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RE: Stupid things religious people say
December 8, 2022 at 9:57 am
Ah, venerated Christian "intellectuals"
Quote:If we really thought there were people going about who had sold themselves to the devil and received supernatural powers from him in return and were using these powers to kill their neighbours or drive them mad or bring bad weather, surely we would all agree that if anyone deserved the death penalty, then these filthy quislings [i.e., traitors] did.
C. S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"
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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December 8, 2022 at 3:23 pm
Cholera is not an excuse not to go to church.
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: Stupid things religious people say
December 8, 2022 at 3:26 pm
Fake! The picture above is of an itinerant preacher giving some poor folk a group rate on the baptismal ceremony.
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December 10, 2022 at 11:18 am
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December 11, 2022 at 10:21 am
Stupid Shit Religious People Say.
SSRPS- God created everything
Me- Was god ever alone with nothing else? What was the first thing it invented?
SSRPS- He didn't invent anything. It was already existing.
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December 11, 2022 at 12:22 pm
"Jesus uses various ways to bring the kingdom of God at hand. One way he demonstrates the power of the kingdom is by casting out demons. These acts show that the kingdom of darkness and the evil one are losing power to the kingdom of God precisely because Jesus is present to expel demons by his authoritative word. "
- Mitchell Pacwa, Jesuit priest
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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December 12, 2022 at 10:49 am
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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December 13, 2022 at 11:50 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: Stupid things religious people say
December 16, 2022 at 8:40 pm
I've read this a few years ago and it still hurts me. I do wish that Christians read this and smarten up
Quote:When I was a resident training in ob-gyn, I witnessed the full-term birth of a baby with what’s known as Potter syndrome—a dramatic decrease of amniotic fluid in utero usually related to the failure of the kidneys to develop properly. Abortion would normally have been the recommended course, but this woman was a fundamentalist Christian, and she opted to bring the pregnancy to term because, as she told me, she was praying for a miracle. In the absence of amniotic fluid production, which in turn results in the absence of fetal lung development, this baby was born at thirty-nine weeks—a girl, as I recall—and I stood by and watched, in horror, as she died. She grunted and made efforts to inhale as the oxygen hunger built up in her body, but there was no lung capacity. Born at term, the baby could feel pain, and, even if she couldn’t interpret anything like self-consciousness, she must have felt all the anxiety and panic that would accompany suffocating to death. In this case, an absolute reverence for life led to a situation that, to my eyes, consisted of nothing less than pure cruelty."
- Dr. Willie Parker
This woman, like many other Christians, thought that God was testing her and that she just needs to pray more and believe more and that God will grant her a miracle she was promised since she was a child, resulting in a despicably inhumane act that could have been avoided.
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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