Stupid things religious people say

[arewethereyet]

Coke make with real sugar is common here in Texas. It's known as Mexican Coca-Cola. Some Tex-Mex places serve it and it's always available at the grocery stores.

It has nothing to do with a god or religious rule.

[Ferrocyanide]

Ridiculous. The 'normal' human digestive tract makes approximately 2oz of ETOH a day, even on a kosher diet.  Sucrose breaks down into glucose and fructose, look at the metabolic pathway, they all end up producing ETOH.

Sounds to me like Coke has found a way to make money, again.

I didn’t know that.
I have heard of a case where a person had some sort of bacteria in his stomach and it was producing a lot of ethanol. The person was constantly drunk.

Also, this Kosher and halal stuff is big business. There are a few organizations and each has created their own set of logos that the company can place on their product.

I live in Montreal and once, there were these Coca-Cola bottles, 500 mL, with a green cap and green label. It was advertised as being made of sucrose (cane sugar).
I think it said Made in Mexico.
I bought it a couple of times. The taste was nice, different from red Coca-Cola, but I don’t know if it was because of the sucrose.
But it was only 500 mL and it was way too expensive. 4 times the price.
It was only available for a short while at a big store (Provigo Depo).
I have never seen yellow cap Coca-Cola around here.

The formula for softdrinks and everything isn’t always the same.
The prices on sugars fluctuates so they always calculate how many grams they need and which is cheaper. Sometimes, they mix sucrose, glucose and glucose-fructose (HFCS).

[Fake Messiah]

Hindu people in Pakistan had a busy weekend: they went on a pilgrimage to a volcano which they fed with coconuts, and then they rushed to a holy cave to pray. All that so they could appease the goddess of matrimonial happiness

[brewer]

I always thought that goddess was located in the groin region, where the holy cave really is.

[Fake Messiah]

Pastor John MacArthur says there is no such thing as mental illness, calls PTSD ‘grief’

“Just to lay it out simply, kids are sinful. I have great-grandchildren, and by the time they're 3 or 4, their sin nature is starting to be manifest. Then you add to that the sins of the fathers are visited under the generations, the third and fourth generation,” MacArthur said.

In addition to their sinful nature, the California megachurch pastor explained that the current culture is now targeting children to trap them in sin.

“The homosexuals say we are coming after your kids. They're not trying to protect them, they're targeting them in the schools. They're targeting them through the media. Disney and companies like that, that develop child entertainment are targeting children for really what amounts to moral and spiritual destruction. So this is a war on the children,” said MacArthur, who on Monday released his new book The War on Children: Providing Refuge for Your Children in a Hostile World.

MacArthur asserted that the increased diagnosis of children with mental illnesses today is not teaching them personal responsibility and medicating them for these illnesses only turns them into drug addicts and potentially criminals.

“I was reading a book, interesting book, called A Profession Without Reason. It's a book that shows, basically, this is pretty shocking to some of you, that psychiatry and psychology is finally admitting the noble lies that they've been telling for the last 100 years,” MacArthur said.

“And the major noble lie is there is such a thing as mental illness. Now, this isn't new. You have Thomas Szasz … writing a book, who was a psychiatrist, on The Myth of Mental Illness. There's no such thing as PTSD. There's no such thing as OCD. There's no such thing as ADHD. Those are noble lies to basically give the excuse to, at the end of the day, to medicate people. And Big Pharma is in charge of a lot of that,” the pastor argued.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/john-...lness.html

[zebo-the-fat]

“The homosexuals say we are coming after your kids" really? when and where did they say that??

[Ferrocyanide]

Pastor John MacArthur says there is no such thing as mental illness, calls PTSD ‘grief’

“Just to lay it out simply, kids are sinful. I have great-grandchildren, and by the time they're 3 or 4, their sin nature is starting to be manifest. Then you add to that the sins of the fathers are visited under the generations, the third and fourth generation,” MacArthur said.

In addition to their sinful nature, the California megachurch pastor explained that the current culture is now targeting children to trap them in sin.

“The homosexuals say we are coming after your kids. They're not trying to protect them, they're targeting them in the schools. They're targeting them through the media. Disney and companies like that, that develop child entertainment are targeting children for really what amounts to moral and spiritual destruction. So this is a war on the children,” said MacArthur, who on Monday released his new book The War on Children: Providing Refuge for Your Children in a Hostile World.

MacArthur asserted that the increased diagnosis of children with mental illnesses today is not teaching them personal responsibility and medicating them for these illnesses only turns them into drug addicts and potentially criminals.

“I was reading a book, interesting book, called A Profession Without Reason. It's a book that shows, basically, this is pretty shocking to some of you, that psychiatry and psychology is finally admitting the noble lies that they've been telling for the last 100 years,” MacArthur said.

“And the major noble lie is there is such a thing as mental illness. Now, this isn't new. You have Thomas Szasz … writing a book, who was a psychiatrist, on The Myth of Mental Illness. There's no such thing as PTSD. There's no such thing as OCD. There's no such thing as ADHD. Those are noble lies to basically give the excuse to, at the end of the day, to medicate people. And Big Pharma is in charge of a lot of that,” the pastor argued.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/john-...lness.html

I looked up Thomas Szasz.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz

“A genuine disease must also be found on the autopsy table (not merely in the living person) and meet pathological definition instead of being voted into existence by members of the American Psychiatric Association. "Mental illnesses" are really problems in living. They are often "like a" disease, argued Szasz, which makes the medical metaphor understandable, but in no way validates it as an accurate description or explanation.“

Yes, psychiatry is limited as a science.
They can’t do a lot other than to talk to the patient, and have him fill out a questionnaire.
They don’t have much in terms of equipment. They can’t open you up and check to see if there is a foreign agent causing a problem, they can’t check out your neural circuits. In fact, they know nearly zero about neural circuits.

As a result, it turns into a judgment call. You have to vote the “disease into existence”. They just decide if the mental problem you are having is affecting your life, then it is a mental disease.
So, there are holes in science and these holes in human knowledge creates an opportunity for people to insert their gods or their dislike of homosexuality.

Thomas says that maybe schizophrenics are really talking to gods and the gods are talking to him.
Yes, I have heard that argument before.
As I have said before, in science, we go with Occam’s razor. We aren’t going to go around and suspect ghosts, gobblins, gods, aliens and other invisible things every time there is a mystery to be solved.

[Fake Messiah]

Pope Francis laments American universities that are ‘too liberal’ and ‘only train technicians’

“They forget that they have to form men and women, people of integrity who try to give the best of themselves in the service to which God calls them,” he said, while “knowing that they are pilgrims, that in reality everything is a journey toward a goal that surpasses this reality.”

The pope said that young people need an education that helps them find inspiration in figures like Blessed Ramon who offer “simple models of life, natural models of life in which we can serve the Lord and be happy,” rather than “fantastic heroes who seek to evade our reality.”

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/20...ral-247859

Ah, the irony. Religion is the one that teaches people to evade our reality.

[zebo-the-fat]

Why does the lord need to be served?

[brewer]

Why does the lord need to be served?

It's obviously an only child and spoiled brat.