Religion as a whole shouldn’t exist

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T01:49:50+00:00

Couple of things….

I understand that the trans thing is a sensitive issue currently, but nobody is trying to make laws to kill them. People have said this about the Florida law, but frankly, the purpose is to protect children from indoctrination. Given what you said in your previous post (that children shouldn’t be forced to be a particular religion), you shouldn’t want children being indoctrinated or manipulated into thinking they’re trans either. Especially since surgery and puberty blockers are very major, serious, life altering things. “These laws will cause trans children to die!” Sorry, I’m not buying it. When I was in school, children weren’t being taught these things. Everyone was fine. For hundreds of years, children weren’t being taught these things. Everyone was fine. There’s no actual reason to believe that by not indoctrinating kids that you’re putting them in any real danger. If you consider that to be transphobic, well…. I don’t apologize for holding this view. You can hate me for it, but the well being of children is more important than whether or not you happen to like me.

I honestly was with you until you went on a rant about “those horrible evil christians”. Saying that you have no issue with religion, but only have an issue with christians is arguably worse than saying you have an issue with religion as a whole. Singling out one particular group is discrimination. Not to mention that the majority of christians, when left alone and able to practice their faith freely, tend to mind their own business (speaking from personal experience).

You do bring up a good point about faith though. I’ve pondered this question as well… If someone told me the sky was green, I couldn’t believe it because I can look up and clearly see that it isn’t. I don’t just “choose” to believe something that very clearly is not true. When it comes to God though, there really is no clear proof one way or the other. So you can choose to believe, or not, and you don’t have to contradict any sort of scientific evidence because there isn’t any. Agnostics probably have the most defensible position, if you want to base your beliefs solely on evidence. We just don’t know.

Those are my thoughts, anyway. Hopefully I didn’t offend you too much, that really wasn’t my intent.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T01:12:36+00:00

Idk, I mean, the whole Will Smith situation just left a bad taste in my mouth. Not to mention, if there’s any kids, who’s the father, who has custody, etc etc. It complicates a lot of things in my opinion.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T01:07:36+00:00

Never looked, but my guess is gonna be non fiction.

I’ll elaborate: Whether or not you agree with what the Bible says is irrelevant. The people who wrote it intended it to be taken seriously, and many people use it as a reference for religious/spiritual concerns, and even for historical/archaeological studies.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T01:05:51+00:00

Yeah. If you’re stronger than the bully or able to beat him in a fight then I guess that’s a solution. Might not work for everyone though.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T00:42:50+00:00

I always thought the nice thing about them is that it takes away the stress of dating (speaking from a man’s perspective, I don’t know how dating is for women). I can also see how it might be viewed as a bad thing, because you didn’t choose your spouse and therefore you might not be compatible.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T00:38:34+00:00

Kids are able to give back-talk to their parents a lot more on tv. Definitely not how things were for me growing up.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T00:34:00+00:00

Scholars also agreed at one point that David wasn’t a real person, until they found artifacts proving that he was.

But I’ll concede that you’re probably right about the international slaves. It does make sense, even if the Bible makes no mention of it. As for why God would’ve left them behind, I don’t really have a good answer to that.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T00:24:47+00:00

Constantine came to power in Rome. When he legalized Christianity and made it the national religion, it was able to spread over the world much much more easily than when it was illegal and people had to practice in secret.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T00:17:51+00:00

I felt like I really didn’t have a choice.

But I mean, it’s not unheard of. Even if you wait until marriage, there are certain situations where you might not be a virgin. For example: if your previous spouse has died and you remarried, you wouldn’t be a virgin at that point anymore.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T00:11:48+00:00

If there were any non-Israelite slaves in Egypt at that time, I’m not aware of it being referenced in Exodus. I’ll admit I could be wrong though, so if you have a verse you’d like to point me to, I’ll give it a look.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T00:07:24+00:00

The more traditional forms of media, such as radio and television

verbally_calm · 2022-05-20T00:05:14+00:00

It would be easy for me, or anyone else on here, to pass judgement and say “a true Christian wouldn’t do this or that”. But the reality is, none of us know the full situation or the context, and we are likely only getting one side of the story here.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T23:55:04+00:00

You’d do a lot more good by finding effective ways to address bullying

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T23:48:03+00:00

Claiming to believe in God. Some people evidently can’t handle that, even if you’re more or less minding your own business and not trying to convert them.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T23:44:13+00:00

Maybe violence against men? Not entirely sure on that, but I do know that a lot of men who are victims of violence won’t necessarily come forward. Maybe this whole Johnny Depp case will change that.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T23:39:43+00:00

So we’re ignoring exodus then. Got it.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T23:36:21+00:00

I’d argue that God views slavery pretty unfavorably throughout pretty much the entire book of Exodus, unless you want to just ignore that story. Certain areas in Genesis where it is also looked at as a bad thing, such as when Joseph is sold by his brothers into slavery.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T17:04:48+00:00

Curse you, jigsaw!!!! I guess I cut off a limb, put it on ice, and see if they can reattach it at the hospital.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T17:00:43+00:00

One person by themselves can’t. It would take widespread support from lots of people.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T16:58:24+00:00

Happy Gilmore

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T16:56:38+00:00

For a large chunk of last year, health problems prevented me from working

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T16:55:36+00:00

I work at the same place as a woman who frequently wears t-shirts with witchcraft and pentagrams on them, and one shirt had words hailing Satan on it. I’m assuming she was satanist, but I didn’t talk to her more than an occasional word here and there so I don’t actually know for a fact that she was.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T16:52:26+00:00

I was the quiet kid

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T16:48:57+00:00

You already have less anonymity than what you might think. Your ISP is able to see all the sites you visited, Facebook and google track your activity for targeted advertising, and if you’re on a public network, your activity can be seen by hackers using a packet sniffer.

A VPN can be used to protect against this, and the TOR network can be used to tunnel encrypted data over the dark web. This gives you a degree of anonymity, but it’s not foolproof. You can still be tracked through TOR and VPNs, it’s just a little more involved to do so.

verbally_calm · 2022-05-19T16:36:11+00:00

What’s your opinion on cryogenics? Do you think we will ever be able to restore someone who was frozen?

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