Hey, Shai, thanks for stopping by. I hope you like what we've done with the place.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
Hello Everyone
|
Hey, Shai, thanks for stopping by. I hope you like what we've done with the place.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
(May 9, 2017 at 9:45 pm)Shai Hulud Wrote: I'm a Catholic who probably should hang out more on Catholic forums, but another atheist board is my primary escape from it due to politics and...excessive piety? Is that the polite way to call people "holier than thou, more Catholic than the Pope, jerks"? I tend to enjoy a few different podcasts like God Awful Movies (I too, suffer an addiction to bad Evangelical cinema), Scathing Atheist, and The Thinking Atheist; some of the older episodes of the latter, with topics like the Satanic Panic and Harry Potter fears remind me a great deal of growing up as a Baptist, prior to leaving that faith. I'd love to say I had some grand reason for leaving it behind, but it was a series of smaller things that just snowballed; there's a long story there. Suffice to say on the short version: Assistant Pastor did a Night of the Long Knives to get himself promoted on the membership rolls, purged things like the volunteer librarian and church library (verbatim quote, "Nobody reads any more"), and skipped the wedding rehearsal of my cousin to officiate a high school football game...and that was just part of his stuff. There were contemporary vs. traditional worship wars, a woman wanting to, quite literally, burn books at a rummage sale, and being told by the worship band that prayer wasn't as important as setting up finger foods. Nothing to apologize for. I was enjoying it so much I cried when it was over. Looking forward to the second installment. (May 9, 2017 at 10:29 pm)Shai Hulud Wrote:I didn't see any snarkiness at all. Either you are very good at moderating yourself or I'm used to the theist or two that go beyond snarkiness here. The former, I'm pretty sure.(May 9, 2017 at 10:01 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Welcome aboard. Sent from my LGL52VL using Tapatalk
Hello from Tennessee!
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (May 10, 2017 at 1:18 am)Mamacita Wrote: Hmmmm this one might be ok. I'll sit over here in my cynical chair for a bit and observe. Nice enough to deserve a baby carrot. Here. (Hands over the bag). Thanks for the carrot and the welcome, I'll try to be okay! (May 10, 2017 at 6:06 am)ukatheist Wrote: Hi Shai, nice to see you over here. There are quite a few people here on TTA too. Hey ukatheist, nice to see you too! And thanks for saying I'm one of the good ones. (You know, I never noticed how often I link stuff in posts until hitting this 30 day and 30 post rule.) (May 10, 2017 at 7:10 am)Alex K Wrote: Welcome! They did! And now to geek out some...it was neat to see how the Atreides survivors used that to their advantage, and we see that Paul is declared to fit the messianic definitions of the Kwisatz Haderach, in addition to the legends the Bene Gesserit had already laid out about a mother and child seeking safety. Then Paul's son becomes God Emperor...but neither of them, we find out in the post Frank Herbert books, was the real Kwisatz Haderach. So all that religious mania, all those jihads, all that worship...it was all for a lie. Also if memory serves, the BGs compiled the Orange Catholic Bible that was in use at the time of the Corrino dynasty. (May 10, 2017 at 7:12 am)chimp3 Wrote: Welcome! Thanks! (May 10, 2017 at 7:37 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Howdy, Woof. Thank you! (May 10, 2017 at 9:06 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: 'Sup, Shai? Pull up a chair. Thumpalumpacus, hiya. And not much, I was terribly bored the other night, so since AF kept popping up on TTA, thought I'd give it a look around. Now though, just replying before beginning to grade some Finals. (Well, some more Finals...actually pretty fortunate. My colleague in the next office decided to have no exams, only papers, and has 440 pages worth of stuff to read carefully and comment on, whereas I have about a thousand pages of multiple choice questions to go through...and I unintentionally made 2 sections answers almost entirely A. For which one of the students who feels comfortable around me jokingly said, "You made them all A? What sort of sick bastard are you?") (May 10, 2017 at 9:19 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Hey, Shai, thanks for stopping by. I hope you like what we've done with the place. Thanks Mister Agenda! It looks like a pretty nice place. Must admit to holding my tongue in another intro thread when someone said a Christian forum would kick off atheists really quick though. One Catholic board I'm on has had an atheist poster since 2006, and he's not banned yet. Do you mind if I inquire, what is the agenda? Is it the....atheist agenda...that all the Evangelical megachurch leaders insist is real? (May 10, 2017 at 9:35 am)Whateverist Wrote: Nothing to apologize for. I was enjoying it so much I cried when it was over. Looking forward to the second installment. Thanks Whateverist! I'll try to continue contributing something decent. Fun other story I think you all can appreciate, which might not go over the best with some of my co-religionists. It's not exactly mainstream, but there is a charismatic movement inside of the Catholic Church, a lot like the Pentecostalism that's in a lot of "non-denominational" churches these days. Some friends convinced me to go with them to a Night of Worship in grad school and be prayed over by this Franciscan priest with terribly bad breath. Every person in front of me in the line had fallen backwards into the arms of the "catchers" after being prayed over due to being 'slain in the Spirit' if my terminology is correct, so it was a bit nerve wracking. My turn arrives, the priest raises his hand to my forehead and prays, and says Amen. I stand there, he stands there, after a few seconds I go, "So...now what Father? Do I go back to my pew and pray?" He decided I should, and seemed a bit upset, he'd never had someone fail to fall backwards before like that. Got stares all the way back to the pew too. (May 10, 2017 at 10:58 am)Industrial Lad Wrote: I didn't see any snarkiness at all. Either you are very good at moderating yourself or I'm used to the theist or two that go beyond snarkiness here. The former, I'm pretty sure.Thanks, appreciate that. (May 10, 2017 at 12:43 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Hello from Tennessee! Hi Steel Curtain! Hello from Wisconsin, land of cheese, beer, and disturbingly high levels of Creationism! (In all seriousness, we had a Christian group on campus bring in a speaker from the Wisconsin Creation Education Center the other year to tell everyone how evolution doesn't exist.) Thanks for the welcome! (May 10, 2017 at 1:05 pm)Aegon Wrote: Welcome! Thanks for the welcome Aegon! (May 10, 2017 at 2:34 pm)Shai Hulud Wrote:(May 10, 2017 at 9:35 am)Whateverist Wrote: Nothing to apologize for. I was enjoying it so much I cried when it was over. Looking forward to the second installment. *applause* Glad you stood your ground. Do I know you by any other name? I spend a little time over at TTA.
Welcome!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
(May 10, 2017 at 3:03 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(May 10, 2017 at 2:34 pm)Shai Hulud Wrote: Thanks Whateverist! I'll try to continue contributing something decent. Fun other story I think you all can appreciate, which might not go over the best with some of my co-religionists. It's not exactly mainstream, but there is a charismatic movement inside of the Catholic Church, a lot like the Pentecostalism that's in a lot of "non-denominational" churches these days. Some friends convinced me to go with them to a Night of Worship in grad school and be prayed over by this Franciscan priest with terribly bad breath. Every person in front of me in the line had fallen backwards into the arms of the "catchers" after being prayed over due to being 'slain in the Spirit' if my terminology is correct, so it was a bit nerve wracking. My turn arrives, the priest raises his hand to my forehead and prays, and says Amen. I stand there, he stands there, after a few seconds I go, "So...now what Father? Do I go back to my pew and pray?" He decided I should, and seemed a bit upset, he'd never had someone fail to fall backwards before like that. Got stares all the way back to the pew too. Thanks And nope, it would just be this name over there for about a year or so. It wasn't as much standing my ground though as "Okay, not feeling anything but awkward now..." (May 10, 2017 at 3:15 pm)Fireball Wrote: Welcome! Thanks Fireball! Shai Hulud Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:Hey, Shai, thanks for stopping by. I hope you like what we've done with the place. I like when people participate in their own threads. I imagine the criticism about Christian boards applies more to fundagelical boards than to Catholics. The name hasn't much significance. The first board I was on was the Hero Games Discussion Board, and I thought Doctor Agenda sounded super-villain-ish. I modified it a little for this board (I don't actually have a doctorate) and mainly kept it because I can be a little naïve and forget that sometimes people have hidden agendas, my handle reminds me of that when I think of it. There's something to the 'atheist agenda' though in that there's a combination of things most atheists in America at least tacitly support: separation of government and religion, equal treatment of atheists in the eyes of the law; and education, science, and reasonable skepticism. Of course you don't have to be an atheist to support all those things and some atheists don't support all, or even any, of them.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
|
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Possibly Related Threads... | |||||
Thread | Author | Replies | Views | Last Post | |
Hello, everyone | Rolls | 21 | 1949 |
June 27, 2020 at 9:31 am Last Post: Fireball |
|
Hello Everyone! | Chicken | 33 | 2991 |
December 25, 2018 at 10:57 pm Last Post: Peebothuhlu |
|
Hello Everyone :) , { Just an ape trying to socialize } | Enlightened Ape | 31 | 6552 |
April 24, 2018 at 1:22 pm Last Post: Enlightened Ape |
|
Hello Everyone! | rskovride | 15 | 2454 |
February 21, 2018 at 5:45 am Last Post: ignoramus |
|
Hello Everyone! | Driggs | 22 | 3133 |
April 12, 2017 at 10:29 pm Last Post: c172 |
|
Hello everyone | account_inactive | 25 | 4354 |
April 12, 2017 at 9:55 am Last Post: Brian37 |
|
Hello Everyone! | Flavius | 9 | 1503 |
March 30, 2017 at 6:54 pm Last Post: TheoneandonlytrueGod |
|
Hello everyone | Yoo | 11 | 2706 |
August 29, 2016 at 12:11 pm Last Post: account_inactive |
|
Hello to everyone | Wryetui | 23 | 5056 |
May 4, 2016 at 9:27 pm Last Post: ignoramus |
|
Hello Everyone! | Jonpolley | 15 | 4186 |
April 16, 2016 at 8:59 am Last Post: Little lunch |