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Post by Michaels Lover on Dec 24, 2021 14:20:40 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Jan 5, 2022 22:58:01 GMT
LMAO. With 8 billion people on Earth the Catholic Church acts like we are at the verge of extinction. They completely lost touch with reality.
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Post by Snow White on Jan 9, 2022 7:06:33 GMT
How arrogant people in the Catholic Church have to be to think they're some kind of moral compass to tell the rest of the world how to live. By their track record, TCC has been one of the worst and cruelest institutions to "take care" of children, the Pope is the least indicated to accuse of selfishness to others if they choose to not reproduce.
Catholic church's whole problem is people by not choosing to reproduce, they don't make future Catholics anymore but it's the church's own fault they're losing adepts in big quantities every day.
What I've known and seen in my country is that very few clergymen genuinely care to help the poor or people in need. The church has forgotten the common people and has mostly concentrated on getting rich's people's money by educating the elite. So it's not surprising people have switched to other branches of evangelical Christianity or worship Santa Muerte (Holy Death.)
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Post by HIStoric on Jan 9, 2022 8:11:15 GMT
LMAO. With 8 billion people on Earth the Catholic Church acts like we are at the verge of extinction. They completely lost touch with reality. Lol. Then again, since when isn't the catholic church out of touch. But gee, it's like living costs have been skyrocketing - especially house prices - and many people can't actually afford children like they once might've so they opt to care for something else that is generally cheaper. That and a myriad of other reasons I've seen given in response to this news story.
Also I just love how a guy who hasn't fathered a single child (and apparently should be a virgin) is giving other people shit for not having children lmao. That's what we call a hypocrite.
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Post by respect77 on Jan 9, 2022 8:46:38 GMT
What I've known and seen in my country is that very few clergymen genuinely care to help the poor or people in need. The church has forgotten the common people and has mostly concentrated on getting rich's people's money by educating the elite. So it's not surprising people have switched to other branches of evangelical Christianity or worship Santa Muerte (Holy Death.)
I have never heard of that. What's that? A new cult?
ETA: I looked it up.
I didn't know about this.
I am kind of fascinated by religions and cults and how they are forming. I recently read Lost Scriptures by New Testament scholar Bart D. Eherman ( www.amazon.com/Lost-Scriptures-Books-that-Testament/dp/0195182502 ). It's a collection of early Christian books that didn't make it to the New Testament (apocrypha). It's interesting because along with his other book on the topic, Lost Christianities ( www.amazon.com/Lost-Christianities-Battles-Scripture-Faiths/dp/0195182499 ) which gives a historical overview of all these different early Christian movements it shows how many different forms and interpretations of Christianity existed before it got more organized and taken over by "Orthodox" beliefs that we know more or less identify as Christianity. There are Gnostic Christian scriptures, for example, that read like Greek mythology where there are many gods and divine beings, out of which Yahve (or Yaltabaoth, as they called him) is an ignorant, arrogant god who created the physical world out of ignorance, thinking he is the one and only god, but being so wrong about it. LOL. Or there's the Infancy Gospel of Thomas which is about the childhood of Jesus. Now, the purpose of the ancient author was definitely to portray Jesus as so divine and mighty that he could already perform miracles as a child. But in the process he managed to portray Jesus as a completely insufferable little brat. Damien in the movie Omen has nothing on him! LOL. When he's accidentally pushed by another child while playing he just makes the other child drop dead. He drives his teachers to the verge of a nervous breakdown by being an arrogant smartass. People are actually scared of him because he has anger issues and he will just make people drop dead if they do or say something he doesn't like.
There were also the Ebionites (who IMO were probably closest to what the historical Jesus might have believed in), who were Jewish-Christians and believed that you have to become a Jew to become a Christian: ie. keep the Jewish law, get circumcised etc. It was the apostle Paul's revolutionary idea that helped to spread and popularize Christianity, ie. that you don't have to do any of that burdensome stuff to be a Christian.
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Post by mjjfan810 on Mar 12, 2022 12:33:13 GMT
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Post by Michaels Lover on Jun 27, 2022 9:37:47 GMT
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Post by Michaels Lover on Sept 19, 2022 10:56:36 GMT
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Post by Michaels Lover on Dec 1, 2022 12:01:25 GMT
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Post by Michaels Lover on Feb 1, 2023 11:31:50 GMT
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Post by MattyJam on Mar 20, 2023 17:50:45 GMT
Not an atheist, but this made me laugh:  |
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Post by respect77 on Mar 21, 2023 12:04:23 GMT
Actually I find it a lot more sad that this is what many atheist influencers have become. (I mean Mehta who's behind the Friendly Atheist website.)
If ideology is more important to you than scientific facts than maybe you are not that much better than the religious folks you so love to criticize.
The replies in this thread however are mostly golden. There's nothing wrong in what Dawkins said, it's a scientific fact. (And before anyone starts: no, intersex is not a third sex. It's a birth defect.)
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Post by Snow White on Mar 22, 2023 2:21:02 GMT
Then Mehta didn't understand Richard Dawkins' books, whether woke people like it or not,sex is binary. There wasn't anything inaccurate about what Dawkins said in that clip.
If by not denying science and biology makes me a bigot, I'm happy to be a bigoted atheist who isn't afraid of the facts but I'm frankly tired of trans activists and some trans men and women hijacking womanhood, our rights and reducing us to random body parts and bodily functions (birthing person, chest feeder, people who menstruate, etc.)
JK Rowling was right all along, there was nothing transphobic about what she originally tweeted in 2020. Even these people are a minority and many transsexuals themselves don't agree with the current trans movement and what they stand for, these activists are trying to erase women out of the equation. It feels like new repackaged misogyny.
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Post by aazzaabb on Mar 22, 2023 9:12:26 GMT
Then Mehta didn't understand Richard Dawkins' books, whether woke people like it or not,sex is binary. There wasn't anything inaccurate about what Dawkins said in that clip. If by not denying science and biology makes me a bigot, I'm happy to be a bigoted atheist who isn't afraid of the facts but I'm frankly tired of trans activists and some trans men and women hijacking womanhood, our rights and reducing us to random body parts and bodily functions (birthing person, chest feeder, people who menstruate, etc.) JK Rowling was right all along, there was nothing transphobic about what she originally tweeted in 2020. Even these people are a minority and many transsexuals themselves don't agree with the current trans movement and what they stand for, these activists are trying to erase women out of the equation. It feels like new repackaged misogyny. Agree with you one hundred percent. It’s absolutely pathetic! |
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Post by Michaels Lover on Apr 3, 2023 9:23:12 GMT
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