Funny anti-religious Internet pics

[Jacquemar]

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I hope this isn't an example of the great love that their god inspires.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Very nice.

 

[Kulindahr]

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The problem with this is that recent evidence suggests kids are safer with priests than with police and even teachers (I'm waiting for someone to duplicate the study, though).

To which I say... who would dare have kids?

 

[Kulindahr]

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Except Francis is taking action -- he's applying Vatican law which makes a sex crime committed anywhere in the world by a priest a crime under Vatican law. In other words, they can no longer hide; if they don't get prosecuted locally, they'll get charged at the Vatican.

If he continues with that (if the Curia don't start blocking him), they're going to be radically increasing the Vatican population, with most of it in the dungeons.

 

[Kulindahr]

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wow....I thought that this was a little alarming

More than a little. I'd want to ask them what sort of piss-poor wus of a deity they have, if He can be "driven out" by a little group of atheists -- kind of Jesus' "Oh ye of little faith", with attitude.

 

[bankside]

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wow....I thought that this was a little alarming

While cleanliness may be next to godliness, apparently things like grammar and semantics are not.

 

[zoltanspawn]

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No, it's what it flat-out says -- it has nothing to do with what I'd "like". If I went with what I'd like, I'd have a significantly different view.

Since there's no agreement about what the bible flat-out says, which reading of it do you think is the one that represents what the bible flat-out says? Leaving aside what you'd like, of course.

 

[johaninsc]

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No, it's what it flat-out says -- it has nothing to do with what I'd "like". If I went with what I'd like, I'd have a significantly different view.

 

[Jacquemar]

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It's an on-point critique of an accurate reading of scripture. When the point has been made before, you've claimed that god was just doing the best he could with the people of the day, and that he limits of their understanding imposed a necessary coarseness on any divine moral code, and that only blatantly ignoring those facts could result in any critique of a moral code that was, of course, inherently and divinely compassionate and just.

The trouble is your argument is a special pleading based on stuff you made up.

Babies in the preschool can work out the importance of sharing and that no child should be a slave to another; the idea that this could be too difficult to explain to bronze age peasants is....a conclusion left to the reader.

I actually went back to The Bible to read what it says. The passage I read (Leviticus 25 44 - 46; is there another passage?) offers no compassionate (or any other kind) rights or protections for the slaves. It only considers the rights of the slave owners.

Since god had no problems outlawing so many other things, I fail to see why he didn't outlaw slavery.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

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So when does this thread get funny again?

 

[yhtang]

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So when does this thread get funny again?

Well said. Religious debates should not be in this thread.

 

[johaninsc]

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[johaninsc]

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[Kulindahr]

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Since there's no agreement about what the bible flat-out says, which reading of it do you think is the one that represents what the bible flat-out says? Leaving aside what you'd like, of course.

It flat out says that the old laws were given "for the hardness of their hearts", in other words, they were what God expected the people to be able to handle -- not what He was aiming at. There's no way around that.

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How grammar-school.

 

[Kulindahr]

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I actually went back to The Bible to read what it says. The passage I read (Leviticus 25 44 - 46; is there another passage?) offers no compassionate (or any other kind) rights or protections for the slaves. It only considers the rights of the slave owners.

The regulations concerning slavery make a number of things clear: the "slave" is not property, and thus for example may not be beaten without cause because the treatment of a slave was subject to the same laws as any other interactions between people; the slave is to be treated the same as your family; it was frequently a voluntary economic transaction to get out of debt, with a set term of service; if a slave was injured permanently, he had to be set free instantly, debt forgiven; if a master killed a slave, the master was executed; etc.

Perhaps the biggest difference with what we call slavery: if any man trapped or kidnapped someone to make him a slave, that man was to be put to death.... or maybe the fact that if a slave ran from his master and came to someone for refuge, refuge was to be granted; the slave was not to be returned, but housed and fed and protected.

In those two is a very important point: only foreigners could actually be slaves, and they had to be treated as family anyway. TO carry that over to the New Testament, slavery comes to an end, because in Christ, there are no foreigners.

Try Exodus 21 and Deuteronomy 23 - 24.

 

[Kulindahr]

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So when does this thread get funny again?

When people stop being ignorant and childish and actually get some humor.

 

[johaninsc]

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moving along...

 

[Kulindahr]

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LOL

"Christian Scientists" take note.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Heh. All too many people see God as a coin-op machine; if they put in enough coins, they'll get what they want.

 

[aaggii]

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When people stop being ignorant and childish and actually get some humor.

Then why don´t you start another funnier thread and stop spamming this one? Each I want to see the new posts, all I get is written bullshit already found in the Religion sub-forum.