October 2011 Screwballs

[Christy]

What do you all think about this survey:
http://pewforum.org/other-beliefs-an...ge-survey.aspx ?

[Rational Gaze]

Seen it before. Atheists no more about other faiths, but Christians know the most about Christianity.

[Christy]

Some guy on IMDb keeps pointing to this to say that atheists know more about Christianity than Christians.

[Teluog]

Prior Amazon fluffhead says, to my remark that "experience" is not a marker of religious truth:



Why is it these dolts always draw from the "pride" well when asked to validate their claims?

Because it is your pride that prevents you from having experiences with God. Take Jonah for example, he was completely humble.

[Teluog]

Some guy on IMDb keeps pointing to this to say that atheists know more about Christianity than Christians.

That might actually be true in many cases, because many Christians don't know a whole lot. But then many atheists don't know a whole lot either.

[Mountain Man]

Some guy on IMDb keeps pointing to this to say that atheists know more about Christianity than Christians.

That might be true of some atheists and Christians, but it's certainly not true of all of them.

[Christy]

I wanted to ask if somebody smarter than me could respond in this thread http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/.../189156552?p=1

[wildrow12]

What do you all think about this survey:
http://pewforum.org/other-beliefs-an...ge-survey.aspx ?

Exactly what Rational Gaze said. If he/she is using it to say that Atheists know more about Christianity, than he/she obviously did not read the study (since it says the exact opposite). Nothing like an NA who makes appeals to science but doesn't bother to understand it.

[wildrow12]

No self-respecting atheist would willingly place his child in a school where the child will undoubtedly be indoctrinated into a mind-numbing false religion.

If that's the case than why do so many atheists extol the virtues of private Catholic schools or other religious academies (guys like Baggini, no less)? Answer: because those atheists aren't a pack of ideological fanatics like the NAs and recognize a superior education when they see one, no matter where it comes from.

(Of course, coming from an NA, it is no surprise he/she said "false religion", obviously intending to indoctrinate his/her own children into their own religion "fanatical atheism").

[Benson Shays]

More fallout from my blog post about "Hate" in Luke:

The “appeal to authority” (which you did, when you stated “The information in my post came directly from scholarly sources “) is not in itself evidence of anything, nor it a logical position of any value, since you are only saying, in effect, “someone said.” To which any rational response is “So what?” Why should anyone value scholarly sources in and of themselves – why should their alleged scholarly status afford them any greater status than a valid point in argument?
Please note that the appeal to authority is a logical fallacy.
Try again.

If you’re very interested in using scholarly authority as a basis for fact, perhaps we could talk about evolution.

The administrator is right, though. The fact that there is an obscure linguistic justification of sorts for some of these passages doesn’t make them less problematic in the hands of your typical Christian. How many Christians today take the time to concern themselves with the fact that the Bible doesn’t tell them to treat homosexuals in a discriminatory manner, and in fact tells them the opposite? How many Christians gave a thought to context when burning witches, taking slaves, subjugating women, and slaughtering children? Why would they bother? The scripture to support their decision is right there in the Bible.

Oh, how fun.

[Teluog]

Nomination to this one 17-year old from work who, when he came in to work, goes "wassup? You gettin' any of them Bible College ladies?" And then proceeded to exclaim how he wants to get in bed with a pastor's daughter at some point in his life just for the experience, like his buddy did to some Pentecostal girl.

Sometimes I wish fire and brimstone would just rain down on Western civilization.

[Christy]

I didn't mean to say that I was smarter than anybody when I said that.

[Christy]

Exactly what Rational Gaze said. If he/she is using it to say that Atheists know more about Christianity, than he/she obviously did not read the study (since it says the exact opposite). Nothing like an NA who makes appeals to science but doesn't bother to understand it.

I put that on the thread. I know they'll probably keep responding, and I'm not smart enough to debate people on the internet. I'll just leave it alone.

[Thersites]

I put that on the thread. I know they'll probably keep responding, and I'm not smart enough to debate people on the internet. I'll just leave it alone.

If there's anything I've learned in my time on the Internet, there's no such thing as being too stupid to argue with people on the Internet.

Don't worry about not being good at polemical stuff. If you love God with all your heart, soul, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself, you're doing exactly what God expects of you.

[ukchristian28]

Youtuber Adrenacrumb said this to my friend KabaneTheChristian:

"Unless the entire internet is wrong then I think you are making yourself look like an idiot. All you have to do is search anti-semitism is early church fathers and it is everywhere."