He might ban you. The drama and pettiness would subside significantly if SOM liked an atheist, much less fell in love with one (he noted the possibility on your blog).
Damn, woman — you’ve given Anne Sullivan a run for her money.
LOL John. I’ve had the same thoughts. Yesterday, I talked on the phone with a behavioral neuroscientist for over 4 hours. One of the subjects we discussed was projection. 😉
I spent one sentence talking about gay sex and about three pages dealing with all the atheist homophobia.
One of the atheists told me that gay sex threatened the well-being of his son. And another told me that gay sex was disgusting and so was heterosexual sex.
We all know how atheists love blaming God for the evil that men do and that is bad enough.
But I think atheists blaming me for their homophobia and pre-pubescent attitude toward girls is really over the top.
How exciting to be disconversion away from Jesus Christ where John has no evidence in support of his views. After all if he were to be given a witness, you would only be left with another skeptic champion who you have raised to a demigod in his place.
A bible distribution company is recruiting new door-to-door salesmen. They end up with three candidates, one of whom has a terrible stutter but he is very insistant. The boss decides to try them out and let the best have the job. By the end of the week, the guy with the stutter has by far outsold the other slick door to door salesmen. They’re all stunned and ask him how he does it. “We….ll”, he says, “I r….r…..r….ing t…t….the d…d……dd…….dd..oor…bb….el…l..ll an….d…d a…..a…aa….s…k: wwww….ould y….ou lllll….ike t…t…o b…b…buy a b…b…bible o…r w…w…ould y…ou l….l…ike m…e t….t…to r…ead i..t t..o y..ou?”.
Ok, let’s assume he did ‘come again’. For one thing to which authority would he have to report, let’s take God out of the equation for a moment here, as technically his existence cannot actually be physically verified. Would said Jesus then have to report to the Vatican?
Also, there is the minor issue that he would be an individual with no fixed abode or legal status anywhere – the Israelis are certainly not going to let him in or let him stay if he should turn up in the Holy City. He would have to be placed under some kind of witness protection to stop him getting lynched by the Muslims, and the Jews alike. Even if he were accepted by some authority, he would need a financial sponsor to vouch for him, and would need some kind of political immunity in order to travel around the globe. I’m sure medical science would be very interested in him too, I mean, c’mon, think about the potentials! ‘The Christ Gene’… see?
This is not a simple case of turn up and change the world, not at all!
Would you want to come back to the world we live in now claiming to be the son of God? Really?
A chastity pledge! I wish I’d thought of that. Actually it’s a great excuse for fathers not to take responsibility for their Christian offspring, particularly if they did the dirty before marriage! Tsk!
Even so, the legalities involved in actually accepting that an individual, even if born of tender virgin loins, is the next Messiah, well… I scratch my head at that one. It’s going to be a very exclusive fan club with very little political clout, and of course politics is what it would all come down to. Actually, a scenario that is probably no different from the first time around when he ‘apparently’ appeared claiming his godly rights.
Maria: “Would said Jesus then have to report to the Vatican?” and others. No, as in his first mission, he will arrive to fulfill all righteousness all over again as spelled out by John. Initiating that he will have returned to him all authority from those on Earth. Upon his return, it will be a restoration church where he sits because that is his business in these latter days.
It always amazes me when Christians say that Christianity is not a religion of fear — an authoritarian religion. You are told that if you do accept Jesus, but don’t serve him to the fullest, faithfully, you’re ass is grass. He’ll spit you out of his mouth. If you reject his knock, you’ve blasphemed the holy spirit, and again, your ass is grass. Jesus doesn’t take too kindly to lukewarmers — they are, apparently, going to suffer much more than those who are ‘cold’ in their belief or lack thereof.
“It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.” 2 Peter 2:21
“So, because you are lukewarm–neither hot nor cold–I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” Revelation. 3:16
So if Jesus god is all knowing, and knows you are not going to accept him, or eventually leave the faith once your frontal lobes come back online, why would he knock in the first place? Rather sadistic, IMO.
MO: First you come to these conclusions believing what some have told you about the Kingdom of Heaven being a small place with everyone so close to God. Too bad you haven’t thought it through realizing that if God exists, that would be his formula in his place. When you uncritically accept these fictions about His Kingdoms without scriptural support you can then fall into rejecting God in total.
Robin — may I ask what qualifies you as an expert on the KoG? And what part of those scriptures I posted did you not understand, or do you have your own interpretation and can enlighten us?
I was a devout Christian for 40+ years. How long have you been a Christian?
John, There are opposing opinions about this stuff as you know. If somebody tells me its going to rain and another says it will snow, and another that it will be clear, do you suppose you select one of them without researching the subject for yourself? Analysis.
I’m afraid you didn’t answer the question. Your supposed “analysis” is based only on what people have told you (mirroring your original, somewhat poorly thought-through accusation), and their positions are based solely on a daydream. The only valid “opinion” one can have regarding a daydream is whether they like the concept of not.
That is, of course, unless you are privy to some factual information the rest of us aren’t.
N Guy, I am 65 years old and a Christian all those years. Need I be an expert in your eyes for you to give me credit. I know many Christians with several years of experience as a Christian but with their first year repeated so many times. I on the other hand have been Dutch Reformed, Disciples of Christ, Baptist, and now Mormon.I am a High Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for the last 25 years.
I don’t have the time now to venture into a lengthy writeup. If you have a specific question, I can do that later.
The Book of Abraham (a character, incidentally, who not even Jewish Rabbis today believe was a real person), chapter 3:
2 And I, Abraham, saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;
3 And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me.
Kolob is a star, correct? No ordinary star, though. In Section 76 of Smith’s Doctrine and Covenants he outlines the ‘degrees of glory’ in what he names the Celestial Kingdom: the Mormon heaven. Between verses 18-24, 50-70 and 81-113 he describes inhabited planets arranged in an ascending order in orbit around Kolob with Gods planet (and Jesus’ as well) closest to the giant star.
Here’s where things get a tad awkward. Unlike our rather placid sun Kolob is a monster; a supermassive star like VY Canis Majoris. Our sun, well-balanced and behaved as it is will last somewhere around 10 billion years before it exhausts its fuel supply: its hydrogen. A supermassive star, like Kolob, isn’t so patient. These monsters will burn through their fuel in under 10 million years, initiating an outrageous 26-part death dance before its final cataclysmic obliteration in a Type-2 supernova. It is an outward blast of energy so magnificently absurd that it glows brighter than a hundred galaxies for over a week and remains brighter than all the stars in a single galaxy for three or four months as it ejects 99% of all the matter that makes up the chemistry set of the universe… and when it happens you really don’t want to be anywhere near.
Now, this raises all sorts of godawful problems for Mormons’ Celestial Kingdom…. It’s going to be annihilated! Guaranteed.
Now it’s safe to say Joseph Smith clearly wasn’t aware of this rather awkward corporeality of stars, but as sure as the earth is round the legendary Kolob will go supernova and when it does every planet in the Mormon Celestial Kingdom will be blown to smithereens. Said in another way, the LDS guarantee of eternal celestial bliss is a demonstrable lie.
That is, of course, unless you, High Priest Robin, can explain how Kolob would escape this certain cataclysmic end, which means detailing precisely from where and how the giant star would acquire the infinite source of (finite) hydrogen it’d need to burn for eternity…
That is fascinating, John. Puts things into perspective. I’ve watched all the hidden videos (a couple of hours worth) of what went on during the Mormon ceremonies, plus interviews from people who came out of Mormonism. From a neurological POV, they’ve got the cult programming down pat. I was stunned at their antisocial behavior towards members who tried to leave the church, towards women, and towards homosexuals. This is yet another patriarchal group of insecure men who need others beneath them to feel important, special, and who get off on power.
N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ asks what qualifies me to be expert in the KofG? Tell me what you suppose makes one an “expert” in Christian doctrine. I am intrigued. You cannot provide such a standard that Christians on the whole admire.
I think the notion “expert” lives in the same world of thought as John’s “Proof” (that the fastest growing Christian faith is false).
Robin, you guys are filthy rich and between you and the RCC, could eliminate poverty, hunger, and preventable diseases for every child, woman, and man on the planet plus provided everyone higher education. But you don’t use the money for the right reasons. You are like a cancer to humanity. Now, you might think that’s rude — but what I shared with you is the truth.
Attempting to “prove” the LDS church false, you suppose the obscure Kolob dressed as a straw man fallacy exists as if the Church. Congratulations, your straw man is defeated while the LDS with its doctrines remain outside your discussion.
I’m not sure you know what precisely a straw man fallacy is. Are you denying Joe Smith’s writings on the ‘degrees of glory’ (the Celestial Kingdom) and its relationship to the great star, Kolob?
But if you love someone fully then you do whatever they ask but to fall in love with a person you have to know who they are. In this case its Jesus and what he offers is more than most minds can concive and actually you have to ask God to see before you even can and that takes humility.
No, you don’t have to know who they are to fall in love with them. Most people who fall in love initially don’t really know who the other person is because neural circuity associated with critical assessment and negative emotions deactivate. The purpose of this is to ensure the survival of our species. This is why people who are truly, madly, deeply in love can take an about turn in a year or so, and they see things in the other person (flaws) they didn’t notice at the beginning. But there’s no threat of hell if they chose to go their separate ways, unless they believe they’ll go to hell for getting a divorce.
The same thing happens in the brain when Christians fall in love with Jesus. After the honeymoon period, you live by faith that you have a relationship with Jesus, and that Jesus loves you, but you don’t really know him. but pretend you do.
It takes courage and humility to acknowledge that you’ve been bamboozled by charlatans and duped by your neurotransmitters. Facing reality is not for the faint of heart.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
@ Violet, John — I had a brainwave training client who was a Christian. When I administered a specific frequency, she would see Jesus. Said he talked with her — gave her advise. Swore it was really Jesus and she would weep sometimes because she was so moved by the experience. It never happened except during these sessions with that specific Hz administered.
When I evaluated her, I asked her what Jesus looked like. She was an African American living in the South. She pretty much described the Jesus you see in the picture above, only he had longer hair. She described the Jesus played by Robert Powell http://www.excerptsofinri.com/images/455lordsprayer.jpg — only this was years before the movie “Jesus of Nazareth” came out. I wonder if she was aware that Hitler painted an Aryan Jesus.
“Jesus! Bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing, intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out! The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes.”
John, knock-knock jokes? Really? Are we reduced to that?
And everybody knows that if Jesus comes back again he will report to a PR firm as he has a real problem, actually several. The primary problem is getting his message out so it is heard through the noise machine. Wrote a short story about it but lost it somehow.
There you go again, posting facts in a manner that will bring cheers from your supporters and shouts of ignorant anger from your detractors. You will be punished for this! 😉
Depends, is the Ring Master real or a figment of the ticket holder’s imagination? In which case the ticket holders would be guilty of deceiving themselves.
I love it! That is so hilarious! Can not wait to spread that ‘good news’. For some reason I envision Hitler, Stalin and the big bad wolf giggling right behind Jesus waiting to get their turn.
Of course not, go for it. It’s not mine anyway. I’ve seen this joke out there for ages, and there’s a few versions of this knock-knock graphic. I threw this one together, but can’t claim ownership.
Yawn…John, how many of the tired, recycled caricatures are you going to put up? Have you got a big box of other people’s work in the cellar that you’re emptying out one by one? And you accuse Jesus of being unoriginal…
I’d have thought your readers would have been noted out of their minds from eating the same gruel everyday. Apparently not!
Why? Christians have been chewing on the same gristle for thousands of years. And believing it, too.
At least the atheists get to laugh. You lot have been peeing in your pants out of fear since forever; disgusting, immoral sinners that you are!
Yawn? LOL… As Ark points out, that’s rather precious coming from a religion who’s greatest intellectual contribution to the human species is an ontological word game devised 1,100 years ago 🙂
Well, as a “faithful” reader of this blog, I can state without equivocation that the satire and parody never gets stale. But if the content strikes you as bland and unpalatable, then why not heed the advice attributed to some ancient Jewish dude:
“If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.”
… or is that’s too strong a medicine, just stop visiting sites you can’t stand.
Attractive as a tourist destination. Whoever those emirs are, they deserve a pat on the back for their vision.
They have done a good job with their desert. Built a linear city along a creek, created artificial lakes and have come up with attractions that leave you wowed all the time.
It was however a bit hot for me.
I’ve looked at Dubai and have always wondered if its money poorly spent. I mean, when the oils gone, or ignored, and the emirs are no-longer throwing cheap money in the air, why would people go there?
They have decided to export as little oil as possible, make it a business and tourist haven.
Temperatures in Nairobi never get to 40. Dubai gets to 40 at 9 am. That is hot my friend
How ironic this post for just today I was wondering why there are no funnies in the Bible. All that paper and not one laugh? I decided that there probably aren’t any one-liners since the whole thing is a joke.
Since you cannot prove atheism, that means you have 100% faith in it.
You have no evidence for atheism. You just believe it because you hate Christianity.
To reason out rational arguments the claim you are making must be able to stand on its own merits.
Because atheism cannot stand on its own merits, the atheist is left making bigoted attacks on religion and committing verbal abuse on anyone who dares offer disagreement.
The burden of proof rests with the person making the positive claim. Rejecting a proposition for lack of evidence requires zero faith, and atheism, in its broadest sense, is the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.
However, the existence of people without god beliefs presents ample evidence that atheism exists; so both your first and your second statements can be shown as demonstrably false.
My opening claim was never challenged. Indeed, it met with your express agreement. To wit:
“The Christian doctrine of salvation is an article of faith so it’s no surprise that appealing to logic doesn’t do any good.”
Do you now wish to retract that statement?
And my second claim (my faith in faith is exceedingly weak) is amply demonstrated every time I post comments demanding evidence in support of theistic assertions.
As to your charge of bigotry: I harbor no hatred towards anyone; but neither do I mince words when it comes to challenging someone’s unconvincing beliefs.
“Or take their interpretation of the bible to the United States Supreme Court”
…. In direct contravention to their founder’s concise instructions to “obey the laws of the land”, “turn the other cheek” and “forgive seventy times seven”. 🙂
Actually, the oldest known existing sources of law are:
– the Code of Ur-Nammu (c. 2050 BCE),
– Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BCE),
– the codex of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (c. 1870 BCE), and
– the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1772 BCE).
The earliest known copies of Leviticus date back to the 5th century BCE. So the Jewish law is not only late to the party, but borrows heavily from the above sources.
And the barbaric ethics of the OT have been gradually supplanted with more humane laws. For instance: slavery has been abolished and women are no longer treated as chattel,
In 539 B.C., the armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon. But it was his next actions that marked a major advance for Man. He freed the slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality. These and other decrees were recorded on a baked-clay cylinder in the Akkadian language with cuneiform script.
Known today as the Cyrus Cylinder, this ancient record has now been recognized as the world’s first charter of human rights. It is translated into all six official languages of the United Nations and its provisions parallel the first four Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
From Babylon, the idea of human rights spread quickly to India, Greece and eventually Rome. There the concept of “natural law” arose, in observation of the fact that people tended to follow certain unwritten laws in the course of life, and Roman law was based on rational ideas derived from the nature of things.
Documents asserting individual rights, such as the Magna Carta (1215), the Petition of Right (1628), the US Constitution (1787), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), and the US Bill of Rights (1791) are the written precursors to many of today’s human rights documents.
Cyrus the Great reminds me of comrade atheist and mass murderer Josef Stalin who said that in his army it was safer for his soldiers to attack than to retreat.
SOM— Stalin was named after St. Joseph. His mother was very religious — a Christian. For a season he attended seminary. One of the reasons why he grew to hate Christianity — the Church, was because his mother couldn’t get a divorce and he watched his dad brutally beat her.
Stalin had a very negative upbringing. His mother hoped he would become a priest. He had several injuries during childhood, including a traumatic brain injury which got worse as he aged. He suffered from atherosclerosis which is a build up of fatty materials in the arteries of the brain.
So, his culture, his injuries, the belief in corporal punishment (condoned in the bible), his mother trapped in a marriage, no thanks to the church, and a very dysfunctional family environment contributed to his actions. And don’t forget — Hitler was raised a Christian, too, also brutally beaten by his father.
“Stalin was able to justify his evil because he was an atheist.”
Nope — that’s nonsense. You have extremely high latent inhibition. There were a number of factors for the cause of Stalin’s actions. SOM, tomorrow, you could get knocked upside the head in the prefrontal cortex — just the right area, and turn into a Stalin — a Hitler. Hell, you may even be a psychopath, for all we know. Psychopaths can be charming at times. 😉
We have plenty of studies showing that damage to specific areas of the pre-frontal cortex leads to psychopathic behavior. Child abuse is the 3rd leading cause of pre-frontal cortex damage. Christianity taught that children were property of men — and that beating them with a rod would spare them from hell.
“Children who experience early damage in the prefrontal cortex never completely develop social or moral reasoning. As adults, even on an intellectual level, they cannot refer to such behavior because they have little concept of it.”
“Researchers at the University of Sweden have found the prefrontal cortex to be precisely the area of the brain that is impaired in murderers and other violent criminals who repeatedly re-offend.” http://learn.fi.edu/learn/brain/head.html
You see, SOM, your Christian God didn’t know squat about the brain, as ‘he’ commanded and condoned the very conditions that lead to pre-frontal cortex injuries and these behaviors. Numbers 31. According to the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, traumatic brain injuries are the signature wound of war.
LOL — he tickles me. I like playing with him. Lot’s of tangled strings, though. I know he’s not going to get anything I share. He doesn’t care. I’m not posting for his sake. He likes being a god puppet, so why not take advantage of that. 😉
And BTW — Jesus’ daddy, the god you worship, the god Jesus said everyone must worship, put Stalin and Hitler to shame when it came to psychopathic behavior.
Somewhat awkwardly, Christians practiced Communism in the book of Acts.
Marx’s famous line “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” comes directly from the New Testament.
All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
(Acts 2:44-45)
There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. There was a Levite, a native of Cyprus, Joseph, to whom the apostles gave the name Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”). He sold a field that belonged to him, then brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
(Acts 4:34-37)
Tell that to the early Christians… especially Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) who were murdered by their Communist Christian brothers and sisters for not ponying up all their possessions to the collective.
So, what do you call it, exactly, when “free men” (Ananias and Sapphira) are murdered by Christian Communists because they didn’t “donate” all their possessions to the collective? 😉
“Adolf Hitler used the same rationale. He was the State so he made everyone in the German Army swear allegiance to him”
So did your god. Same exact behavior. Worship me and I’ll save you. If you don’t I’m sending you to hell, but first, I’m going to slaughter you. See Numbers 31.
“So when you call God a psychotic you are projecting your own problems upon a being you don’t even believe in.”
Remember SOM — what we are attempting to understand is why a Christian would worship such a deity — Jesus’ daddy — when this god of the OT shows far worse behavior than any severally mentally ill dictator that walked the planet. What it shows is that when you justify these behaviors from your god, you are equally guilty.
Jesus said that if you’ve seen him, you seen the father. As noted in Revelations 19, it is written that Jesus will come back and slaughter en masse, globally.
I’d also like to mention that if you are fucking around — playing the troll because it gives you a hard-on — you are giving fuel to hyper-religious people who might kill if they thought god told them to.
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“Data collected during the last 15 years for the Personal Philosophy Inventory from 1.48 thousand university men (n = 629) and women (n = 853) were analyzed to discern the response characteristics of individuals who stated “yes” to Item 136 “If God told me to kill, I would do it in His name.”
Of the men who reported a religious experience, attended church weekly, and displayed elevated complex partial epileptic like signs, 44% stated they would kill another person if God told them to do so.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9293569?dopt=Abstract
When you, the atheist, apply human psychology to God you are committing an error called anthropomorphizing.
That is, you are assigning human qualities to something that isn’t human.
The next fatal error you commit is assigning your own meaning to the Bible. That means as an atheist, you assign whatever meaning you need to the Bible in order for it to justify your atheism.
The name of that error is called circular reasoning.
All atheist arguments are based on common logical fallacies.
Again SOM — what part of that study were you not able to comprehend? Do you need an interpreter? Let me help you.
All the questionnaires that included a ‘yes’ to this were examined to see what other items emerged in association with a willingness to kill in ‘His’ name.
Four factors emerged.
1) Having had a religious experience.
2) Weekly church attendance (religious orthodoxy).
3) Being Male.
4) Limbic lability (e.g. — a person might hear a religious statement, and feel a parasthesia, a tingling or electric-like feeling, or more commonly, an intense burst of emotion.)
The next step was to look at all the questionnaires that showed all four traits, creating a second group.
44% of this second group stated that they would kill another person if God told them to.
The study was based on Canadian university students (much less religious than Americans), and if generalizable, then one out of 20 Canadian university students would be willing to kill another person if they were to attribute the instruction to God.
“Would you kill someone if God asked you?” is a trick question that gives away the fact that the study you’re so much in love with is completely bogus.
First, if you, Neuron, actually knew it was God who was asking the question, you would no longer be an atheist.
So the question you are so much in love with strips you of your religion, atheism and gives you a new one: believing in God.
Second, how does anyone know that God is actually asking the question?
Does God speak through an angel? Does he appear as a cloud of smoke or a burning bush?
Or maybe he splits your Red Sea wide open so your pet Pharaoh can drive his chariot through it to his heart’s content.
The study is bogus. It’s just another atheist lie.
SOM, most of us suspect that you are a troll. But some Christians who are looking for validation regarding the voices they hear in their head, and the physical and emotional sensations they get when they read or hear about the Christian god, just might believe your bullshit.
Some might kill another if they hear those voices, and some might kill themselves, like my late husband did after he became hyper-religious due to a neurological disorder. Yeah, he blew his brains out after being told by one of your Christian buddies that the voices were real.
“Hyperreligiosity is a major feature of mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, temporal-lobe epilepsy and related disorders.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16439158
So you are either one of those hyper-religious people, or you are a troll. It’s possible you are both.
What you object to in my comments is the application of reason.
Since atheism is a 100% faith-based belief, reason means nothing to you.
But I know of no other way to communicate so I just have to hope one day your brain will kick into gear and remember the wondrous moment when reason graced your Godless mind, courtesy of SOM.
Ron: “And the barbaric ethics of the OT have been gradually supplanted with more humane laws. For instance: slavery has been abolished and women are no longer treated as chattel,”
SOM: Western Civilization is based on Judeo-Christian ethics — And human rights reached their zenith in Western Civilization”
Elizabeth Caddy Stanton – 1896 — Leading figure of the early women’s rights movement: “The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.”
From the pamphlet “Bible and Church Degrade Woman,” Free Thought Magazine (1896),
Nope, you are the one living in an alternative universe. 😉
Most Christian men fought tooth and nail to keep women from being able to vote. Even today, you find men in your party wanting a repeal of the 19th Amendment.
SOM — do not give Christianity the credit for it. Women were finally able to get an education — no thanks to many insecure men who did their damnedest to prevent that. Women fought for that right. Education is what abolished slavery and afforded women human rights. Not Christianity.
What allowed women to get an education after so many millennia?
The answer is Christian values.
The Gospel shows Jesus treating women with respect, especially his mother. The change in our society’s view of women is an example of the Holy Spirit in action.
Too bad Christian men didn’t get they, eh? No — women had to fight and fight and fight for centuries, no thanks to the OT, Christianity, the Church, and Paul’s letters.
The change of society’s view of women has nothing to do with Christianity, and everything to do with the women’s suffrage movement. They had had enough of your Christian “values”. 😉
Had it been about Jesus — it wouldn’t have taken 2000 years and still today, Christian men are fighting tooth and nail to keep women in their place — under the rule of men.
You’re absolutely right—it isn’t. The topic of this thread is “The Infallible Logic of Christianity” (sarcasm). But thus far, you’ve avoided that one to chase down other rabbit holes.
That aside, the point remains: the ethics contained within the Torah were borrowed from centuries-old sources written by men, not God.
Nor is Western civilization governed by Judeo-Christian ethics (whatever that means). Of the 613 Mitzvo, only three are enforced by law: murder, theft and perjury. Moreover, the US founders jettisoned the monarchy in direct contravention to biblical edicts to “obey the king’s command”, and the phrase “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” stands in stark opposition to the biblical injunction to “Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.”
“The Jews did not begin with Abraham. Their foundation lies in the ancient cultures of the Near East. The story of Egypt, Sumeria, Babylonia, the Amorites and the Canaanites is also the story of the Jews. Jewish culture when it began was already a composite of the legacy of these older civilizations.”
SILENCEOFMIND: Whenever I hear someone tell me I’m up to mischief in destroying the peace in their blog (?????), I know they’re past struggling for reasoned words.
“Since you cannot prove atheism, that means you have 100% faith in it.”
That right thar is some of the most deepestest deepityest cornfed bullshit I have ever heard.
“Because atheism cannot stand on its own merits, the atheist is left making bigoted attacks on religion and committing verbal abuse on anyone who dares offer disagreement.”
Projection at its finest. It wasn’t all that long ago you fine x-ians had your armies disbanded and your right to burn witches, and crucify apostates taken away. Let me fix that for you.
Because theism cannot stand on its own merits, the theist is left making bigoted attacks on atheism and committing verbal abuse (and not that long ago murder/torture/and wanton slaughter) on anyone who dares offer disagreement. Kind of like where Islam is today, x-ianity was a few hundred years ago.
“Since you cannot prove atheism, that means you have 100% faith in it.
You have no evidence for atheism. You just believe it because you hate Christianity.
To reason out rational arguments the claim you are making must be able to stand on its own merits.
Because atheism cannot stand on its own merits, the atheist is left making bigoted attacks on religion and committing verbal abuse on anyone who dares offer disagreement.”
Atheism is a fruit of Pauline Christianity, huh? Well, better tell the Buddhists and Janes that, and while you’re at it, might want to mention it to the Greeks too… I’m sure Epicurus will be amazed at your insight.
Do you think that if you tell me to kill a person I will kill him? You are a rational person; you will never tell me such a thing. And even if you tell me; why should I kill a person?
The One-True-God is All-wise; he will never tell me such a thing to do; He had endowed man rationality; so He is most rational, reasonable and wise. He never tells such things.
Paarsurrey, in the bible, it is recorded that Abe was asked by god to sacrifice his son. By your comment can we say that this retelling of the narrative is not factual or what is your stand?
Am usually generous, and in that end am going to classify you as an idiot of the first degree.
The fellow you mentioned was deranged and mental and seeing a therapist. How could that be the personification of atheism?
His aunt said
He was always a disturbed child. I don’t know how he was allowed to get a gun. Something has to be done about gun laws in America. Pete is absolutely broken. I can’t see how he’ll ever recover.
So again as I said earlier, do you think I should hold my breath waiting for something intelligent from you?
Exactly, Noel. Not only that but the guy didn’t even read the manifesto before he started spewing his rhetoric about Rodger’s parents. He was well cared for and had a fairly normal childhood. He also had nurture and attention from his parents. His mother gave up her career for him — his words. He also had nannies looking after him during his childhood, which he was fond of — his words. He was raised in a healthy environment — his words, and had a lot of love and care, his words.
He was rejected by a girl in school, and he writes that from then on he hated girls. Reading his 141 page manifesto yesterday, I realized this guy was very mentally ill, a sociopath/psychopath. He clearly resembled the god of the bible. His parents warned the police. They ignored the warnings. And as you mentioned, he was under psychiatric care. The guy refused to take his meds. He only saw women as vaginas, entertainment centers, play things for his enjoyment. he glorified the dominant alpha male. “‘I’ll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you. You will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one. The true alpha male …”
Is it any wonder why they rejected him? He had the same mentality as the scripture in the NT that states that men were not created for women, but women for the men.
On page 93 he says that all his life he needed to feel worthy as a man, and for so long he felt worthless. He then said “It’s all girls’ fault.” Kinda sounds like the Garden of Eden, blaming Eve for the fall of humanity, the first sinner, also noted in the NT. Adam also blamed Eve. On page 136 Rodger says:
“I am Elliot Rodger…Magnificent, glorious, supreme, eminent. It is my purpose to punish them all. I will purify the world of everything that is wrong with it on the Day of Retribution. I will truly be powerful God, punishing everyone I deem to be impure and depraved.”
He’s talking Yahweh language there.
And the judgement on humanity — Sound familiar? Just like Jesus is going to do when he comes back — poring out the wrath of his daddy god, as mentioned in Revelations 19. He goes on to say: “The ultimate evil behind sexuality is the human female. Women are flawed creatures and women are incapable of having morals and thinking rationally and need to be controlled.
Sound familiar? Exactly what St. Augustine said about women, which I quoted on your ‘Laughter’ post today. If you do look at the manifesto, scroll to page 136, beginning with the sentence of the last quote I posted regarding the human female. Sounds just like something straight out of the Old Testament. He definitely read the bible.
Thanks Victoria, i was hoping you’d read that “manifesto” and give us the brief. Looks like another case study when that silicon chip inside his head get’s switched to Overload.
Yep. It’s quite sad that when the human brain is damaged, it can do so much harm. He says he was bullied by other boys in 8th and 9th grade. He got into a lot of fist fights (knocked in the head) with other boys and it is also possible that he sustained a brain injury while skateboarding, which he loved. He did a lot of risk-taking with skateboarding. I’ve seen videos of guys getting concussions while doing skateboarding tricks. Neurological studies state: “Children who experience early damage in the prefrontal cortex never completely develop social or moral reasoning.”
Brain injuries are the number one cause of death and injury in children. The Brain Injury Association states that ff you are between the ages of 15 and 24 and drive a motor vehicle, ride a bicycle, or play sports, then you are at the top of the risk-list for head injury. It also states “Falls are the most common cause of playground injuries and result in a higher proportion of severe injuries than either bicycle or motor vehicle crashes. Brain injuries account for 75% of children’s deaths from falling off of playground equipment. Traumatic brain injury is significantly underdiagnosed.”
I noticed that Rodgers behavior changed quite dramatically around the age of 15 and he became very depressed. The studies state “They had an impaired ability to shift their attention in order to view the world in a different way.”
So for people to go on and on about Rodgers being immoral because he was a atheist just goes to show you how ignorant they are.
It is fine to accuse atheists for crimes they have no part it but such ignorance is to me very annoying.
At least I hope he will read this and get a replacement name for atheists who he thinks are guilty of his imagined offences
As I stated earlier, How about a current event: Elliot Rodger for personification of atheism with its invitation to a failed moral compass. How appropriate it is from atheists suppose that because he is mentally ill that it’s all biological …….with John going so far with the fiction of how easy it is to explain it to biological causes out of brain “injury” (that didn’t occur). The truth is police conducted a welfare check on Rodger a month ago at the request of others. They found that he did not meet the criteria for a mental health hold. So much for his severe biological mental illness.
However, we know that the affluent lifestyle gave him immense advantages. Therapy gave him immense advantages. Yet, you mention that because he was off his meds, his mass murder is explained because he is biologically lunatic (incongruously) like so many honored Bible characters. With this explanation we should be seeing thousands of mass murders weekly. Yet Elliot’s manifesto was that of an atheist with troubles with what that world view was destroying him. The atheist Elliot, nevertheless, had all the outward manifestations and drive to live a life of hedonism by Choice. His church was any room with a mirror!
Non-agnostic atheism promotes varied levels of narcissism because a narcissist atheist by nature is fixed, locking him/herself in the mirrored room. A narcissist atheism is all about self-power. Elliot, by example, called himself “God” in his manifesto. This is the default position of having no creator.
A narcissist and devout, honest Christian are contradictory terms. I can only choose narcissism by denying my faith in God, thereby entering the mirrored room to look at myself alone. You find “truth” when you find satisfying answers about how to interact effectively with a world of valuable assets in people. This is the non-atheist world view.
Robin, just this week Kimberly Dawn Lucas drowned her two-year old child as she reenacted the biblical story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac. She did this after listening to the Metropolitan Community Church pastor, Lea Brown, re-tell the story and assuring her congregation that God will intervene in matters of faith. Kimberly Dawn Lucas was, apparently, surprised God didn’t intervene as the child struggled under the water, and died.
Tell me, was Kimberly Dawn Lucas mentally ill, or was this murder performed simply because she was religious?
I don’t think you are addressing me. Either way, to believe oneself god, one must believe that some god exist. To call such a person a personification of atheist is to me moronic.
To say atheists lack a moral compass whatever you mean by it, is to disparage a segment of society for no reason at all except that they find your belief in god ridiculous.
Elliot at no point declares, as far as I can tell, that he is doing whatever he is doing because he doesn’t believe in a god. You can be kind to point me to anywhere in his manifesto where he says explicitly that he is doing whatever he is doing for atheism or in the name of atheism
Spot on Noel. You said it so much more diplomatically than me. People like him are the cause of the very problems we see in society. And the behavior of the god he worships is far far worse than anything Rodger did.
Robin, you are so full of shit. You are projecting. You believe because you get to exercise your cock a lot in heaven with multiple women and you get to be a god. Now stop with the BS.
John,
Yes, mentally ill….from what has been revealed so far. The motivation to murder the two year old did not occur as you identified. You cherry picked the facts to your own benefit. First, the minister did not challenge her parishioners to test God in murder. Second, The attempted murder of the ten year old after the death of the two year old and after drugging him indicates a planned double murder, not an expectation of intercession from God. An adult Christian knows God is not a cosmic bellboy, nor is He to be tested.
“A Florida woman is accused of drowning one child after trying to poison another, in what she described as accordance with a local pastor’s sermon…. Investigators said Lucas attended a sermon by Metropolitan Community Church pastor Lea Brown this past Sunday that covered the Biblical story of Abraham readying himself to sacrifice his son on orders from God, only to be stopped by God at the last minute.
Lucas is accused of trying the same thing — trying to kill the two young children she was helping to raise, but she wrote in a suicide note that God didn’t step in and stop her, at least in the case of the 2-year-old girl. Lucas’ own suicide attempt failed. Police reportedly found Lucas’ message (PDF) typed on a computer in the home.”
Sorry Robin, but she was re-enacting the biblical story. Would you like me to now list all the other children murdered by their Christian parents because “God told them too”
Interesting that you’re so quick, though, to say Kimberly was mentally ill, but not Elliot. I guess that just doesn’t fit into your worldview, right?
Paar, I think you missed my point, entirely. But anyway, you said that your god, Allah had endowed man with rationality. I’m assuming you meant Muslims who obsessively follow the Quran? I wondered if you’ve seen this. The video clip is a little over 3 minutes. Take special note beginning at minute marker 2:30.
“Paarsurrey, in the bible, it is recorded that Abe was asked by god to sacrifice his son. By your comment can we say that this retelling of the narrative is not factual or what is your stand?”
Bible is neither authored by Abraham nor by Moses. Its different books have been authored by anonymous narrators and the scribes. It is not the original Word of God in the original language revealed.
Dreams and visions are always or most often interpret-able.
It only meant that Abraham and his offspring shall have to face hardships in the path of God (Allah Yahweh Tao) and would have to devout their lives; in service of the humanity for its ethical, moral and spiritual uplift.
Abraham and Ismael were sure about it from their experience with the One-True-God; they knew that the He won’t let them accomplish an unreasonable act; and would bring out reasonable solution of the matter.
And the act of Abraham sacrificing his son Ishmael never happened in literal and real terms.
Abraham and his progeny did devote their lives to the cause of religion and that is how it took place in real terms; and that is what one should focus on.
The matter of as to how to interpret such dreams and visions was settled for all times.
Hehe — awesome article, Mak. I’ve not made this public until just now — had planned on sharing it with you on Skype, but we keep missing each other. I was recently asked to co-authoring a book with a behavioral neuroscientist on this subject and a few related subjects. We will also be working together (research and experiments) once I get my ducks in a row.
I’ve been inducing “god” — “angels” — “ghosts” — “spirits” on myself and others using neurotechnology since 2006. You can do this without inducing a seizure or kindling. *snickers*
But I’d say that the majority of people who said “god told them to” or thought they were “called by god” like Moses, Abraham, Paul, Jesus, Mohammad, and the likes, had a wee bit of abnormal electrical activity in specific regions of the brain and a lower threshold and/or they had an interhemispheric intrusion. 😉
This time, I will be laughing all the way to the bank. My time has come. There has been a parting of the clouds. Praise the Lord. *giggles*
This days am always online. You can call or send text I will most likely see it immediately unless am sleeping.
That said, am happy for you and congratulations.
This will definitely be an interesting path for you given the time you have devoted to it.
You are being ambitious to expect me to respect a belief in talking snakes. Beliefs demand no respect, they have no feelings. The much I can do and expect of everyone is to respect their right to hold whatever belief they have. Never the belief
JOHN ZANDE : May 11, 2014 at 10:28 pm
N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ says:May 11, 2014 at 9:28 pm
“The entire intellectual foundation collapsed and hasn’t recovered since… Revelation replaced investigation”
Revelation does not necessarily replace investigation.
I hope Neuron in his upcoming co-author opportunity realizes that copy-paste is not gonna cut it with the publisher.
“the entire intellectual foundation at a price collapsed and has not recovered since !!! Over that period, all these books were translated into Arabic on a scale not seen since then. Revelations replaced investigation…”
“I hope Neuron in his upcoming co-author opportunity realizes that copy-paste is not gonna cut it with the publisher.”
Robin, show me where I wrote the above quote that Paar attributed to me. John may have left out “at a price” but he emphasized it by highlighting that the intellectual foundation has not recovered since. Apparently, everyone got that but you. Btw, replace “his” with “her”.
More babbling, Robin? Watch the video, you’ll see the quote comes from that… as indicated, quite plainly, by the “quotation marks“
Tell me, are you, at any time, actually going to put on your Urim and Thummim and address the content of the meme, or are you satisfied with simply tapping out nonsense? Don’t get me wrong, nonsense can be fun, look at SOM’s golden gibberish to see how a much-loved Master goes about it, it’s a fine art, but do try and keep it entertaining.
Robin, it looks like you qualify to join the club.
“As many as 60% of those with schizophrenia have religious grandiose delusions consisting of believing they are a saint, God, the devil, a prophet, Jesus, or some other important person.”
It’s a great question. Atheism is older than theism, right… as before the first gods were dreamed up everyone had an absence of belief in any and all gods. Does this mean they were atheists, or does the term only become valid after theism redefines the sounding-board?
I think the second option above is correct.. (the term only become valid after theism redefines the sounding-board?)
But I am just speculating… Cogito ergo sum… And just in case, may God bless us…
“Engorged ganglion” trolls
A god with frontal lobes.
Ask The Bigot
Insulting others with “homophobia and pre-pubescent attitude toward girls.”
Various Bigoted Anti-Christian insulting Jokes starting with the POST
Mocking Bible-readers
Ask The Bigot is actually the screen name/blog name of an extreme right-wing Christian. Don’t ask me why they chose that name, but their entire blog is about hating gays.
I don’t see any of the things you listed, though, being rude. They might be “offensive” to you, but that doesn’t mean they’re rude or inaccurate in any shape or form. I’m offended by many things, not least of all your church evading taxes, but that doesn’t afford me any special rights.
So, do you actually have a coherent argument against the content of the meme?
Here is your rarely appearing cogent premise with logic in place:
Christ said there is one Church, one Baptism, yada yada.
Finding the One true Church organization is fairly easy for those who care.
Christ demanded it needs to have direct authority by him.
Originally the Catholic Church was said to have been given authority by John 2000 years ago.
The only other Church organization claiming to have had been authorized in the person of Christ has been the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints in the form of Restoration.
All the Protestant Churches and offshoots of them were established in Protest of the Catholic doctrines first revealed by the Priest MARTIN LUTHER are established by men/women alone.
So, the subject in question is AUTHORITY DIRECTLY FROM CHRIST.
Either you believe there was a great apostasy/darkness where the authority was removed from Catholicism or you believe the Mormons are now authorized as the ancient Church of Christ restored by Jesus through Joseph Smith.
Take your pick, if following the right doctrines is important. But I also say, take a comprehensive view of each church’s plan of salvation and their members.
The tomb of Jesus in Japan is only a replica or it signifies that Jesus did not die on the Cross and died a natural and peaceful death and was buried honorably in a tomb.
Btw, Noel, my Skype is acting up again. I signed on, and waited for you to call me as per your request via email, but you must have been in transit. Then I got booted off shortly thereafter. Skype has been crap since Microsoft took over.
I met Jesus at a U-Pick farm about two years ago. He was a super nice fella, too. He cheerfully drove everyone to and from the fields—even helped people load their berries onto the trailer.
Ron, I met Jesus 2 weeks ago in Hendersonville, NC. Like the Jesus character 2000 years ago, he, too, had the Messiah complex. As many as 10% of the population hold similar beliefs in one form or another, depending on which culture you live in.
Actually, the Jesus I met was a Mexican farm laborer, and had no messiah complex (so far as I could tell). But yeah, there are some pretty messed up people in the world.
Zandt remarks: “May I ask how you’ve come to a conclusion concerning the Kingdom of Heaven without also believing what someone has told you?”
In spite of your previous and personal insults, I offer this ….not that it will make a difference to you but perhaps for others……
I cannot escape hearing what other people tell me or read what others write. Most of it is simply uninspiring.
I am a uniquely creative, analytical, adaptive person. I am so deliberate in my thinking that I have long discarded the adolescent inclination to house other people’s belief’s in my mind. The fact that I agree with some of them on this point or that is happenstance; the fact that I don’t believe exactly as anyone else is DELIBERATE….having established personal disciplines of integrity and autonomy that fence out so much parody and euphemisms concerning pop psychology and small world “rationality” here and elsewhere.
So please, by all means, let’s hear the parody of others stream from their heads. Filtering through it is worth the price of occasionally finding original thought. So, what is going to be your witty comeback? I probably didn’t answer your question again.
So, I’m to believe from this that you have not only independently (re)discovered the magic plates but are also in possession of the magic seeing stones placed at the bottom of a top hat. With these you have independently deciphered the strange Egyptianesque hieroglyphics, personally interpreted The Book of Abraham, and have, completely on your own fruition and sweat, discovered that the Garden of Eden was located in Missouri, that Native American Indians are actually a lost tribe of mischievous Israelites, that Jesus visited the United States shortly after his execution, that Satan (Jesus’s brother) not only controls earth’s water supply but also buried all the dinosaur bones in the late 17th century just to fool the first palaeontologists a hundred years later, and that special Mormon undergarments (“Temple Underwear”) adorned with magical symbols will protect the wearer from evil and, I’m told, bullets. On top of this you have independently arrived at the knowledge of the Celestial Kingdom, and the great star, Kolob.
Just for the record, I thought that was pretty witty! Although it maybe doesn’t compete with Paarsurrey’s polite insistence that Jesus died a natural death in India.
Paar has a video (which claims to have been produced by the Indian government) that explains it all. It’s tremendously convincing. You should ask him for it 😉
Couldn’t agree with you more, Arb… Any religion that has a magic top hat as one of its central vehicles of truth is most certainly worthy of our heartfelt attention 🙂
@JOHN ZANDE says:May 23, 2014 at 2:05 pm
“Paar has a video (which claims to have been produced by the Indian government) that explains it all. It’s tremendously convincing. You should ask him for it ;):
@JOHN ZANDE :May 22, 2014 at 2:32 pm
@ROBINOBISHOP
“Mormon, huh? If you like, Robin, I can prove your religion categorically and unquestionably false in a few lines…”
I could also prove Joseph Smith and the denomination he founded wrong.
all that can be seen is the dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas (as in Heaven destroying itself) to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. Lightning should be distributed more correctly.
I could also prove Joseph Smith and the denomination he founded wrong.
I would relish the opportunity Parr, to see you demolish the LDS ballyhoo. You’ve always been so clear and concise in the past and I am quite sure your streak shall continue!
John, you and others don’t appear to like the answer I have provided to your question. Or, perhaps you missed it all together. Or, perhaps you didn’t ask what you really wanted. Additionally you evidently are not sure how to diagnose your own logical fallacies (maladaptive thinking). Here you go…..
“Attempting to “prove” the LDS church false, you suppose the obscure Kolob dressed as a straw man fallacy exists as if the Church. Congratulations, your straw man is defeated while the LDS with its doctrines remain outside your discussion.” It takes no trouble for the reader (lucid reader) to see that requiring Kolob to be fired by hydrogen and not be in an eternal celestial realm (Heaven) creates a nonsensical Heaven, supposing the order of His own creation assaults the creator. Such a place is a straw man easily defeated. Even in its irrationality it doesn’t make an attempt to “prove” anything about doctrine. It would be amusing to see you try to write your own Mormon Church doctrines about Kolob. Because otherwise they have not been revealed to us.
You asked me if I believed what Joseph Smith has said or written? Certainly they contribute to what I believe. But I do not anchor today’s reality in the dead. That would be stupid. Helping you out, if Kolob’s time is one year to our thousand, God does not live in this universe. Since you put so much faith in the laws of science, know that the natural laws of Heaven must be radically different than here.
The question you had about how I could know something without being told, I suggest you go to Wikipedia and look up the term “Precognition”. Without meaning to be gruff, You really need to be responsible in doing your own research on matters such as this. If you have a question about Mormonism that remains a mystery to you after I explain it, don’t be reluctant in chasing it down for yourself. All the LDS curriculum can be found on LDS.org with all the formal words of our living and past prophets.
It seems quite possible I didn’t answer the questions adequately for you. But, hey, you now have a plan.
So, by your reckoning, where Smith writes: “And I, Abraham, saw the STARS, that they were very great, and THAT ONE OF THEM [Kolob] was nearest unto the throne of God,” he’s not actually talking about “stars,” despite the fact that he says, quite clearly, “stars”
I think I need your Mormon magic seeing stones and a good top hat, because your brand of hermeneutics is alien to me.
Precognition, huh? Sounds wild! Do you buy lotto tickets often?
John, sorry to interject, but I’ve seen the scroll in a vision. It says plant Kohlrabi, not planet Kolob. It also says “Don’t Panic” and “Always know where your towel is.”
Oh, the travesty. LOL Here is your chance to comment….the question: What proof and evidence do you have that atheism is true? this is the 6th time I have asked.
Robin, precisely which part of the “A” in A-Theism, don’t you understand? It means “Without.” Without-theism. It is not a position of belief, rather the default position. As theism is the positive claim (new information superimposed over the default) the burden of proof falls, always, to the claimant. Consider Velcro. It was invented in 1948 by George de Mestral. Now pay attention here, Robin, for this is where it gets complicated. Is it logically possible to ask someone in 1947 to prove or disprove Velcro? What would you call the entire human population in 1947? Avelcros, perhaps? Is that meaningful in any way? Does the human population in 1947 have a negative belief in Velcro, or is the absence of belief the default position?
Now do please lift your game: you’re practicing frightfully weak apologetics here, and it’s getting rather boring.
You’re absolutely right—it’s now 2014. When will Glenn Beck finally address the allegations that he brutally raped and murdered a young woman in 1990?
Now, I’m not saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young woman in 1990. We’re just asking questions. And thankfully, we live in a free and democratic society that permits us the right to ask such questions.
Fact: There were lots and lots of young girls in 1990
Fact: Glenn Beck lived in 1990
Fact: Young girls were raped and murdered in 1990
Fact: Glenn Beck has not publicly denied raping and murdering a young girl in 1990
Again, I’m not at all saying that Glenn Beck actually raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. In fact, I’m fairly certain that he’s a fine and upstanding Mormon gentleman who adheres to the highest moral code; one that would squelch even the thought of performing such vile and horrific acts as raping and murdering young women. But nonetheless, some people honestly fear he may have raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 and we’re just trying to get to the bottom of these very serious allegations.
Glenn could easily clear up this matter by proving where he was and who he was with at every moment in 1990. Being as you’re a Mormon high priest, perhaps you could impress upon him the urgency of finally coming clean and laying these vicious rumors to rest.
I believe Glenn Beck did, in fact, rape and murder a girl in 1990. Someone told me. I Googled, and there it was… Lots and lots of people were talking about Glenn Beck raping and murdering a girl in 1990. People certainly wouldn’t be talking about Glenn Beck raping and murdering a girl in 1990 if there was no truth to Glenn Beck raping and murdering a girl in 1990. A girl was raped and murdered in 1990, and Glenn Beck was most definitely there, in the United States, when this girl (who was raped and murdered by Glenn Beck) was raped and murdered by Glenn Beck. As Glenn Beck is also a Mormon, I believe the motivation for this rape-murder was the Mountain Meadows Massacre…. Which Glenn Beck might have orchestrated. I’m not saying he did, but you know, there it is…
Exactly. Until people who deny Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young women in 1990 can provide sufficient evidence to the contrary, they have zero basis for claiming that Glenn Beck didn’t rape and murder a young women in 1990.
As Robin says:
“All things unproven are not ‘absurd’. Some of those unproven things are merely out of sight.”
@THE ARBOURIST :May 25, 2014 at 2:34 pm
@JOHN ZANDE :May 25, 2014 at 3:18 pm
There are a few points two of them are given below:
1. Joseph Smith said he was sent by Jesus as he wrongly believed following the Pauline theological concepts. He thought that Jesus had died on the Cross; he got resurrected from the dead; making Jesus a god or son of god. Factually speaking none of the above ever happened.
2. Jesus did not die on the cross; so there was no question of his resurrection from the dead. Jesus was put on the cross but he was delivered from it in near-dead position. He was treated for his injuries in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea; when he got recovered enough to travel he went out of Judea taking refuge along-with his mother Mary in Kashmir, a serene land of fountains and scenic beauty in India; thus saving his life from his Jewish and Roman enemies. Paul was a personification of both of these enemies in one.
To refresh you of the facts in this case, I recommend viewing the following documentaries please:
Any attempt by an atheist to assert that the burden of proof is not shared by them is irrational for what they believe assumes a burden of proof. It is fallacious to mock those who believe in Deity if the accuser fails to offer confirming evidence that a Deity does not exist. The same applies to any deist. The mechanism of burden of proof helps to ensure that all parties contribute effectively, using relevant contributions.
The posture here assumes that Christians/deists here have been demanded to offer proof of diety where atheists deny their position requires a burden of proof. That is the complete posture of the atheists here. It is fallacy that allows atheists to spout off-topic nonsense while waiting for proof from across the aisle.
But the fallacy begins with John. It is he that controls the dialogue and fallacious disposition
When we have no evidence favoring either proposition, we must suspend belief in both. This is the default position…. if we care to make any honest claim to being rational.
For the last two days you have only been able to mock. No contribution at all except to admit you do not recognize the need for proof in support of Atheism (because you know it is void). Such a position as repeated to you by others is irrational. Your appeal to its popularity is irrational in another manner: Ad Populum fallacy.
Your vaunted clarity of the godless mind is more clearly a myth.
Atheism means lack of belief in gods. As such, there is nothing to prove or disprove. Show me evidence for the existence of god(s) and I will drop my disbelief.
And the topic of this particular thread—the one you’ve yet to address—is the absurdity of the Christian salvation doctrine.
Your unwillingness to engage that discussion loudly trumpets the paucity of arguments at your disposal toward its defense.
That’s “faitheism”. you believe in a “lack” or “lesser god” whatever you suppose that to be. It could be forms of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Raelism, Neopagan movements such as Wicca, and nontheistic religions. These are gods you cannot prove or even give evidence that exist. That”s OK. Atheism is not a lack; it is an absolute absence.
If you wish to be persuasive in what you write, repeating yourself does NOT begin to do it. Repetition is boring.
All things unproven are not “absurd”. Some of those unproven things are merely out of sight. For you, it lays unseen in the high grass merely amused at your unawareness.
The posture here assumes that Christians/deists here have been demanded to offer proof of diety where atheists deny their position requires a burden of proof.
The burden of proof is on the person making the positive claim. That is how argumentation works.
When we have no evidence favoring either proposition, we must suspend belief in both
Astrophysics, Biology, Geology – pretty much any field of science would point to a non-magical narrative of how we got here and how the world works.
Since behavior is a reflection of what one believes, topically relevant comments: atheist must simply believe their existence is a consequence of outrageous and absurdly fortune of pure luck.
Oh really? Do elaborate on how atheists must believe anything? I’d love to see how a disbelief in god or gods necessitates in the belief of “outrageous and absurdly fortune of pure luck”, whatever that is. Please demonstrate this.
That is quite simply done though you may not get this either. You believe there is no God. It comes to you as a matter of faith. IF you could provide proof, there would be no believing; there would be knowing. You cannot prove creation by him did not occur.
There is no rational rule that removes the burden of proof from those who posit a negative argument.
The creation of a negative argument is merely semantic and does not change the substance of a test of it. If you posit that 2 + 2 – 1 ≠ 4, a proof is required or the mere statement is meaningless and deemed spurious in substance.
You claim the absurdity that If a Cancer Doctor says you are not a temporarily living cancerous legion anymore, he need not demonstrate the truthfulness of his statement. However, had he entered the room and said “Your body is free of cancer”, then you suppose he needs to prove it.
Wonderful! Amazing mental gymnastics there! 10/10 from me! I would give you the gold, but unfortunately the Canadian judge gave you a 3/10 (those corrupt bastards). It seems that simply asserting what I believe and knocking down an argument unrelated to the question at hand just doesn’t cut it for them.
Maybe I’ll spell it out for you. A disbelief in god or gods does not automatically assume a belief that there is no gods. One could remain agnostic to that question, to say “I don’t know”. Even if they did believe there was no gods, that does not equate to believe in their existence being a consequence “outrageous and absurdly fortune of pure luck” that you speak about (I’m guessing you meant evolution/stellar cosmology/science in general by that). One does not logically follow the other.
Atheism is accepted within some religious and spiritual belief systems, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Raelism, Neopagan movements such as Wicca, and nontheistic religions. You harbor pieces of each. Besides the presence of luck is the product of chance. Every decision you make considers your estimate of succeeding. You faithfully consider luck.
Robin — why do you believe? Is it because you can’t be prosocial (moral) without the belief of a god watching your behavior 24/7? Or is it the promise of heaven or your own planet with lots of women to fuck? What is it exactly that makes you a believer in god?
“All those who are counted worthy to be exalted and to become Gods, even the sons of God, will go forth and have earths and worlds like those who framed this and millions on millions of others”
Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 18:259
“Then will they become Gods…they will never cease to increase and to multiply, worlds without end. When they receive their crowns, their dominions, they then will be prepared to frame earths like unto ours and to people them in the same manner as we have been brought forth by our parents, by our Father and God”
“After men have got their exaltations and their crowns — have become Gods, even the sons of God — are made Kings of kings and Lords of lords, they have the power then of propagating their species in spirit; and that is the first of their operations with regard to organizing a world. Power is then given to them to organize the elements, and then commence the organization of tabernacles.”
Journal of Discourses Volume 6 page 275 –Brigham Young
Power hungry, horny men in great need of being acknowledged? In spirit of course.
= Insecure and not happy with what they’ve got now.
Further to my post/comments of May 25, 2014 at 8:09 pm, I have to add that Deuteronomy commands unequivocally that a false prophet must be killed, he cannot die a natural death:
Deuteronomy:Chapter 13:1-5
[1] If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder, [2] And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us go and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve them: [3] Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not. [4] Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave. [5] And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
Joseph Smith was killed so in terms of OT Bible he is not a truthful prophet; he was not sent by God; and since Jesus died a natural death in India and a dead man cannot send a prophet or messenger; hence Joseph Smith was not a truthful person/claimant.
Most atheists are associated with religions, Paar. You didn’t know? Do you really believe most atheists worship nothing at all???????
Atheism is accepted and have carved a place for themselves within religious and spiritual belief systems, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Raelism, Neopagan movements such as Wicca, and nontheistic religions.
The “evangelical” New Atheists who previously were Christians; they are always indulged in proving 40000 + Christian denominations, based on the Pauline creed, as wrong.
Here is a gift tool for them.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 1835-1908- the Promised Messiah said in 1889:
“Once you have proved that Jesus has joined the dead and have impressed this fact upon the hearts of the Christians, then do believe that that will be the day of the departure of the Christian faith from the world. Bear firmly in mind that so long as their god does not die, their religion will also not die, and it is futile to indulge in any other argument with them.
Their doctrine stands on just one pillar, which is the belief that Jesus son of Mary (as) is alive in heaven.
Demolish this pillar and you will not find the Christian faith anywhere in the world. As God Almighty desires to crush this pillar and to establish His Unity in Europe and Asia, He has sent me and disclosed to me through His own revelation that Jesus son of Mary has died.
(Izala-e-Auham, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 3, Pages. 402-403: Translated from the original in Urdu language)
So Paar — what is the gift that keeps on giving when you go to Paradise? An eternal erection? Lots of beautiful, white skinned virginal women sporting moist vaginas and large, voluptuous, full breasts? Non-menstruating / non-urinating/ non-defecating and child free? Never dissatisfied? Wide and beautiful/lovely eyes? Like pearls? Hairless except the eye brows and the head?
And what do the women get who make it to Paradise? They get one husband and they have to be satisfied with the old horny buzzard who can’t be satisfied with just one woman.
God wants sedition
God wants sex
God wants freedom
God wants semtex
What God wants God gets
Don’t ok so surprised
I’m only joking
The alien comic lied
The jackass and hyena
Took the feather from its hook
The monkey in the corner
Wrote the joke down in his book
What God wants God gets
God wants voodoo
God wants shrines
God wants law
God wants organized crime
God wants crusade
God wants jihad
God wants good
God wants bad
The song popped into my head as he smugly channeled “Allah’s” thoughts on women through the sayings of the prophet (PB&JUH).
Like their fundamentalist counterparts, Muslim clerics have convinced themselves that what god wants coincides with what they wants; so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and we all suffer the consequences (I’m looking at you, GWB).
ROBINOBISHOP :May 28, 2014 at 3:17 pm
“Identify a neutral source that allows a “negative” claim not to prove itself. Try Wikipedia and you’ll learn something.”
I agree with you; the “evangelical” or the propagation-ist New Atheists; have to prove that the “One-True-God does not exist”.
They cannot hide behind the excuse of shifting the “burden of proof” on others.
s I stated earlier, How about a current event: Elliot Rodger for personification of atheism with its invitation to a failed moral compass. How appropriate it is from atheists suppose that because he is mentally ill that it’s all biological …….with John going so far with the fiction of how easy it is to explain it to biological causes out of brain “injury” (that didn’t occur). The truth is police conducted a welfare check on Rodger a month ago at the request of others. They found that he did not meet the criteria for a mental health hold. So much for his severe biological mental illness.
However, we know that the affluent lifestyle gave him immense advantages. Therapy gave him immense advantages. Yet, you mention that because he was off his meds, his mass murder is explained because he is biologically lunatic (incongruously) like so many honored Bible characters. With this explanation we should be seeing thousands of mass murders weekly. Yet Elliot’s manifesto was that of an atheist with troubles with what that world view was destroying him. The atheist Elliot, nevertheless, had all the outward manifestations and drive to live a life of hedonism by Choice. His church was any room with a mirror!
Non-agnostic atheism promotes varied levels of narcissism because a narcissist atheist by nature is fixed, locking him/herself in the mirrored room. A narcissist atheism is all about self-power. Elliot, by example, called himself “God” in his manifesto. This is the default position of having no creator.
A narcissist and devout, honest Christian are contradictory terms. I can only choose narcissism by denying my faith in God, thereby entering the mirrored room to look at myself alone. You find “truth” when you find satisfying answers about how to interact effectively with a world of valuable assets in people. This is the non-atheist world view.
I should tell you Robin, that I haven’t stopped laughing since your last comment. That was hilarious. Here, just because it’s the weekend. Don’t get too excited though. I didn’t think you were worthy of the Foreigner version. 😈
To the point of wanting to know what love is the LDS way, people do not / will not have sex in Heaven, nor are they going to be pregnant in Heaven.
To wit, if John & Co. wish to write with some authority about the “infallible logic about Christianity” you might want to get some of it right prior to applying your own “infallible logic”. Doing that, the mist will lift slowly so that you can see the way ahead and attain your wildest dreams – out there somewhere.
Remarkable what you have done. You have hijacked this blog to criticize the Mormon faith using anything but Mormon websites to do it. It’s this stuff that has ALWAYS brought people to authentically investigate The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.That’s why we are the fastest growing Christian Church the world. This stuff just doesn’t square with what good people know we are in the real world. The authority of LDS doctrine ain’t coming from this website or the the link you provided. People aren’t generally stupid.
You endorse Mormon criticism from those who make a living on preaching what you and I know is nonsense and to frequently dangerous.
The last book I read before being baptize in the LDS Church at 35 years old was “The GodMakers”, the most celebrated anti-Mormon text written.
Robin, you are brainwashed. Pure and simple. Or you are one who does the brainwashing or both. I’ve interviewed personally, and watched interviews of hundreds of ex-Mormons. LDS is a cult — and they have perfected the art of mind control.
Oh, I see now, Robin. There will be no male or female in your heavens, planets, worlds. Mormon spirit men will not have several spirit wives to produce spirit babies. Thanks for the clarification. 😉
“Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. . . . Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers. . . .
Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord’s servants have always practiced it. “And is that religion popular in heaven?” It is the only popular religion there.” (Brigham Young — Deseret News, August 6, 1862)
So how are you god dudes going to inpregnate your wimmin folk? Spiritual sperm and penises?
The Neuron hijack continues with “So how are you god dudes going to inpregnate your wimmin folk? Spiritual sperm and penises?” (I would think you would want to be a proton instead of not charge at all)
You are kinda stuck in the human experience without a spiritual one. Your frame of reference isn’t gonna get you to the answer. No, we are never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy…. Miracles will happen as we speak.
One of the songs taught to young children is Follow the Prophet!, with nine verses, and the refrain, repeated after each verse.
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Don’t go astray!
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
He knows the way.
You see Robin the key to brainwashing and/or mind control is repetition, repetition, repetition. The brain is plastic, meaning it’s malleable, and especially in young children. Why young children? Because they are generally suggestible alpha/theta brain wave state. We evolved this propensity so that children would listen to their primary caregivers and teachers — for survival’s sake. But religions like yours have used this to their advantage.
The more you repeat something the more neural pathways are created and the more neural pathways are created the more they network, and the more they network, the harder it is to prune (atrophy), which is why so many have a difficult time realizing they are under a spell.
“LDS is a cult — and they have perfected the art of mind control.”
I’m here to be deprogrammed. Certainly, I wouldn’t be here through mind control. Give me the blue pill so I can enter your unbelief system. Hep me, hep me.
Robin, why do you keep talking to yourself? Are you not aware that if people don’t sub to this post they will not see your ramblings? I’m assuming that you are directing that at me. You, sir, are a classic case of someone under the spell.
Why don’t you share why you became an LDS. What rewards drew you in? Becoming a god? Having authority over women? Guaranteed alpha male status? Do share. Because I can tell you Mr. Robin, that if you think LDS has the dibs on morality, you are one blind dude. Perhaps you’ve been wanking off a little too much or do you coerce your woman to have sex with you because that’s your god-given right as the alpha male and head of the family?
The only reason you are not fucking more than one woman is because polygamy is against the law in the U.S. Or are you fucking more than one woman in “holy” matrimony with the blessings of your god? Oh, are your holy ears offended by that word? Or does the sound of that word it make your manhood throb a little. 😉
“Polygamy was officially suspended by the President of the church in 1890, twenty-eight years after polygamy was declared illegal by the U.S. government, and thirteen years after a U.S. court had ruled that polygamous marriages were not valid” (Wallace 368).
You see, Robin, sex is not a bad thing. Not what so ever. But it is when men assume that women don’t have the same rights to have multiple partners. Fuck to your heart’s content if you like Women should have the same right. Be responsible. Use a condom, and don’t over-populate the world, as you continue to do.
Heber C. Kimball ( one of the original twelve apostles) said, “I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow” (Wallace 101).
So it’s those repeating lyrics that have has turned us LDS into creating committed marriages, more committed than anyone …as good as the atheists. But we decide which is right and which is an illusion….. over time. I didn’t learn those mind control Mormon songs as a child. I was listening to the Four Tops and the Beatles and the Stones and Creedance, CSR, and Fleetwood Mac and those cultist experts, the Moody Blues. Hell, I’m listening to them right now…..ooo oooo can you feel it tonight. Why don’t we ever get an answer…..It’s cuz of them repeating lyrics in Mormon songs….arg. I’m looking for someone to change my life.
Paar, it doesn’t specifically say 72 — there could be many more. Is it true that when you make it to paradise you will have an eternal erection? Have you been promised lots of white women with perfect bodies?
It doesn’t, but its in the Hadith (#2,562, Sunan al-Tirmidhi) “The reward for the people of Heaven is 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome of pearls, aquamarine and ruby.”
The Qur’an only talks about paradise: “Verily, for the Muttaqun[righteous], there will be a success (paradise); gardens and grapeyards; and young full-breasted (mature) maidens of equal age; and a full cup (of wine)” (An-Naba 78:31-34).
These are the attributes of these virgins, from wiki:
Physical Attributes:
• Wide and beautiful/lovely eyes
• Like pearls
• Hairless except the eye brows and the head
• Big Boobs
• Beautiful
• White skinned
• 60 cubits [27.5 meters] tall
• 7 cubits [3.2 meters] in width
• Transparent to the marrow of their bones
• Eternally young
• Companions of equal age
Sexual Attributes:
• Untouched / with hymen unbroken by sexual intercourse
• Virgins
• Voluptuous/full-breasted
• With large, round breasts which are not inclined to hang
• Appetizing vaginas
I forget if she is believes the rot starts at the English side of Hadrian’s wall or everyone on Mud Island should be one big happy family…y’ken, the noo. 😉
You cautioned: “One of the songs taught to young Mormon children is Follow the Prophet!, with nine verses, and the refrain, repeated after each verse.
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Don’t go astray!
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
He knows the way.
It is a danger you say “Because they are generally suggestible alpha/theta brain wave state. ”
Considering these kids hear or participate in singing this song once a month, that can add pup over 8 years of primary instruction. But I’m concerned about the danger to adults inpraying at public meetings everywhere, every monthly town meeting. Before too long people will be going to the town hall for Bible study prior to meetings leading to cooperation and the lack of need for divorce attorneys..
I’m currently performing an experiment with my grandson while he sleeps by playing Robert Plant’s “Addicted to Love” while he sleeps. But I think it has backfired. My wife at 64 is now pregnant and I am constantly feeling I need to feed the snake into the toilet. My grandson at 2 is now no longer wanting to wear his briefs, needing to strut his stuff. But I think this is just a phase unassociated with this very appealing music.
Wow Robin. I’m not sure what to make of your post. My first thought was — did you take your meds today. Can you please make a more cohesive post and direct it this time at me instead of John. Do you know how to do that? When you get an email notification that I replied to you, click on “reply” and leave your comment. I will be notified. If you are doing that, then perhaps there’s a WP glitch. As I mentioned earlier, I am not getting a direct notification from you that you are directing your post at me.
Did you read the link I shared? The part where your prophet had 30+ wives and was also married young teens and married women? Did you teach your children to follow the prophet, follow the prophet, follow the prophet, follow the prophet or was that follow the profit, follow the profit, follow the profit, follow the profit?
Btw, I should mention that psychologist and psychiatrist have been educated on how to counsel unhappy Mormon women. I’ve spent hours reading testimonies from women who are either Mormon or ex-Mormon. It ain’t pretty. You you are any indication of the caliber of men in the Mormon church, it’s no wonder.
@ John: in that last link I left Robin, about a Mormon guy going from despair to happiness after leaving the church, you should get a kick out of what Joseph Smith used, kinda like a “special decoder ring” to interpret the mysteries of god. Enjoy the dopamine. This is a real gut buster. 😉
“Narrator: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits.
Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.”
Robin, you’re either categorically insane, or one of the greatest trolls the interwebs has ever birthed! I’m leaning to the latter… and i’m suitably impressed.
“I’m leaning to the latter… and i’m suitably impressed.”
John, I hope the hell you’re right, lol. Have you check to see if this dude has the same IP as SOM? He hasn’t been casting his seed on our blogs lately. 😉
After quoting lines from the sci-fi satire Idiology, a colossal box office failure accumulating $50K total international revenue, he proposes a new scientific law from the movie: violating THE RULE proposed earlier by John. Neuron proposes that humans are evolving dumber because humans no longer have predators and intelligence is not rewarded evolutionally. As THE RULE requires, you have some proof to offer. the burden of proof is yours.
On another point:
Since when is Mormon polygamy unintelligent since so many practice serial polygyny, serial polyandry and that serial “other stuff” you enjoy.
Say what? LOL Robin, you slay me. It doesn’t surprise me that you didn’t get it. The move may have not done as well at the box office, with around $500,000K, but it made more than $9M in DVD sales and rentals.
“There are many factors to consider when a great film doesn’t turn a large profit. Idiocracy does not appear to have done well financially despite being one of the funniest satires of American consumer culture ever produced. Idiocracy is so bold and so outrageous that it could potentially have alienated its own potential audience.
The main thrust of Idiocracy is to shine a light on our short-term priorities and our culture’s lack of foresight as society today expands and devours up the planet’s resources converting everything into large monuments of trash. Judge also accounts for the reckless breeding where the uneducated pop out more and more children. This reproductive recklessness is arguably the cornerstone of the other intractable problems. As population explodes natural resources will disappear.”
“Evolution has shifted such that stupid people breed like rabbits, and the smarter ones tend not to. Long term trending in this direction produces a stupid society which will eventually collapse under its own weight: pretty straightforward line of reasoning.” http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/06/03/idiocracy-2006-re-visited/
So it really doesn’t surprise me that someone like you doesn’t get it but believes in getting it up as often as possible to continue to over-populate the world.
Further to my comments I have to add that the truthful religion does not tell us that there will be any pregnancies in heaven; or that population in the heaven will need to be increased through birth. There is no sex in heaven; Quran does not mention it.
“Modern apologists of ‘Islam’ try to downplay the evident materialism and sexual implications of such descriptions, but, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam says, even orthodox Muslim theologians such as al Ghazali (died 1111 CE) and Al-Ash’ari (died 935 CE) have “admitted sensual pleasures into paradise”.
In fact, the sensual pleasures are graphically described in detail by Al-Suyuti
(died 1505 ), Quranic commentator and polymath. He wrote:
“Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas.”
You see, Paar. what Islam does is take our most basic human instincts and magnifies them in Islamic paradise. Your playmates will be “remade” into virgins after you fuck them, so that you will take her/them again and again as virgins. In other words, Parr, women in your promise land of paradise, milk, wine, and gluttony, are nothing more than a play thing for your eternal erection. The only difference between being on earth and in paradise is that once you pop her cherry, Allah will magically reinstate it.
Totally wrong; none of it is mentioned in Quran-the first and the foremost source of guidance of Muslims whatever the denomination.
Please quote from Quran to prove your point.
Read the link. Paar, I believe you are being intellectually dishonest. I have yet to meet or read from a Muslim man (with you being the exception) who doesn’t believe there will not be delicious, desiring, virginal women, with moist vaginas, big eyes and big breasts, awaiting them in paradise.
You know John, as a woman, I can’t even imagine what the Islamic paradise would be like for me. I only get one dude, and have to wait my turn. It is unreal that we are living in the 21st century and the Abrahamic religions are still alive and well. It really does show you just how easily programmable humans are, and especially because these religions toy with our most basic instincts and fears. And the religious hierarchy are laughing all the way to the bank. It really pisses me off to know they have been conned, which is why I have sometimes come across as sounding rude in this debate.
Correction: I have yet to meet or read from a Muslim man who doesn’t believe there will be delicious, desiring, virginal women, etc, awaiting them in paradise.
Otherwise, Paar, you have no incentive, no reward. You believe because you get rewarded to believe. Your death anxiety is curtailed, and your most basic human instincts fulfilled in paradise. The Abrahamic religions are one of the most cunning religions of all time. I know you don’t see this. You’ve been wired, literally, to be blinded by this.
What is true for a given religion isn’t what people attest to from your personal experience Neuron. It take concerted study of sacred texts to know. I know many Mormons who are also vegetarians and believe in the virtues of not eating meat. So that you can rationalize your biases, these variants must be doctrine.
One point that should be noted is that all religions of my acquaintance believe what awaits them in paradise is beyond their own human conception. All points made of it by us are therefore metaphor. We reach for the inconceivable through metaphor.
Within the sacred writings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints you can find references to “mansions in Heaven” already prepared for us. You would be foolish to attest that we believe heaven to be a living abode in heaven that some people already enjoy in their human experience.
That your prophet was a slave to his own lusts says a lot about your character, insecurities and fears, Robin, for you have voluntarily chosen this belief system.
He answered your questions sufficient for me to understand, as have I.
Atheist speech found here is hate speech related to the spirit of the law.
It is part and parcel to what leads to violence.
Classic groupthink with its own Godless cult behavior…a deterioration in mental efficiency, reality testing and moral judgments as a result of group pressures (wik).
Where did he answer if he thought the Hadiths were Mo’s words? Where did he answer if his wife was happy about him getting oodles of women in Paradise?
What does your wife think, Robin, about you screwing around with a bevy of other women in the Celestial Kingdom, making spirit babies? Is she happy for you?
“Atheist speech found here is hate speech related to the spirit of the law.”
Robin, have we struck a nerve? You are loyal to a profit, I mean prophet who horded at least 30 women, some of them in their early teens, and some of them already married to other men.
Do not get all self-righteous about morality. You chose this religion, this denomination. Like Islam, your denomination promotes polygamy in heaven. Like Islam, the women are only allowed to have one husband. The only reason it’s not practice in the open (though some are doing it — See the TV reality show “Sister Wives”), the only reason you are not practicing it is because it’s illegal in the U.S.
Just to show you how selfish your belief system is, as well as Islam, as of 2014, the global sex ratio at birth is estimated at 107 boys to 100 girls (934 girls per 1000 boys). In Islam, men are allowed up to 4 wives. You do the math.
Keep a shortage of women, and promise that they will have as many “perfect” wives in paradise and you will find an appealing religion. Why? Because not every man will find a mate due to the imbalance most often caused by religion and a preference to have males over females in many cultures. This leads to sex trafficking (an epidemic), rape (an epidemic) and a number of other social ills.
In the article “Peace Among Primates”, Dr. Robert Sapolsky studied the behaviors of savanna baboons, in particular, the Forest Troop baboons, for over 2 decades. What came from the study was that when the troops had more females than males, and less alpha males (that horded resources), the troops were more peaceful. When there were more males than females, the highly stratified males warred and bullied the less dominate male baboons. The less dominate baboons, (beta males) turned their frustrations on the females, abusing them. This wasn’t the case when there were fewer alpha males in the troop, and fewer males in general. But what he also discovered was that these males could learn to behave themselves (brain plasticity). No god was needed. He said in the article that the troop created a baboon utopia after half the alpha males died from eating tainted meat when in turn produced nicer males and more welcoming females (not as fearful of the males). http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/peace_among_primates
So, do we change our habits and devalue human males like has happened to females over the last couple of thousand years? Because we have solid evidence that males are, for the most part, the primary cause of the social ills we see in society. Or do we drop primitive, male dominated belief systems that encourage Othering and hyper-masculinity, and educate about our biology, our hormones/neurotransmitters, gene expression, brain plasticity, and how the environment (especially culture) intertwines and plays a major role in the stability of our species?
Non-believers do not hate you. We are simply fed up with you choosing to remain ignorant about the nature of reality, and enslaved by your base passions, fears, insecurities, and death anxiety.
Paar, answer our questions. Are you promised to have multiple ‘wives’ in paradise and how does your submissive wife (or wives) feel about this?
Q78:31-34 As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and high-bosomed women for companions; a cup full to the brim.
Q37:48 And besides them will be chaste women, restraining their glances, with big eyes of wonder and beauty. Pure (virgin) as they were hidden eggs of the ostrich
Q44:54 …and We will wed them with houris (dark-eyed virgins) pure, beautiful ones.
Q52:17-20 Reclining on thrones set in lines, and We will unite them to fair, large-eyed beautiful ones.
Q56:36-37 And made them virgin – pure and undefiled, loving, equals in age
Q55:56-58 In them will be bashful virgins neither man nor Jinn will have touched before… As though they were rubies and corals
Q55:72-77 Pure ones, close-guarded in pavilions, whom no man or Jinn before them has touched reclining on green cushions and rich carpets of beauty.
Q44:51-54 As to the Righteous they will be among Gardens and Springs and We shall join them to fair women with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes
Q56:11-37 These will be those brought to Allah In Gardens of Bliss… water flowing constantly, and companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes… We made them virgin pure and undefiled, Lovers, equals in age.
Al Hadith, Vol. 4, p. 172, No. 34 The Apostle of Allah said, “There is in Paradise a market wherein there will be no buying or selling, but will consist of men and women. When a man desires a beauty, he will have intercourse with them.”
Sahih Bukhari 6:402: Allah’s Apostle said, ‘In Paradise there is a pavilion made of a single hollow pearl sixty miles wide, in each corner there are wives who will not see those in the other corners; and the believers will visit and enjoy them all.'”
Paradise of Lust/a>
Muhammad’s imagination did not allow for any awe inspiring concept of enlightenment in the hereafter. No unfolding bliss with some transcendental spiritual awakening for the soul. No special reunion with parents, children, friends, relatives. No stimulating knowledge that would reveal the secrets of the universe unknown to mere mortals. Not even equality for women.
—> It is a picture merely concerned with appealing to the base instincts of men, longing for a supremely opulent version of earthly regal, lustful life.
@N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ :June 2, 2014 at 4:14 pm
@JOHN ZANDE :June 2, 2014 at 3:44 pm
I give below the verses mentioned in your first reference:
[78:32] Verily, for the righteous is a triumph:
78:33] Walled gardens and grape-vines,
[78:34] And young maidens of equal age,
[78:35] And overflowing cups.
[78:36] Therein they will hear no idle talk nor lying:
[78:37] A recompense from thy Lord — a gift in proportion to their works —
[78:38] Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the Gracious. They shall not have the power to address Him.
@JOHN ZANDE :June 2, 2014 at 4:56 pm
@N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ :June 2, 2014 at 4:56 pm
@RON :June 2, 2014 at 4:24 pm
I had already answered your questions.
“I have to add that the truthful religion does not tell us that there will be any pregnancies in heaven; or that population in the heaven will need to be increased through birth. There is no sex in heaven; Quran does not mention it.”
All such verses should be and must be ,therefore, understood in the light of the following verses:
[2:26] And give glad tidings to those who believe and do good works, that for them are Gardens beneath which flow streams. Whenever they are given a portion of fruit therefrom, they will say: ‘This is what was given us before,’ and gifts mutually resembling shall be brought to them. And they will have therein mates perfectly pure, and therein will they abide.
[2:27] Allah disdains not to give an illustration as small as a gnat or even smaller. Those who believe know that it is the truth from their Lord, while those who disbelieve say: ‘What does Allah mean by such an illustration?’ Many does He adjudge by it to be erring and many by it does He guide, and none does He adjudge thereby to be erring except the disobedient,
So, let me get this straight: you don’t believe you’ll be rewarded with bus-loads of virginal ass in Paradise? You don’t believe you’ll have a permanent erection?
John, I believe our man, Paar, is being dishonest or he’s dumb about his own religion.
“Allah Subhanah, Who Created everything in existence, also created its nature. And since man was created polygamous by nature, one of the rewards which The All Knowing and All Wise Lord has promised the fortunate men of Paradise is the companionship of many chaste, beautiful, and obedient wives in that Eternal Abode of the Hereafter.”http://www.islamhelpline.net/node/4313
Now, what’s interesting about this is that there is a phenomena in many species (more common in males than females) including humans called the “Coolidge Effect”. “The Coolidge effect is a phenomenon seen in mammalian species whereby males (and to a lesser extent females) exhibit renewed sexual interest if introduced to new receptive sexual partners,] even after refusing sex from prior but still available sexual partners.”
This is a primal urge intended to diversify the gene pool. But — this can create sexual addictions, and it’s been shown in labs that rats will copulate with a variety of females until they nearly die of exhaustion. This is what Allah is promising men — lots and lots and lots of dopamine, but apparently they won’t die.
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“When you drop a male rat into a cage with a receptive female rat, you see an initial frenzy of copulation. Then, progressively, the male tires of that particular female. Even without an apparent change in her receptivity he reaches a point where he has little libido-and simply ignores her.
However, if you replace the original female with a fresh one, the male immediately revives and begins copulating again. You can repeat this process with fresh females until the rat nearly dies of exhaustion. The rat’s renewed vigor does not reflect an increase in his wellbeing – although it will look (and temporarily feel to him) that way. His vigor comes from surges of a neurochemical called dopamine, which flood the reward circuitry of his primitive brain… so that he gets the job done.”
The Coolidge Effect has been observed in all mammals that have been tested. Scientists have observed it in females too. Female rodents, for example, flirt a lot more – arching in inviting displays – with unfamiliar partners than with those with which they’ve already copulated.” http://www.reuniting.info/science/coolidge_effect
Really? I find that an interesting statement, David.
You believe Jesus is god, correct?
You believe only Jesus can save, correct?
You believe only Jesus can judge, correct?
You believe, therefore, only Jesus can punish, correct?
So, by all means, please point out where you think the meme is mistaken….
Its mistaken in that this is not what he wants to save us from, Jesus Christ sacrificed his life as a substitute to save us and the worst of humanity from the hell that we where takeing ourselfs to. Yes there is a hell and if anyone ends up there They put them selfs there because they told the judge we don’t need you when he showed them the way out.
Fortunately this is not what he wants to save us from, Jesus Christ sacrificed his life as a substitute to save us and the worst of humanity from the hell that we where takeing ourselfs to.
Just re-following Paul. Did a mass clean house (I was following a LOT) of blogs, and slowly now going back getting on board with the blogs I want to follow going forward.
thesuperstitiousnakedape.wordpress.com 
This meme is brought to us by one of the infinite number of atheist alternative universes according to John.
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Is John your favourite atheist? Watch he doesn’t deconvert you, he’s really good at that.
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Wisp,
I was hoping you would be my favorite atheist.
Jesus turned water into wine for his first miracle.
If John deconverted me, that would be a miracle and Pope Francis would have to make him a saint.
The whole idea sounds far too risky.
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What, you don’t think I’d look dapper with a gloriole?
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Thanks SOM, I hope I can make the grade. 😀
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“Wisp, I was hoping you would be my favorite atheist.”
“Thanks SOM, I hope I can make the grade. ”
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Violet — I now believe in miracles. 😉
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John’s going to be so jealous, I hope he doesn’t see it and go all huffy!
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He might ban you. The drama and pettiness would subside significantly if SOM liked an atheist, much less fell in love with one (he noted the possibility on your blog).
Damn, woman — you’ve given Anne Sullivan a run for her money.
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I was thinking of doing a tribute post to SOM because he’s delivered some of his finest lines recently. Then I just came across him spouting his nonsense at Christians, with his worst line yet (I’m not quoting it):
http://russellandpascal.com/2014/05/07/hard-questions-deserving-honest-answers-part-2/#comments
Why does he have so much time on his hands to wind people up? Just bizarre.
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“Engorged ganglion” trolls always have time on their hands. As I read the dialog, I was reminded of this.
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That’s superb.
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Thanks for watching, John. That’s the kind of god I wouldn’t mind hanging out with for eternity. A god with frontal lobes. 😉
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I don’t mind sharing SOM. Shall we say, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays?
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Sorry John, it’s SOM’s decision. He simply prefers me. (When he finds out I’m a man, he might change his mind)
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Then again…
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“Then again… ”
LOL John. I’ve had the same thoughts. Yesterday, I talked on the phone with a behavioral neuroscientist for over 4 hours. One of the subjects we discussed was projection. 😉
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John, I should clarify, just in case. I’ve had the same thoughts about SOM — with him going on and on and on about homosexuals. —> Projection?
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Got it 🙂 It’s like over at Ask The Bigot… for gay-haters they spend an awful lot of time thinking about gay sex.
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Indeed.
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John,
I spent one sentence talking about gay sex and about three pages dealing with all the atheist homophobia.
One of the atheists told me that gay sex threatened the well-being of his son. And another told me that gay sex was disgusting and so was heterosexual sex.
We all know how atheists love blaming God for the evil that men do and that is bad enough.
But I think atheists blaming me for their homophobia and pre-pubescent attitude toward girls is really over the top.
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I love it when you don’t make sense, SOM. It makes me feel like i’m inside a Hunter S. Thompson novel 😉
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That’s okay, John,
You don’t understand anything about God or the Bible either, so at least you’re consistent.
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Wisp,
You and John need to understand that I love you for your atheism, not your bodies.
That makes life so much easier in the confessional.
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How exciting to be disconversion away from Jesus Christ where John has no evidence in support of his views. After all if he were to be given a witness, you would only be left with another skeptic champion who you have raised to a demigod in his place.
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A bible distribution company is recruiting new door-to-door salesmen. They end up with three candidates, one of whom has a terrible stutter but he is very insistant. The boss decides to try them out and let the best have the job. By the end of the week, the guy with the stutter has by far outsold the other slick door to door salesmen. They’re all stunned and ask him how he does it. “We….ll”, he says, “I r….r…..r….ing t…t….the d…d……dd…….dd..oor…bb….el…l..ll an….d…d a…..a…aa….s…k: wwww….ould y….ou lllll….ike t…t…o b…b…buy a b…b…bible o…r w…w…ould y…ou l….l…ike m…e t….t…to r…ead i..t t..o y..ou?”.
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Badda-boom! 🙂
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I love waking up to this kind of stuff, 🙂
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Add a little caffeine and its nothing but sunshine and singing daisies for as far as the eye can see! 🙂
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Knock-knock!
“Who is it?”
“It’s me Jesus. Can I come in?”
“What, again”
“Yeah, it’s only the second time. I won’t call again. Promise!”
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Ha! It is an enigma, isn’t it? Second Coming… Errummm, why?
Reminds me of this slice of British genius:
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Or as one of Pratchett’s characters once said, “…. a misery wrapped up in an enema.”
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Now that’s an image which is going to be hard to erase…
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Brilliant.
“He might come back!?”
“So what?!!”
My thoughts exactly. And if ‘he’ did, who the hell would notice?
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Well, seriously… If you can’t achieve your “mission” on the first time around…
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Ok, let’s assume he did ‘come again’. For one thing to which authority would he have to report, let’s take God out of the equation for a moment here, as technically his existence cannot actually be physically verified. Would said Jesus then have to report to the Vatican?
Also, there is the minor issue that he would be an individual with no fixed abode or legal status anywhere – the Israelis are certainly not going to let him in or let him stay if he should turn up in the Holy City. He would have to be placed under some kind of witness protection to stop him getting lynched by the Muslims, and the Jews alike. Even if he were accepted by some authority, he would need a financial sponsor to vouch for him, and would need some kind of political immunity in order to travel around the globe. I’m sure medical science would be very interested in him too, I mean, c’mon, think about the potentials! ‘The Christ Gene’… see?
This is not a simple case of turn up and change the world, not at all!
Would you want to come back to the world we live in now claiming to be the son of God? Really?
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Come on! You’re ignoring all the virgin births going on…
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/virgin-births-claimed-small-number-u-s-women-study-article-1.1551518
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A chastity pledge! I wish I’d thought of that. Actually it’s a great excuse for fathers not to take responsibility for their Christian offspring, particularly if they did the dirty before marriage! Tsk!
Even so, the legalities involved in actually accepting that an individual, even if born of tender virgin loins, is the next Messiah, well… I scratch my head at that one. It’s going to be a very exclusive fan club with very little political clout, and of course politics is what it would all come down to. Actually, a scenario that is probably no different from the first time around when he ‘apparently’ appeared claiming his godly rights.
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Maria: “Would said Jesus then have to report to the Vatican?” and others. No, as in his first mission, he will arrive to fulfill all righteousness all over again as spelled out by John. Initiating that he will have returned to him all authority from those on Earth. Upon his return, it will be a restoration church where he sits because that is his business in these latter days.
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I think I’m speechless.
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It seems inconceivable to me upon writing it here, being useless nonsense for this audience.
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It always amazes me when Christians say that Christianity is not a religion of fear — an authoritarian religion. You are told that if you do accept Jesus, but don’t serve him to the fullest, faithfully, you’re ass is grass. He’ll spit you out of his mouth. If you reject his knock, you’ve blasphemed the holy spirit, and again, your ass is grass. Jesus doesn’t take too kindly to lukewarmers — they are, apparently, going to suffer much more than those who are ‘cold’ in their belief or lack thereof.
“It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.” 2 Peter 2:21
“So, because you are lukewarm–neither hot nor cold–I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” Revelation. 3:16
So if Jesus god is all knowing, and knows you are not going to accept him, or eventually leave the faith once your frontal lobes come back online, why would he knock in the first place? Rather sadistic, IMO.
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Yahwehist *logic* is not taught in Universities for a tremendously good reason, my friend.
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MO: First you come to these conclusions believing what some have told you about the Kingdom of Heaven being a small place with everyone so close to God. Too bad you haven’t thought it through realizing that if God exists, that would be his formula in his place. When you uncritically accept these fictions about His Kingdoms without scriptural support you can then fall into rejecting God in total.
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Hi Robin
May I ask how you’ve come to a conclusion concerning the Kingdom of Heaven without also believing what someone has told you?
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Robin — may I ask what qualifies you as an expert on the KoG? And what part of those scriptures I posted did you not understand, or do you have your own interpretation and can enlighten us?
I was a devout Christian for 40+ years. How long have you been a Christian?
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John, There are opposing opinions about this stuff as you know. If somebody tells me its going to rain and another says it will snow, and another that it will be clear, do you suppose you select one of them without researching the subject for yourself? Analysis.
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Hi Robin
I’m afraid you didn’t answer the question. Your supposed “analysis” is based only on what people have told you (mirroring your original, somewhat poorly thought-through accusation), and their positions are based solely on a daydream. The only valid “opinion” one can have regarding a daydream is whether they like the concept of not.
That is, of course, unless you are privy to some factual information the rest of us aren’t.
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N Guy, I am 65 years old and a Christian all those years. Need I be an expert in your eyes for you to give me credit. I know many Christians with several years of experience as a Christian but with their first year repeated so many times. I on the other hand have been Dutch Reformed, Disciples of Christ, Baptist, and now Mormon.I am a High Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for the last 25 years.
I don’t have the time now to venture into a lengthy writeup. If you have a specific question, I can do that later.
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Robin, as John said, you did not answer my questions, which is very telling.
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Mormon, huh? If you like, Robin, I can prove your religion categorically and unquestionably false in a few lines….
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John,
I find that statement completely insulting. However, in any number of lines, give it a go. Give us the proof.
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Why is it insulting? Do you not value truth?
Regardless:
The Book of Abraham (a character, incidentally, who not even Jewish Rabbis today believe was a real person), chapter 3:
Kolob is a star, correct? No ordinary star, though. In Section 76 of Smith’s Doctrine and Covenants he outlines the ‘degrees of glory’ in what he names the Celestial Kingdom: the Mormon heaven. Between verses 18-24, 50-70 and 81-113 he describes inhabited planets arranged in an ascending order in orbit around Kolob with Gods planet (and Jesus’ as well) closest to the giant star.
Here’s where things get a tad awkward. Unlike our rather placid sun Kolob is a monster; a supermassive star like VY Canis Majoris. Our sun, well-balanced and behaved as it is will last somewhere around 10 billion years before it exhausts its fuel supply: its hydrogen. A supermassive star, like Kolob, isn’t so patient. These monsters will burn through their fuel in under 10 million years, initiating an outrageous 26-part death dance before its final cataclysmic obliteration in a Type-2 supernova. It is an outward blast of energy so magnificently absurd that it glows brighter than a hundred galaxies for over a week and remains brighter than all the stars in a single galaxy for three or four months as it ejects 99% of all the matter that makes up the chemistry set of the universe… and when it happens you really don’t want to be anywhere near.
Now, this raises all sorts of godawful problems for Mormons’ Celestial Kingdom…. It’s going to be annihilated! Guaranteed.
Now it’s safe to say Joseph Smith clearly wasn’t aware of this rather awkward corporeality of stars, but as sure as the earth is round the legendary Kolob will go supernova and when it does every planet in the Mormon Celestial Kingdom will be blown to smithereens. Said in another way, the LDS guarantee of eternal celestial bliss is a demonstrable lie.
That is, of course, unless you, High Priest Robin, can explain how Kolob would escape this certain cataclysmic end, which means detailing precisely from where and how the giant star would acquire the infinite source of (finite) hydrogen it’d need to burn for eternity…
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That is fascinating, John. Puts things into perspective. I’ve watched all the hidden videos (a couple of hours worth) of what went on during the Mormon ceremonies, plus interviews from people who came out of Mormonism. From a neurological POV, they’ve got the cult programming down pat. I was stunned at their antisocial behavior towards members who tried to leave the church, towards women, and towards homosexuals. This is yet another patriarchal group of insecure men who need others beneath them to feel important, special, and who get off on power.
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N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ asks what qualifies me to be expert in the KofG? Tell me what you suppose makes one an “expert” in Christian doctrine. I am intrigued. You cannot provide such a standard that Christians on the whole admire.
I think the notion “expert” lives in the same world of thought as John’s “Proof” (that the fastest growing Christian faith is false).
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Robin, you guys are filthy rich and between you and the RCC, could eliminate poverty, hunger, and preventable diseases for every child, woman, and man on the planet plus provided everyone higher education. But you don’t use the money for the right reasons. You are like a cancer to humanity. Now, you might think that’s rude — but what I shared with you is the truth.
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That’s right, Robin, answer a question with a question. Typical cult protocol.
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Attempting to “prove” the LDS church false, you suppose the obscure Kolob dressed as a straw man fallacy exists as if the Church. Congratulations, your straw man is defeated while the LDS with its doctrines remain outside your discussion.
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Hi Robin.
I’m not sure you know what precisely a straw man fallacy is. Are you denying Joe Smith’s writings on the ‘degrees of glory’ (the Celestial Kingdom) and its relationship to the great star, Kolob?
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But if you love someone fully then you do whatever they ask but to fall in love with a person you have to know who they are. In this case its Jesus and what he offers is more than most minds can concive and actually you have to ask God to see before you even can and that takes humility.
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No, you don’t have to know who they are to fall in love with them. Most people who fall in love initially don’t really know who the other person is because neural circuity associated with critical assessment and negative emotions deactivate. The purpose of this is to ensure the survival of our species. This is why people who are truly, madly, deeply in love can take an about turn in a year or so, and they see things in the other person (flaws) they didn’t notice at the beginning. But there’s no threat of hell if they chose to go their separate ways, unless they believe they’ll go to hell for getting a divorce.
The same thing happens in the brain when Christians fall in love with Jesus. After the honeymoon period, you live by faith that you have a relationship with Jesus, and that Jesus loves you, but you don’t really know him. but pretend you do.
It takes courage and humility to acknowledge that you’ve been bamboozled by charlatans and duped by your neurotransmitters. Facing reality is not for the faint of heart.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
— Carl Sagan
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I support anything Carl Sagan had to say! Soooo sorry he’s no longer around to share his profound wisdom.
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That’s very funny! There’s a few people I’d like to send it to but I don’t think they’d appreciate it in the same way …
By the way, nice to see you posting more frequently. Is it a new trend or a freak event?
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I didn’t write the joke, but it is a good one. Do you like Aryan Jesus?
More regular posting: Could be an anomaly, but you never know 😉
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I don’t know what you mean about Jesus. That’s just what he would have looked like. All the pictures say so.
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Meet Sven Christ… He enjoys snowshoeing, glühwein around the fireplace, and Fårikål
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@ Violet, John — I had a brainwave training client who was a Christian. When I administered a specific frequency, she would see Jesus. Said he talked with her — gave her advise. Swore it was really Jesus and she would weep sometimes because she was so moved by the experience. It never happened except during these sessions with that specific Hz administered.
When I evaluated her, I asked her what Jesus looked like. She was an African American living in the South. She pretty much described the Jesus you see in the picture above, only he had longer hair. She described the Jesus played by Robert Powell http://www.excerptsofinri.com/images/455lordsprayer.jpg — only this was years before the movie “Jesus of Nazareth” came out. I wonder if she was aware that Hitler painted an Aryan Jesus.
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Was her name Megyn Kelly? 😉
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LOL — remembering a comment that Ark made on one of Violet’s posts recently — talk about someone who should be in a straight jacket. 😉
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“Fear and loathing in the pews”
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“Jesus! Bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing, intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out! The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes.”
🙂
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John, knock-knock jokes? Really? Are we reduced to that?
And everybody knows that if Jesus comes back again he will report to a PR firm as he has a real problem, actually several. The primary problem is getting his message out so it is heard through the noise machine. Wrote a short story about it but lost it somehow.
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You sent it to me, remember. I liked it. Would have made Ray Bradbury smile.
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Never mind a round of applause, they should be hoisted aloft onto shoulders and carried around the streets !
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Agreed! A beautiful compliment to “Easter in Ten Words:
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NO! Not sweet Jesus? Maybe his mean old dad but not … oh wait. They’re one and the same right? Never mind. 😉
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Good cop, bad cop 😉
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Ha! Exactly
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There you go again, posting facts in a manner that will bring cheers from your supporters and shouts of ignorant anger from your detractors. You will be punished for this! 😉
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Who’s more guilty, the Ring Master or the ticket holders? 🙂
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Depends, is the Ring Master real or a figment of the ticket holder’s imagination? In which case the ticket holders would be guilty of deceiving themselves.
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Oh, nice point! Reminds me of a meme i saw yesterday:
“What’s crazier than having an imaginary friend?
[insert devil picture here]…Having an imaginary enemy.”
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I love it! That is so hilarious! Can not wait to spread that ‘good news’. For some reason I envision Hitler, Stalin and the big bad wolf giggling right behind Jesus waiting to get their turn.
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The Good News should be spread, like mustard seeds!
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Mind if I borrow this one for a repost?
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Of course not, go for it. It’s not mine anyway. I’ve seen this joke out there for ages, and there’s a few versions of this knock-knock graphic. I threw this one together, but can’t claim ownership.
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Yawn…John, how many of the tired, recycled caricatures are you going to put up? Have you got a big box of other people’s work in the cellar that you’re emptying out one by one? And you accuse Jesus of being unoriginal…
I’d have thought your readers would have been noted out of their minds from eating the same gruel everyday. Apparently not!
best, cct.
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Why? Christians have been chewing on the same gristle for thousands of years. And believing it, too.
At least the atheists get to laugh. You lot have been peeing in your pants out of fear since forever; disgusting, immoral sinners that you are!
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Yawn? LOL… As Ark points out, that’s rather precious coming from a religion who’s greatest intellectual contribution to the human species is an ontological word game devised 1,100 years ago 🙂
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You’re super confident in your pulling down of things. Are you ever planning to put up anything?
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You’re judging me based solely on what my blog is about? That’s rather presumptuous of you, don’t you think?
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Not at all…just asking you to put some of it out there….
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Is that your best argument?
Well, as a “faithful” reader of this blog, I can state without equivocation that the satire and parody never gets stale. But if the content strikes you as bland and unpalatable, then why not heed the advice attributed to some ancient Jewish dude:
“If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.”
… or is that’s too strong a medicine, just stop visiting sites you can’t stand.
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Um, yeah. It might be a good idea to open that door. Just a thought.
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Why? 😉
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He will clean your room, you slob.
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No need, I know where everything is.
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What about the stains? The ones that show up under one of those special lights? 🙂
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If I let him come, will I come too or that will be the end of coming 🙂
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Oh that’s a terrible joke!
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An innocent question, that.
How are you mate
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Right as rain. Thoughts on Dubai?
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Attractive as a tourist destination. Whoever those emirs are, they deserve a pat on the back for their vision.
They have done a good job with their desert. Built a linear city along a creek, created artificial lakes and have come up with attractions that leave you wowed all the time.
It was however a bit hot for me.
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Hot!?? You live on the equator, my friend!
I’ve looked at Dubai and have always wondered if its money poorly spent. I mean, when the oils gone, or ignored, and the emirs are no-longer throwing cheap money in the air, why would people go there?
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They have decided to export as little oil as possible, make it a business and tourist haven.
Temperatures in Nairobi never get to 40. Dubai gets to 40 at 9 am. That is hot my friend
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OK, i stand corrected… That’s hell.
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And we have trees in Nairobi! The trees in Dubai are few and far between. You would die just by walking in the concrete jungle
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Damned cynic! God’ll get you, Boy!
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The question then is, which god?
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All or ’em. They’se a gonna gang up on the unbelievers. (I’m covered, good ol’ Veles will look after me … ya just gotta pick well.)
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Veles is fickle.
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I’ve just read New Scientist on the latest El Nino … boy, are you atheist bastards in South America EVER gonna get it!
(You’d better get the Pope back, pronto …)
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Dry spells? We had a horrid summer, no rain for 8 straight weeks and belting heat.
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I think they were offering all the floods of biblical proportions you could possibly ark for …
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Eeek, well we’re pretty much used to flooding anyway.
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How ironic this post for just today I was wondering why there are no funnies in the Bible. All that paper and not one laugh? I decided that there probably aren’t any one-liners since the whole thing is a joke.
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Biblical one-liners… What a fantastic concept! Moses would have been well-set to deliver some pearlers, Schwarzenegger-style.
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“Dis is zee Red Sea. I vill pahrts it now. Zen vee vill go vatch my holiday smash hit JingleAllDeVay!”
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The beauty of this meme is that it cuts straight to the chase: the Christian doctrine of salvation is FUBAR and can’t be rescued by appeals to logic.
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Ron,
The Christian doctrine of salvation is an article of faith so it’s no surprise that appealing to logic doesn’t do any good.
Since atheism is 100% faith-based, it can’t be rescued by appeals to logic either.
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Speak of the devil!
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Well, see7mdash;that’s the crux of my problem: my faith in faith is exceedingly weak.
How was your electroshock this morning? Enervating as always, I presume?
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Ron,
Since you cannot prove atheism, that means you have 100% faith in it.
You have no evidence for atheism. You just believe it because you hate Christianity.
To reason out rational arguments the claim you are making must be able to stand on its own merits.
Because atheism cannot stand on its own merits, the atheist is left making bigoted attacks on religion and committing verbal abuse on anyone who dares offer disagreement.
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@SOM
The burden of proof rests with the person making the positive claim. Rejecting a proposition for lack of evidence requires zero faith, and atheism, in its broadest sense, is the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.
However, the existence of people without god beliefs presents ample evidence that atheism exists; so both your first and your second statements can be shown as demonstrably false.
My opening claim was never challenged. Indeed, it met with your express agreement. To wit:
“The Christian doctrine of salvation is an article of faith so it’s no surprise that appealing to logic doesn’t do any good.”
Do you now wish to retract that statement?
And my second claim (my faith in faith is exceedingly weak) is amply demonstrated every time I post comments demanding evidence in support of theistic assertions.
As to your charge of bigotry: I harbor no hatred towards anyone; but neither do I mince words when it comes to challenging someone’s unconvincing beliefs.
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BTW, here’s how someone reacted to a mere acknowledgement of atheists:
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How Christian of them.
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See… the claims are all true. There really is Christian persecution in America. Fox News is vindicated.
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Ha!
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It drives apologists nuts, and that can never be a bad thing, right?
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It’s all fun and games until they start lighting crosses on your lawn.
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“It’s all fun and games until they start lighting crosses on your lawn.”
Or take their interpretation of the bible to the United States Supreme Court.
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“Or take their interpretation of the bible to the United States Supreme Court”
…. In direct contravention to their founder’s concise instructions to “obey the laws of the land”, “turn the other cheek” and “forgive seventy times seven”. 🙂
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Ron,
God is the only authoritative source of objective ethics.
Try reading Leviticus chapter 19. You will all the ethics that you know and love printed right before your eyes.
Whatever ethics an atheist has, comes from the Bible.
Otherwise you’re just another one of Vlad Putin’s lackeys.
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Actually, the oldest known existing sources of law are:
– the Code of Ur-Nammu (c. 2050 BCE),
– Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BCE),
– the codex of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (c. 1870 BCE), and
– the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1772 BCE).
The earliest known copies of Leviticus date back to the 5th century BCE. So the Jewish law is not only late to the party, but borrows heavily from the above sources.
And the barbaric ethics of the OT have been gradually supplanted with more humane laws. For instance: slavery has been abolished and women are no longer treated as chattel,
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Ron,
The topic isn’t “the oldest known sources.”
Western Civilization is based on Judeo-Christian ethics, the sources you cited are totally meaningless for this particular discussion.
And human rights reached their zenith in Western Civilization, not in those you cited where human life meant absolutely nothing.
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Cyrus the Great might have something to say about that, SOM 😉
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John,
Wasn’t Cyrus the Great the guy who asked how the Greeks could fight so well without anyone to whip them?
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Did he?
http://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/brief-history/cyrus-cylinder.html
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John,
Cyrus the Great reminds me of comrade atheist and mass murderer Josef Stalin who said that in his army it was safer for his soldiers to attack than to retreat.
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SOM— Stalin was named after St. Joseph. His mother was very religious — a Christian. For a season he attended seminary. One of the reasons why he grew to hate Christianity — the Church, was because his mother couldn’t get a divorce and he watched his dad brutally beat her.
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Neuron,
The Stalin mass murders are the fault of Josef Stalin and no one else.
Blaming the Church for Stalin’s mass murders is the usual ridiculous scapegoating argument put forth by atheists.
It’s long past time you people owned up to your own horror show.
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Stalin had a very negative upbringing. His mother hoped he would become a priest. He had several injuries during childhood, including a traumatic brain injury which got worse as he aged. He suffered from atherosclerosis which is a build up of fatty materials in the arteries of the brain.
So, his culture, his injuries, the belief in corporal punishment (condoned in the bible), his mother trapped in a marriage, no thanks to the church, and a very dysfunctional family environment contributed to his actions. And don’t forget — Hitler was raised a Christian, too, also brutally beaten by his father.
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Neuron,
I had a very negative upbringing. lots of people had negative upbringings.
Stalin was able to justify his evil because he was an atheist.
Justifying evil is what atheists do. It’s what you are doing right now.
You are trying to justify comrade atheist Josef Stalin’s evil by placing blame elsewhere.
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“Stalin was able to justify his evil because he was an atheist.”
Nope — that’s nonsense. You have extremely high latent inhibition. There were a number of factors for the cause of Stalin’s actions. SOM, tomorrow, you could get knocked upside the head in the prefrontal cortex — just the right area, and turn into a Stalin — a Hitler. Hell, you may even be a psychopath, for all we know. Psychopaths can be charming at times. 😉
We have plenty of studies showing that damage to specific areas of the pre-frontal cortex leads to psychopathic behavior. Child abuse is the 3rd leading cause of pre-frontal cortex damage. Christianity taught that children were property of men — and that beating them with a rod would spare them from hell.
“Children who experience early damage in the prefrontal cortex never completely develop social or moral reasoning. As adults, even on an intellectual level, they cannot refer to such behavior because they have little concept of it.”
“Researchers at the University of Sweden have found the prefrontal cortex to be precisely the area of the brain that is impaired in murderers and other violent criminals who repeatedly re-offend.” http://learn.fi.edu/learn/brain/head.html
You see, SOM, your Christian God didn’t know squat about the brain, as ‘he’ commanded and condoned the very conditions that lead to pre-frontal cortex injuries and these behaviors. Numbers 31. According to the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, traumatic brain injuries are the signature wound of war.
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Neuron,
Josef Stalin was a protégé of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, who said, “Atheism is necessary for the Communist Program.”
The reason atheism is necessary for Communism is because atheism has no defined morality.
Under atheist regimes, morality is defined by the State.
Since Josef Stalin was the State, mass murder committed for the good of the State was morally good.
Adolf Hitler used the same rationale. He was the State so he made everyone in the German Army swear allegiance to him, not Germany.
But Hitler was a mass murdering piker compared to atheist Josef Stalin.
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See my above comment. If you can’t comprehend the brain research, get someone who can help you.
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SOM is the subject, not the researcher 😉
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LOL — he tickles me. I like playing with him. Lot’s of tangled strings, though. I know he’s not going to get anything I share. He doesn’t care. I’m not posting for his sake. He likes being a god puppet, so why not take advantage of that. 😉
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And BTW — Jesus’ daddy, the god you worship, the god Jesus said everyone must worship, put Stalin and Hitler to shame when it came to psychopathic behavior.
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Somewhat awkwardly, Christians practiced Communism in the book of Acts.
Marx’s famous line “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” comes directly from the New Testament.
All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
(Acts 2:44-45)
There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. There was a Levite, a native of Cyprus, Joseph, to whom the apostles gave the name Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”). He sold a field that belonged to him, then brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
(Acts 4:34-37)
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John,
Monastic life lies at the center of the Church.
But it does not endorse communist or socialist regimes which enslave the population.
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Tell that to the early Christians… especially Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) who were murdered by their Communist Christian brothers and sisters for not ponying up all their possessions to the collective.
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John,
Church monastic life is voluntary.
Communism and socialism are the exact opposite.
The difference between Church monastic life and life under Communism and socialism is the difference between free man and slave.
That the atheist can’t tell the difference between freedom and slavery is yet another proof of atheism’s pernicious and damaging qualities.
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So, what do you call it, exactly, when “free men” (Ananias and Sapphira) are murdered by Christian Communists because they didn’t “donate” all their possessions to the collective? 😉
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Murrrrderrr, she wrote!
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“Adolf Hitler used the same rationale. He was the State so he made everyone in the German Army swear allegiance to him”
So did your god. Same exact behavior. Worship me and I’ll save you. If you don’t I’m sending you to hell, but first, I’m going to slaughter you. See Numbers 31.
Here — I’ll help you out. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+31
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Neuron,
Only God can act like God.
Atheists who deny the existence of God must become gods of their own private alternate universes.
Thus, mass murder routinely carried out by atheist regimes.
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“Only God can act like God.”
Yes, your God’s behavior = psychopathic behavior..
Christians who justify these behaviors should be doing some serious self-evaluation and/or seek a full neurological evaluation.
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Neuron,
Psychology is for humans.
So when you call God a psychotic you are projecting your own problems upon a being you don’t even believe in.
Atheists do that a lot. It’s part of the atheist blame game we have already discussed.
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SOM — you’re projecting again. 😉
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“So when you call God a psychotic you are projecting your own problems upon a being you don’t even believe in.”
Remember SOM — what we are attempting to understand is why a Christian would worship such a deity — Jesus’ daddy — when this god of the OT shows far worse behavior than any severally mentally ill dictator that walked the planet. What it shows is that when you justify these behaviors from your god, you are equally guilty.
Jesus said that if you’ve seen him, you seen the father. As noted in Revelations 19, it is written that Jesus will come back and slaughter en masse, globally.
I’d also like to mention that if you are fucking around — playing the troll because it gives you a hard-on — you are giving fuel to hyper-religious people who might kill if they thought god told them to.
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“Data collected during the last 15 years for the Personal Philosophy Inventory from 1.48 thousand university men (n = 629) and women (n = 853) were analyzed to discern the response characteristics of individuals who stated “yes” to Item 136 “If God told me to kill, I would do it in His name.”
Of the men who reported a religious experience, attended church weekly, and displayed elevated complex partial epileptic like signs, 44% stated they would kill another person if God told them to do so.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9293569?dopt=Abstract
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Neuron,
When you, the atheist, apply human psychology to God you are committing an error called anthropomorphizing.
That is, you are assigning human qualities to something that isn’t human.
The next fatal error you commit is assigning your own meaning to the Bible. That means as an atheist, you assign whatever meaning you need to the Bible in order for it to justify your atheism.
The name of that error is called circular reasoning.
All atheist arguments are based on common logical fallacies.
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SOM — What part of my last comment and the study did you not get?
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Neuron,
Studies that violate common sense and common knowledge are simple lies that pillage academic authority and make their own.
And using simple reasoning I proved that your comments are based on definable and well known errors in thinking.
I recommend that you briefly study my comments. They are primers on how to think clearly and rationally.
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Again SOM — what part of that study were you not able to comprehend? Do you need an interpreter? Let me help you.
All the questionnaires that included a ‘yes’ to this were examined to see what other items emerged in association with a willingness to kill in ‘His’ name.
Four factors emerged.
1) Having had a religious experience.
2) Weekly church attendance (religious orthodoxy).
3) Being Male.
4) Limbic lability (e.g. — a person might hear a religious statement, and feel a parasthesia, a tingling or electric-like feeling, or more commonly, an intense burst of emotion.)
The next step was to look at all the questionnaires that showed all four traits, creating a second group.
44% of this second group stated that they would kill another person if God told them to.
The study was based on Canadian university students (much less religious than Americans), and if generalizable, then one out of 20 Canadian university students would be willing to kill another person if they were to attribute the instruction to God.
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Neuron,
“Would you kill someone if God asked you?” is a trick question that gives away the fact that the study you’re so much in love with is completely bogus.
First, if you, Neuron, actually knew it was God who was asking the question, you would no longer be an atheist.
So the question you are so much in love with strips you of your religion, atheism and gives you a new one: believing in God.
Second, how does anyone know that God is actually asking the question?
Does God speak through an angel? Does he appear as a cloud of smoke or a burning bush?
Or maybe he splits your Red Sea wide open so your pet Pharaoh can drive his chariot through it to his heart’s content.
The study is bogus. It’s just another atheist lie.
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SOM, most of us suspect that you are a troll. But some Christians who are looking for validation regarding the voices they hear in their head, and the physical and emotional sensations they get when they read or hear about the Christian god, just might believe your bullshit.
Some might kill another if they hear those voices, and some might kill themselves, like my late husband did after he became hyper-religious due to a neurological disorder. Yeah, he blew his brains out after being told by one of your Christian buddies that the voices were real.
“Hyperreligiosity is a major feature of mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, temporal-lobe epilepsy and related disorders.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16439158
So you are either one of those hyper-religious people, or you are a troll. It’s possible you are both.
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Neuron,
What you object to in my comments is the application of reason.
Since atheism is a 100% faith-based belief, reason means nothing to you.
But I know of no other way to communicate so I just have to hope one day your brain will kick into gear and remember the wondrous moment when reason graced your Godless mind, courtesy of SOM.
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I rest my case. 😉
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Neuron,
Calling someone a troll is not making a case, it’s an expression of incoherent, hateful mindlessness.
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Ron: “And the barbaric ethics of the OT have been gradually supplanted with more humane laws. For instance: slavery has been abolished and women are no longer treated as chattel,”
SOM: Western Civilization is based on Judeo-Christian ethics — And human rights reached their zenith in Western Civilization”
Elizabeth Caddy Stanton – 1896 — Leading figure of the early women’s rights movement: “The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.”
From the pamphlet “Bible and Church Degrade Woman,” Free Thought Magazine (1896),
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/stanton.htm
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Neuron,
Christian Western Civilization has seen the complete liberation of women.
People like Stanton must be living in an alternative universe.
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Nope, you are the one living in an alternative universe. 😉
Most Christian men fought tooth and nail to keep women from being able to vote. Even today, you find men in your party wanting a repeal of the 19th Amendment.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/340823/19th-amendment-michael-walsh
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Neuron,
Male superiority was a worldwide belief, not a Christian belief.
So just as it took centuries for the Christian West to abolish slavery, equality of women was also a long time coming.
But it only came in the West. No other civilization abolished slavery or allowed women to fulfill their full potential.
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SOM — do not give Christianity the credit for it. Women were finally able to get an education — no thanks to many insecure men who did their damnedest to prevent that. Women fought for that right. Education is what abolished slavery and afforded women human rights. Not Christianity.
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Neuron,
What allowed women to get an education after so many millennia?
The answer is Christian values.
The Gospel shows Jesus treating women with respect, especially his mother. The change in our society’s view of women is an example of the Holy Spirit in action.
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Too bad Christian men didn’t get they, eh? No — women had to fight and fight and fight for centuries, no thanks to the OT, Christianity, the Church, and Paul’s letters.
The change of society’s view of women has nothing to do with Christianity, and everything to do with the women’s suffrage movement. They had had enough of your Christian “values”. 😉
Had it been about Jesus — it wouldn’t have taken 2000 years and still today, Christian men are fighting tooth and nail to keep women in their place — under the rule of men.
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Neuron,
No men got it.
Singling out Christian men for something that had been around thourghout the human race since time immemorial is an example bigotry.
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Your Christian men should have know better. Wussies.
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And by calling those Christian men wussies — I am not referring to being effeminate. I’m referring to them having no backbone.
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Correction: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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@SOM
You’re absolutely right—it isn’t. The topic of this thread is “The Infallible Logic of Christianity” (sarcasm). But thus far, you’ve avoided that one to chase down other rabbit holes.
That aside, the point remains: the ethics contained within the Torah were borrowed from centuries-old sources written by men, not God.
Nor is Western civilization governed by Judeo-Christian ethics (whatever that means). Of the 613 Mitzvo, only three are enforced by law: murder, theft and perjury. Moreover, the US founders jettisoned the monarchy in direct contravention to biblical edicts to “obey the king’s command”, and the phrase “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” stands in stark opposition to the biblical injunction to “Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.”
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Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine
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“It drives apologists nuts, and that can never be a bad thing, right?”
Like they need help. 😉
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Oh, nasty! 🙂
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“Oh, nasty!”
I prefer the term ‘naughty’.
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Noted
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SILENCEOFMIND: Whenever I hear someone tell me I’m up to mischief in destroying the peace in their blog (?????), I know they’re past struggling for reasoned words.
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“Since you cannot prove atheism, that means you have 100% faith in it.”
That right thar is some of the most deepestest deepityest cornfed bullshit I have ever heard.
“Because atheism cannot stand on its own merits, the atheist is left making bigoted attacks on religion and committing verbal abuse on anyone who dares offer disagreement.”
Projection at its finest. It wasn’t all that long ago you fine x-ians had your armies disbanded and your right to burn witches, and crucify apostates taken away. Let me fix that for you.
Because theism cannot stand on its own merits, the theist is left making bigoted attacks on atheism and committing verbal abuse (and not that long ago murder/torture/and wanton slaughter) on anyone who dares offer disagreement. Kind of like where Islam is today, x-ianity was a few hundred years ago.
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Hands down the best knock knock joke ever! I’d love to personally deliver leaflets with this meme at Jehovah’s witnesses’ houses!
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Cracking idea! Make it so 🙂
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Yeah, on second thought I’ll pass…I guess my atheism isn’t as fanatic as a Jehovah’s witness theism:S
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O ye of little faith! 🙂
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@SILENCEOFMIND : May 9, 2014 at 3:34 pm
“Since you cannot prove atheism, that means you have 100% faith in it.
You have no evidence for atheism. You just believe it because you hate Christianity.
To reason out rational arguments the claim you are making must be able to stand on its own merits.
Because atheism cannot stand on its own merits, the atheist is left making bigoted attacks on religion and committing verbal abuse on anyone who dares offer disagreement.”
I appreciate your comments.
Regards
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You are aware, aren’t you Paar, that SOM’s being facetious?
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John,
I’m dead serious.
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Of course you are…
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SOM: “John, I’m dead serious.”
John: “Of course you are…”
😉
See what I mean? Paar took him seriously. How many other believers in god who read SOM’s BS take him seriously?
Paar, does Allah speak to you — do you hear voices? Would you kill if Allah told you to? Many in Islam would and have.
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@JOHN ZANDE says: May 11, 2014 at 3:37 pm
He might be sometimes; but I have never seen any positive argument favoring Atheism from anybody .
Whenever somebody challenges Atheism; they hide behind “burden of proof”; that suggests Atheism is faith based; cannot stand on its own feet.
I know that Christianity is mythical; it does not belong to teachings of Jesus; and is based on Pauline creeds.
Atheism is a fruit of Pauline Christianity; it surfaced in reaction to mythical creeds of Pauline Christianity.
Regards
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Atheism is a fruit of Pauline Christianity, huh? Well, better tell the Buddhists and Janes that, and while you’re at it, might want to mention it to the Greeks too… I’m sure Epicurus will be amazed at your insight.
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@JOHN ZANDE says:May 10, 2014 at 4:31 pm
I appreciate your mentioning of Cyrus the Great- the Great Persian Prophet of the One-True-God, a Zoroastrian.
He was never an Atheist or Agnostic.
All Ethics, Morality and Spirituality comes from Religion; none from Atheism.
Regards
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Really? So medical ethics (the Hippocratic Oath) comes from religion, huh?
How utterly fascinating….
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@ N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ : May 11, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Do you think that if you tell me to kill a person I will kill him? You are a rational person; you will never tell me such a thing. And even if you tell me; why should I kill a person?
The One-True-God is All-wise; he will never tell me such a thing to do; He had endowed man rationality; so He is most rational, reasonable and wise. He never tells such things.
Regards
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Paarsurrey, in the bible, it is recorded that Abe was asked by god to sacrifice his son. By your comment can we say that this retelling of the narrative is not factual or what is your stand?
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Atheists are more apt to kill from the voice inside their heads for lack of moral filter.
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Aha, is this your best thought or do I expect something more intelligent from you?
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How about a current event: Elliot Rodger for personification of Atheism with its invitation to no moral compass
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Am usually generous, and in that end am going to classify you as an idiot of the first degree.
The fellow you mentioned was deranged and mental and seeing a therapist. How could that be the personification of atheism?
His aunt said
So again as I said earlier, do you think I should hold my breath waiting for something intelligent from you?
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Exactly, Noel. Not only that but the guy didn’t even read the manifesto before he started spewing his rhetoric about Rodger’s parents. He was well cared for and had a fairly normal childhood. He also had nurture and attention from his parents. His mother gave up her career for him — his words. He also had nannies looking after him during his childhood, which he was fond of — his words. He was raised in a healthy environment — his words, and had a lot of love and care, his words.
He was rejected by a girl in school, and he writes that from then on he hated girls. Reading his 141 page manifesto yesterday, I realized this guy was very mentally ill, a sociopath/psychopath. He clearly resembled the god of the bible. His parents warned the police. They ignored the warnings. And as you mentioned, he was under psychiatric care. The guy refused to take his meds. He only saw women as vaginas, entertainment centers, play things for his enjoyment. he glorified the dominant alpha male. “‘I’ll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you. You will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one. The true alpha male …”
Is it any wonder why they rejected him? He had the same mentality as the scripture in the NT that states that men were not created for women, but women for the men.
On page 93 he says that all his life he needed to feel worthy as a man, and for so long he felt worthless. He then said “It’s all girls’ fault.” Kinda sounds like the Garden of Eden, blaming Eve for the fall of humanity, the first sinner, also noted in the NT. Adam also blamed Eve. On page 136 Rodger says:
“I am Elliot Rodger…Magnificent, glorious, supreme, eminent. It is my purpose to punish them all. I will purify the world of everything that is wrong with it on the Day of Retribution. I will truly be powerful God, punishing everyone I deem to be impure and depraved.”
He’s talking Yahweh language there.
And the judgement on humanity — Sound familiar? Just like Jesus is going to do when he comes back — poring out the wrath of his daddy god, as mentioned in Revelations 19. He goes on to say: “The ultimate evil behind sexuality is the human female. Women are flawed creatures and women are incapable of having morals and thinking rationally and need to be controlled.
Sound familiar? Exactly what St. Augustine said about women, which I quoted on your ‘Laughter’ post today. If you do look at the manifesto, scroll to page 136, beginning with the sentence of the last quote I posted regarding the human female. Sounds just like something straight out of the Old Testament. He definitely read the bible.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/225960813/Elliot-Rodger-Santa-Barbara-mass-shooting-suspect-My-Twisted-World-manifesto
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Thanks Victoria, i was hoping you’d read that “manifesto” and give us the brief. Looks like another case study when that silicon chip inside his head get’s switched to Overload.
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Yep. It’s quite sad that when the human brain is damaged, it can do so much harm. He says he was bullied by other boys in 8th and 9th grade. He got into a lot of fist fights (knocked in the head) with other boys and it is also possible that he sustained a brain injury while skateboarding, which he loved. He did a lot of risk-taking with skateboarding. I’ve seen videos of guys getting concussions while doing skateboarding tricks. Neurological studies state: “Children who experience early damage in the prefrontal cortex never completely develop social or moral reasoning.”
Brain injuries are the number one cause of death and injury in children. The Brain Injury Association states that ff you are between the ages of 15 and 24 and drive a motor vehicle, ride a bicycle, or play sports, then you are at the top of the risk-list for head injury. It also states “Falls are the most common cause of playground injuries and result in a higher proportion of severe injuries than either bicycle or motor vehicle crashes. Brain injuries account for 75% of children’s deaths from falling off of playground equipment. Traumatic brain injury is significantly underdiagnosed.”
http://learn.fi.edu/learn/brain/head.html
I noticed that Rodgers behavior changed quite dramatically around the age of 15 and he became very depressed. The studies state “They had an impaired ability to shift their attention in order to view the world in a different way.”
So for people to go on and on about Rodgers being immoral because he was a atheist just goes to show you how ignorant they are.
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It is fine to accuse atheists for crimes they have no part it but such ignorance is to me very annoying.
At least I hope he will read this and get a replacement name for atheists who he thinks are guilty of his imagined offences
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As I stated earlier, How about a current event: Elliot Rodger for personification of atheism with its invitation to a failed moral compass. How appropriate it is from atheists suppose that because he is mentally ill that it’s all biological …….with John going so far with the fiction of how easy it is to explain it to biological causes out of brain “injury” (that didn’t occur). The truth is police conducted a welfare check on Rodger a month ago at the request of others. They found that he did not meet the criteria for a mental health hold. So much for his severe biological mental illness.
However, we know that the affluent lifestyle gave him immense advantages. Therapy gave him immense advantages. Yet, you mention that because he was off his meds, his mass murder is explained because he is biologically lunatic (incongruously) like so many honored Bible characters. With this explanation we should be seeing thousands of mass murders weekly. Yet Elliot’s manifesto was that of an atheist with troubles with what that world view was destroying him. The atheist Elliot, nevertheless, had all the outward manifestations and drive to live a life of hedonism by Choice. His church was any room with a mirror!
Non-agnostic atheism promotes varied levels of narcissism because a narcissist atheist by nature is fixed, locking him/herself in the mirrored room. A narcissist atheism is all about self-power. Elliot, by example, called himself “God” in his manifesto. This is the default position of having no creator.
A narcissist and devout, honest Christian are contradictory terms. I can only choose narcissism by denying my faith in God, thereby entering the mirrored room to look at myself alone. You find “truth” when you find satisfying answers about how to interact effectively with a world of valuable assets in people. This is the non-atheist world view.
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Robin, just this week Kimberly Dawn Lucas drowned her two-year old child as she reenacted the biblical story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac. She did this after listening to the Metropolitan Community Church pastor, Lea Brown, re-tell the story and assuring her congregation that God will intervene in matters of faith. Kimberly Dawn Lucas was, apparently, surprised God didn’t intervene as the child struggled under the water, and died.
Tell me, was Kimberly Dawn Lucas mentally ill, or was this murder performed simply because she was religious?
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I don’t think you are addressing me. Either way, to believe oneself god, one must believe that some god exist. To call such a person a personification of atheist is to me moronic.
To say atheists lack a moral compass whatever you mean by it, is to disparage a segment of society for no reason at all except that they find your belief in god ridiculous.
Elliot at no point declares, as far as I can tell, that he is doing whatever he is doing because he doesn’t believe in a god. You can be kind to point me to anywhere in his manifesto where he says explicitly that he is doing whatever he is doing for atheism or in the name of atheism
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Spot on Noel. You said it so much more diplomatically than me. People like him are the cause of the very problems we see in society. And the behavior of the god he worships is far far worse than anything Rodger did.
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If the believer thinks his god an example for moral conduct, we must define what is moral and acceptable.
Once in a while am generous 😀
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Robin, you are so full of shit. You are projecting. You believe because you get to exercise your cock a lot in heaven with multiple women and you get to be a god. Now stop with the BS.
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Applause! 🙂
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John,
Yes, mentally ill….from what has been revealed so far. The motivation to murder the two year old did not occur as you identified. You cherry picked the facts to your own benefit. First, the minister did not challenge her parishioners to test God in murder. Second, The attempted murder of the ten year old after the death of the two year old and after drugging him indicates a planned double murder, not an expectation of intercession from God. An adult Christian knows God is not a cosmic bellboy, nor is He to be tested.
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This is from the article i read yesterday:
Sorry Robin, but she was re-enacting the biblical story. Would you like me to now list all the other children murdered by their Christian parents because “God told them too”
Interesting that you’re so quick, though, to say Kimberly was mentally ill, but not Elliot. I guess that just doesn’t fit into your worldview, right?
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Paar, I think you missed my point, entirely. But anyway, you said that your god, Allah had endowed man with rationality. I’m assuming you meant Muslims who obsessively follow the Quran? I wondered if you’ve seen this. The video clip is a little over 3 minutes. Take special note beginning at minute marker 2:30.
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“The entire intellectual foundation collapsed and hasn’t recovered since… Revelation replaced investigation”
That says it all.
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Indeed.
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@MAKAGUTU says:May 11, 2014 at 7:02 pm
“Paarsurrey, in the bible, it is recorded that Abe was asked by god to sacrifice his son. By your comment can we say that this retelling of the narrative is not factual or what is your stand?”
Bible is neither authored by Abraham nor by Moses. Its different books have been authored by anonymous narrators and the scribes. It is not the original Word of God in the original language revealed.
Dreams and visions are always or most often interpret-able.
It only meant that Abraham and his offspring shall have to face hardships in the path of God (Allah Yahweh Tao) and would have to devout their lives; in service of the humanity for its ethical, moral and spiritual uplift.
Abraham and Ismael were sure about it from their experience with the One-True-God; they knew that the He won’t let them accomplish an unreasonable act; and would bring out reasonable solution of the matter.
And the act of Abraham sacrificing his son Ishmael never happened in literal and real terms.
Abraham and his progeny did devote their lives to the cause of religion and that is how it took place in real terms; and that is what one should focus on.
The matter of as to how to interpret such dreams and visions was settled for all times.
Regards
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If you could now open an auction market for this decoder, you would be the richest man after that steel magnate fellow!
How convenient.
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I don’t get you. Please elaborate.
Regards
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Well, just spend time some more time on atheists blogs you will know what a decoder ring is and open shop
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LOL Mak. He seems to spend a lot of time on Atheist blogs. Maybe he has his own decoder ring. Please.
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Have you seen his explanation of the story of Abe and isaac? Or jesus second coming? You must have s decoder to do that
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Regards 😉
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Why does being naughty feel so good? Wait — I already know the answer. 😉
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Something you will definitely enjoy
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/11/heaven_is_for_neuroscience_how_the_brain_creates_visions_of_god/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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Hehe — awesome article, Mak. I’ve not made this public until just now — had planned on sharing it with you on Skype, but we keep missing each other. I was recently asked to co-authoring a book with a behavioral neuroscientist on this subject and a few related subjects. We will also be working together (research and experiments) once I get my ducks in a row.
I’ve been inducing “god” — “angels” — “ghosts” — “spirits” on myself and others using neurotechnology since 2006. You can do this without inducing a seizure or kindling. *snickers*
But I’d say that the majority of people who said “god told them to” or thought they were “called by god” like Moses, Abraham, Paul, Jesus, Mohammad, and the likes, had a wee bit of abnormal electrical activity in specific regions of the brain and a lower threshold and/or they had an interhemispheric intrusion. 😉
This time, I will be laughing all the way to the bank. My time has come. There has been a parting of the clouds. Praise the Lord. *giggles*
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This days am always online. You can call or send text I will most likely see it immediately unless am sleeping.
That said, am happy for you and congratulations.
This will definitely be an interesting path for you given the time you have devoted to it.
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OK — signing into Skype. And thank you. 🙂
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“I was recently asked to co-authoring a book with a behavioral neuroscientist on this subject and a few related subjects.”
Oh WOW! Congratulations!!!
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Thank you, John. I’m still keeping it under wraps for now, with exception to this blog, but thought what better place to share than here. 😉
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It’s such great news. I am so happy for you, you deserve it.
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*smiles*
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Oh rats. I meant to write co-author. I hope he has a good editor. 😀
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Hahahaha 😛
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In so many words, in your mocking, you have stated you don’t understand. Read it again and be respectful of other people’s beliefs.
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You are being ambitious to expect me to respect a belief in talking snakes. Beliefs demand no respect, they have no feelings. The much I can do and expect of everyone is to respect their right to hold whatever belief they have. Never the belief
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JOHN ZANDE : May 11, 2014 at 10:28 pm
N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ says:May 11, 2014 at 9:28 pm
“The entire intellectual foundation collapsed and hasn’t recovered since… Revelation replaced investigation”
Revelation does not necessarily replace investigation.
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I hope Neuron in his upcoming co-author opportunity realizes that copy-paste is not gonna cut it with the publisher.
“the entire intellectual foundation at a price collapsed and has not recovered since !!! Over that period, all these books were translated into Arabic on a scale not seen since then. Revelations replaced investigation…”
compare with………
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“I hope Neuron in his upcoming co-author opportunity realizes that copy-paste is not gonna cut it with the publisher.”
Robin, show me where I wrote the above quote that Paar attributed to me. John may have left out “at a price” but he emphasized it by highlighting that the intellectual foundation has not recovered since. Apparently, everyone got that but you. Btw, replace “his” with “her”.
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More babbling, Robin? Watch the video, you’ll see the quote comes from that… as indicated, quite plainly, by the “quotation marks“
Tell me, are you, at any time, actually going to put on your Urim and Thummim and address the content of the meme, or are you satisfied with simply tapping out nonsense? Don’t get me wrong, nonsense can be fun, look at SOM’s golden gibberish to see how a much-loved Master goes about it, it’s a fine art, but do try and keep it entertaining.
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@Paar
Absolutely.
Just in terms of economic, cultural and geo-political influence in the world does it make a difference.
Revelation, the gift that keeps on giving – like herpes.
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LOL Arb.
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If he comes back you guys are in for a real shock!
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Why’s that, Andrew?
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Because you don’t think he will! Actually, neither do I!
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🙂 Understood. Figured you were joking. Happy travels my friend! I’m envious.
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Just for your information.
Jesus second coming has already taken place in the form of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
Regards
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Well, there you go!
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Let be honest. Everyone worships something.
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I am not inclined to believe a fellow now dead, who did not believe in a risen Christ is Christian.
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You’ll see him soon enough breathing your last breath first probably.
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Robin, it looks like you qualify to join the club.
“As many as 60% of those with schizophrenia have religious grandiose delusions consisting of believing they are a saint, God, the devil, a prophet, Jesus, or some other important person.”
http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=1476850
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The atheist Elliot Rodger, an age old prototypical immoral compass.
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Meet Jay Bybee: The (Mor)Man Behind Waterboarding
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Oh, a cultist who’s into sadistic forms of torture… How unusual!
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Yes, but this paragon of Mormon moral excellence proclaimed that torture was acceptable so long as it wasn’t “extreme” torture.
news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/doj/bybee80102mem.pdf
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Come back is irrelevant for them? No, they’ll be going soon enough.
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Hello John…
You left me thinking, as per usual…
Just wondering: If I do not believe in anything, do I believe in something, then?…
Best wishes, Aquileana 😛
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You’re related to Aesop’s, aren’t you? 😉
It’s a great question. Atheism is older than theism, right… as before the first gods were dreamed up everyone had an absence of belief in any and all gods. Does this mean they were atheists, or does the term only become valid after theism redefines the sounding-board?
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I think the second option above is correct.. (the term only become valid after theism redefines the sounding-board?)
But I am just speculating… Cogito ergo sum… And just in case, may God bless us…
Cheers, John,
Aquileana 😀
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IN The Garden there were no atheists.
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Is that the “Garden of Eden” in Missouri? 😉
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So, is this the life of the unbelieving, just a parade of rude, unremitted, cynics?
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Hi Robin. May I ask, who’s being rude, and how?
Now, if you can present a coherent argument as to why this meme is in any way incorrect then I’ll happily review it, and reply in-turn…
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You will not get an argument out of me.
In the first dozen or so posts we have
“Engorged ganglion” trolls
A god with frontal lobes.
Ask The Bigot
Insulting others with “homophobia and pre-pubescent attitude toward girls.”
Various Bigoted Anti-Christian insulting Jokes starting with the POST
Mocking Bible-readers
Need I give a full digest?
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Ask The Bigot is actually the screen name/blog name of an extreme right-wing Christian. Don’t ask me why they chose that name, but their entire blog is about hating gays.
I don’t see any of the things you listed, though, being rude. They might be “offensive” to you, but that doesn’t mean they’re rude or inaccurate in any shape or form. I’m offended by many things, not least of all your church evading taxes, but that doesn’t afford me any special rights.
So, do you actually have a coherent argument against the content of the meme?
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Here is your rarely appearing cogent premise with logic in place:
Christ said there is one Church, one Baptism, yada yada.
Finding the One true Church organization is fairly easy for those who care.
Christ demanded it needs to have direct authority by him.
Originally the Catholic Church was said to have been given authority by John 2000 years ago.
The only other Church organization claiming to have had been authorized in the person of Christ has been the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints in the form of Restoration.
All the Protestant Churches and offshoots of them were established in Protest of the Catholic doctrines first revealed by the Priest MARTIN LUTHER are established by men/women alone.
So, the subject in question is AUTHORITY DIRECTLY FROM CHRIST.
Either you believe there was a great apostasy/darkness where the authority was removed from Catholicism or you believe the Mormons are now authorized as the ancient Church of Christ restored by Jesus through Joseph Smith.
Take your pick, if following the right doctrines is important. But I also say, take a comprehensive view of each church’s plan of salvation and their members.
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Wow, i have absolutely no idea whatsoever what question you think you answered here….
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Perhaps, it’s on the subject of believing in something real. Or, not.
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@ROBINOBISHOP : May 22, 2014 at 3:53 pm
Jesus did not die a cursed death on Cross; so he had never “risen” as told by the sinful scribes.
Jesus migrated to India and died their a natural and peaceful death.
Regards
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Nah, legend has it that Jesus fled to Japan.
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Ahhhh, well that makes perfect sense! It also answers the age old question: just what does a Jewish messiah do in retirement? Grow garlic!
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The tomb of Jesus in Japan is only a replica or it signifies that Jesus did not die on the Cross and died a natural and peaceful death and was buried honorably in a tomb.
Regards
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I am more enlightened now.
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And I’m never going to look at garlic the same way
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With a Jap Jesus, an Indian Jesus and a resurrected Jesus, can the real Jesus stand up?
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LOL
Btw, Noel, my Skype is acting up again. I signed on, and waited for you to call me as per your request via email, but you must have been in transit. Then I got booted off shortly thereafter. Skype has been crap since Microsoft took over.
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I see. I left my desk briefly saw your message when I returned tried to call in vain. No problem. Will send you mail
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I met Jesus at a U-Pick farm about two years ago. He was a super nice fella, too. He cheerfully drove everyone to and from the fields—even helped people load their berries onto the trailer.
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Ron, I met Jesus 2 weeks ago in Hendersonville, NC. Like the Jesus character 2000 years ago, he, too, had the Messiah complex. As many as 10% of the population hold similar beliefs in one form or another, depending on which culture you live in.
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Actually, the Jesus I met was a Mexican farm laborer, and had no messiah complex (so far as I could tell). But yeah, there are some pretty messed up people in the world.
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Did he look like 2K years old?
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Nah, I’d say he looked to be in his early forties.
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Maybe being god he doesn’t age. It is difficult to tell with this religionists
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That’s a thought that should inspire great following.
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Zandt remarks: “May I ask how you’ve come to a conclusion concerning the Kingdom of Heaven without also believing what someone has told you?”
In spite of your previous and personal insults, I offer this ….not that it will make a difference to you but perhaps for others……
I cannot escape hearing what other people tell me or read what others write. Most of it is simply uninspiring.
I am a uniquely creative, analytical, adaptive person. I am so deliberate in my thinking that I have long discarded the adolescent inclination to house other people’s belief’s in my mind. The fact that I agree with some of them on this point or that is happenstance; the fact that I don’t believe exactly as anyone else is DELIBERATE….having established personal disciplines of integrity and autonomy that fence out so much parody and euphemisms concerning pop psychology and small world “rationality” here and elsewhere.
So please, by all means, let’s hear the parody of others stream from their heads. Filtering through it is worth the price of occasionally finding original thought. So, what is going to be your witty comeback? I probably didn’t answer your question again.
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So, I’m to believe from this that you have not only independently (re)discovered the magic plates but are also in possession of the magic seeing stones placed at the bottom of a top hat. With these you have independently deciphered the strange Egyptianesque hieroglyphics, personally interpreted The Book of Abraham, and have, completely on your own fruition and sweat, discovered that the Garden of Eden was located in Missouri, that Native American Indians are actually a lost tribe of mischievous Israelites, that Jesus visited the United States shortly after his execution, that Satan (Jesus’s brother) not only controls earth’s water supply but also buried all the dinosaur bones in the late 17th century just to fool the first palaeontologists a hundred years later, and that special Mormon undergarments (“Temple Underwear”) adorned with magical symbols will protect the wearer from evil and, I’m told, bullets. On top of this you have independently arrived at the knowledge of the Celestial Kingdom, and the great star, Kolob.
Interesting.
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Just for the record, I thought that was pretty witty! Although it maybe doesn’t compete with Paarsurrey’s polite insistence that Jesus died a natural death in India.
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Paar has a video (which claims to have been produced by the Indian government) that explains it all. It’s tremendously convincing. You should ask him for it 😉
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I’m flummoxed. Great copy – paste.
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What are you babbling on about?
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@JZ
How can you not be for a religion that keeps its sacred stuff in hat?
Contemplate that we are minimizing the role of religious Haberdashery (the horror!).
Nay good sir, nay.. this wrong must be righted and the magic hat returned to its rightful status…
*serious face*
*snickers* 🙂
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Couldn’t agree with you more, Arb… Any religion that has a magic top hat as one of its central vehicles of truth is most certainly worthy of our heartfelt attention 🙂
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@JOHN ZANDE says:May 23, 2014 at 2:05 pm
“Paar has a video (which claims to have been produced by the Indian government) that explains it all. It’s tremendously convincing. You should ask him for it ;):
I give here embed code of two such documentaries:
Regards
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@JOHN ZANDE :May 22, 2014 at 2:32 pm
@ROBINOBISHOP
“Mormon, huh? If you like, Robin, I can prove your religion categorically and unquestionably false in a few lines…”
I could also prove Joseph Smith and the denomination he founded wrong.
Regards
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all that can be seen is the dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas (as in Heaven destroying itself) to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. Lightning should be distributed more correctly.
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@Paar
I would relish the opportunity Parr, to see you demolish the LDS ballyhoo. You’ve always been so clear and concise in the past and I am quite sure your streak shall continue!
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I’ll second that motion!
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I support this motion.
Can we have the facts now…
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John, you and others don’t appear to like the answer I have provided to your question. Or, perhaps you missed it all together. Or, perhaps you didn’t ask what you really wanted. Additionally you evidently are not sure how to diagnose your own logical fallacies (maladaptive thinking). Here you go…..
“Attempting to “prove” the LDS church false, you suppose the obscure Kolob dressed as a straw man fallacy exists as if the Church. Congratulations, your straw man is defeated while the LDS with its doctrines remain outside your discussion.” It takes no trouble for the reader (lucid reader) to see that requiring Kolob to be fired by hydrogen and not be in an eternal celestial realm (Heaven) creates a nonsensical Heaven, supposing the order of His own creation assaults the creator. Such a place is a straw man easily defeated. Even in its irrationality it doesn’t make an attempt to “prove” anything about doctrine. It would be amusing to see you try to write your own Mormon Church doctrines about Kolob. Because otherwise they have not been revealed to us.
You asked me if I believed what Joseph Smith has said or written? Certainly they contribute to what I believe. But I do not anchor today’s reality in the dead. That would be stupid. Helping you out, if Kolob’s time is one year to our thousand, God does not live in this universe. Since you put so much faith in the laws of science, know that the natural laws of Heaven must be radically different than here.
The question you had about how I could know something without being told, I suggest you go to Wikipedia and look up the term “Precognition”. Without meaning to be gruff, You really need to be responsible in doing your own research on matters such as this. If you have a question about Mormonism that remains a mystery to you after I explain it, don’t be reluctant in chasing it down for yourself. All the LDS curriculum can be found on LDS.org with all the formal words of our living and past prophets.
It seems quite possible I didn’t answer the questions adequately for you. But, hey, you now have a plan.
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So, by your reckoning, where Smith writes: “And I, Abraham, saw the STARS, that they were very great, and THAT ONE OF THEM [Kolob] was nearest unto the throne of God,” he’s not actually talking about “stars,” despite the fact that he says, quite clearly, “stars”
I think I need your Mormon magic seeing stones and a good top hat, because your brand of hermeneutics is alien to me.
Precognition, huh? Sounds wild! Do you buy lotto tickets often?
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I know. We’re quite content with being alien to you.
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That’s the spirit!
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John, sorry to interject, but I’ve seen the scroll in a vision. It says plant Kohlrabi, not planet Kolob. It also says “Don’t Panic” and “Always know where your towel is.”
Speaking of which: Happy towel day!
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So soon? It feels like only yesterday I celebrated last years Towel Day by taking my number out for a sail down the slow heavy River Moth!
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand.
Cardinal de Retz
smart to keep it light for the dilettantes who run to the John for answers.
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Joseph Smith was called a prophet…dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.
~South Park
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THAT. SIR. IS. BRILLIANT.
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb,
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You Project.
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LOL
“Comments are disabled for this video.”
…and ratings as well.
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Oh, the travesty. LOL Here is your chance to comment….the question: What proof and evidence do you have that atheism is true? this is the 6th time I have asked.
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Robin, precisely which part of the “A” in A-Theism, don’t you understand? It means “Without.” Without-theism. It is not a position of belief, rather the default position. As theism is the positive claim (new information superimposed over the default) the burden of proof falls, always, to the claimant. Consider Velcro. It was invented in 1948 by George de Mestral. Now pay attention here, Robin, for this is where it gets complicated. Is it logically possible to ask someone in 1947 to prove or disprove Velcro? What would you call the entire human population in 1947? Avelcros, perhaps? Is that meaningful in any way? Does the human population in 1947 have a negative belief in Velcro, or is the absence of belief the default position?
Now do please lift your game: you’re practicing frightfully weak apologetics here, and it’s getting rather boring.
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Yes, it’s a travesty alright, given that I already answered your query almost a full day earlier (May 26, 2014 at 12:45 pm).
Here’s the link:
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Its 2014; 7th time asking…..What proof and evidence do you have that atheism is true this year?
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You’re absolutely right—it’s now 2014. When will Glenn Beck finally address the allegations that he brutally raped and murdered a young woman in 1990?
Now, I’m not saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young woman in 1990. We’re just asking questions. And thankfully, we live in a free and democratic society that permits us the right to ask such questions.
Fact: There were lots and lots of young girls in 1990
Fact: Glenn Beck lived in 1990
Fact: Young girls were raped and murdered in 1990
Fact: Glenn Beck has not publicly denied raping and murdering a young girl in 1990
Again, I’m not at all saying that Glenn Beck actually raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. In fact, I’m fairly certain that he’s a fine and upstanding Mormon gentleman who adheres to the highest moral code; one that would squelch even the thought of performing such vile and horrific acts as raping and murdering young women. But nonetheless, some people honestly fear he may have raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 and we’re just trying to get to the bottom of these very serious allegations.
Glenn could easily clear up this matter by proving where he was and who he was with at every moment in 1990. Being as you’re a Mormon high priest, perhaps you could impress upon him the urgency of finally coming clean and laying these vicious rumors to rest.
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I believe Glenn Beck did, in fact, rape and murder a girl in 1990. Someone told me. I Googled, and there it was… Lots and lots of people were talking about Glenn Beck raping and murdering a girl in 1990. People certainly wouldn’t be talking about Glenn Beck raping and murdering a girl in 1990 if there was no truth to Glenn Beck raping and murdering a girl in 1990. A girl was raped and murdered in 1990, and Glenn Beck was most definitely there, in the United States, when this girl (who was raped and murdered by Glenn Beck) was raped and murdered by Glenn Beck. As Glenn Beck is also a Mormon, I believe the motivation for this rape-murder was the Mountain Meadows Massacre…. Which Glenn Beck might have orchestrated. I’m not saying he did, but you know, there it is…
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Exactly. Until people who deny Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young women in 1990 can provide sufficient evidence to the contrary, they have zero basis for claiming that Glenn Beck didn’t rape and murder a young women in 1990.
As Robin says:
“All things unproven are not ‘absurd’. Some of those unproven things are merely out of sight.”
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Touché
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@Ron
You win one internetz for your good deed. 🙂
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dumb…de…dumb
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@THE ARBOURIST :May 25, 2014 at 2:34 pm
@JOHN ZANDE :May 25, 2014 at 3:18 pm
There are a few points two of them are given below:
1. Joseph Smith said he was sent by Jesus as he wrongly believed following the Pauline theological concepts. He thought that Jesus had died on the Cross; he got resurrected from the dead; making Jesus a god or son of god. Factually speaking none of the above ever happened.
2. Jesus did not die on the cross; so there was no question of his resurrection from the dead. Jesus was put on the cross but he was delivered from it in near-dead position. He was treated for his injuries in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea; when he got recovered enough to travel he went out of Judea taking refuge along-with his mother Mary in Kashmir, a serene land of fountains and scenic beauty in India; thus saving his life from his Jewish and Roman enemies. Paul was a personification of both of these enemies in one.
To refresh you of the facts in this case, I recommend viewing the following documentaries please:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Ecm4gMhiM&w=450&h=360%5D
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvrON2xwFYo&w=640&h=390%5D
Regards
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Any attempt by an atheist to assert that the burden of proof is not shared by them is irrational for what they believe assumes a burden of proof. It is fallacious to mock those who believe in Deity if the accuser fails to offer confirming evidence that a Deity does not exist. The same applies to any deist. The mechanism of burden of proof helps to ensure that all parties contribute effectively, using relevant contributions.
The posture here assumes that Christians/deists here have been demanded to offer proof of diety where atheists deny their position requires a burden of proof. That is the complete posture of the atheists here. It is fallacy that allows atheists to spout off-topic nonsense while waiting for proof from across the aisle.
But the fallacy begins with John. It is he that controls the dialogue and fallacious disposition
When we have no evidence favoring either proposition, we must suspend belief in both. This is the default position…. if we care to make any honest claim to being rational.
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Are you gonna bark all day little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?
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For the last two days you have only been able to mock. No contribution at all except to admit you do not recognize the need for proof in support of Atheism (because you know it is void). Such a position as repeated to you by others is irrational. Your appeal to its popularity is irrational in another manner: Ad Populum fallacy.
Your vaunted clarity of the godless mind is more clearly a myth.
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Atheism means lack of belief in gods. As such, there is nothing to prove or disprove. Show me evidence for the existence of god(s) and I will drop my disbelief.
And the topic of this particular thread—the one you’ve yet to address—is the absurdity of the Christian salvation doctrine.
Your unwillingness to engage that discussion loudly trumpets the paucity of arguments at your disposal toward its defense.
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That’s “faitheism”. you believe in a “lack” or “lesser god” whatever you suppose that to be. It could be forms of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Raelism, Neopagan movements such as Wicca, and nontheistic religions. These are gods you cannot prove or even give evidence that exist. That”s OK. Atheism is not a lack; it is an absolute absence.
If you wish to be persuasive in what you write, repeating yourself does NOT begin to do it. Repetition is boring.
All things unproven are not “absurd”. Some of those unproven things are merely out of sight. For you, it lays unseen in the high grass merely amused at your unawareness.
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@Robino
The burden of proof is on the person making the positive claim. That is how argumentation works.
Astrophysics, Biology, Geology – pretty much any field of science would point to a non-magical narrative of how we got here and how the world works.
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Identify a neutral source that allows a “negative” claim not to prove itself. Try Wikipedia and you’ll learn something.
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Well, in silence of an atheist so much can be learned.
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Since behavior is a reflection of what one believes, topically relevant comments: atheist must simply believe their existence is a consequence of outrageous and absurdly fortune of pure luck.
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Oh really? Do elaborate on how atheists must believe anything? I’d love to see how a disbelief in god or gods necessitates in the belief of “outrageous and absurdly fortune of pure luck”, whatever that is. Please demonstrate this.
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That is quite simply done though you may not get this either. You believe there is no God. It comes to you as a matter of faith. IF you could provide proof, there would be no believing; there would be knowing. You cannot prove creation by him did not occur.
There is no rational rule that removes the burden of proof from those who posit a negative argument.
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The creation of a negative argument is merely semantic and does not change the substance of a test of it. If you posit that 2 + 2 – 1 ≠ 4, a proof is required or the mere statement is meaningless and deemed spurious in substance.
You claim the absurdity that If a Cancer Doctor says you are not a temporarily living cancerous legion anymore, he need not demonstrate the truthfulness of his statement. However, had he entered the room and said “Your body is free of cancer”, then you suppose he needs to prove it.
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Wonderful! Amazing mental gymnastics there! 10/10 from me! I would give you the gold, but unfortunately the Canadian judge gave you a 3/10 (those corrupt bastards). It seems that simply asserting what I believe and knocking down an argument unrelated to the question at hand just doesn’t cut it for them.
Maybe I’ll spell it out for you. A disbelief in god or gods does not automatically assume a belief that there is no gods. One could remain agnostic to that question, to say “I don’t know”. Even if they did believe there was no gods, that does not equate to believe in their existence being a consequence “outrageous and absurdly fortune of pure luck” that you speak about (I’m guessing you meant evolution/stellar cosmology/science in general by that). One does not logically follow the other.
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Atheism is accepted within some religious and spiritual belief systems, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Raelism, Neopagan movements such as Wicca, and nontheistic religions. You harbor pieces of each. Besides the presence of luck is the product of chance. Every decision you make considers your estimate of succeeding. You faithfully consider luck.
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Robin — why do you believe? Is it because you can’t be prosocial (moral) without the belief of a god watching your behavior 24/7? Or is it the promise of heaven or your own planet with lots of women to fuck? What is it exactly that makes you a believer in god?
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Making Spirit Babies is serious business, Victoria 🙂
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Yep. Paar is next on my list — that horny devil.
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“All those who are counted worthy to be exalted and to become Gods, even the sons of God, will go forth and have earths and worlds like those who framed this and millions on millions of others”
Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 18:259
“Then will they become Gods…they will never cease to increase and to multiply, worlds without end. When they receive their crowns, their dominions, they then will be prepared to frame earths like unto ours and to people them in the same manner as we have been brought forth by our parents, by our Father and God”
Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 17:143
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“After men have got their exaltations and their crowns — have become Gods, even the sons of God — are made Kings of kings and Lords of lords, they have the power then of propagating their species in spirit; and that is the first of their operations with regard to organizing a world. Power is then given to them to organize the elements, and then commence the organization of tabernacles.”
Journal of Discourses Volume 6 page 275 –Brigham Young
Power hungry, horny men in great need of being acknowledged? In spirit of course.
= Insecure and not happy with what they’ve got now.
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I’m sorry, I hate to be rude, but you are going to have to translate this gibberish into English for me please.
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http://THESUPERSTITIOUSNAKEDAPE.WORDPRESS.COM/2014/05/08/CHRISTIAN-LOGIC/COMMENT-PAGE-1/#COMMENT-15689
Further to my post/comments of May 25, 2014 at 8:09 pm, I have to add that Deuteronomy commands unequivocally that a false prophet must be killed, he cannot die a natural death:
Deuteronomy:Chapter 13:1-5
[1] If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder, [2] And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us go and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve them: [3] Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not. [4] Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave. [5] And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
http://WWW.DRBO.ORG/CHAPTER/05013.HTM
Joseph Smith was killed so in terms of OT Bible he is not a truthful prophet; he was not sent by God; and since Jesus died a natural death in India and a dead man cannot send a prophet or messenger; hence Joseph Smith was not a truthful person/claimant.
Regards
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Sounds legit…
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John,
Didn’t know you were secretly a Bible believer.
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You believe Joseph Smith to be a false prophet by virtue of a book you do not believe. Good one.
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Ohhhh, now we have skepticism. Fascinating how it only applies when defending your pet ooga-booga.. 🙂
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@ROBINOBISHOP :May 27, 2014 at 2:05 pm
“John,
Didn’t know you were secretly a Bible believer.”
It is because Atheism has grown in the West in reaction to the mythical creeds invented and spread by Paul in the world.
The Pauline Christians cannot defend “Christianity”; the real teachings of Jesus could be defended; and most Atheists could revert to religion.
Please try on these lines.
Regards
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Sorry Paar, but i’m as much an atheist for Olódùmarè, Olòrún, and Olófi, as I am for your god, Yahweh, and Robins god, the Space Cadet orbiting Kolob.
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Most atheists are associated with religions, Paar. You didn’t know? Do you really believe most atheists worship nothing at all???????
Atheism is accepted and have carved a place for themselves within religious and spiritual belief systems, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Raelism, Neopagan movements such as Wicca, and nontheistic religions.
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Thanks for the information.
Humans are social; so it is good if they associate with religions; this way both sides will know their shortcomings and both will improve.
Regards
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Except where the radical believers and nonbelievers imagine great evil.
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@ John Zande
The “evangelical” New Atheists who previously were Christians; they are always indulged in proving 40000 + Christian denominations, based on the Pauline creed, as wrong.
Here is a gift tool for them.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 1835-1908- the Promised Messiah said in 1889:
“Once you have proved that Jesus has joined the dead and have impressed this fact upon the hearts of the Christians, then do believe that that will be the day of the departure of the Christian faith from the world. Bear firmly in mind that so long as their god does not die, their religion will also not die, and it is futile to indulge in any other argument with them.
Their doctrine stands on just one pillar, which is the belief that Jesus son of Mary (as) is alive in heaven.
Demolish this pillar and you will not find the Christian faith anywhere in the world. As God Almighty desires to crush this pillar and to establish His Unity in Europe and Asia, He has sent me and disclosed to me through His own revelation that Jesus son of Mary has died.
(Izala-e-Auham, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 3, Pages. 402-403: Translated from the original in Urdu language)
Regards
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So Paar — what is the gift that keeps on giving when you go to Paradise? An eternal erection? Lots of beautiful, white skinned virginal women sporting moist vaginas and large, voluptuous, full breasts? Non-menstruating / non-urinating/ non-defecating and child free? Never dissatisfied? Wide and beautiful/lovely eyes? Like pearls? Hairless except the eye brows and the head?
And what do the women get who make it to Paradise? They get one husband and they have to be satisfied with the old horny buzzard who can’t be satisfied with just one woman.
Is this true?
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(If this true….sheesh..sign me up brother!
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😉
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I’ve often wondered what Muslim women think about the whole heaven thing…
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Stockholm syndrome in Paradise.
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I always find it interesting that these ‘godly’ men seem to be experts at what women want.
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Oh sweet Veles! That’s some fine babble.
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God wants sedition
God wants sex
God wants freedom
God wants semtex
What God wants God gets
Don’t ok so surprised
I’m only joking
The alien comic lied
The jackass and hyena
Took the feather from its hook
The monkey in the corner
Wrote the joke down in his book
What God wants God gets
God wants voodoo
God wants shrines
God wants law
God wants organized crime
God wants crusade
God wants jihad
God wants good
God wants bad
What God wants God Gets
~Roger Waters – What God Wants, Part I
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LMAO — Oh the irony that when I clicked on the video, I got a message — “This video does not exist.”
But hear, hear to Roger Waters. 😉
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My bad
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Superb tune. I am reminded of the scripture ‘A double-minded
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Yes…
The song popped into my head as he smugly channeled “Allah’s” thoughts on women through the sayings of the prophet (PB&JUH).
Like their fundamentalist counterparts, Muslim clerics have convinced themselves that what god wants coincides with what they wants; so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and we all suffer the consequences (I’m looking at you, GWB).
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ROBINOBISHOP :May 28, 2014 at 3:17 pm
“Identify a neutral source that allows a “negative” claim not to prove itself. Try Wikipedia and you’ll learn something.”
I agree with you; the “evangelical” or the propagation-ist New Atheists; have to prove that the “One-True-God does not exist”.
They cannot hide behind the excuse of shifting the “burden of proof” on others.
Regards
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Bleatmop remarked: “A disbelief in god or gods does not automatically assume a belief that there is no gods.”
A disbelief or belief is a matter of faith in either case. You are in the spectrum of confused.
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s I stated earlier, How about a current event: Elliot Rodger for personification of atheism with its invitation to a failed moral compass. How appropriate it is from atheists suppose that because he is mentally ill that it’s all biological …….with John going so far with the fiction of how easy it is to explain it to biological causes out of brain “injury” (that didn’t occur). The truth is police conducted a welfare check on Rodger a month ago at the request of others. They found that he did not meet the criteria for a mental health hold. So much for his severe biological mental illness.
However, we know that the affluent lifestyle gave him immense advantages. Therapy gave him immense advantages. Yet, you mention that because he was off his meds, his mass murder is explained because he is biologically lunatic (incongruously) like so many honored Bible characters. With this explanation we should be seeing thousands of mass murders weekly. Yet Elliot’s manifesto was that of an atheist with troubles with what that world view was destroying him. The atheist Elliot, nevertheless, had all the outward manifestations and drive to live a life of hedonism by Choice. His church was any room with a mirror!
Non-agnostic atheism promotes varied levels of narcissism because a narcissist atheist by nature is fixed, locking him/herself in the mirrored room. A narcissist atheism is all about self-power. Elliot, by example, called himself “God” in his manifesto. This is the default position of having no creator.
A narcissist and devout, honest Christian are contradictory terms. I can only choose narcissism by denying my faith in God, thereby entering the mirrored room to look at myself alone. You find “truth” when you find satisfying answers about how to interact effectively with a world of valuable assets in people. This is the non-atheist world view.
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@ROBINOBISHOP :May 30, 2014 at 11:01 am
[Bleatmop remarked: “A disbelief in god or gods does not automatically assume a belief that there is no gods.”
A disbelief or belief is a matter of faith in either case. You are in the spectrum of confused.]
Yet, it should not be a blind faith; blind faith is similar as disbelief.
Regards
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“You are in the spectrum of confused.”
LOL and you are in the spectrum of anticipation of an eternal erection.
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You should take a little time, a little time to think things over.
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Thinking is something I do. You, on the other hand…
Fantasize 😉
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I should tell you Robin, that I haven’t stopped laughing since your last comment. That was hilarious. Here, just because it’s the weekend. Don’t get too excited though. I didn’t think you were worthy of the Foreigner version. 😈
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To the point of wanting to know what love is the LDS way, people do not / will not have sex in Heaven, nor are they going to be pregnant in Heaven.
To wit, if John & Co. wish to write with some authority about the “infallible logic about Christianity” you might want to get some of it right prior to applying your own “infallible logic”. Doing that, the mist will lift slowly so that you can see the way ahead and attain your wildest dreams – out there somewhere.
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Bullocks… for your reading pleasure: The Making of Mormon Spirit Babies
http://lifeafter.org/spirit-babies-the-making-of-mormon/
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Remarkable what you have done. You have hijacked this blog to criticize the Mormon faith using anything but Mormon websites to do it. It’s this stuff that has ALWAYS brought people to authentically investigate The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.That’s why we are the fastest growing Christian Church the world. This stuff just doesn’t square with what good people know we are in the real world. The authority of LDS doctrine ain’t coming from this website or the the link you provided. People aren’t generally stupid.
You endorse Mormon criticism from those who make a living on preaching what you and I know is nonsense and to frequently dangerous.
The last book I read before being baptize in the LDS Church at 35 years old was “The GodMakers”, the most celebrated anti-Mormon text written.
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Robin, you are brainwashed. Pure and simple. Or you are one who does the brainwashing or both. I’ve interviewed personally, and watched interviews of hundreds of ex-Mormons. LDS is a cult — and they have perfected the art of mind control.
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Oh, I see now, Robin. There will be no male or female in your heavens, planets, worlds. Mormon spirit men will not have several spirit wives to produce spirit babies. Thanks for the clarification. 😉
“Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. . . . Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers. . . .
Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord’s servants have always practiced it. “And is that religion popular in heaven?” It is the only popular religion there.” (Brigham Young — Deseret News, August 6, 1862)
So how are you god dudes going to inpregnate your wimmin folk? Spiritual sperm and penises?
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The Neuron hijack continues with “So how are you god dudes going to inpregnate your wimmin folk? Spiritual sperm and penises?” (I would think you would want to be a proton instead of not charge at all)
You are kinda stuck in the human experience without a spiritual one. Your frame of reference isn’t gonna get you to the answer. No, we are never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy…. Miracles will happen as we speak.
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You’re quoting Seal? Wow!
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That’s right, Robin, blame the woman. 😉
One of the songs taught to young children is Follow the Prophet!, with nine verses, and the refrain, repeated after each verse.
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Don’t go astray!
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
He knows the way.
You see Robin the key to brainwashing and/or mind control is repetition, repetition, repetition. The brain is plastic, meaning it’s malleable, and especially in young children. Why young children? Because they are generally suggestible alpha/theta brain wave state. We evolved this propensity so that children would listen to their primary caregivers and teachers — for survival’s sake. But religions like yours have used this to their advantage.
The more you repeat something the more neural pathways are created and the more neural pathways are created the more they network, and the more they network, the harder it is to prune (atrophy), which is why so many have a difficult time realizing they are under a spell.
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“LDS is a cult — and they have perfected the art of mind control.”
I’m here to be deprogrammed. Certainly, I wouldn’t be here through mind control. Give me the blue pill so I can enter your unbelief system. Hep me, hep me.
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Robin, why do you keep talking to yourself? Are you not aware that if people don’t sub to this post they will not see your ramblings? I’m assuming that you are directing that at me. You, sir, are a classic case of someone under the spell.
Why don’t you share why you became an LDS. What rewards drew you in? Becoming a god? Having authority over women? Guaranteed alpha male status? Do share. Because I can tell you Mr. Robin, that if you think LDS has the dibs on morality, you are one blind dude. Perhaps you’ve been wanking off a little too much or do you coerce your woman to have sex with you because that’s your god-given right as the alpha male and head of the family?
The only reason you are not fucking more than one woman is because polygamy is against the law in the U.S. Or are you fucking more than one woman in “holy” matrimony with the blessings of your god? Oh, are your holy ears offended by that word? Or does the sound of that word it make your manhood throb a little. 😉
“Polygamy was officially suspended by the President of the church in 1890, twenty-eight years after polygamy was declared illegal by the U.S. government, and thirteen years after a U.S. court had ruled that polygamous marriages were not valid” (Wallace 368).
You see, Robin, sex is not a bad thing. Not what so ever. But it is when men assume that women don’t have the same rights to have multiple partners. Fuck to your heart’s content if you like Women should have the same right. Be responsible. Use a condom, and don’t over-populate the world, as you continue to do.
Heber C. Kimball ( one of the original twelve apostles) said, “I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow” (Wallace 101).
http://www.exmormon.org/mormwomn.htm
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So it’s those repeating lyrics that have has turned us LDS into creating committed marriages, more committed than anyone …as good as the atheists. But we decide which is right and which is an illusion….. over time. I didn’t learn those mind control Mormon songs as a child. I was listening to the Four Tops and the Beatles and the Stones and Creedance, CSR, and Fleetwood Mac and those cultist experts, the Moody Blues. Hell, I’m listening to them right now…..ooo oooo can you feel it tonight. Why don’t we ever get an answer…..It’s cuz of them repeating lyrics in Mormon songs….arg. I’m looking for someone to change my life.
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Robin, speaking of lyrics…this guy quotes several throughout the post.
http://www.lifeaftermormonism.net/forum/topics/leaving-mormonism-my-journey-from-despair-to-happiness
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Your religions are crossed.
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@ROBINOBISHOP :May 31, 2014 at 4:35 pm
“people do not / will not have sex in Heaven, nor are they going to be pregnant in Heaven.”
I agree with your above words.
The truthful religion supports it.
Regards
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Why then, Paar, are 72 virgins promised?
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@JOHN ZANDE :May 31, 2014 at 5:27 pm
“Why then, Paar, are 72 virgins promised?”
Please quote from Quran where 72 virgins are mentioned.
Regards
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http://wikiislam.net/wiki/72_Virgins
Paar, it doesn’t specifically say 72 — there could be many more. Is it true that when you make it to paradise you will have an eternal erection? Have you been promised lots of white women with perfect bodies?
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It doesn’t, but its in the Hadith (#2,562, Sunan al-Tirmidhi) “The reward for the people of Heaven is 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome of pearls, aquamarine and ruby.”
The Qur’an only talks about paradise: “Verily, for the Muttaqun[righteous], there will be a success (paradise); gardens and grapeyards; and young full-breasted (mature) maidens of equal age; and a full cup (of wine)” (An-Naba 78:31-34).
These are the attributes of these virgins, from wiki:
Physical Attributes:
• Wide and beautiful/lovely eyes
• Like pearls
• Hairless except the eye brows and the head
• Big Boobs
• Beautiful
• White skinned
• 60 cubits [27.5 meters] tall
• 7 cubits [3.2 meters] in width
• Transparent to the marrow of their bones
• Eternally young
• Companions of equal age
Sexual Attributes:
• Untouched / with hymen unbroken by sexual intercourse
• Virgins
• Voluptuous/full-breasted
• With large, round breasts which are not inclined to hang
• Appetizing vaginas
Personality Attributes:
• Chaste
• Restraining their glances
• Modest gaze
Pure
• Non-menstruating / non-urinating/ non-defecating and childfree
• Never dissatisfied
• Will sing praise
Tell me, Paar, are you excited about getting your 72 virgins? What does your wife think about this?
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I am convinced that Robinbishop is dyslexic. He surely must be part of the LSD church.
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He enjoys talking to himself, that’s for sure
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Another nutter by the looks of it.
Oh…guess who just wrote that, “On the other hand Christianity is the ethic of love and justice.”
I kid you not!
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Brandon? Perhaps you should point him to Luther’s very Christian attitude toward the Jews… or the earlier annihilation of the pagan religions.
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Yes!
I may have made mention of these facts….just a hint. You know me. Ever Mister Diplomat …..sort of.
Pea Ess…Violet on Sabbatical again?
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Big Independence election coming up. I suspect she’s on the walls of Edinburgh Castle hounding people below 🙂
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I forget if she is believes the rot starts at the English side of Hadrian’s wall or everyone on Mud Island should be one big happy family…y’ken, the noo. 😉
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You cautioned: “One of the songs taught to young Mormon children is Follow the Prophet!, with nine verses, and the refrain, repeated after each verse.
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Don’t go astray!
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
He knows the way.
It is a danger you say “Because they are generally suggestible alpha/theta brain wave state. ”
Considering these kids hear or participate in singing this song once a month, that can add pup over 8 years of primary instruction. But I’m concerned about the danger to adults inpraying at public meetings everywhere, every monthly town meeting. Before too long people will be going to the town hall for Bible study prior to meetings leading to cooperation and the lack of need for divorce attorneys..
I’m currently performing an experiment with my grandson while he sleeps by playing Robert Plant’s “Addicted to Love” while he sleeps. But I think it has backfired. My wife at 64 is now pregnant and I am constantly feeling I need to feed the snake into the toilet. My grandson at 2 is now no longer wanting to wear his briefs, needing to strut his stuff. But I think this is just a phase unassociated with this very appealing music.
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Wow Robin. I’m not sure what to make of your post. My first thought was — did you take your meds today. Can you please make a more cohesive post and direct it this time at me instead of John. Do you know how to do that? When you get an email notification that I replied to you, click on “reply” and leave your comment. I will be notified. If you are doing that, then perhaps there’s a WP glitch. As I mentioned earlier, I am not getting a direct notification from you that you are directing your post at me.
Did you read the link I shared? The part where your prophet had 30+ wives and was also married young teens and married women? Did you teach your children to follow the prophet, follow the prophet, follow the prophet, follow the prophet or was that follow the profit, follow the profit, follow the profit, follow the profit?
Btw, I should mention that psychologist and psychiatrist have been educated on how to counsel unhappy Mormon women. I’ve spent hours reading testimonies from women who are either Mormon or ex-Mormon. It ain’t pretty. You you are any indication of the caliber of men in the Mormon church, it’s no wonder.
Click to access Dialogue_V11N03_50.pdf
@ John: in that last link I left Robin, about a Mormon guy going from despair to happiness after leaving the church, you should get a kick out of what Joseph Smith used, kinda like a “special decoder ring” to interpret the mysteries of god. Enjoy the dopamine. This is a real gut buster. 😉
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The magic seeing stones? They’re priceless! Doubly-priceless that seemingly sane adults in relative command of their faculties actually believe it 🙂
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“The magic seeing stones?”
That would be them, yes. Idiocracy at its finest.
“Narrator: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits.
Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.”
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Robin, you’re either categorically insane, or one of the greatest trolls the interwebs has ever birthed! I’m leaning to the latter… and i’m suitably impressed.
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“I’m leaning to the latter… and i’m suitably impressed.”
John, I hope the hell you’re right, lol. Have you check to see if this dude has the same IP as SOM? He hasn’t been casting his seed on our blogs lately. 😉
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The thought has passed through my head….
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After quoting lines from the sci-fi satire Idiology, a colossal box office failure accumulating $50K total international revenue, he proposes a new scientific law from the movie: violating THE RULE proposed earlier by John. Neuron proposes that humans are evolving dumber because humans no longer have predators and intelligence is not rewarded evolutionally. As THE RULE requires, you have some proof to offer. the burden of proof is yours.
On another point:
Since when is Mormon polygamy unintelligent since so many practice serial polygyny, serial polyandry and that serial “other stuff” you enjoy.
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Say what? LOL Robin, you slay me. It doesn’t surprise me that you didn’t get it. The move may have not done as well at the box office, with around $500,000K, but it made more than $9M in DVD sales and rentals.
“There are many factors to consider when a great film doesn’t turn a large profit. Idiocracy does not appear to have done well financially despite being one of the funniest satires of American consumer culture ever produced. Idiocracy is so bold and so outrageous that it could potentially have alienated its own potential audience.
The main thrust of Idiocracy is to shine a light on our short-term priorities and our culture’s lack of foresight as society today expands and devours up the planet’s resources converting everything into large monuments of trash. Judge also accounts for the reckless breeding where the uneducated pop out more and more children. This reproductive recklessness is arguably the cornerstone of the other intractable problems. As population explodes natural resources will disappear.”
“Evolution has shifted such that stupid people breed like rabbits, and the smarter ones tend not to. Long term trending in this direction produces a stupid society which will eventually collapse under its own weight: pretty straightforward line of reasoning.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/06/03/idiocracy-2006-re-visited/
So it really doesn’t surprise me that someone like you doesn’t get it but believes in getting it up as often as possible to continue to over-populate the world.
Bravo!
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Further to my comments I have to add that the truthful religion does not tell us that there will be any pregnancies in heaven; or that population in the heaven will need to be increased through birth. There is no sex in heaven; Quran does not mention it.
Regards
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“Modern apologists of ‘Islam’ try to downplay the evident materialism and sexual implications of such descriptions, but, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam says, even orthodox Muslim theologians such as al Ghazali (died 1111 CE) and Al-Ash’ari (died 935 CE) have “admitted sensual pleasures into paradise”.
In fact, the sensual pleasures are graphically described in detail by Al-Suyuti
(died 1505 ), Quranic commentator and polymath. He wrote:
“Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas.”
http://www.inthenameofallah.org/Quran%27s%20Physical%20Paradise.html
You see, Paar. what Islam does is take our most basic human instincts and magnifies them in Islamic paradise. Your playmates will be “remade” into virgins after you fuck them, so that you will take her/them again and again as virgins. In other words, Parr, women in your promise land of paradise, milk, wine, and gluttony, are nothing more than a play thing for your eternal erection. The only difference between being on earth and in paradise is that once you pop her cherry, Allah will magically reinstate it.
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Totally wrong; none of it is mentioned in Quran-the first and the foremost source of guidance of Muslims whatever the denomination.
Please quote from Quran to prove your point.
Regards
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Paar, aren’t the Hadiths purported sayings of Mo? More importantly, do you believe the Hadiths are the sayings of Mo?
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Read the link. Paar, I believe you are being intellectually dishonest. I have yet to meet or read from a Muslim man (with you being the exception) who doesn’t believe there will not be delicious, desiring, virginal women, with moist vaginas, big eyes and big breasts, awaiting them in paradise.
http://thefactsaboutislam.blogspot.com/2013/06/eternal-erections-muslim-explains-so.html
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Also Paar, are you excited about getting your endless basket of horny women in Paradise… Or don’t you believe in that?
Also, you still haven’t answered what your wife thinks about all this. Is she happy for you?
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You know John, as a woman, I can’t even imagine what the Islamic paradise would be like for me. I only get one dude, and have to wait my turn. It is unreal that we are living in the 21st century and the Abrahamic religions are still alive and well. It really does show you just how easily programmable humans are, and especially because these religions toy with our most basic instincts and fears. And the religious hierarchy are laughing all the way to the bank. It really pisses me off to know they have been conned, which is why I have sometimes come across as sounding rude in this debate.
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I hope Paar answers honestly. I somehow doubt it, though….
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Correction: I have yet to meet or read from a Muslim man who doesn’t believe there will be delicious, desiring, virginal women, etc, awaiting them in paradise.
Otherwise, Paar, you have no incentive, no reward. You believe because you get rewarded to believe. Your death anxiety is curtailed, and your most basic human instincts fulfilled in paradise. The Abrahamic religions are one of the most cunning religions of all time. I know you don’t see this. You’ve been wired, literally, to be blinded by this.
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What is true for a given religion isn’t what people attest to from your personal experience Neuron. It take concerted study of sacred texts to know. I know many Mormons who are also vegetarians and believe in the virtues of not eating meat. So that you can rationalize your biases, these variants must be doctrine.
One point that should be noted is that all religions of my acquaintance believe what awaits them in paradise is beyond their own human conception. All points made of it by us are therefore metaphor. We reach for the inconceivable through metaphor.
Within the sacred writings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints you can find references to “mansions in Heaven” already prepared for us. You would be foolish to attest that we believe heaven to be a living abode in heaven that some people already enjoy in their human experience.
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That your prophet was a slave to his own lusts says a lot about your character, insecurities and fears, Robin, for you have voluntarily chosen this belief system.
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comments dated May 31, 2014 at 5:09 pm
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@JOHN ZANDE :June 2, 2014 at 3:25 pm
@N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ :June 2, 2014 at 2:46 pm
Totally wrong; none of it is mentioned in Quran-the first and the foremost source of guidance of Muslims whatever the denomination.
Please quote from Quran to prove your point.
Regards
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Don’t dodge the questions Paar.
Do you believe the Hadiths are the collections of Mo’s sayings?
Are you excited about the untold sexual pleasures of Paradise?
What does your wife think about this?
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He answered your questions sufficient for me to understand, as have I.
Atheist speech found here is hate speech related to the spirit of the law.
It is part and parcel to what leads to violence.
Classic groupthink with its own Godless cult behavior…a deterioration in mental efficiency, reality testing and moral judgments as a result of group pressures (wik).
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Where did he answer if he thought the Hadiths were Mo’s words? Where did he answer if his wife was happy about him getting oodles of women in Paradise?
What does your wife think, Robin, about you screwing around with a bevy of other women in the Celestial Kingdom, making spirit babies? Is she happy for you?
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“Atheist speech found here is hate speech related to the spirit of the law.”
Robin, have we struck a nerve? You are loyal to a profit, I mean prophet who horded at least 30 women, some of them in their early teens, and some of them already married to other men.
Do not get all self-righteous about morality. You chose this religion, this denomination. Like Islam, your denomination promotes polygamy in heaven. Like Islam, the women are only allowed to have one husband. The only reason it’s not practice in the open (though some are doing it — See the TV reality show “Sister Wives”), the only reason you are not practicing it is because it’s illegal in the U.S.
Just to show you how selfish your belief system is, as well as Islam, as of 2014, the global sex ratio at birth is estimated at 107 boys to 100 girls (934 girls per 1000 boys). In Islam, men are allowed up to 4 wives. You do the math.
Keep a shortage of women, and promise that they will have as many “perfect” wives in paradise and you will find an appealing religion. Why? Because not every man will find a mate due to the imbalance most often caused by religion and a preference to have males over females in many cultures. This leads to sex trafficking (an epidemic), rape (an epidemic) and a number of other social ills.
In the article “Peace Among Primates”, Dr. Robert Sapolsky studied the behaviors of savanna baboons, in particular, the Forest Troop baboons, for over 2 decades. What came from the study was that when the troops had more females than males, and less alpha males (that horded resources), the troops were more peaceful. When there were more males than females, the highly stratified males warred and bullied the less dominate male baboons. The less dominate baboons, (beta males) turned their frustrations on the females, abusing them. This wasn’t the case when there were fewer alpha males in the troop, and fewer males in general. But what he also discovered was that these males could learn to behave themselves (brain plasticity). No god was needed. He said in the article that the troop created a baboon utopia after half the alpha males died from eating tainted meat when in turn produced nicer males and more welcoming females (not as fearful of the males).
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/peace_among_primates
So, do we change our habits and devalue human males like has happened to females over the last couple of thousand years? Because we have solid evidence that males are, for the most part, the primary cause of the social ills we see in society. Or do we drop primitive, male dominated belief systems that encourage Othering and hyper-masculinity, and educate about our biology, our hormones/neurotransmitters, gene expression, brain plasticity, and how the environment (especially culture) intertwines and plays a major role in the stability of our species?
Non-believers do not hate you. We are simply fed up with you choosing to remain ignorant about the nature of reality, and enslaved by your base passions, fears, insecurities, and death anxiety.
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Paar, answer our questions. Are you promised to have multiple ‘wives’ in paradise and how does your submissive wife (or wives) feel about this?
Q78:31-34 As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and high-bosomed women for companions; a cup full to the brim.
Q37:48 And besides them will be chaste women, restraining their glances, with big eyes of wonder and beauty. Pure (virgin) as they were hidden eggs of the ostrich
Q44:54 …and We will wed them with houris (dark-eyed virgins) pure, beautiful ones.
Q52:17-20 Reclining on thrones set in lines, and We will unite them to fair, large-eyed beautiful ones.
Q56:36-37 And made them virgin – pure and undefiled, loving, equals in age
Q55:56-58 In them will be bashful virgins neither man nor Jinn will have touched before… As though they were rubies and corals
Q55:72-77 Pure ones, close-guarded in pavilions, whom no man or Jinn before them has touched reclining on green cushions and rich carpets of beauty.
Q44:51-54 As to the Righteous they will be among Gardens and Springs and We shall join them to fair women with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes
Q56:11-37 These will be those brought to Allah In Gardens of Bliss… water flowing constantly, and companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes… We made them virgin pure and undefiled, Lovers, equals in age.
Al Hadith, Vol. 4, p. 172, No. 34 The Apostle of Allah said, “There is in Paradise a market wherein there will be no buying or selling, but will consist of men and women. When a man desires a beauty, he will have intercourse with them.”
Sahih Bukhari 6:402: Allah’s Apostle said, ‘In Paradise there is a pavilion made of a single hollow pearl sixty miles wide, in each corner there are wives who will not see those in the other corners; and the believers will visit and enjoy them all.'”
Paradise of Lust/a>
Muhammad’s imagination did not allow for any awe inspiring concept of enlightenment in the hereafter. No unfolding bliss with some transcendental spiritual awakening for the soul. No special reunion with parents, children, friends, relatives. No stimulating knowledge that would reveal the secrets of the universe unknown to mere mortals. Not even equality for women.
—> It is a picture merely concerned with appealing to the base instincts of men, longing for a supremely opulent version of earthly regal, lustful life.
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I am so Copy n’ Pasting this selection of golden nuggets!
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Paar,
This site lists the verses promising virgins (and boys) in the afterlife:
http://www.albatrus.org/english/religions/islam/72virgins_and_boys.htm
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Boys, too??? Sweet Ron Jeremy’s, the Muslim Paradise is a depraved sex club! I guess that’s what you get when your prophet is a pedophile rapist.
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In the words of Snoop Dog:
When the pimp’s in the crib ma
Drop it like it’s hot
Drop it like it’s hot
Drop it like it’s hot
Mo was the original gangsta.
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Back that booty up!
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@N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ :June 2, 2014 at 4:14 pm
@JOHN ZANDE :June 2, 2014 at 3:44 pm
I give below the verses mentioned in your first reference:
[78:32] Verily, for the righteous is a triumph:
78:33] Walled gardens and grape-vines,
[78:34] And young maidens of equal age,
[78:35] And overflowing cups.
[78:36] Therein they will hear no idle talk nor lying:
[78:37] A recompense from thy Lord — a gift in proportion to their works —
[78:38] Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the Gracious. They shall not have the power to address Him.
http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?submitCh=Read+from+verse%3A&ch=78&verse=30
Please prove your point of view.
Regards
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Paar, that link does not answer our question. Why are you avoiding the question? Let me repeat it. Are you promised multiple wives in paradise?
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Just answer the questions Paar…
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http://quran.com/78/31-34
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@JOHN ZANDE :June 2, 2014 at 4:56 pm
@N℮ÜҐ☼N☮☂℮Ṧ :June 2, 2014 at 4:56 pm
@RON :June 2, 2014 at 4:24 pm
I had already answered your questions.
“I have to add that the truthful religion does not tell us that there will be any pregnancies in heaven; or that population in the heaven will need to be increased through birth. There is no sex in heaven; Quran does not mention it.”
All such verses should be and must be ,therefore, understood in the light of the following verses:
[2:26] And give glad tidings to those who believe and do good works, that for them are Gardens beneath which flow streams. Whenever they are given a portion of fruit therefrom, they will say: ‘This is what was given us before,’ and gifts mutually resembling shall be brought to them. And they will have therein mates perfectly pure, and therein will they abide.
[2:27] Allah disdains not to give an illustration as small as a gnat or even smaller. Those who believe know that it is the truth from their Lord, while those who disbelieve say: ‘What does Allah mean by such an illustration?’ Many does He adjudge by it to be erring and many by it does He guide, and none does He adjudge thereby to be erring except the disobedient,
http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?ch=2&verse=25
Regards
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So, let me get this straight: you don’t believe you’ll be rewarded with bus-loads of virginal ass in Paradise? You don’t believe you’ll have a permanent erection?
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John, I believe our man, Paar, is being dishonest or he’s dumb about his own religion.
“Allah Subhanah, Who Created everything in existence, also created its nature. And since man was created polygamous by nature, one of the rewards which The All Knowing and All Wise Lord has promised the fortunate men of Paradise is the companionship of many chaste, beautiful, and obedient wives in that Eternal Abode of the Hereafter.” http://www.islamhelpline.net/node/4313
Now, what’s interesting about this is that there is a phenomena in many species (more common in males than females) including humans called the “Coolidge Effect”. “The Coolidge effect is a phenomenon seen in mammalian species whereby males (and to a lesser extent females) exhibit renewed sexual interest if introduced to new receptive sexual partners,] even after refusing sex from prior but still available sexual partners.”
This is a primal urge intended to diversify the gene pool. But — this can create sexual addictions, and it’s been shown in labs that rats will copulate with a variety of females until they nearly die of exhaustion. This is what Allah is promising men — lots and lots and lots of dopamine, but apparently they won’t die.
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“When you drop a male rat into a cage with a receptive female rat, you see an initial frenzy of copulation. Then, progressively, the male tires of that particular female. Even without an apparent change in her receptivity he reaches a point where he has little libido-and simply ignores her.
However, if you replace the original female with a fresh one, the male immediately revives and begins copulating again. You can repeat this process with fresh females until the rat nearly dies of exhaustion. The rat’s renewed vigor does not reflect an increase in his wellbeing – although it will look (and temporarily feel to him) that way. His vigor comes from surges of a neurochemical called dopamine, which flood the reward circuitry of his primitive brain… so that he gets the job done.”
The Coolidge Effect has been observed in all mammals that have been tested. Scientists have observed it in females too. Female rodents, for example, flirt a lot more – arching in inviting displays – with unfamiliar partners than with those with which they’ve already copulated.” http://www.reuniting.info/science/coolidge_effect
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I shake the dust from my feet sealing the two of you.
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Is that a Harry Potter spell? 😉
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LOL — he shakes the dust off his feet because he knows he has no sound, rational argument. How many times have we heard that line (scripture), John. 😉
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And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust 🙂
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Hello! Great post, just followed you to get more of your posts 🙂
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Cool, welcome 🙂
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Also not what Christianity teaches……
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Really? I find that an interesting statement, David.
You believe Jesus is god, correct?
You believe only Jesus can save, correct?
You believe only Jesus can judge, correct?
You believe, therefore, only Jesus can punish, correct?
So, by all means, please point out where you think the meme is mistaken….
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Its mistaken in that this is not what he wants to save us from, Jesus Christ sacrificed his life as a substitute to save us and the worst of humanity from the hell that we where takeing ourselfs to. Yes there is a hell and if anyone ends up there They put them selfs there because they told the judge we don’t need you when he showed them the way out.
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Not only that John but Jesus came to show Gods love and his own teaching states perfect love cast out fear of punishment. I hope this helps.
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Fortunately this is not what he wants to save us from, Jesus Christ sacrificed his life as a substitute to save us and the worst of humanity from the hell that we where takeing ourselfs to.
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Not what he wants he wants to*
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John, many, many thanks for the follow. All the very best, Paul.
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Just re-following Paul. Did a mass clean house (I was following a LOT) of blogs, and slowly now going back getting on board with the blogs I want to follow going forward.
You Okay?
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