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So Stupid

Nate

answering-religious-errorSaw this today on Facebook and my blood started to boil. First of all, it was “liked” by one of my family members — a person who won’t discuss our differences. It really ticks me off to see her “like” a statement about truth, when she won’t defend that same statement.

Secondly, the quote says that a preacher would rather offend thousands than to fail to preach the truth to even one individual. Sadly, preachers don’t realize that they’re doing both the entire time.

Finally, if you bother to check out Answering Religious Error, it’s like shifting into another dimension. Each post is wrangling over some trivial detail, seemingly oblivious to the deluge of information that makes their entire stance irrelevant. I say “seemingly” rather than “completely,” because apologists of this stripe often do know some of the information that contradicts their stance, but they try very hard to keep their followers from discovering it.

I’ve gotten some flak over the years for the name of my blog, but I view “finding truth” as something aspirational — I’m not claiming to have found it. But “Answering Religious Error” definitely comes across as arrogant, especially when they’re so demonstrably wrong.

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257 thoughts on “So Stupid”

  1. Rat,

    I never said that being middle-eastern is bad. Please re-read my statement. I said that the Christian story is nothing but a middle-eastern superstition, just as the god Thor is a Scandinavian superstition. That last statement does not infer that being Scandinavian is bad.

    Please do not insinuate that I am a bigot when I am most definitely not.

    Thanks.

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  3. stupid Christians. stupid, stupid, stupid.
    and that goddamn pope running around all over America saying bullshit how god weeps when children are molested.
    oh, boo fucking hoo, somebody get god a tissue.
    poor crybaby god.
    trust me on this, no one sheds more tears than the molested child.

    Nuke the Vatican.

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  7. no, he’s just as bad as all of them, perpetuating the lie.
    I say we rape the pope hard and long,
    make god cry his goddamn eyes out.

    (forgive me nate, i’m just in a rage at what transpired over the past week.)

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  9. lol, well, i’m really pissed off,
    my sister, an alcoholic whore, just sent her 14yr old son to a Christian boot camp school in another state because he was acting up.
    well, he would have never been acting up if she hadn’t neglected him in order to chase men and booze.
    anyway, he’s being brainwashed and now she’s going to church and after only 3 weeks, she’s full of righteousness and coming down on everyone around her on their “sins”.
    my father and brother are the same way. they fornicated with anything that moved, but then became saved and now condemn everyone, especially the gays.

    and on top of that, the pope, running around America, bashing gays.

    I used to work at a gay bathouse in key west florida, it used to be full of catholic priests.

    i’m so sick of these people. screw them all.
    screw them so hard that god drowns in his own bitter tears.

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  12. Oh Gary – you didn’t do yourself any favors, he hates to be called ‘Rat’!

    I wonder what the Japanese call the Middle East? Aren’t we ‘Westerners’ an egocentric bunch?

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  13. When I don’t hear from you for a time, Paulie, I worry about you – you doing OK? You’re not physically worse, are you? Would you admit it if you were? I know, I know – you don’t want anyone feeling sorry for you and all that drivel —

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  15. “(forgive me nate, i’m just in a rage at what transpired over the past week.)”

    You want to tell us about it, or would you rather just rant?

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  24. haha, thanks again for making me laugh Arch.
    claptrap, been there.

    i’m just really bothered by my sister sending my nephew to that christian boot camp for 15 months. I feel so bad for him, I know they are just filling his head full of nonsense and the only way you can get by in that environment is to agree with everything they say.
    it’s bad enough his mother is a booze hound, now he has to go through this.

    my good buddy Carmen said it best: ” think that’s what bothers me about even the NICEST Christian and their contentions – their convictions are based on a lie. A complete falsehood. A myth.”

    and i’m honestly sick of the lie. people that demonize me and try to control my life because they believe in a fairy tale.
    time to shut them down.

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