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RE: Christmas insanity
December 5, 2023 at 4:17 pm
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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"
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RE: Christmas insanity
December 6, 2023 at 8:23 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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RE: Christmas insanity
December 6, 2023 at 2:27 pm
Ran a quick errand this morning and driving through the other side of the subdivision it looked like the Massacre of the North Pole. Several houses in a row had the pitiful deflated bodies of Santas, elves, Grinches, reindeer, and other manner of Christmas inflatables lying in heaps on the ground.
Looks like a stretch where the neighbors are trying to outdo one another with the number of inflatables they can fit on their relatively small front yards. It probably looks okay at night all lit up and air-filled. At about noon...it's a bit depressing.
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RE: Christmas insanity
December 6, 2023 at 4:44 pm
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Christmas insanity
December 6, 2023 at 7:08 pm
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The perfect Christmas gift for that one kid in your life. You know the kid I mean. Don't act like you don't.
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RE: Christmas insanity
December 6, 2023 at 8:07 pm
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(December 6, 2023 at 4:44 pm)brewer Wrote:
It's an edible Nativity scene...
celebrating the birth of Cheesus!
Disappointing theists since 1968!
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RE: Christmas insanity
December 6, 2023 at 11:54 pm
(December 6, 2023 at 8:07 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: (December 6, 2023 at 4:44 pm)brewer Wrote:
It's an edible Nativity scene...
celebrating the birth of Cheesus!
Constipating!
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Christmas insanity
December 7, 2023 at 1:45 am
Waiting patiently to see the year which hillbilly cousin confuses the New Year's Bonfire with the Yule Log and burns his house down.
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RE: Christmas insanity
December 7, 2023 at 9:33 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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RE: Christmas insanity
December 7, 2023 at 9:40 am
Now that's some funny shit!