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by klr » Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:13 am
Scumple wrote:Anyone wants to discuss religion seriously now must confront absolute mockery rare on even the most secular boards. Is Rationalia overlooking a key-strength here though?
What's this "Today" business? We're as tolerant (or as intolerant) as we've always been. As constant as the Northern Star.
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by laklak » Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:40 am
Yeah, well, 50,000 years ago it was the Eastern Star. Or something like that.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by JimC » Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:51 am
Why wait until he dies?
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by Seth » Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:11 am
Scumple wrote:JimC wrote:Mockery is a perfectly reasonable response to delusions of faith...
...even so, it is not the best way to move people along. People become defensive when mocked, they are serious then and angry. The thing is to offer better spectacles, better traditions, better mysteries. Births, marriages and funerals...own these and religion falls over. If the secular world can organise to put a occupied coffin in deep space, say Richard Dawkins after he dies, then a statement would have been made religion would find hard to answer. We are beings of emotion and awe is one emotion that sways opinion, more than mockery.
Do we have to wait until AFTER he dies?
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by laklak » Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:55 pm
Don't know about the rest of you but I'm spiritual as all fuck. Drank half a bottle of Tullamore Dew last night.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by JimC » Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:47 pm
Seth wrote:Scumple wrote:JimC wrote:Mockery is a perfectly reasonable response to delusions of faith...
...even so, it is not the best way to move people along. People become defensive when mocked, they are serious then and angry. The thing is to offer better spectacles, better traditions, better mysteries. Births, marriages and funerals...own these and religion falls over. If the secular world can organise to put a occupied coffin in deep space, say Richard Dawkins after he dies, then a statement would have been made religion would find hard to answer. We are beings of emotion and awe is one emotion that sways opinion, more than mockery.
Do we have to wait until AFTER he dies?
L8...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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by klr » Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:41 pm
laklak wrote:Don't know about the rest of you but I'm spiritual as all fuck. Drank half a bottle of Tullamore Dew last night.
I don't drink, but that's an Irish brew if ever I heard of one.
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by Seth » Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:32 am
laklak wrote:Don't know about the rest of you but I'm spiritual as all fuck. Drank half a bottle of Tullamore Dew last night.
I think that's "spiritous."
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by pErvinalia » Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:43 am
I'm spirited in my hate of conservatives.
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by laklak » Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:55 am
I'm drunk, I need to go home.
Fuck, I am home. OK, I'm drunk and need to go to bed.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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