Funny anti-religious Internet pics

[Kulindahr]

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It's ironic that those who most loudly assert their allegiance to Christ are the ones campaigning to make this country a social Darwinistic experiment. I wonder if they know that buying real estate with the intent of keeping it permanently is another thing called "an abomination"?

 

[Kulindahr]

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Good points except the last one. It comes down to this: his premises are wrong, so his conclusion is wrong.

 

[Kulindahr]

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It would seem to me that god could create a holy book that doesn't lend itself to so much confusion and mystery; something with a truth that is not moot.

It wouldn't matter how rigorous and logical a holy book was, humans would find ways to twist it.

 

[star-warrior]

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Good points except the last one. It comes down to this: his premises are wrong, so his conclusion is wrong.

What were his premises and why are they wrong?

 

[johaninsc]

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That's why we have you here and are lucky for it. For you know everything about anything, and are never wrong.

Good points except the last one. It comes down to this: his premises are wrong, so his conclusion is wrong.

 

[yhtang]

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I like this.

 

[Stardreamer]

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Most of the shelters and food banks around here are run and staffed by Christians.

 

[Keeland]

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Most of the shelters and food banks around here are run and staffed by Christians.

So were workhouses.

 

[Kulindahr]

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What were his premises and why are they wrong?

He presumes that a deity would treat His creatures like toy figurines, without any will or choice of their own.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Most of the shelters and food banks around here are run and staffed by Christians.

Generally speaking, it tends to be two separate groups of Christians.

 

[Kulindahr]

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[Kulindahr]

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[Kulindahr]

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[Kulindahr]

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Wow -- this is a real book:

 

[borg69unimatrix]

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Most of the shelters and food banks around here are run and staffed by Christians.

So were workhouses.

So were the Crusades.

 

[Kulindahr]

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[Kulindahr]

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[cashwyatt]

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Good Friday -- isn't that the day Jesus died? I don't think that was Good Friday for him. I don't see him up there going, 'Wooo! Party! Thank Dad, it's Friday!'

 

[star-warrior]

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He presumes that a deity would treat His creatures like toy figurines, without any will or choice of their own.

Then you presume incorrectly, as the quote attributed to Epicurus is unlike his other writing, and it is more probable to attributable it to skeptic philosphers instead. Epicurus says that if gods exist they wouldn't be bothered by us nor want anything from us, neither prayer, sacrifice, or our adulation.

 

[bankside]

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He presumes that a deity would treat His creatures like toy figurines, without any will or choice of their own.

That description applies exactly to the creator described in christian mythology of the divine.

Free will is a relevant concept when deciding between two or more congenial, worthy, fulfilling, choices. Free will is not relevant if a choice existed, say, between infinite fulfilment, security, insight, joy, and contentment on one hand, and despair, decay, and oblivion on the other.