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Author Topic:   I Know That God Does Not Exist
Dredge
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Message 2790 of 3207 (894691)
05-26-2022 9:45 PM
Reply to: Message 2781 by ringo
05-26-2022 11:57 AM


Re: Fixed it for you Phat.
ringo writes:
You're completely missing the point of the *****. She refused the "blessings" sent by her fellow humans and stupidly waited for God to poof her out of trouble.
And it didn't happen. She died at the end of the *****.
I could tell about the time God "poofed" me out of trouble by literally saving my life by warning me audibly of an unseen danger that I was a few seconds away from ... but I won't, because you'd dismiss it as a fantasy or a lie or a manifestation of mental illness.
I could also tell you about a full-on vision I had that showed me the future in precise detail ... but I won't, because you'd dismiss it as a fantasy or a lie or a manifestation of mental illness.
Apparently, the machine doesn't want me to use the word, "s-t-o-r-y" (*****)

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Dredge
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Message 2822 of 3207 (894790)
05-29-2022 8:23 PM
Reply to: Message 2686 by PaulK
09-16-2020 1:14 PM


Re: Religion for the Non-Religious
PaulK writes:
I’d suggest that religion is as often a barrier to growth as a sign of it
Religion didn't stunt my growth - I'm 6'3". My uncle was a Catholic priest and he was 6'2".

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Dredge
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Message 2825 of 3207 (894801)
05-30-2022 12:47 AM
Reply to: Message 2824 by kjsimons
05-30-2022 12:19 AM


Re: Religion for the Non-Religious
kjsimons writes:
Well it certainly stunted your intellectual growth as witnessed by your inane response.
Yes, you may well have a point - my IQ has been measured as less than 10 and I do have a fragile, eggshell mind.

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Dredge
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Message 2828 of 3207 (894848)
05-31-2022 6:36 AM
Reply to: Message 2793 by AZPaul3
05-27-2022 1:03 AM


Re: Wacko
AZPaul3 writes:
Dredge, you really don't want to tell anyone of these "experiences" of yours. They really are a result of coincidence and to claim supernatural origins is, indeed, a result of mental defect. Especially the "full on vision" episode which involves delusional hallucination and requires the intervention of a psychiatrist.
To be clear, it is not only the delusional hallucination episodes that are the great concern here but that you hear voices and see visions that tell you to do things and you do them. That is the story of every murderous religious psychopath in history.
Your profound wisdom and knowledge seem super-human.
If you continue to insist they are real then you could lose your job.
That would be terrible.
No one wants a demented religious wacko on staff.
So true.

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Dredge
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Message 2829 of 3207 (894849)
05-31-2022 6:57 AM
Reply to: Message 2800 by ringo
05-27-2022 12:36 PM


Re: Fixed it for you Phat.
ringo writes:
I could tell YOU a story:
In 1973, I was working with another fellow up at the lake - fifty miles from nowhere - in the dead of a Saskatchewan winter. At quitting time, the car wouldn't start. It turned out that the spark was shooting through a hole in the distributer cap and shorting out against the engine. We had a key to the one building that had a fireplace and we were contemplating spending the night when a car came down the hill. A friend of my co-worker happened to be in the area and decided to drop by to say hello. We hitched a ride back to the city with him.
I would call that ... a coincidence.
Wow. That's heavy ... and deep. Thank you for that amazing story.
If your vision came true, I'd be impressed.
It did come true - almost immediately. Be impressed - I certainly was.
But the voice was more impressive, because it saved my life.
You must be a really evil miscreant if you're not allowed to say "story".
I reckon! No doubt, my punishment is right, just and thoroughly deserved.
Try "teddy bear".
teddy bear

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Message 2830 of 3207 (894850)
05-31-2022 7:04 AM
Reply to: Message 2816 by nwr
05-28-2022 4:06 PM


Re: Ringo and Jar. Two peas in a pod
Got any idea how many hospitals and charities the Catholic Church has created worldwide?

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Dredge
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Message 2836 of 3207 (894865)
05-31-2022 12:04 PM
Reply to: Message 2834 by dwise1
05-31-2022 11:48 AM


Re: Ringo and Jar. Two peas in a pod
dwise1 writes:
In college he had been a fundamentalist Christian. Surrounded every day by evidence that contradicted his beliefs, he had to maintain a blind eye all the time to filter out reality. That took a heavy toll on him so one day out of exhaustion he applied the Matthew 7:20 Test to his religion. Yes, it did so some good things like hospitals and charities, but it also did many bad things. And in presenting the Matthew 7:20 Test Jesus did stipulate that even one single bad thing produced by a religion makes the entire religion evil. So he became "a complete atheist and total humanist" (his own words) and is far more spiritually fulfilled than he had ever been as a Christian, far more than he ever could have been.
Thank you so much for this truly beautiful story of human redemption. It has moved me to tears. Can you see them?
Does the Catholic Church pass the "Matthew 7:20 Test"?

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Dredge
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Message 2838 of 3207 (894868)
05-31-2022 12:20 PM
Reply to: Message 2834 by dwise1
05-31-2022 11:48 AM


Re: Ringo and Jar. Two peas in a pod
dwise1 writes:
On progressive radio regarding the recent anti-abortion anti-life advances in the USA, a caller related the story from 30 years ago of a friend whose fetus had died. She was bleeding and would have died soon if that dead fetus weren't removed. Her husband took her to the ER of a Catholic hospital and they refused to treat her because that would have been an abortion. They were literally willing to let her die in agony. Her husband had to search desperately for a hospital that would save his wife's life and thankfully succeeded.
Complete bullshit, of course. If the doctors at that Catholic hospital knew the fetus was dead, they would have had no ethical objection to removing it.
On progressive radio
... a euphemism for a bunch of Loony Left atheists who typically hate the Catholic Church and love everything that is sleazy and unclean. We've got the same species of deceitful, left-wing trash down here in Australia.

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Dredge
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Message 2840 of 3207 (894870)
05-31-2022 12:35 PM
Reply to: Message 2834 by dwise1
05-31-2022 11:48 AM


Re: Ringo and Jar. Two peas in a pod
dwise1 writes:
In the Matthew 7:20 Test Jesus was very uncompromising: even just one single wicked consequence of a religion makes the whole religion wicked. Totally black and white, not one single hint of gray to it.
How did you come up with this idiotic interpretation of Scripture?
Your "hospitals and charities" count for nothing to Jesus.
A Bible dunce has spoken ...

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Dredge
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Message 2841 of 3207 (894871)
05-31-2022 12:37 PM
Reply to: Message 2837 by jar
05-31-2022 12:11 PM


Re: Ringo and Jar. Two peas in a pod
jar writes:
In fact almost no Christian (maybe absolutely none) can pass the Matt 20 test which is pointed out explicitly in Matt 25 where the followers of Jesus are judged as Goats while atheists and most non Abrahamic religions are judged as sheep.
Hilarious.

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Message 2858 of 3207 (895513)
07-04-2022 7:30 PM
Reply to: Message 2723 by FLRW
03-27-2021 4:09 PM


Re: You The Man
FLRW writes:
If you search for the most intelligent person to ever live, you will find the name William James Sidis. If you look up information on him you will find: In 1919, Sidis was arrested for participating in a socialist May Day parade in Boston that turned violent.
That fact that Sidis was a socialist proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that, far from being "the most intelligent person to ever live", he was an idiot.
A socialist - by defintion - has sh_t for brains.

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Dredge
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Message 2859 of 3207 (895514)
07-04-2022 8:55 PM
Reply to: Message 2722 by AZPaul3
03-26-2021 12:29 AM


Re: You The Man
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Dredge
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Message 2860 of 3207 (895515)
07-04-2022 8:55 PM
Reply to: Message 2722 by AZPaul3
03-26-2021 12:29 AM


Re: You The Man
AZPaul3 writes:
I cannot accept a belief statement. I need the science to accept and approve such a statement.
Anyone who believes reality is confined to the parameters of modern science is an ignoramus of exceptional quality.
I am not just atheist I am anti-theist.
Hey, no kidding?! The mere mention of God sends you into an apoplectic fit of mouth-frothing rage and malevolence.
You're like a hate-speech-spewing human version of Pavlov's dog.

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Dredge
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Message 2868 of 3207 (895560)
07-05-2022 9:45 PM
Reply to: Message 2865 by Theodoric
07-05-2022 9:21 AM


Re: You The Man
That's odd ... a few years ago, someone on this site called me a "c..t" (except he used the full spelling) and no one batted an eyelid.

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Dredge
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Message 2869 of 3207 (895561)
07-05-2022 10:23 PM
Reply to: Message 2867 by ringo
07-05-2022 11:50 AM


Re: You The Man
"Dredge" writes:
A socialist - by defintion - has sh_t for brains.
ringo writes:
In what dictionary?
The IQ of your average socialist can perhaps be judged by the fact that Jim Jones (1931-78), of "Jonestown" fame, was far and away the most intelligent socialist who ever lived.

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