Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

I challenge the words many and learned in your post.

 

If qualified as secularly Learned I will accept your correction. But many? For every Robertson, Jim Bakker, Mike Pence, Huckabee and the like that say it aloud, a million say amen.

ask around who is more Christian in faith and spirit, Donald Trump or your neighborhood pastor, reverend or priest. I bet Donald J Trump would get 40% of the votes. That speaks more to the tenor of the religion than quality of your neighborhood.

 

It's a hassle to even be eligible in PA. I had to go through three levels of ID checks, including fingerprinting and an FBI check. It wasn't cost-free to do it, either.

 

1) I never stated that you claim something that is unfalsefiable exists. You are defending an belief that depends on claiming that something unfalsifiable exists.
2) Going to pass
3) You have never provided a line, a limit, or even a concept of what is acceptable as a theory or hypothesis and what is not acceptable as such.
4) Same. Keep screaming 'hypothesis.'
5) You used the scientific method to get to the starting line (having a hypothesis). Everything after has no basis in science in regards to a defense of god.

 

Save your sanctimony and flowery rhetoric for somebody else. You can define anything the way you want it to suit your beliefs.

 

It’s easier to shoot a kid with a handgun in Pa than to teach a kid. ‘Murcia; Jesus and guns.

 

Did you explore every religion out there before rejecting every single one but the one you follow now? Insisting that yours is right while they are all wrong is quite arrogant.

I'd argue that it is even more arrogant than simply rejecting the idea of any type of deity existing, which is the position of an atheist.

 

G-d doesn't will any of that People make those choices. It's called free will. I'm not arguing with you saying that religion has no place in legal matters. Faith is not a justification for bigotry against homosexuals or for trying to outlaw birth control. Those are improper decisions made by human beings in the name of G-d.

Where I have an issue is when you shit on people for simply believing. That is where you come off like an ignorant, hateful ass.

 

those that sit in silence and allow others to hurt their fellow man by using the same faith are as guilty as those taking action. That a million Christians didn’t show up at pences front door telling him to repent is a million Christians that acquiesced to his rampage of hate.
If god wanted it to stop, god would. Or can’t. Or refuses. Or wants it. Or doesn’t care. Or doesn’t exist. Those are your alternatives.

 

Or G-d allows us to make our own decisions, but you are too busy wallowing in hate and anger to see it.

 

The decision to have a child with spina bifida.
My neighbors son the autistic boy with Down’s syndrome. What decision was made?

so god allows some of us to make the decision to rape every female from newborn to a 97 year old invalid in an African village. Can’t stop it. Or won’t stop it.

 

Yeah, that's the way it's gotta be now. We have 2 layers - though not fingerprinting and FBI, which is a lot - and multiple-day training. Which I've done because of another role I have in the church.

Our children's curriculum changed 3 times in 2 years - new pastors, new workers, one of the curricula was boring and shitty - and that's what swore me off of it.