Funny anti-religious Internet pics

[belamyi]

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Huh? The "humor" in that "cartoon" is based on a faith position about the contents of the Bible: that it's supposed to conform to science. It's not funny; if anything it's a serious comment on the tragedy that so many atheists treat the Bible in the same ignorant manner as fundamentalists do, reading it literally and expecting it to be a science textbook.

Based on a "faith" position? It is based on an appreciation of the facts surrounding and founding the Bible. You could claim that they are inaccurate, as in fact some other cartoons in this thread actually ARE, and then try to show how they are so. But your attack on the cartoon IS the one based on a defense founded on your own faith in that book.
In fact your posts here are very much like what that cartoon is talking about: you have spread some sweet corn (even if too often you gave it out to , but they generally are not worth their shit...
The problem with Bible-handling is not about taking it literally or as a science textbook, but as a moral book instead of the epic novel with a sequel that it actually is.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Based on a "faith" position? It is based on an appreciation of the facts surrounding and founding the Bible. You could claim that they are inaccurate, as in fact some other cartoons in this thread actually ARE, and then try to show how they are so. But your attack on the cartoon IS the one based on a defense founded on your own faith in that book.
In fact your posts here are very much like what that cartoon is talking about: you have spread some sweet corn (even if too often you gave it out to , but they generally are not worth their shit...
The problem with Bible-handling is not about taking it literally or as a science textbook, but as a moral book instead of the epic novel with a sequel that it actually is.

It's a faith position because it takes on faith that the Bible is supposed to be subject to science.

And the Bible is the best book on morals yet. At the rate society is going, we might catch up with it in about ten thousand years.

 

[belamyi]

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It's a faith position because it takes on faith that the Bible is supposed to be subject to science.

And the Bible is the best book on morals yet. At the rate society is going, we might catch up with it in about ten thousand years.

You claim the cartoon is taking up a faith position because you are wearing faith eyeglasses. Their claim, on the other side, our claim, is that EVERYTHING "is supposed to be subject to" reasonability, which is the base of science as it is the base of faith as opposed to mere contumacy.

You can be right in considering that people often, too often, just wield science as another form of faith and religion but, that is something that our side should deplore in the name of that reasonability while, on your side, you are just pissed that you have got competition, which you do not need to fear at all, since science, even perverted as faith, is based on facts, and that will never withstand the stubborn opposition of blind sycophancy that too many want to make pass for faithful adherence.

But that last explanation is all lost on you since, as I have just said, you can only see the dogmatic component, real or not, in anything involved in discussion, since it's dogma, not reasonable questioning that you are embracing. The very fact that you truly seem to believe that an intellectual freak like the Bible can be considered the best book on morals ever shows how constricted is whatever you have left for a mind.

 

[Jacquemar]

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I think it's a little funny when Christians want the "old testament" to be taken as allegory, but expect the "new testament" to be taken literally. It's all such nonsense anyway, I can't even take the bible seriously.

 

[Kulindahr]

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You can be right in considering that people often, too often, just wield science as another form of faith and religion but, that is something that our side should deplore in the name of that reasonability while, on your side, you are just pissed that you have got competition, which you do not need to fear at all, since science, even perverted as faith, is based on facts, and that will never withstand the stubborn opposition of blind sycophancy that too many want to make pass for faithful adherence.

"Competition" from what?

But that last explanation is all lost on you since, as I have just said, you can only see the dogmatic component, real or not, in anything involved in discussion, since it's dogma, not reasonable questioning that you are embracing. The very fact that you truly seem to believe that an intellectual freak like the Bible can be considered the best book on morals ever shows how constricted is whatever you have left for a mind.

So you think that love, peace, hospitality, kindness, generosity, patience, humility, goodness, justice, trustworthiness, perseverance, mercy, and the like are bad morals? or that society is even close to living up to them?

 

[Kulindahr]

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I think it's a little funny when Christians want the "old testament" to be taken as allegory, but expect the "new testament" to be taken literally. It's all such nonsense anyway, I can't even take the bible seriously.

More ignorance. Christians read the Old and New the same -- according to the type of literature they are... something at which the cartoon you posted fails miserably. It's a bit shallow on logic as well.

 

[Kulindahr]

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pic time!

Brilliant!

And priceless.

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worth posting again

The nails in the ears makes it.

 

[bankside]

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So you think that love, peace, hospitality, kindness, generosity, patience, humility, goodness, justice, trustworthiness, perseverance, mercy, and the like are bad morals? or that society is even close to living up to them?

Those are all good things, but they weren't invented at the same time they made up The Bible. They'd been cultivated by some humans for millennia before.

 

[Jacquemar]

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Those are all good things, but they weren't invented at the same time they made up The Bible. They'd been cultivated by some humans for millennia before.

The same values are expressed in Spell 125 (commonly called "The Declaration of Innocence") of the Egyptian "Book of the Dead," which, in some form or another existed almost 2,000 years before the earliest copy of a biblical text.

 

[star-warrior]

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[star-warrior]

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[star-warrior]

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And the Bible is the best book on morals yet. At the rate society is going, we might catch up with it in about ten thousand years.

 

[belamyi]

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"Competition" from what?

Scientism. But, as I said, it actually has no chance against the sturdy simplistic dogmatism of religion.

So you think that love, peace, hospitality, kindness, generosity, patience, humility, goodness, justice, trustworthiness, perseverance, mercy, and the like are bad morals? or that society is even close to living up to them?

Then why not rather choose Huck Finn as your guiding book? It is better literature, and truly North American, not a foreign import, and it goes for all of that without seeding hate against this and that nation... in fact against ALL nations who are not a certain little group of randomly chosen ones.

 

[bort138]

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[Kulindahr]

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Those are all good things, but they weren't invented at the same time they made up The Bible. They'd been cultivated by some humans for millennia before.

None of which is relevant.

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The same values are expressed in Spell 125 (commonly called "The Declaration of Innocence") of the Egyptian "Book of the Dead," which, in some form or another existed almost 2,000 years before the earliest copy of a biblical text.

Also not relevant.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Okay, my gut hurts from laughing.

 

[Kulindahr]

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If that makes you happy. It's not the Bible's definition of faith.

 

[Kulindahr]

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caption reads:
Finally, the crucifix comes in useful

 

[MTLDude]

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Needless to say, I want one!

 

[bankside]

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None of which is relevant.

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Also not relevant.

It's relevant because it refutes your claims that the bible is a unique or special or superior or original source of morals. It isn't.

Humans have wrestled with moral questions for millennia before they invented the bible, and in all cases they seem to have compiled good advice for the next generation as best they could, dressing it in myth and legend. And including the worst advice - the equally human "moral turds" of the day.

BTW, I wanted to point out this quote:

And the Bible is the best book on morals yet. At the rate society is going, we might catch up with it in about ten thousand years.

Why have a bible if we're capable of getting there anyway? The dinosaurs lived for a hundred million years. A ten thousand year head start is a rounding error in the life of a species.