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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 12:05 pm
(November 18, 2018 at 11:57 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Rational people don't force a thousand people to drink poisoned koolaid - or drive aircraft full of people into buildings.
Neither do most religious people. The fallacy here, to be precise, is equivocation.
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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 12:27 pm
There's a deity involved.
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 12:28 pm
If their lips are moving........
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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 12:38 pm
(November 18, 2018 at 12:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: There's a deity involved.
Thank you. I was getting tired of biting my lip.
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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 1:13 pm
(November 18, 2018 at 11:28 am)onlinebiker Wrote: (November 18, 2018 at 10:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Spot on. I find it pretty difficult to criticize people who collect money to feed hungry children, whatever their motivation for doing so.
Boru
I don't criticize people who do good or even great deeds. People amaze.
I do have a problem when they do good things because Jebus, Yomomma, or the Great Pumpkin commands it.
That' s the B.S.
Hypothetical: You have two options only: You can give £10 to a secular charity for hungry children, or £100 to a religious charity for hungry children. In both cases, you are given iron-clad assurance that 100% of your donation will go to the kids.
Which do you do?
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: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 1:22 pm
Quote:Which do you do?
I remember that the religitards are always liars.
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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 1:24 pm
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So you would give the 10 quid to the secular charity?
Boru
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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 1:34 pm
(November 18, 2018 at 1:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 18, 2018 at 11:28 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I don't criticize people who do good or even great deeds. People amaze.
I do have a problem when they do good things because Jebus, Yomomma, or the Great Pumpkin commands it.
That' s the B.S.
Hypothetical: You have two options only: You can give £10 to a secular charity for hungry children, or £100 to a religious charity for hungry children. In both cases, you are given iron-clad assurance that 100% of your donation will go to the kids.
Which do you do?
Boru
Why would secular charity not accept £100?
I have yet to see any religious charity that does not leverage the donation directly or indirectly to proselytize. If £100 helps them get a pass on spreading bullshit even if all of that particular £100 is transferred to the children, then I will still have to weigh the acute needs of the children against longer term harm to humanity.
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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 1:40 pm
(November 18, 2018 at 1:34 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (November 18, 2018 at 1:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Hypothetical: You have two options only: You can give £10 to a secular charity for hungry children, or £100 to a religious charity for hungry children. In both cases, you are given iron-clad assurance that 100% of your donation will go to the kids.
Which do you do?
Boru
Why would secular charity not accept £100?
I have yet to see any religious charity that does not leverage the donation directly or indirectly to proselytize. If £100 helps them get a pass on spreading bullshit even if all of that particular £100 is transferred to the children, then I will still have to weigh the acute needs of the children against longer term harm to humanity.
When a hypothetical is presented, the respondent isn't permitted to add provisos of his/her own.
So, your position is that it would be better to give £10 to feed hungry children than £100?
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RE: How to tell if a religion is B.S.
November 18, 2018 at 1:44 pm
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(November 18, 2018 at 12:38 pm)Whateverist Wrote: (November 18, 2018 at 12:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: There's a deity involved.
Thank you. I was getting tired of biting my lip.
So, then, Buddhism is cool. Sorry, no.
(November 18, 2018 at 1:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 18, 2018 at 11:28 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I don't criticize people who do good or even great deeds. People amaze.
I do have a problem when they do good things because Jebus, Yomomma, or the Great Pumpkin commands it.
That' s the B.S.
Hypothetical: You have two options only: You can give £10 to a secular charity for hungry children, or £100 to a religious charity for hungry children. In both cases, you are given iron-clad assurance that 100% of your donation will go to the kids.
Which do you do?
Boru
Neither. I go to the nearest pub to think it over. By the time I'm done, the problem has resolved itself.
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