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data_link wrote:Further proof that the world has no future.
Come now...chin up...no room for defetism in this outfit....Plans are afoot in other threads to deal with the Fundie Threat.
They'll need to hurry - mankind has no time left.
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If children are the future, than I am the future, since I'm just barely over the TOS age limit.
Still, that's pretty messed up. It's my personal belief that you cannot rationally justify a belief in God, and any attempt to try will result in failure.
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data_link wrote:Further proof that the world has no future.
Come now...chin up...no room for defetism in this outfit....Plans are afoot in other threads to deal with the Fundie Threat.
They'll need to hurry - mankind has no time left.
Yes, may the State save us all from the menace of the hopeful... Seriously, they're annoying as fuck, but as of now they're so fucking neutered that they pose no worse a threat than the foppish idiots and corseted sluts who prance around city parks speaking in Ye Olde Englishe and pretending to some distorted, centuries-expired version of European "Nobilitie".
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plus who wants tickets?
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data_link has resigned from the board after proving himself to be a relentless strawman-using asshole in this thread and being too much of a pussy to deal with the inevitable flames. Buh-bye.
They're not as harmless as you think. They exert a disproportionate amount of effort toward political activities, and tens of millions of Americans have been swayed by the idiot lure of creationism thanks to their tireless efforts. Moreover, Asscroft is a fundie, and he's in charge of national security.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
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Are there a disproportionately large number of fundamentalists compared to atheists? I doubt it. They've gotten around to fucking up the Pledge of Allegiance, so I seriously doubt the fundies are exercising a fraction of the control everyone gives them credit for.
OK, then why isn't prostition legal? Why isn't homosexual marriage legal in most states? Why do three states have laws against sex toys? Why do half a dozen states (including Texas) have laws prohibiting people from serving in public office unless they believe in a supreme being? Why do the Boy Scouts bar atheists from joining?
The judiciary barred the mutilated version of the Pledge of Allegiance from being mandated in schools. But Congress voted almost 100% to force the issue and try to overturn their judgement. Fundies are far more dangerous and powerful than you are willing to admit.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
Raoul Duke, Jr. wrote:Are there a disproportionately large number of fundamentalists compared to atheists? I doubt it. They've gotten around to fucking up the Pledge of Allegiance, so I seriously doubt the fundies are exercising a fraction of the control everyone gives them credit for.
Raoul, STFU before Wong makes you a Village Idiot again. May I remind you that the original pledge of allegience did NOT contain the words "under God" in it. If anything, atheists are trying to UN-fuck up the Pledge, and the fact that they are being met by massive resistence is proof that fundies wtill have way too much power.
data_link has resigned from the board after proving himself to be a relentless strawman-using asshole in this thread and being too much of a pussy to deal with the inevitable flames. Buh-bye.
Well, it appears that you're right -- the amendment to add the words, "under God" was passed in 1954. I concede that point; however, I still believe that if Fundamentalists had the power you credit them, the movement to omit, "under God" would not have succeeded.
Darth Wong wrote:OK, then why isn't prostition legal? Why isn't homosexual marriage legal in most states? Why do three states have laws against sex toys? Why do half a dozen states (including Texas) have laws prohibiting people from serving in public office unless they believe in a supreme being? Why do the Boy Scouts bar atheists from joining?
The judiciary barred the mutilated version of the Pledge of Allegiance from being mandated in schools. But Congress voted almost 100% to force the issue and try to overturn their judgement. Fundies are far more dangerous and powerful than you are willing to admit.
Prostitution is illegal (in most places) I would assume because few people have challenged it It is legal in Las Vegas, where it operates under regulation like any other industry. Homosexual marriage I will grant you; that stems from Biblical concepts of immorality. As far as sex toys go, I have no idea. That seems outmoded even to me, something like the apocryphal law that you can't ride a camel underwater with no pants on. As far as barring atheists from serving in public office, that's simply a useless law -- anyone can lie and say they believe in God when they don't. As far as the Boy Scouts go, they have every right to bar Atheists from joining, much as the Girl Scouts have every right to bar boys from joining. It's a club, as far as I know.
Most of these laws are still laws because, to the best of my knowlege, they haven't been challenged, or because they've been upheld by the majority.
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If I meet you, I will come to the logical conclusion that you exist. That's exactly how I come to the conclusion that God exist.
Really? This guy has actually met God face to face? Even though certain verses in the Bible say its impossible?
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(the subject was that the Bible tells people to kill witches)
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If it was Judaism you wanted to discuss, then why didn't you say so from the start?
So the Old Testament isn't part of the christian Bible? Strange...
What the heck is 2 Mos? I don't know of any book by that name.
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When you ask a fundie why homosexuality is wrong, they quote the Old Testament. When you ask a fundie why Christianity encourages violence and hate, they quote the New Testament. When you say the two are in conflict on this point (although the distinction isn't as white and black as they say), they say "no they aren't" and stick their fingers in their ears.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
The Dark wrote:
What the heck is 2 Mos? I don't know of any book by that name.
Exodus, or as some people sometimes call it: the second book of Moses.
Ah. Never heard it put that way before. Particularly since there's no way Moses wrote all that attributed to him, since he DIES before the end of the Pentateuch.
Stanley Hauerwas wrote:[W]hy is it that no one is angry at the inequality of income in this country? I mean, the inequality of income is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Why isn’t that ever an issue of politics? Because you don’t live in a democracy. You live in a plutocracy. Money rules.
Seriously, they're annoying as fuck, but as of now they're so fucking neutered that they pose no worse a threat than the foppish idiots and corseted sluts who prance around city parks speaking in Ye Olde Englishe and pretending to some distorted, centuries-expired version of European "Nobilitie".
