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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined:
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ringo writes:
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. 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 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 Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
PaulK writes:
Religion didn't stunt my growth - I'm 6'3". My uncle was a Catholic priest and he was 6'2".
I’d suggest that religion is as often a barrier to growth as a sign of it
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined:
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kjsimons writes:
Yes, you may well have a point - my IQ has been measured as less than 10 and I do have a fragile, eggshell mind. Well it certainly stunted your intellectual growth as witnessed by your inane response.Edited by Dredge, .
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
AZPaul3 writes:
Your profound wisdom and knowledge seem super-human.
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.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.Edited by Dredge, .
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
ringo writes:
Wow. That's heavy ... and deep. Thank you for that amazing story.
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. 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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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Got any idea how many hospitals and charities the Catholic Church has created worldwide?
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
Thank you so much for this truly beautiful story of human redemption. It has moved me to tears. Can you see them? 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. Does the Catholic Church pass the "Matthew 7:20 Test"?
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
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 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.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 Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
How did you come up with this idiotic interpretation of Scripture?
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.Your "hospitals and charities" count for nothing to Jesus.
A Bible dunce has spoken ...
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
jar writes:
Hilarious.
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.
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
FLRW writes:
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. 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. A socialist - by defintion - has sh_t for brains.Edited by Dredge, . Edited by Dredge, . Edited by Dredge, .
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
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AZPaul3 writes:
Anyone who believes reality is confined to the parameters of modern science is an ignoramus of exceptional quality.
I cannot accept a belief statement. I need the science to accept and approve such a statement.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 Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
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 Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
"Dredge" writes:
A socialist - by defintion - has sh_t for brains.
ringo writes:
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.
In what dictionary?
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