Why would churches endorse pedophiles and rapists? Hmmm I wonder…
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The fuck is a rat fink?
This guy?
Well, that clears it up.
A fink is someone who is contemptible- usually a nark, and sometimes specifically a strikebreaking scab.
Respecting the belief of me deserving eternal torture because I do not desire to worship a cruel (and in all likelihood a nonexistant) god is a stupid as fuck sentiment.
Dunno wha’tjer talk’n’boot.
They’d never carry a cross that big. That’s why they use their bibles.
My mom made me carry a big one in the park every easter. Praise be goddess Ēostre! Wait, shit.
Clearly a respectable approach is to tie the man to the cross.
If one used nails, it’d make them holey.
In our house we refer to the slotted spoon as the ‘Jesus spoon’ because it’s holy. My eldest daughter recently said she thought it was because when Jesus was crucified he was holey. I’ve havent thought about it the same way since
At least three holes, yes.
Replace that cross with… whatever modern, right-thinking, science-believers swing, and that would be pretty accurate too.
People being people. Tribal, oblivious. Epistemological habits that would offend a dung beetle.
Really? What exact ideas do we swing? Do you mean our efforts to correct and combat disinformation, brainwashing, and groupthink? Perhaps our frustration with the seemingly insurmountable task of defending ourselves against attacks?
How awful of us.
I’m just saying that people are guilty. All people. Not just the guys on the other team.
Guilty of crass behavior and guilty of sloppy thinking.
Examples, please.
Have you never been aggressed by the members of an atheist forum?
No.
Did you go onto an atheist forum and try to argue that god is real? That’s their space. What kind of welcome did you expect?
No I didn’t do that. What I did is offer that I have, via meditation, experienced some stuff roughly corresponding to some religious stuff. And invited conversation.
Yeah, the response has been less than open minded.
Do you mean you went to an online forum full of atheists and offered up woo for critical analysis? Did you think they weren’t going to tear that apart for examination and point out the flaws? That’s what they do. Many atheists carry trauma from religious upbringings filled with intense spiritual experiences. They have already dismissed them as fraudulent emotional manipulation, and are on red alert against more of it.
Look, there are atheists who welcome that sort of discussion, but online atheist forums are echo chambers. That’s where you find the angry ones. Theists barge in there every day and rile them up. They’ve got their arguments locked and loaded, with fingers on triggers. They’re eager to destroy unwarranted beliefs. Eventually they might mellow out and leave the forum, but you’re gonna have difficulty identifying chill atheists in the wild, especially if you lead with woo. We’re trying to be content and just let you have whatever harmless beliefs you like. We’ve realized how much of a pain in the ass it is to try and change minds.
Shredding ideas down to their most basic parts, examining, then rebuilding what works while discarding what doesn’t is the very definition of fairness and open-mindedness. It might be painful, but that’s how we grow. Ideas stand and fall on their own merits. Our emotional connection to an experience is how bias is defined, and we cannot expect others to simply accept our version of reality without evidence.
Like, I’ve had a ghost experience, as an atheist. I didn’t believe in ghosts then, and you know what? I still don’t believe in them now. Brains just do weird things, and there’s no good reason to blindly trust our own perceptions.
It’s a matter of degree. Bonfire vs wildfire. We know everyone is fallible, but you have to prioritize these things.
“Both sides bad”
Or “people are people”
lol no
yeah, because the godless communist atheists are all terrorizing the media outlets with “THE ENEMY IS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIVING!!!1!1!1!1!!11” and buying private jets with all the stolen money from their peers via wishful thinking and empty promises
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