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Stupid things religious people say
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 (May 4, 2022 at 1:42 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: This woman is quite an entertainment I don't know why I click on these things...people like her make me queasy and tense. “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius 
Me too. I watched about 15 seconds, that was more than enough.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
Diseases are caused by demons...happening in real time, right here, right now.
I cannot roll my eyes hard enough. “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius 
"No one has ever been tricked into a religion."
(I was lied to by apologists and regretted believing any of it.) RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 4, 2022 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2022 at 7:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're thinking of superstitious beliefs. Religions are the things superstitious beliefs are (or at least have been) commonly draped in. They're not the religion itself.
So, running the risk of presumption, let's say you were "tricked" into believing it was a historic fact that a man rose from the dead. However, do you believe that man is flawed but ultimately redeemable? That we, insomuch as we fail, can be saved and are worth saving?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
(May 4, 2022 at 7:16 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You're thinking of superstitious beliefs. Religions are the things superstitious beliefs are (otr at least have been) commonly draped in. They're not the religion itself. Do you tap-dance too? RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 4, 2022 at 7:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2022 at 7:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I wish, bad legs. I'll take that as a yes. So, you see, the underlying normative beliefs of a religious community were not abandoned by you, when you abandoned the superstitious beliefs.
Now, mind you, he afflicted worry otherwise, which is why they stress the superstition even to the detriment of the religion. They've come to believe that the free riders are necessary to an otherwise good ideology. You know better, I know better, but they don't.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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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"
Christian God is weird.
North Carolina Republican House candidate Bo Hines: “Scripture tells us God spits lukewarm Christians out of his mouth. It’s high time the Republican Party, we started spitting lukewarm conservatives out of our mouth.”
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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