Discussion Thread from the Funny Anti-Religious Pictures thread.

[belamyi]

Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics

99% of gods in human history will fail this. The Abrahamic one doesn't.

This is one reason I'm a Christian: the God of the Bible is unique.

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One more straw man argument, based on the assumption that God would behave the way you want Him to.

That: it's like saying that, if there were "real facts", then reason would not exist, since reasoning would be replaced with immediate knowledge, and everything and everyone would speak for themselves.
Again, that leads us back to what I said above about absolute oneness.

 

[belamyi]

This thread is not about religion, it is about superstition: it is the forerunner of the anti-Enlightenment, antireason, antiscience, etc. trend set to prevail, that would blame the wrongs and excesses committed through capitalism and industrialism, to blame science and capital for turning Earth into Hell. In short, to blame a given concept, and ideology, and institution, for the crimes that will be committed by masses of people, ones leading, and the others blindly or, merely, following, with only a few "resisting enligthened", under whatever ideology, concept and institution, to turn Earth itno Hell.

 

[belamyi]

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probably going to have to use this as a reply later...

That should be the OP, in BIG size

 

[belamyi]

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Damn, the Catholic one looks dapper

 

[Jacquemar]

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Well I see the spamming has begun again.

 

[belamyi]

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^ Oh, I'm terribly sorry: I was posting on the discussion thread too this morning, and I must have mistaken one for the other when I posted those two comments...

But I gave you the perfect excuse to drop your own littering, instead of merely reporting to the Mod Powers, so I think I did a good deed, by providing you with an excuse to vent publicly that way

 

[belamyi]

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That would be right, but only if you consider that suggestion as a mere plundering of finite wealth, but that suggestion is actually what is going on already... only to a relatively small extent. The growth of the Vatican economy, like that which feeds us in our comfy JUB homes in US or Spain, is kept to a closed circle, far bigger than it was before the Industrial Revolution era in each separate country, but still way reduced when considering the wider, global action field that the global economy has set for the past two centuries.
Even after acknowledging the existence of the "Fourth World" of poorer people in each country, the truer consideration of the world today is to consider the whole world like a single nation, say France in the XVIIIth century, and then each country and region in the relation to power and wealth, so that there are three states, the Developed state, the Developing State, and the Destitute State (Haiti, Somalia, Afghanistan...).

Not "states": "estates" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_General_(France)

 

[belamyi]

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99% of gods in human history will fail this. The Abrahamic one doesn't.

This is one reason I'm a Christian: the God of the Bible is unique.

You mean the Christian Bible.
And that would be because the God in the Bible is the perfect improvement of the YHVH of the Tanakh, before the downgrading that the fake further improvement that would represent the of the Allah in the Quran.
Unless by "Abrahamic" you mean all three, that you hold as some sort of Trinity of the same God, in which any of those three religions allow you to believe indistinctly, just in the same way a Catholic, an Episcopalian or a Baptist are just as true Christians.

 

[rareboy]

 

[opinterph]

 

[belamyi]

That is all you need to know about self-proclaimed reasonable, "anti-religious" people.

 

[johaninsc]

bumping the thread if anyone wants to use it

 

[Zeno Lorea]

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I see this quite often

sorry to disappoint, but "In God We Trust" has been on American money since 1864

started with the 2 cent piece

1. That doesn't make it right.
2. It wasn't done on ALL American money until 1955. In fact, IIRC it wasn't on paper money until then.
3. Great minds think alike: the nazis had the almost exact same phrase ("Gott mit uns") on their money and thingies.

 

[belamyi]

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I see this quite often

sorry to disappoint, but "In God We Trust" has been on American money since 1864

started with the 2 cent piece

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Sorry, but the motto was not introduced on paper currency until 1957.
For one thing, the demotivational was referring to bills, which are either more common or more representative of money currency but, more importantly, as a token of federal government, it points at an official tendency with counters the social tendency for wider freedom of thought and belief

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Anyway

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2003-09-29-religion-poll.htm

 

[Kulindahr]

Not true: you only get excommunicated if you publish public disagreement with a half dozen things popes have said over the centuries -- when he was speaking "ex cathedra", when his statements are supposedly things that were "always and everywhere believed" and thus infallible (despite the fact that half of these have been pure inventions). Anything else is fair game -- and a lot of official papal statements do get published against.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

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I see this quite often

sorry to disappoint, but "In God We Trust" has been on American money since 1864

started with the 2 cent piece

You are correct, but the meme is also correct in that it never appeared on paper money before 1955.

Funny, btw, that the people who want to point out its pre-1955 history never dwell on the really fun part: that Nazi Germany copied the idea and starting printing "Gott mit uns" on their money and everything.

 

[belamyi]

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^ Like Stalinist bombast being copied out of an American bombastic building.

 

[Kulindahr]

Only someone who never got beyond a simple college degree would post this!

If it were true, then everything ever written in an ancient language is all lies, from Roman historians to Greek biographies to Egyptian court records to Chinese chronicles.

 

[Kulindahr]

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More like "Any race that would do this to a member of their own kind isn't safe to be around" than anything religious.

 

[belamyi]

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"Just" as in "fair"? that quality being only one part of all the mixture of ungodly dumbness and evil, of course