The Official "Lets bash Christians" thread...
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hmmm - that's a shame but I concede we do both tend to get a bit worked up about these two issues.
Sure a lot of inventions were made by Christians. Many inventions were also made by ancient Greeks, ancient Hindus, and many other civilizations.
The Greek scientist, Archimedes came up with many scientific principles which we use even today. He came up with the concept of pi (π). Ancient Hindus came up with the concept of zero, without which mathematics as we know it would be totally impossible.
Ancient astronomers measured the radius of earth, the distance of sun from the earth with startling accuracy, with the crude experimental techniques that they had available.
It is simplistic to claim that most of the scientific advances were made by Christians and by implication that non Christians are dumb and stupid.
It's even more simplistic to think you live a life free of Christian influence.
free thought goes hand and hand with free will, and Catholics and Christians have the same ability as anyone else.
Point, there are many Catholics that do not support the Catholic stance against contraception. There are Catholics that support GBLT rights. There are Catholics that don't support the Catholic stance of no marriage for Priests and only males can join the priesthood.
The different Christian sects that we have in the world today have all, at one time, broken away from the RCC because they did not believe everything the RCC was "preaching". This also gives lie to your statements about "free thinking".
I could go on, but your mind is either too closed or to limited to make it worth my while.
What you have to lose on your side is that you may be worshiping the wrong God. How do you know that the real God isn’t Allah, or Vishnu, or Zeus?
You are assuming that either Atheists are right or you are right, which is nonsense. When it comes to afterlife, we know absolutely nothing, so anybody could say anything and he may be as right as anybody else.
There are probably thousands of Gods in the world. Let us assume that one of them is the true God. Then an Atheist has zero chance of going to Heaven, you have maybe 1 chance in 10000 (assuming there are 10000 Gods in the world) of going to Heaven.
Not very encouraging odds, in my opinion. I have never bought this argument, that one should believe in God to be on the safe side. Which God?
So does shyte and stink. Does that mean they are the same thing? No. lmao
Yup. However they choose to limit themselves by grounding their ability to think in terms of religious dogma.
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So? I didn't say they were totally devoid of free thought but you seem to think I did. What I said is that they view everything through their Christian biased filters. A Muslim would view things through an Islamic set of filters. Atheists don't have those filters.
No it doesn't. Like I said a few posts back: I don't assume that Christians have no free will. I am, however, positive that Christians view everything through Christian-biased filters. Free thought, the same. Sometimes one can think without basing impressions on religious dogma, sometimes not.
lmao You wish.
In general. Yup. You think freely within your limited (filtered) boundaries, and some of those thoughts have nothing to do with their religion; in which case, it is totally free..
IOW, you are constrained, hogtied, as it were, to your dogma, but you can still move a little bit. I really didn't want to wade into this one, but you really are barking up the wrong tree.In general. Yup. You think freely within your limited (filtered) boundaries.
Gh is almost the antithesis to the typical RCC goer. Yet he is Catholic.
Trust me Anna, he's right on this one.
Yep, absolutely.
I've been snickering all along, but just watched with a morbid curiousity as to how long it would take for you to drop the bomb.
How soon will that happen?
BS.
Just as I am constrained by my being female to thinking predominantly through female glasses, you are constrained to thinking mostly from a male POV, he is constrained to viewing, thinking, etc. through his religious dogma, besides being constrained to thinking from a male POV.. Atheists don't have the religious filters.BTW, I know he is Catholic, a little bit anyway.
Oh he's Catholic alright, no doubt about that, as is Karrie. Not even debatable.BS.
BTW, I know he is Catholic, a little bit anyway.
But they think way outside the mould, way way out side the mould.
We are long past thy days when we used to pass laws with reference to Bible, and thank goodness for that. As to it becoming absurd and destructive, that is your opinion only. I much prefer today's society than the virtual Theocracy we had 50 or 100 years ago.
Again, your opinion only. Study after study has shown that pedophilia is predominantly heterosexual in character, not homosexual.
I didn't say there are other evils, I said the Church thinks that there are other evils. Church sees evils under every rock. Anybody who disagrees with Catholic Church is evil.
And how are these bad things? How is this any worse than homosexuals staying in the closet, losing their jobs being thrown out of their apartment, getting beat up, getting imprisoned, as used to happen in the good old days?
Or how is divorce today any worse than people staying together in the old days, in unhappy, miserable, even abusive relationships? Husband would get drunk and beat his wife practically every day, the wife would still say in the marriage because her church told her so.
Exactly, Catholic teaching is that men and women are complementary (and not complimentary, as you have written), they are not equal. Man is superior, woman is inferior. Man is the captain, woman is the first mate. Man is the CEO, woman is the VP. That kind of regressive, anachronistic teaching belongs in an extremist church, not in a secular society.
Well, talk about the theatre of the absurd. Lilith is a fairy tell, and Eve isn't?
Yeah, I read where Gerry likes to disobey one of the commandments in a huge way. Or at least attach his own quirky twist to it.
Karrie just thinks without accepting the dogma at face value like a good little robot would. She definitely has her own mind. Gerry, not so much.
Men are from Mars, and women: from Venus - and Gawd help 'em all if their politics lean too much left, too much right, undermined in between cuz we can't understand what we otherwise mean....