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Australia on fire
January 4, 2020 at 2:46 pm
Finally, prequel to Mad Max.
Quote:Australia today: Penrith, near Sydney, was for a time the hottest place on earth: 48.9°C 4,000 km2 burned in Victoria state Third of Kangaroo Island burned (1700 km2) Some bushfires generating own weather, incl. tornadoes, thunderstorms “indescribable hell and devastation”
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: Australia on fire
January 4, 2020 at 7:17 pm
Cold and raining all day as I type this. Go figure
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RE: Australia on fire
January 5, 2020 at 8:32 am
The long timers here know I had a best friend named Bob who lived in Brisbane. His brother and sister in law took care of him for years after financial setbacks, and economic decline in his industry. Bob ended up having a stroke. He ended up in a nursing home. I managed to visit him once for two weeks, a year before he died. Then last year I took Hillbilly Atheist there to see where our friend lived.
What is frustrating today for me, is that his brother and sister in law, now think I am evil for pointing out the fact of climate change in that humans are causing it. They are huge coal and Trump fans. To this day I cannot explain to them that while I am deeply appreciative of what they did for him economically and especially after his stroke, he didn't think like them. Bob said nothing but good about how much they helped him. But he was not close to them on politics and science. They take offence to me saying this. But this is just as ignorant knowing I loved my late mother, and I'd be living on the streets if it were not for her, but even we had little in common regarding politics and religion.
Point is, it is frustrating when you see otherwize decent people, cling to the past, and have this subconscious attitude that because they did better than you, or because they did nice things for you, that means they are right about everything.
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RE: Australia on fire
January 7, 2020 at 11:58 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: Australia on fire
January 8, 2020 at 10:59 am
Well, this is way too easy a name-drop:
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RE: Australia on fire
January 10, 2020 at 6:39 pm
Heartbreaking. I feel so helpless, donations just don't seem like enough
Are there any Aussies here? I hope you are okay.
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