Nice Comment

Comment was by Mrs.B on July 4, 2022 at 1:28pm

Exactly.

Comment was by Loren Miller on July 4, 2022 at 8:38am

I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.
-- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

So do I, Richard. So do I.

Comment was by Loren Miller on July 3, 2022 at 6:05am

It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No. We have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic Church in a nutshell.
-- Stephen Fry, from the 2009 Intelligence Squared debate

Fry's comparison between eating disorders and the Catholic Church is so on point that it's amazing, but with an important difference. Anorexics and obese people are suffering from a psycho-physiological disorder. What those in the Church struggle with is their own hubris.

Comment was by Loren Miller on July 2, 2022 at 7:52am

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.
-- Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Or, to put it in four simple words:

Faith is no reason. -- Ken Peters, California, winner of the 2009 CFI Blasphemy Contest

Comment was by Loren Miller on July 1, 2022 at 7:02am

No one can sit at the bedside of a dying child and still believe in God.
-- Bertrand Russell

No one with an ounce of empathy or working mirror neuron in 'em, anyway.

Comment was by Mrs.B on June 30, 2022 at 1:43pm

Yup, it do.

Comment was by Loren Miller on June 30, 2022 at 7:12am

Sounds awfully familiar, don't it?

Comment was by Mrs.B on June 29, 2022 at 1:30pm

Exactly, & why so many differing ''rules''?

Comment was by Loren Miller on June 29, 2022 at 6:14am

If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.
-- Richard C. Carrier, Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

This is a question I have been asking for a while: why is it that Yahweh can't talk to us DIRECTLY? Why does he need SPECIAL representatives to do that work for him? The answer is simple: something that doesn't exist can't communicate! As it comes to this, Winston Hamilton, the Atheist Pig, put it very well:

Comment was by Mrs.B on June 28, 2022 at 1:29pm

Disgust for the country is only growing.

Back to the back alley abortions, self abortions, suicides, withholding sex, increasing forced sex.....

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