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Atheist
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Date: November 18, 2017 10:37AM
Thanks for the thread, Shummy.
What a great example of a loving god, "father," and omnipotent lord:
"If they hurt your wittle fweelings, kill them, kill them all!"
"I love you, my children, so I shall kill you."
"I'm not in the mood to knock a "daughter" up yet, no plan of salvation on the table, ...what to do...?"
Six days and a flood. Either one believes it, or one does not. "Maybe" cannot exist in the matter.
So 'round and 'round we go, and the most learned of religion, knowing the origins of this nonsense, will argue that it is *now* thought to be allegorical, but just look at "all it has given mankind."
What utter bullsh##.
Six days and a flood has stood firmly in the path of social, educational and scientific progress from the beginning, In still stands in the stead of reality. It spreads and promotes the filth of separatism, war, pillaging, rape, death and an ultimate apocalypse in which followers salivate.
To those who would claim that they only follow the "good bits" while knowing the origins to be in no way superior to the claims of Smith, I would suggest that without having suffered Abraham, or Smith, they can have no idea how the "good bits" may have limited either their own educational, ethical or moral development, or that of the world in which they might have evolved.
I'm weary of the arguments, "If not for the bible, if not for a god, mankind would not have been inspired to art, music, - the aesthetics would be so much less than they are now." Right. I would ask which god inspired these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting...long before there was an alphabet of any sort.
I don't care what fairy tales people choose to avoid the responsibilty of reality, I really don't. I just wish they would stop insisting that others must believe the same nonsense, to the point of enacting laws to that effect. Until they make their outrageous beliefs a "personal matter," a matter of "choice" equal to their own, their words of "religious freedom" can carry no weight whatsoever. In short, they outright lie about the "freedom" part of the phrase. The rest of us are "free" to believe and act as believers choose for us.
As an atheist, I suffer no fear of either a god-given flood, nor an apocalyptic salvation from a global catastrophe, that sans myth, we likely would have been much closer to an actual salvation of mankind, come that inevitable day. We are a fragile society, depending on fragile technologies. We should act accordingly. There is little room for myth-bade, myth-based laws. Pray as you will, but leave it between you and your Governor, not mine.