""No Gay Marriage" -- God" -- Religious nutjobs

[franklin]

I can't remember whether I've shared this story or not, but at one point I was talking to a guy who was with Campus Crusade for Christ. He believed the Bible was literally true in every respect. So I asked him how Methuselah could have lived to be 969 years old, as the Bible says. He immediately gave this explanation. When God created the world, he separated the waters above from the waters below (Genesis), meaning that the sky was actually a dome of water. When the flood of Noah came, that dome broke, and all the water above fell onto the earth, flooding the entire planet. And now that there's no dome of water protecting us, we can no longer live to be 1,000 years old, because the ultra-violet rays are killing us.

I wish I was making that one up, but I'm not. The dude really believed it. These folks just live in their own little happy place. There's just no reasoning with them.

Well, that could explain telomere degredation.

 

[Harambe]

Wouldn't calling somebody that shares that viewpoint a "religious nutjob" or "religious idiot" be intolerant as well?

Why is it so hard for you to just say that you disagree with them? There's no need to say that people that don't agree with you are idiots or they're crazy. Just say you disagree and move on...you're being just as intolerant IMO.

Only if intolerance of intolerance is intolerable

Ok, I owe you a better explanation than that. I'm not a politician, nor do I ever want to claim an office, and so it's this: It's no fun to just say I disagree. Or point out the obvious in a calm, rational manner.

That just happened.

 

[moevillini]

It's funny that my quote double posted. It must have been an act of God.

oh, so you're saying you think God is just acting?

 

[pickledXgrandma]

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

oh, so you're saying you think God is just acting?

Yes, and so am I.

 

[babe]

Found this little wonder today:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/illinois-tornadoes-gay-marriage-_n_4309957.html

Robert Ritchie, Executive Director of America Needs Fatima, a project of the right-wing American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, has linked the deadly tornadoes to Illnois' approval of same-sex marriage earlier this month.



That's right, in 2013 people are still using forces of nature to try and strengthen their own opinions. We've come so far as a people...

In 1997 I was a Freshman in high school taking LDS Seminary. My then Seminary teacher once told us that although Utah has been projected to have a "huge" Earthquake anytime now, we haven't. And we haven't because the amount of Earthquakes an area has is directly related to the amount of sinning being done.

Anyone else have observations of religious folks telling tall tales like this?

I confess to thinking it was strange, when as an LDS missionary in the Philippines, I'd see novenas in the corners of living rooms or see devout but otherwise sensible pretty girls using a rosary. I guess that feeling isn't a lot different from ElRoacho thinking Bible Thumpers are strange.

explanations of human tragedies being the consequence of sin are staples of religious reasoning that rank right up there with global warming alarmists who, standing on a global temp spike that generally precedes the onset of a new ice age, are predicting that the oceans will rise fifty or two hundred feet as ice melts. . . . while at the same time claiming that the ice has already melted as proof of their argument. . . . and "scientists" who find no reticence in extrapolating evolutionary principles back to the big bang and forward to a world of totally managed populations of every species. . . .

religion has no monopoly on stupid.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Well, that could explain telomere degredation.

Lol.

 

[One Brow]

... explanations of human tragedies being the consequence of sin are staples of religious reasoning that rank right up there with global warming alarmists who, standing on a global temp spike that generally precedes the onset of a new ice age, ...

There is so much wrong with this post, but on a completely different topic. Another day, perhaps.

 

[LogGrad98]

I can start.

Global warming is a myth and a quasi-religious movement. Earth climate is set primarily by the solar cycle, and man's affect is negligible at best. Al Gore is a hack.

 

[One Brow]

So, I haven't been arguing enough for everyone's entertainment lately?

 

[NUMBERICA]

I fully endorse the unleashing of the One Brow for this one.

 

[NUMBERICA]

religion has no monopoly on stupid.

But they still sell the most of it.