Atheist Club. Begin.
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It's always the exact time for the Brannigan.
Damn it. I came back late to the thread and was ready to use the Brannigan, but you beat me to it.
*shakes fist*
But I like your style. You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind you, perhaps even a couple years older.
It's always the exact time for the Brannigan.
Damn it. I came back late to the thread and was ready to use the Brannigan, but you beat me to it.
*shakes fist*
But I like your style. You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind you, perhaps even a couple years older.
A couple of years and you can pass as my cool older sister.
Mike didn't realise how good he really had it. They could have made him watch bad movies and say five decades of the rosary.
It's always the exact time for the Brannigan.
Damn it. I came back late to the thread and was ready to use the Brannigan, but you beat me to it.
*shakes fist*
But I like your style. You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind you, perhaps even a couple years older.
A couple of years and you can pass as my cool older sister.
Psst! My line was a Brannigan.
You were able to sneak one past me. Good job! 
I was raised a catholic and even got confirmed, i had already seen through the religion and how full of BS it was. I did it to keep the status quo and not have tension in the house, due to me being sensitive to these things and the fact Social Anxiety is keeping me from being self supportive for now. ie no job cause i im scared to death of interviews and applications and stuff
Another recovering Catholic, yay. For the longest time, my mom would always ask me to go to church with them; i always said no. She thankfully never pressed the issue, and eventually she stopped asking. Although to be honest, my parents hardly go to church anymore now, so ...
The thing that gets me about it is that they are displaying complete disrespect for Jesus and his message, not just by huckstering, but by trying to make money from God. Jesus was very clear on this, you're not allowed to do that sort of thing and if you do he will kick your ass.
I think that Jesus was just a mortal human being like everyone else while they purport to believe that he's a part of an all-powerful being capable of punishing for eternity those that reject him. So why do I have more respect for the guy and his message than they do?
Sadly, I know that thousands of people, probably elderly, will lap it up and think that they're good Christians for doing so.
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^ Yep. I make my little jokes here and there, but I strongly respect Jesus the man, and consider him someone worthy of admiration, right up there with the Buddha.
A case could be made supporting this. After all, isn't he credited with a complete phase change, moving the judeo-christian spirit away from " an eye for an eye" to "turn the other cheek" ?
I've personally believed he was a revolutionary in the Gandhi mode and was sacrificed by the Romans as a trouble-maker. everything else was pr created by fanatics who followed him and a few manipulative, judicious planners fostering a deep-seated grass-roots movement bent towards overthrowing Roman authority. As is often the case-things got out of hand when the nutjobs took over the institute.
And today, well, Heinlein said organized religion existed
First-to benefit the priests
Second-to benefit the priests
and Thirdly-always to benefit the priests.
Smart man.
ShamelessMcBundy said:
its difficult to argue with science
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BRAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNSSS!
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Well, while I'm here, might as well take care of some paperwork.
Heinlein was brilliant. That aside, I agree that Jesus was likely a troublemaker who saw his local government the same way many see it today: as a corrupt institution working to benefit only itself, and using piety and zealousness as a shield for its more unsavory activities.
Well, Bill Maher isn't exactly science. In my own opinion, Bill Maher is a gas giant who couldn't achieve fusion, and now orbits another bright star while collecting asteroids and chucking them at the Earth.
***ALSO, NO ONE CLOSE THIS THREAD, AS I NOW HAVE TO WAIT ON A REPLY FROM MY POST ADDRESSING @MISTRAL 's 4 YEAR OLD COMMENT.***
Also, you can see the "at" symbol, now, as something useless, but just wait until we upgrade what magic it creates.
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Well, while I'm here, might as well take care of some paperwork.
A case could be made supporting this. After all, isn't he credited with a complete phase change, moving the judeo-christian spirit away from " an eye for an eye" to "turn the other cheek" ?
I've personally believed he was a revolutionary in the Gandhi mode and was sacrificed by the Romans as a trouble-maker. everything else was pr created by fanatics who followed him and a few manipulative, judicious planners fostering a deep-seated grass-roots movement bent towards overthrowing Roman authority. As is often the case-things got out of hand when the nutjobs took over the institute.
And today, well, Heinlein said organized religion existed
First-to benefit the priests
Second-to benefit the priests
and Thirdly-always to benefit the priests.
Smart man.
Heinlein was brilliant. That aside, I agree that Jesus was likely a troublemaker who saw his local government the same way many see it today: as a corrupt institution working to benefit only itself, and using piety and zealousness as a shield for its more unsavory activities.
Well, Bill Maher isn't exactly science. In my own opinion, Bill Maher is a gas giant who couldn't achieve fusion, and now orbits another bright star while collecting asteroids and chucking them at the Earth.
***ALSO, NO ONE CLOSE THIS THREAD, AS I NOW HAVE TO WAIT ON A REPLY FROM MY POST ADDRESSING @MISTRAL 's 4 YEAR OLD COMMENT.***
Also, you can see the "at" symbol, now, as something useless, but just wait until we upgrade what magic it creates.
Maher is tv, he's social commentary, his show a comedy, he's political and he's entertainment but I sometimes find his thought process to be rational and historically scientific
The US Constitution is a great foundation for freedom and democracy, and you look at those who signed the Declaration of Independence. Many of the founding fathers were believers and were Christian but did they also support secularism. They were many peoples, 143 signatures to examine and 48 signers of the Articles of Confederation you will see a mix of Quakers, former French huguenot, former English Presbyterian, Catholics, Freemasons and many other political belief and religions....Thomas Jefferson himself had questioned the bible, examined other religions and questioned the existence of it all as fable, fairytale and mythology and started to talk of Laws of Nature and Nature’s God. Thomas Paine a believer in reason did not believe in the faiths of any church Roman, Turkish, English, he saw all of them as false saying I disbelieve them all and George Washington on his deathbed called for no clergymen to be in attendence and James Madison talked of how religion shackles the mind. Were these people Christians or Secular Humanists, were these people Patriots, Deismism followers and Unitarians?their political views didn't always mix perfectly, their faiths did not all agree, yet all had one thing in common.
The US Constitution is a great foundation for freedom and democracy, and you look at those who signed the Declaration of Independence. Many of the founding fathers were believers and were Christian but did they also support secularism. They were many peoples, 143 signatures to examine and 48 signers of the Articles of Confederation you will see a mix of Quakers, former French huguenot, former English Presbyterian, Catholics, Freemasons and many other political belief and religions....Thomas Jefferson himself had questioned the bible, examined other religions and questioned the existence of it all as fable, fairytale and mythology and started to talk of Laws of Nature and Nature’s God. Thomas Paine a believer in reason did not believe in the faiths of any church Roman, Turkish, English, he saw all of them as false saying I disbelieve them all and George Washington on his deathbed called for no clergymen to be in attendence and James Madison talked of how religion shackles the mind. Were these people Christians or Secular Humanists, were these people Patriots, Deismism followers and Unitarians?their political views didn't always mix perfectly, their faiths did not all agree, yet all had one thing in common.
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