Journal btlzu2's Journal: absolutely hilarious--wish it was required in school :D 27
This is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages.
by the way, why doesn't the power of prayer heal amputees?
This is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages.
by the way, why doesn't the power of prayer heal amputees?
May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy of the manual!
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why doesn't the power of prayer heal amputees? (Score:2)
God damn it religion gets me riled up.
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You and me both!
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I loved the part in the video where he said, "Jesus is an idiot!" when talking about the eye-gouging and hand-cutting-off. Just cracked up.
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You mean "repulsive"?
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Normal religious people, at least in the US, only know the parts of their religion that their priest tells them about. How many Christians do you know who murder their children because they talk back to their elders? Moderates I'm ok with (Protestants, etc) but the fundies are a menace to society--no less than the fanatics who blow themselves up to prove a point.
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Of course, I a
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Well.. the moderates realize that much of their religious texts are allegory and fable (I'm not singling out a religion here, they all have their literalists). Granted that does lend some credibility to the viewpoints of the nutcases --such as those who think the Earth is 6,000 years old or that some guy built a wooden ship able to carry at least 2 of each species in the world(including dinosaurs) AND food to sustain them for well over a month-- but I think any other method would be incompatible with a fre
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it's true that people will still find ways to be evil. when some of the doctrines, which are used today as reasons for harming others and making judgments, can obviously and easily be shed as ancient myths in the light of reasonable thought, it's really hard not to sa
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in the scale of human history, a lot of modern reasoning is relatively new. it takes people time to change. just like in math class there are people who catch on immediately and people who just don't ge
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i think atheists are often demonized because what they see as bringing reason to the masses is received by some as an attack
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but do you think some of your anger towards religious things is amplified as the result of anger being redirected from those who pulled the wool
oh yeah, absolutely that's
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and i know you were just making light, but technically if there's nothing beyond the physical and the laws of physics that guide it, genes would have no will of their own, but simply making complex reactions. they wouldn't try to survive, but sim
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i don't know if you're interested at all in the physical explanation of genes' "purpose" (no,
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