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  • Originally posted by robrecht View Post
    Is it typically for health reasons or something else?
    The claim by those who are vegan, is health reasons either/or ethical/religious reasons to not eat any animal products. The health argument is questionable scientifically.
    Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
    Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
    But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

    go with the flow the river knows . . .

    Frank

    I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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    • Originally posted by robrecht View Post
      I live in a rural area with many family farms and backyard chicken koops. A few of our friends give us eggs. No harm to the environment or global warming. The chickens are oftentimes treated like pets and are well cared for. There's also a dairy farm across the street. My kids love the cows, but the farmer doesn't give us any milk.
      I also get free eggs from a backyard chicken coop. As far as environmental and climate change concerns go, the dairy industry is certainly much much higher up the ladder of importance than free ranging chickens. Dairy farming is one of the biggest industries in my country and its environmental impacts are frequently discussed here - methane and CO2 emissions, water usage, nitrate usage, effluent run-off, cadmium accumulation etc. The current hopefully-to-be-voted-out-this-year right-wing government is trying to make the rivers here "swimmable" by loosening the definition of the word rather than by stopping their dairy-farmer voters from polluting all the rivers with farm run-off.
      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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      • Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
        In my opinion, there are only two worldviews that are consistent with all the evidence given to one: solipsism, or theism.

        To a consistent solipsist, I can offer no rational argument to help them. Only prayers.
        Given to you, perhaps.
        I'm not here anymore.

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        • Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
          They objectively could not because they are both widely available and didn't.
          She didn't use them. If she did this wouldn't be a problem.
          Blog: Atheism and the City

          If your whole worldview rests on a particular claim being true, you damn well better have evidence for it. You should have tons of evidence.

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          • Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
            I've a friend who has tried for the longest time to adopt an adorable little girl from a very broken home.
            Because she works with the family she knows the home situation very well and she knows the truth of what is happening.

            The mother just pumped out her 9th child (5 different fathers) and swore in court that she didn't know who is the father.
            She knows, but if she tells the court he'll be forced to pay child support and he doesn't work - since the father is 'unknown' the state picks up the bill.
            The father will probably pump out another 5 kids with the woman and the court will continue to play stupid.

            So before we move onto murdering people how about we start holding people accountable for the babies they make?
            If they got an abortion or used birth control there wouldn't be any babies for them to be responsible for. It prevents the whole problem. Duh.
            Blog: Atheism and the City

            If your whole worldview rests on a particular claim being true, you damn well better have evidence for it. You should have tons of evidence.

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            • Originally posted by The Thinker View Post
              If they got an abortion or used birth control there wouldn't be any babies for them to be responsible for. It prevents the whole problem. Duh.
              It is pretty clear that you've not the faintest idea as to the nature of the problem.
              Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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              • Originally posted by The Thinker View Post
                If they got an abortion or used birth control there wouldn't be any babies for them to be responsible for. It prevents the whole problem. Duh.
                You're not the brightest bulb on the Christmas Tree, huh? The only thing birth control and abortion does is keep affluent people from having as many kids while people, like that women, keep having kids for meal tickets.
                "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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                • Originally posted by Carrikature View Post
                  Given to you, perhaps.
                  No, given to anyone. That is unless you claim to have a transcendent experience somehow, then that's a claim that has to be dealt with on a one by one basis. Usually by finding out what weed a person has been smoking.

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                  • Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
                    Do we expect people who are atheist to hold to Christian morals?
                    I don't even expect Christians to hold to Christian morals.
                    Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.

                    MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
                    MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.

                    seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...

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                    • Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
                      It is pretty clear that you've not the faintest idea as to the nature of the problem.
                      I know the problem very well. You don't it seems.
                      Blog: Atheism and the City

                      If your whole worldview rests on a particular claim being true, you damn well better have evidence for it. You should have tons of evidence.

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                      • Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
                        You're not the brightest bulb on the Christmas Tree, huh? The only thing birth control and abortion does is keep affluent people from having as many kids while people, like that women, keep having kids for meal tickets.
                        You're not the brightest bulb in the anti-abortion meeting room, huh?

                        My statement has nothing to do with whether rich people or poor people have more abortions. It simply states that if she got an abortion or used birth control, and if people like her did, this kind of problem wouldn't exist. You're too stupid to follow that basic logic.
                        Blog: Atheism and the City

                        If your whole worldview rests on a particular claim being true, you damn well better have evidence for it. You should have tons of evidence.

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                        • Originally posted by The Thinker View Post
                          You're not the brightest bulb in the anti-abortion meeting room, huh?

                          My statement has nothing to do with whether rich people or poor people have more abortions. It simply states that if she got an abortion or used birth control, and if people like her did, this kind of problem wouldn't exist. You're too stupid to follow that basic logic.
                          If someone had run her over with a car when she was 10 this problem wouldn't exist either. derp.

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                          • Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                            If someone had run her over with a car when she was 10 this problem wouldn't exist either. derp.
                            If she had abstained from sex, the problem wouldn't exist.

                            But abstinence "doesn't work."
                            I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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                            • Originally posted by The Thinker View Post
                              If they got an abortion or used birth control there wouldn't be any babies for them to be responsible for. It prevents the whole problem. Duh.
                              Murdering your wife would eliminate the problem of divorce. So that must be okay by you, eh?
                              Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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                              • Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                                If someone had run her over with a car when she was 10 this problem wouldn't exist either. derp.
                                Except a 10 year old is born.
                                Blog: Atheism and the City

                                If your whole worldview rests on a particular claim being true, you damn well better have evidence for it. You should have tons of evidence.

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