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Mormon idiots vs this evangelical retard - Pride is sinful?

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These days, it seems that Christianity is to religion what WWE wrestling is to sports. Pathetic...
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I was painted in sitting through all that. They're just arguing about which book about a magical sky-man has more validity. I love how they just seem so incompatible.

If christianity is wrestling, then what's golf? :D
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Zablorg wrote:I was painted in sitting through all that. They're just arguing about which book about a magical sky-man has more validity. I love how they just seem so incompatible.
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Zablorg wrote:I was painted in sitting through all that. They're just arguing about which book about a magical sky-man has more validity. I love how they just seem so incompatible.

If christianity is wrestling, then what's golf? :D
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Executor32 wrote:
Zablorg wrote:I was painted in sitting through all that. They're just arguing about which book about a magical sky-man has more validity. I love how they just seem so incompatible.

If christianity is wrestling, then what's golf? :D
Buddhism? :lol:
No, its too damn expensive to be Bhuddism, the Golf of Religion is Scientology.

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But... How is Scientology a religion?
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Ryan Thunder wrote:But... How is Scientology a religion?
How is christianity?

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Ryan Thunder wrote:But... How is Scientology a religion?
How is christianity?

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Mormon missionaries are like telemarketers in that they're trained to follow a script when trying to convert people. Since the missionaries are also young, they end up being completely ill-prepared for any sort of debate.
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I might give you that a decade back, but discussions, the lessons taught to those interested in the LDS church, are no longer memorized.
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Ryan Thunder wrote:But... How is Scientology a religion?
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Just what kind of dumbshit question is that, anyway? Get yourself a fucking dictionary. "Being really old" is NOT an integral requirement of religion.
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FIRST of all, golf is not the Scientology of religion. Scientology has no credibility with religious types, unlike golf which DOES have credibility with athletes... Errr... wait, no okay... see golf is more like the Confucianism of sports, because you can sometimes find Chinese food take out places near the golf courses.
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Lord Relvenous wrote:The Jester

I might give you that a decade back, but discussions, the lessons taught to those interested in the LDS church, are no longer memorized.
That might be true, but missionaries or even people who just got back from one, so no excuse for not being up to date on doctrine, can't answer too many off the wall questions or in depth questions either.

I discuss relegion all the time with mormons, and while they can field softballs, hit them with a tough one and you get the predictable ...'I'll have to ask my/come to my ward and talk to my Bishop' dodges.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong

But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
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Knife wrote:
Lord Relvenous wrote:That might be true, but missionaries or even people who just got back from one, so no excuse for not being up to date on doctrine, can't answer too many off the wall questions or in depth questions either.
So your version of Eden's talking snake, a guy building a big boat for all the animals on the planet, etc., is somehow superior to their magic underwear?
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Ryan Thunder wrote:But... How is Scientology a religion?
How is golf a sport?
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I figure Scientology is more like extreme sports. Those fuckers are always showing off.
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Zor wrote:
Ryan Thunder wrote:But... How is Scientology a religion?
How is christianity?

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At the very least, its origins are shrouded in enough historical uncertainty that it could theoretically be true, if improbably.

Unless I'm mistaken. I mean, for cryin out loud, we fully know Hubbard pulled Scientology out of his ass...
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Ryan Thunder wrote:At the very least, its origins are shrouded in enough historical uncertainty that it could theoretically be true, if improbably.
Appeal to uncertainty.
Unless I'm mistaken. I mean, for cryin out loud, we fully know Hubbard pulled Scientology out of his ass...
So if we were to eliminate all records of LRH and his wacky exploits, would Scientology then become a religion?
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I guess I would have to accept it as one, even if it is obviously stupid. But again, you probably think Christianity is obviously stupid, so I guess it's fair.
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Superman wrote: So your version of Eden's talking snake, a guy building a big boat for all the animals on the planet, etc., is somehow superior to their magic underwear?
Bwhahahahaha! You think I'm a religeous person? Hahahahahaha!

I swear, some people around here are chomping at the bit to fight, they start seeing red capes everywhere. No fucknuts, I get asked my religeon all the time since I live behind the zion curtain. So when I say I'm an atheist, I get into all sorts of discussions, most of which a missionary or a recently returned missionary can't get too far into because they just don't know the doctrine past the shiney top layer of bullshit.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong

But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
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Knife wrote: Bwhahahahaha! You think I'm a religeous person? Hahahahahaha!
Nah, that's not what I meant. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I tried to make a magical underwear joke and it didn't work.

How many evangelicals do you get out there in Mormon Land?
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Superman wrote: Nah, that's not what I meant. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I tried to make a magical underwear joke and it didn't work.
:? Ok.
How many evangelicals do you get out there in Mormon Land?
There's actually a fair amount of, and growing, Babtists in northern Utah. The demographics are seriously changing along the major population areas, pushing a lot of the hard core mormons toward happy valley (Provo and Utah county).

Ontop of that, we get bus loads of evangelicals up from the bible belt who like to stand on their soap boxes in downtown SLC, by the Mormon temple, and spew.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong

But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
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Superman wrote:Morons

These days, it seems that Christianity is to religion what WWE wrestling is to sports. Pathetic...
I love how that guy thinks he won in the end. You didn't prove anything moron, all you did was give a longer sermon. :roll:
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Ryan Thunder wrote: At the very least, its origins are shrouded in enough historical uncertainty that it could theoretically be true, if improbably.
No, religion is determined by whether people believe in it, not how likely it is.
Unless I'm mistaken. I mean, for cryin out loud, we fully know Hubbard pulled Scientology out of his ass...
And we know Paul and the gospel authors and the christian cults of the time pulled christianity out of their asses.
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Ryan Thunder wrote:I guess I would have to accept it as one, even if it is obviously stupid. But again, you probably think Christianity is obviously stupid, so I guess it's fair.
It's not a matter of thinking it's obviously stupid. It *is* obviously stupid. Do you even know what defines a religion?
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