Religion, what's the point?
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It just popped up in my YT feed, it was apparently from 2010. I’m researching...
No injuries to the camel, thankfully.
The parishioners were somehow spared from injury as well.
"So, Kevin, umm, how did you end up here in heaven?"
"Well, I was at church during a play about our lord and a camel fell on me and I suffocated."
"Well, I was at church during a play about our lord and a camel fell on me and I suffocated."
https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963...BFyp_tJBERadqMiu-jJbmgTsRKeJLvSYzQ334K4zSKE5A
Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend. In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999.
Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend. In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999.
Disappointingly, religion’s power & influence in politics hasn’t abated to any similar degree. Feels even more entrenched & dangerous at times.
Je suis Charlie Hebdo
Blasphemy is a victimless crime. Made up to feed the ego of the devout and defend the indefensible.
Not soon enough.
The more religion declines, the more desperate the believers get, the more they are willing to justify their immoral acts in the name of god.
When sanctity of dogma is placed above sanctity of human life, shit always happens. My only hope is that there is enough rational thought left in humanity for us to survive the final death throes of religion.
It’s definitely declining due to a variety of factors but this post is a bit harsh on believers. Most of these people simply grow up in a culture where religion is normalized. Once the culture changes, so will the attitudes of its believers.
You're right. I did not mean to blindly tar all believers with the same brush. There will always be good people. Believer, or not. But sadly, there's a lot of the bad people too. More than enough to cause so much pain and suffering.
As long as sanctity of dogma is placed above sanctity of human life, shit will continue to happen.
I agree with this. The doctrines of each religions will vary though and it's icons, but I don't necessarily see all religions as intrinsically bad and that they need to die out. I just that they have to be adapted to and square up to modern ethics, culture and scientfic knowledge. Some religions do in doctrine place the sancity of human life(and animal life) over dogma for instance. I think any good practioner of a religion will adopt what's good from it and discard what is clearly bad, but of course if you keep discarding more and more, you can ask yourself if it's still possible to believe in your religion of choice.
Because that went so well the first time
(it's from 2016, article is from 2008)
I’ve totally forgotten about CTH, I used to listen to them often.
Thanks for the memory jog.
This is so bizarre it deserves being posted in US Politics & in here.
When fairytalists fairytale in front of students...
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251069219.html
When fairytalists fairytale in front of students...
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251069219.html
Aparrently a preacher was arrested for a hate crime for quoting the bible. There might be more to it than what we know atm. However it demontrates to me why you cannot offer religion special protection under hate crime laws because many of the most revered religious scriptures are themselves full of "hate crime" material.
This seems to be it...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ne...-complaints-homophobic-comments-1588129?amp=1
Couldn’t care less. Arrest them for being fecking annoying for all I care.
I don't think it should be illegal to be fair, I just think it ideally should be challenged. I was once invited to a lecture by a Christian pastor on Buddhism who wrote a thesis on Buddhism in university and who travels to Taiwan quite often to convert Taiwan buddhists to christianity and is frustrated about how hard they are to convert. I didn't know the lecture on beforehand was basically "Why buddhism is evil". I quite enjoyed being there and being able to call out everything he got wrong, which was pretty much everything. I could have claimed offense, but i'm not an overly offended type.
I guess street preachers is a different ball game though as compared to a church, mosque or temple. I imagine it's difficult to make laws of street preaching. Ive spoken with quite lot of street protelyzers mainly Christians and Hindus, and it doesn't annoy as long as they are to able to take no for an answer.
In a place of worship is one thing, having to endure street preaching horseshit is another. In college it was terrible, especially to females or gays. Just abhorrent shit.
I imagine it's somewhat worse in the US compared here in Denmark which is one of most secular western countries in the world.
I literally wanted to punch a few during Mardi Gras/visiting New Orleans periodically and St Patty's in Savannah in past years, and less so in Ybor on a random night.
A family of Plymouth Brethren have moved in a few houses away.
The wife is huge and they have 2 of the most obese daughters I have ever seen.
I saw the man in his front garden and said hello. He blanked me completely. Ok, maybe he was deaf, so I said hello to his wife. Again, completely ignored.
So the next time I saw him, I was about to say hello, but he saw me and turned his back on me.
After that I spoke to his neighbour and he said that exactly the same thing happened to him.
Worse still, every few weeks, a load of Plymouth Brethren people descend on the his house to have their service.
They all drive huge 4x4 tanks and park with zero consideration. On pavements and across people drives.
Talk about holier than thou.
The wife is huge and they have 2 of the most obese daughters I have ever seen.
I saw the man in his front garden and said hello. He blanked me completely. Ok, maybe he was deaf, so I said hello to his wife. Again, completely ignored.
So the next time I saw him, I was about to say hello, but he saw me and turned his back on me.
After that I spoke to his neighbour and he said that exactly the same thing happened to him.
Worse still, every few weeks, a load of Plymouth Brethren people descend on the his house to have their service.
They all drive huge 4x4 tanks and park with zero consideration. On pavements and across people drives.
Talk about holier than thou.
Yeah, Plymouth Brethren are very exclusionary socially and very protective of their female members.
I'd slash a couple tires parking like that. Get the feck off my drive/lawn/block.
Better yet, to avoid probable charges, I'd just call a tow truck service. Surely there's rules on blocking access to driveways/roads and on one's property.
Better yet, to avoid probable charges, I'd just call a tow truck service. Surely there's rules on blocking access to driveways/roads and on one's property.
Thank you for that.
I didn't really know what advice to give you Buster, so I thought I'd just mention what everyone knows already.My neighbour, who lives next to them asked them to move. He is a big guy and they moved pretty quick. We now know which sunday they host and so make sure we park to avoid any blockage.
fecker really should be nowhere near children in a public school setting with views like this...
What's this about 215 children's bodies being found near an old Catholic boarding school in Canada.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/canada-remains-indigenous-children-mass-graves
Qanons might be on to something with the whole children eating cabal thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/canada-remains-indigenous-children-mass-graves
Qanons might be on to something with the whole children eating cabal thing.
What is the issue? That he refuses to use the students pronouns on religious grounds?
Seems like he should be able to voice his opinion to me, whether you agree with him or not.
Ah yes, the oft forgotten 11th commandment... “You shall use only the pronouns you think should be used.”
He can voice his opinion, but he can't do things that jeopardize his ability to do his job. A teacher in Norway was fired because he refused to shake hands with women, on the grounds that it was against his religion. That was upheld in court, even though he used the same argument you're using.
He can still teach gym without observing personal pronouns though, it's a case of comply or else you loose your career, I find that beyond toxic, maybe I'm just a relic.
I'm personally not religious but I wouldn't accept being compelled/mandated to use pronouns, threatening someone's career because they disagree with a pretty new ideology is a dangerous approach.
As a teacher, if a kid asks you to call them by a name that isn’t on the attendance roster, you do. The same applies to their pronouns. What’s going to enable me to educate a kid more effectively? Calling them what they’ve asked to be called or be a dick and call them something they don’t want to be called?
And to be clear, I was pointing out that his justification is bogus. It will take quite a stretch to shoehorn calling someone a pronoun they’ve asked to be called into being against the Bible.
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"Petty", that's all you had to say.