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RE: Beliefs
February 10, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Your capacity for self-delusion is undiminished G-C.
Quote:Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
-- H L Mencken
Let's see what happens when right-wing fundie shitwits get going on the Mormon, Mitt Romney this year.
And I've never met a fundie yet who thought catholics were even "christian."
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RE: Beliefs
February 11, 2011 at 12:36 am
(February 10, 2011 at 5:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Your capacity for self-delusion is undiminished G-C.
Quote:Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
-- H L Mencken
Let's see what happens when right-wing fundie shitwits get going on the Mormon, Mitt Romney this year.
And I've never met a fundie yet who thought catholics were even "christian."
I know many catholics that are christians, I do have many differences with the "offical church". What does a blow hard like Mencken have to do with this, do tell. I bet he is your hero, you do resemble his unforgiving attitude.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Beliefs
February 11, 2011 at 1:05 am
Mencken is smarter than any religious jerkoff I've ever run across.
Including you.
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RE: Beliefs
February 12, 2011 at 1:08 am
(February 11, 2011 at 1:05 am)Minimalist Wrote: Mencken is smarter than any religious jerkoff I've ever run across.
Including you.
He might have been smarter than me however I know lots of christians that would put him to shame. Being smart has nothing to do with being a decent person, take yourself for an example.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Beliefs
February 12, 2011 at 1:12 am
Never my job to make ignorant fucks feel good about being ignorant fucks.
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RE: Beliefs
February 12, 2011 at 3:11 am
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(February 12, 2011 at 1:08 am)Godschild Wrote: (February 11, 2011 at 1:05 am)Minimalist Wrote: Mencken is smarter than any religious jerkoff I've ever run across.
Including you.
He might have been smarter than me however I know lots of christians that would put him to shame. Being smart has nothing to do with being a decent person, take yourself for an example.
Although Min is perfectly capable of defending himself, I have reported your post for an homimen attack because I think it's a bit vicious.
PS: I can count the forgiving Christians I've met on one hand.
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RE: Beliefs
February 13, 2011 at 12:34 pm
(February 12, 2011 at 3:11 am)padraic Wrote: (February 12, 2011 at 1:08 am)Godschild Wrote: (February 11, 2011 at 1:05 am)Minimalist Wrote: Mencken is smarter than any religious jerkoff I've ever run across.
Including you.
He might have been smarter than me however I know lots of christians that would put him to shame. Being smart has nothing to do with being a decent person, take yourself for an example.
Although Min is perfectly capable of defending himself, I have reported your post for an homimen attack because I think it's a bit vicious.
PS: I can count the forgiving Christians I've met on one hand.
Then you have not met many christians. You mean to tell me that what I said to Min is worse than what he says to me, you must be joking or extremely bias. If you think Min is capable of defending himself then stay out of our conversations, besides Min and I poke at each other alot because we are old and cranky, the world has hardend use to a point of little compromise.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Beliefs
February 13, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Define forgiving. I've heard a lot of "Christians" say they're forgiving when in reality they're just like everyone else - grudge holding and irritable, sometimes revenge seeking, and quite happy to skewer people verbally whenever possible.
I've only met...yeah, about a handful of truly forgiving people in my life - and not all of them are Christian.
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RE: Beliefs
February 13, 2011 at 12:53 pm
(February 12, 2011 at 1:08 am)Godschild Wrote: Being smart has nothing to do with being a decent person... And neither does Christianity.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Beliefs
February 13, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Reason can aid both morality and immorality. Both which start with passion and not reason.
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