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Religious claims that get under your skin
#21
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
Presuppositionalism is a travesty of logic, and once you fall into it, no one else can help you out of it, because you pulled the hole in after you on your way down. You have to dig yourself out or stay buried, and I've never encountered someone who's actually come back from Presuppositionalism.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#22
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
(November 6, 2017 at 12:43 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Clue-By-Four™

That is priceless on so many levels.

I think I originally got the idea from a comment on another forum.  Before I knew it, I had created a real one out of a piece of oak I had in my workshop, and carved Futhark runes on it that say the equivalent of "Idiot Stick" in Old Norse.

Yes, I have way too much time on my hands sometimes...
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#23
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
(November 6, 2017 at 9:29 am)mh.brewer Wrote: The entire human race believes in god. The ones that claim they don't are just lying to themselves.
Which God is that?
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#24
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
(November 6, 2017 at 5:16 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:
(November 6, 2017 at 9:29 am)mh.brewer Wrote: The entire human race believes in god. The ones that claim they don't are just lying to themselves.
Which God is that?

I'm assuming christian because that's who I hear this shit from.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#25
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
Those who think they can speak for me (I usually tell them they're not qualified to do that).
"It's just a theory".
"You can't have any morals"
"What bad thing happened to you as a child that made you turn away from god?"


So many others...

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#26
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
Pretty much anything from this list: http://www.weirdcrap.com/recreational/cliche.html
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#27
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
My favorite is when people claim that god is, essentially, unknowable, but then they decide to speak for it, including the motivations behind what it may or may not be doing at this very instant.
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#28
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
Yeah - "God is unkowable. Let me spend the next ffity pages telling you what I know about it..."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#29
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
"You're taking it out of context!"
"God told me..." - why can't he speak for himself?
"Who are you to question god??" - Apparently I'm one of the curious, thinking beings that this god of yours created. But now you don't want me to question, motherfucker?

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#30
RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
A big one for me:

That my disability is part of god's plan, and that I'm meant for some sort of special purpose/destiny because of it. It's the height of insulting bullshit, designed to make the person saying it comfortable. I'd much rather be able to stand, walk, piss, shit, eat, etc. on my own, thanks.
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