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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 26, 2021 at 4:17 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 26, 2021 at 11:59 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 27, 2021 at 6:21 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 27, 2021 at 7:39 pm
(November 27, 2021 at 6:21 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: ![[Image: Dis.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/jSQsdqKm/Dis.jpg)
Well, there are far more believers than there are atheists. If we are disrespectful to the wrong believers, they hurt us. Sometimes atheists get murdered by believers.
Never heard of a mob of atheists getting together to beat up or murder believers for being disrespectful .
Of course it could always just be that we don't give a fuck about getting respect from such dicks.
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 29, 2021 at 3:37 pm
Did you know that we know that the Biblical flood never happened?
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 29, 2021 at 4:49 pm
Some scholars have claimed that the Noah myth was lifted from the Sumerian Epic Of Gilgamesh.
My take is that until quite recently***, we the people had no idea of the size of the earth. Perhaps something like this: 3500, your village and all the fields are flooded. You go to the top of the highest hill or tree. Water as far as you can see. You conclude that the entire world is flooded. Many cultures have flood myths.
Cherry on top: The Torah is/was claimed to have been written by Moses. That's unlikely, what with him almost certainly never having existed and all.
The Torah is the mythology of Judaism. That means they made it up. It was written down ca 500-300 bce
***Before the industrial revolution, the majority of human beings were agrarian. Most never travelled further than 20 miles from their home, ever.
Ignorant and illiterate, imo such people would be incapable of grasping the concept of distance of thousands of miles.
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 30, 2021 at 5:58 am
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 30, 2021 at 3:15 pm
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Here is a vintage meme from 1996:
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Can you imagine that people were fighting creationists back in the 1990s?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 30, 2021 at 3:22 pm
(November 30, 2021 at 3:15 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Here is a vintage meme from 1996:
Can you imagine that people were fighting creationists back in the 1990s? Sensible people have been doing that for thousands of years....
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 30, 2021 at 3:22 pm
(November 30, 2021 at 3:15 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Here is a vintage meme from 1996:
Can you imagine that people were fighting creationists back in the 1990s?
Since the 1850s, actually.
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