Darkwing Duck
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I've mentioned it several times before, I joined this site for the first time when the site was rebooted.
The Morman hypothetical
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I've mentioned it several times before, I joined this site for the first time when the site was rebooted.
Hopper
Banned
Mebbe, but do ya think anybuddy really believes that?
Darkwing Duck
Well-Known Member
Why wouldn't they?
Hopper
Banned
Well, I can't speak for anybuddy else on the topic, but personally, I'm agnostic about your claim. I aint callin ya a liar, because I dunno, but I seriously doubt your claim, nonetheless.
Darkwing Duck
Well-Known Member
Why?
Darkwing Duck
Well-Known Member
As I said to Trout, years of lurking here has made me want to catch up in a mean way.
Gosh dammit, this is two posts in two days that I agree with Taint. Someone kill me now, please.
It could be worse. It cold be Bean that you are agreeing with. Just saying.
I don't care if he tells me the world is round and that the ocean is salty -- I will NEVER agree with that 'guy'.
*hooray for FREE money*
Loki said:
meanwhile, back at the ranch....
some of us are still trying to understand the true meaning of NOTHING
Hopper
Banned
From Atheists.org:
"Older dictionaries define atheism as "a belief that there is no God" and/or "denial of God. [Like newer ones don't, eh? Yeah, right] ... atheists certainly do not "deny" that gods exist."
https://www.atheists.org/atheism/About_Atheism
These militant atheist groups got the idea that they would get a wider audience if they denied that they denied God's existence. That's when the "newspeak" campaign began. Now they claim that "atheists certainly do not "deny" that gods exist," eh?
In truth, the typical member of such groups not only vehemently denies the existence of god, but HATES all things religious and seeks to destroy them. These groups often thrive on ridiculing, insulting, and attempting to humiliate religious believers.
Some excerpts from an article written a sympathetic religion editor at "the Age," Barney Zwartz, about "what organisers believe to be the world's biggest atheist conference:"
"One lesson the atheist movement is learning, as the convention shows, is that it must broaden its appeal, reaching out to secularists, rationalists and others... the speakers should probably have spent less time ridiculing religion and more on positive and practical ideas...It was superfluous for speaker after speaker to point out that believers are deluded fantasists who believe in a magic friend who does magic tricks...
Many there would be horrified at how similar it was to evangelical meetings I have covered, down to the bouffant-haired televangelist prototype in Atheist Alliance International president Stuart Bechman, who was master of ceremonies. Every jibe brought a burst of applause - all that was missing was the "hallelujahs".
What was missing was any sign of self-deprecation. Atheism will be a mature movement in Australia when atheists can laugh not just at the religious, but at themselves."
https://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=12266
"What was missing was any sign of self-deprecation"<---- Well, this is serious bidnizz, ya know?
"Older dictionaries define atheism as "a belief that there is no God" and/or "denial of God. [Like newer ones don't, eh? Yeah, right] ... atheists certainly do not "deny" that gods exist."
https://www.atheists.org/atheism/About_Atheism
These militant atheist groups got the idea that they would get a wider audience if they denied that they denied God's existence. That's when the "newspeak" campaign began. Now they claim that "atheists certainly do not "deny" that gods exist," eh?
In truth, the typical member of such groups not only vehemently denies the existence of god, but HATES all things religious and seeks to destroy them. These groups often thrive on ridiculing, insulting, and attempting to humiliate religious believers.
Some excerpts from an article written a sympathetic religion editor at "the Age," Barney Zwartz, about "what organisers believe to be the world's biggest atheist conference:"
"One lesson the atheist movement is learning, as the convention shows, is that it must broaden its appeal, reaching out to secularists, rationalists and others... the speakers should probably have spent less time ridiculing religion and more on positive and practical ideas...It was superfluous for speaker after speaker to point out that believers are deluded fantasists who believe in a magic friend who does magic tricks...
Many there would be horrified at how similar it was to evangelical meetings I have covered, down to the bouffant-haired televangelist prototype in Atheist Alliance International president Stuart Bechman, who was master of ceremonies. Every jibe brought a burst of applause - all that was missing was the "hallelujahs".
What was missing was any sign of self-deprecation. Atheism will be a mature movement in Australia when atheists can laugh not just at the religious, but at themselves."
https://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=12266
"What was missing was any sign of self-deprecation"<---- Well, this is serious bidnizz, ya know?