Atheism leads to becoming an hero

[Ranger Joe]

Sept 19, 2011 21:14:50 GMT -5 DeadpanDoubter said:

I LOVE fuckheaded assumptions like these, 'cause then I get to whip this out: I became clinically depressed as a fundie, homeschooled Christian. It wasn't until I became an atheist that I started seeking help instead of believing I was a fucking demon soul in a human body. Fuck head.

Also, wut. Okay, show of hands, everyone with depression: who feels their SEXIEST when they're depressed? Anyone?

You clearly weren't a True.Christian then. The blood of Jesus washes away all forms of devlry. Sinner.

[brendanrizzo]

So I'm trying to analyze his position on Avatar, and it just makes no sense at all. So he dislikes it because it portrays primitivism as good and advancement as bad. Fair enough, a lot of people hated the Na'vi because of that. But this implies that he is in favor of advancement, which would seem to go completely against the idea of repressive fundamentalist religion, of which he is a part. I wonder what the cognitive dissonance must be of praising advancement while at the same time justifying all the times when the Church acted for no reason other than to hold back the progress of humanity?

[scotsgit]

Sept 20, 2011 0:28:29 GMT -5 Mlle Antéchrist said:

Sept 20, 2011 0:25:25 GMT -5 Thejebusfire said:

Then how does he explain Christians with depression?

They're not True Christians™.

I'm not?

Damn.

[Oriet]

Sept 22, 2011 11:22:50 GMT -5 brendanrizzo said:

So I'm trying to analyze his position on Avatar, and it just makes no sense at all. So he dislikes it because it portrays primitivism as good and advancement as bad. Fair enough, a lot of people hated the Na'vi because of that. But this implies that he is in favor of advancement, which would seem to go completely against the idea of repressive fundamentalist religion, of which he is a part. I wonder what the cognitive dissonance must be of praising advancement while at the same time justifying all the times when the Church acted for no reason other than to hold back the progress of humanity?

Simple, because it's not his primitivism.

[Hades]

From the main forum page the title of this thread is cut off to just "Atheism leads to becom", and I read it as "Atheism leads to bacon".

It certainly can if you're Jewish or Muslim.

[Mlle Antéchrist]

Sept 22, 2011 14:54:56 GMT -5 Hades said:

From the main forum page the title of this thread is cut off to just "Atheism leads to becom", and I read it as "Atheism leads to bacon".

It certainly can if you're Jewish or Muslim.

Baconism is one religion I could get behind. All kinds of bacon. Pork, turkey, I love them all.

[Ranger Joe]

Sept 22, 2011 20:26:47 GMT -5 Mlle Antéchrist said:

Sept 22, 2011 14:54:56 GMT -5 Hades said:

From the main forum page the title of this thread is cut off to just "Atheism leads to becom", and I read it as "Atheism leads to bacon".

It certainly can if you're Jewish or Muslim.

Baconism is one religion I could get behind. All kinds of bacon. Pork, turkey, I love them all.

How can I accept the Spirit of Bacon into my heart?

[DeadpanDoubter]

Sept 22, 2011 10:17:20 GMT -5 Ranger Joe said:

Sept 19, 2011 21:14:50 GMT -5 DeadpanDoubter said:

I LOVE fuckheaded assumptions like these, 'cause then I get to whip this out: I became clinically depressed as a fundie, homeschooled Christian. It wasn't until I became an atheist that I started seeking help instead of believing I was a fucking demon soul in a human body. Fuck head.

Also, wut. Okay, show of hands, everyone with depression: who feels their SEXIEST when they're depressed? Anyone?

You clearly weren't a True.Christian then. The blood of Jesus washes away all forms of devlry. Sinner.

But...but suffer the little children and all that! >.> And only REAL Christians worry that they're not really Christian; the fundie books tell me so!

You guys are really making me hungry for pork...although in this context, that makes me think about the Wife Swap episode my roommate told me about in which the crazy fundie family ate only raw foods, including meat...

[canadian mojo]

Sept 22, 2011 20:51:02 GMT -5 Ranger Joe said:

Sept 22, 2011 20:26:47 GMT -5 Mlle Antéchrist said:

Baconism is one religion I could get behind. All kinds of bacon. Pork, turkey, I love them all.

How can I accept the Spirit of Bacon into my heart?

Eat lots and lots of it every day. The chest pains will let you know when the artery clogging spirit has entered you.

[Deimos]

Sept 22, 2011 14:54:56 GMT -5 Hades said:

From the main forum page the title of this thread is cut off to just "Atheism leads to becom", and I read it as "Atheism leads to bacon".

It certainly can if you're Jewish or Muslim.

Ha, I did the same thing.

[RavynousHunter]

Hmm...I read it as "Atheism leads to becom-" with the last part being pronounced like "bee cum."

[John E]

Sept 22, 2011 20:59:22 GMT -5 DeadpanDoubter said:

You guys are really making me hungry for pork...although in this context, that makes me think about the Wife Swap episode my roommate told me about in which the crazy fundie family ate only raw foods, including meat...

If it's fish, fresh, and prepared correctly, that could be quite yummy. Bacon is still better though.

[Yla]

Sept 22, 2011 11:22:50 GMT -5 brendanrizzo said:

So I'm trying to analyze his position on Avatar, and it just makes no sense at all. So he dislikes it because it portrays primitivism as good and advancement as bad. Fair enough, a lot of people hated the Na'vi because of that. But this implies that he is in favor of advancement, which would seem to go completely against the idea of repressive fundamentalist religion, of which he is a part. I wonder what the cognitive dissonance must be of praising advancement while at the same time justifying all the times when the Church acted for no reason other than to hold back the progress of humanity?

Because fundy religion isn't against technological advancement per se, it has problems with social changes induced by (or suspected to be induced by) technological advancements.
Put simply, fundy religiosity = Luddite is a oversimplification.

And when did the CC act for no reason other than to hold back progress? At the very least, it feared to lose control, and that isn't quite the same thing as 'no reason'. Galileo wasn't tried because of his astronomical theories, he was tried because he called the Pope an idiot. (I acknowledge that that last sentence is a simplification, too).

[chad sexington]

Galileo became a bit of a professional troublemaker toward the end of his life, as well.

[Smurfette Principle]

Sept 19, 2011 22:46:01 GMT -5 sugarfreejazz said:

Oh man, you should see his sermon on blowjobs.

[In recounting the story about the man who started coming to Driscoll’s church because his wife began performing oral sex:]

She [the wife] says, “I’ve never performed oral sex on my husband. I’ve refused to.” I said, You need to go home and tell your husband that you’ve met Jesus and you’ve been studying the Bible, and that you’re convicted of a terrible sin in your life. And then you need to drop his trousers, and you need to serve your husband. And when he asks why, say, ‘Because I’m a repentant woman. God has changed my heart and I’m supposed to be a biblical wife.

Genesis 38:9, idiot.

Sept 19, 2011 22:46:01 GMT -5 sugarfreejazz said:

Also bitches need to stay fine or else.

It is not uncommon to meet pastors’ wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband’s sin, but she may not be helping him either.

"Trapped into fidelity"? Exodus 20:14.

Sept 19, 2011 22:46:01 GMT -5 sugarfreejazz said:

Without blushing, Paul is simply stating that when it comes to leading in the church, women are unfit because they are more gullible and easier to deceive than men. While many irate women have disagreed with his assessment through the years, it does appear from this that such women who fail to trust his instruction and follow his teaching are much like their mother Eve and are well-intended but ill-informed. . . Before you get all emotional like a woman in hearing this, please consider the content of the women’s magazines at your local grocery store that encourages liberated women in our day to watch porno with their boyfriends, master oral sex for men who have no intention of marrying them, pay for their own dates in the name of equality, spend an average of three-fourths of their childbearing years having sex but trying not to get pregnant, and abort 1/3 of all babies and ask yourself if it doesn’t look like the Serpent is still trolling the garden and that the daughters of Eve aren’t gullible in pronouncing progress, liberation, and equality

Arson, murder, and jaywalking, much? Also, "trolling" made me lol.