Zone1 Why are there so many "religious" threads on this board?

[Disir]

She seems very angry.

Oh no.

 

[BlackSand]

I distinctly remember you having an alt here

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No you don't ... Because there isn't one ...

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[Disir]

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No you don't ... Because there isn't one ...

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Yeah there was.

 

[BlackSand]

Yeah there was.

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No there isn't ... And I really don't care what you want to tell yourself.
Try gaslighting someone else fool ...

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[Disir]

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No there isn't ... And I really don't care what you want to tell yourself.
Try gaslighting someone else fool ...

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I'm not gaslighting but you can stop responding at any given time. You are free to do that.

 

[alang1216]

Based on the following 39 measures I'd say they are pretty similar.

1. Christianity promotes the virtues of thankfulness, forgiveness, humility, chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience and kindness.
2. Christianity creates wonderful charities and organizations
3. Christians and Christian institutions are usually the first source of literacy, education, and healthcare in the poorer regions.
4. Christianity has been the source of abundant human services from hospitals, orphanages, nursing homes, and schools, to advocacy on behalf of those with no voice, to supporting cultural outreaches, and seeking always to find ways in which to protect and promote human life and its authentic flourishing.
5. Christianity gave us the concept of subsidiarity.
6. Christianity has done what no government can ever do, namely teach morality and civility.
7. Christianity teaches accountability and responsibility.
8. Christianity teaches that we have a choice in how we behave.
9. Christianity teaches that actions have consequences.
10. Christianity inspires a sense of wonder in nature and the universe.
11. Christianity helps us feel connected to one another and to nature.
12. Christianity helps us feel less alone in the world.
13. Christianity serves to ennoble the human spirit.
14. Christianity serves to bind the community together.
15. Christianity inspires love, peace and happiness.
16. Christianity serves to create traditions.
17. Christianity brings order to our lives.
18. Christianity brings comfort to the terminally ill.
19. Christianity can act as a source of hope for the oppressed.
20. Christianity teaches that we can transform ourselves.
21. Christian values were the foundation which Western Civilization was built upon.
22. No other institution played a greater role in shaping Western Civilization than the Catholic Church.
23. Modern science was born in the Catholic Church.
24. Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market.
25. The Catholic Church invented the university.
26. Western law grew out of Church canon law.
27. The Catholic Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life.
28. The Church constantly sought to alleviate the evils of slavery and repeatedly denounced the mass enslavement of conquered populations and the infamous slave trade, thereby undermining slavery at its sources.
29. Christianity gave us great thinkers, leaders and humanitarians.
30. Christianity gave us America.
31. Christianity gave us incredible artwork.
32. Christianity gave us incredible music.
33. Christianity gave us incredible architecture.
34. Christianity has spread democracy.
35. Christians fought other Christians in WWII to end their aggression.
36. Christians rebuilt Europe after WWII.
37. Christians rebuilt Japan after WWII.
38. Christians put a man on the moon.
39. Christians ended the cold war.

Sorry, unimpressed with your cut and paste.

 

[BlackSand]

I'm not gaslighting but you can stop responding at any given time. You are free to do that.

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Shut Up ... Again ... Fool ...
I am not asking you what to do.

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[Disir]

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Shut Up ... Again ... Fool ...
I am not asking you what to do.

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Nope. Figure out how to carry on a conversation or go do something else.

 

[alang1216]

Just in the number of people militant atheism has murdered in the last 100 years. That's pretty different.

You also don't have any examples of militant theism in the last 100 years other than the Taliban and ISIS. Checkmate!!!!

Show me that militant atheism has killed more people than militant theism in the last 100 hours. Checkmate yourself!!!

 

[BlackSand]

Nope. Figure out how to carry on a conversation or go do something else.

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The conversation would be ...
"Get your head out of your ass and quit asking me questions that have nothing to do with me."
Again ... You Nitwit ...

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[Disir]

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The conversation would be ...
"Get your head out of your ass and quit asking me questions that have nothing to do with me."
Again ... You Nitwit ...

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Except it's not the conversation that we are having.

 

[ding]

Sorry, unimpressed with your cut and paste.

I composed that myself. But I don't care if you are impressed or unimpressed. By any objective measure Christianity has been a force for good.

 

[toobfreak]

Why are there so many "religious" threads on this board?​

Maybe because God is a pretty cosmic, all-encompassing topic?

 

[ding]

Show me that militant atheism has killed more people than militant theism in the last 100 hours. Checkmate yourself!!!

You are taking this personal. By any objective measure militant atheism has not been a force for good. Rather than you taking it personal, just don't be one. Is it really that hard to not condemn respect for others because they believe in a Creator? Because if that is still your intention, then don't be surprised when I shove my boot up your ass and show you how ridiculous you are behaving. Go be happy instead.

 

[ding]

Oh no.

Not you!!! Her.

 

[toobfreak]

The death of people close to me hits so hard because I know they no longer exist in any meaningful way

Wrong. Nothing that has ever lived ever truly dies. Everything in this universe and beyond goes in circles operating in cycles. Quit measuring "meaningfulness" against your own pathetic, finite egocentricties.

 

[1srelluc]

Maybe because God is a pretty cosmic, all-encompassing topic?

I always did say preachers could be carnival barkers on the side.

 

[alang1216]

By any objective measure Christianity has been a force for good.

True, but also a force for evil.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

True, but also a force for evil.

Nope REAL Christianity reflects the teachings of Jesus. There is no evil in His teachings

 

[ding]

True, but also a force for evil.

Christians, not Christianity. Some, not all. And even for the "some," not all of the time. But the statement, "by any objective measure Christianity has been a force for good" weighs the good and the bad to arrive at that observation.