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An agnostic is an atheist still hedging his bets. An agnostic is an atheist without balls. Dietary restrictions were not an individual choice, they instead were canonized to protect the whole village, society, etc from the things that were unknown but observable. It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so. The absence of evidence does not imply the evidence of absence. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence The vices of the Catholic church do less harm than their virtues. I fail to see how your idea would help to maximize donations to the church. Could you walk me through the finances of that? With talk like that, you're definitely going to get put on the "Burn at the stake" list. I prefer hanging, but to each his own I guess. The dominant oppressive god in MY country is less sadistic than the dominant oppressive god in YOUR country. My god's dick is bigger than your god's dick. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum Self evident Biblical Truth extreme psychotic megalomaniac paranoia The fact that you and I could improve the Bible with very little thought, just by taking out the worst passages that have no possible redeemable content... is a problem for the idea that it was written by an omniscient being and not to be superseded by any human effort." No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell. The essence of Christianity: God fathered himself and sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself to save us from himself. God has been officially diagnosed with Dissociative identity disorder You have to presuppose God's existence before accepting his existence! We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. - primeval religious fruitcakes A religious lunatic of the highest order. Who can resist lobsters, shrimps, crabs, clams, pork chops and hot fresh bacon strips? The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." -- Richard Dawkins Only in religion does LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer) even matter. What if God had told Abraham to suck his sons dick instead of chopping his head off? You may think that is a sick question but I say the god that asks you to kill your son is a much worse monster than the one who tells you to suck your sons dick. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken the occurence of the highly improbable. the occurence of the impossible. Christianity is a confederation of cults. Some large, some small. Religions are just cults that have withstood the test of time. Holy water's cleansing properties may be overstated If you believe in absurdities you can commit atrocities You should not go into religion, as there's nothing of value to look at. I grew up in the bondage of religion and escaped two decades ago. Religious people live in an alternate reality where their understanding of existence makes no sense in our objective reality. When is the Bible accurate? When it's thrown from a short distance. The bible isn't a best selling book so much as a best selling house ornament. On God inseminating Mary at age 14. If you get to drown almost everybody on the planet why wouldn't you be allowed to rape somebody from time to time? Then again, rape is usually defined as penetration without consent. I'm not sure the laws are set up to handle someone spontaneously spawning holy jizz in your fallopian tubes Of course, the Immaculate Conception (of Mary) clearly indicates a plan to rape her. God waited patiently for 14 years to rape her. The sex drive is one of the basic components of all living things. It's basic to life. It's sad to deliberately deprive oneself of something so biologically central to your being. Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Quran. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about nazism. The time to believe there's a divine creator is when there's credible evidence for it -- not a nanosecond before. intimidating preachers and fire breathing bible bangers screaming at you to repent bunch of uneducated redneck evangelical protestant preachers? We deserve it because we are inherently filthy and sinful creatures (because god made us that way). We are so lucky to have a God that is merciful and gracious enough to save us from hell (the hell that he created and willfully sends people to). I get tremendous satisfaction that I am offending religious people using their own book He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. (Deuteronomy 23:1) You can't desecrate what's not sacred. Every religion has for its foundation a miracle - that is to say, a violation of nature - that is to say, a falsehood. sha-man (noun): a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practice divination and healing. The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it. -- Robert A. Heinlein Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others Gods are manifestations of human desires, fears, insecurities and ignorance. You can lead a theist to facts, but you can't make them think. If you accept the possibility of supernatural events then the impossible is possible and nonsense makes sense. Noah's Ark: Because the largest and most thorough act of genocide in fictional history makes a great children's story. God works in mysterious, ineffective and breathtakingly cruel ways. If a believer demands that I as a non-believer observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked. The notion that people walk around with the bible that demands the death of millions is absurd. Exodus 20:8, Exodus 31:15 Kill those of work on the sabbath (fourth commandment) Psalm 19:7 The law of the lord is perfect. First Commandment: Thou shall have no other gods before me. Deuteronomy 17:2-5: stone atheists Deuteronomy 13:13-19 destroy non-believing towns Leviticus 24:16 blasphemy A child with an invisible friend has an active imagination. An adult with an invisible friend has religion. The gods that we've made are exactly the kind of gods you would expect to be made from a species that's about half a chromosome away from being a chimpanzee -- Christopher Hitchens Flat Earthers: because apparently religion is not enough bullshit on its own. Propitiation is the act of appeasing or making well-disposed a deity, thus incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution. While some use the term interchangeably with expiation, others draw a sharp distinction between the two |
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