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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 1, 2021 at 10:03 pm
(October 1, 2021 at 8:55 pm)Foxaire Wrote: Evangelists accuse Church in Wales of making God sad by blessing same-sex couples
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/01/ev...-same-sex/
Oh, no, how is an all powerful being ever going to recover from being made sad?
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
October 15, 2021 at 7:41 am
"If the church was true when you were baptized, what has changed?"
Possibly the fact that I'm not 8 anymore, doing what other people tell me to do for approval.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 15, 2021 at 9:05 pm
I'm still going to support the church and give them money, even if they lie and hide pedophiles. They do so many other good things that a few molested kids shouldn't make a difference.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 15, 2021 at 9:19 pm
My dad was quite a violent man. If a teacher hit us (corporal punishment was allowed/legal at the time), my dad would be up in that teacher's face, up to and including backing guys who used to play college football into janitor's closets for a little "education". Word got out that if you had a problem with one of the Fireball boys, all you had to do was send a note home. There's nothing that the school administration could do that would match what we got at home. We really weren't all that mischievous. I'm truly amazed that he didn't end up in prison. Different times, I guess. He was also an atheist, which I didn't know, back then. If a priest had molested one of us, I'd guarantee that he'd have gone to prison...and pretty sure that the priest would have been underground.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 15, 2021 at 9:45 pm
@ Fireball
I'm sorry your childhood was like that. I think as time goes on people are getting wise to the counter productivity of hitting kids.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 15, 2021 at 10:16 pm
(October 15, 2021 at 9:45 pm)Jackalope Wrote: @Fireball
I'm sorry your childhood was like that. I think as time goes on people are getting wise to the counter productivity of hitting kids.
Thanks! I give you my personal assurance that what I learned from that was to never beat my kids. It wasn't easy, but I kept that promise to myself. I know how much I liked it. 
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 15, 2021 at 10:18 pm
(October 15, 2021 at 10:16 pm)Fireball Wrote: (October 15, 2021 at 9:45 pm)Jackalope Wrote: @Fireball
I'm sorry your childhood was like that. I think as time goes on people are getting wise to the counter productivity of hitting kids.
Thanks! I give you my personal assurance that what I learned from that was to never beat my kids. It wasn't easy, but I kept that promise to myself. I know how much I liked it.
I felt the same way, and I never did either.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 16, 2021 at 8:54 am
One of the reasons I never had kids is that I don't trust myself not to repeat the pattern. I don't often lose my temper but when I do it's bad.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 16, 2021 at 9:04 am
(October 15, 2021 at 9:19 pm)Fireball Wrote: My dad was quite a violent man. If a teacher hit us (corporal punishment was allowed/legal at the time), my dad would be up in that teacher's face, up to and including backing guys who used to play college football into janitor's closets for a little "education". Word got out that if you had a problem with one of the Fireball boys, all you had to do was send a note home. There's nothing that the school administration could do that would match what we got at home. We really weren't all that mischievous. I'm truly amazed that he didn't end up in prison. Different times, I guess. He was also an atheist, which I didn't know, back then. If a priest had molested one of us, I'd guarantee that he'd have gone to prison...and pretty sure that the priest would have been underground.
It's interesting that the violent parents go ballistic when someone else is violent with their child. It was confusing to me growing up. It was okay for dad to beat me bloody but if anyone else laid a hand on me they would have hell to pay. I was there as his punching bag and I suppose he didn't want to share.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 16, 2021 at 1:01 pm
(October 1, 2021 at 10:03 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: (October 1, 2021 at 8:55 pm)Foxaire Wrote: Evangelists accuse Church in Wales of making God sad by blessing same-sex couples
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/01/ev...-same-sex/
Oh, no, how is an all powerful being ever going to recover from being made sad?
I appreciate the power that religion (christianity) has on people. It can be used to control people's thoughts and actions.
They are just blindly following an ancient book. You also need a priest that is respected to the point that they obey him even if he says a few crazy things such as "Have another children bc god wants more."
"build a church here bc god wants it. Also, I am not going to pay taxes."
Those are some things that I could never do, even if I wanted to.
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