

Nah, not really. The principle is attaching any faith to this tragedy is wrong. Hell, it could be a Ford Mustang forum, and it would still be horseshit. Where the shitty thinking is expressed doesn't change the fact that it's shitty "thinking".

[Joods]

ftfy.

Nah, not really. The principle is attaching any faith to this tragedy is wrong. Hell, it could be a Ford Mustang forum, and it would still be horseshit. Where the shitty thinking is expressed doesn't change the fact that it's shitty "thinking".

Oh I agree with you, but since Jehanne was on a Catholic bashing spree, I thought it rather fit the question you posed.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Nah, not really. The principle is attaching any faith to this tragedy is wrong. Hell, it could be a Ford Mustang forum, and it would still be horseshit. Where the shitty thinking is expressed doesn't change the fact that it's shitty "thinking".

Oh I agree with you, but since Jehanne was on a Catholic bashing spree, I thought it rather fit the question you posed.

I'm guessing that Catholics were simply the target of opportunity in this case.

[abaris]

Oh I agree with you, but since Jehanne was on a Catholic bashing spree, I thought it rather fit the question you posed.

I'm not offering any new insights here, but the gist of the story was them being rather poor. Which is totally unrelated to their faith and has everything to do with them needing a wood stove to heat their house and not being able to afford any smoke detectors or other fire precautions.

The whole thing is on the same lines as some moron asking me in a very hot summer with many heat casualties among the elderly, why they hadn't got air conditioning. Uhm, maybe because stuff like that costs money?