What Would an Evangelical Christian Country Be Like

[Don't Bogart]

Alabama pastor who raped, impregnated and married 14-year-old won't face jail time: report

On Friday, The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama pastor who raped, impregnated, and married a teenage girl will not face jail time, after cutting a plea deal with prosecutors."Jason Greathouse, who used to minister in Enterprise but now lives in Tennessee, reached a deal with the Coffee...

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What's Alabama law? They should have upped they're position.

 

[mooray]

Religion is for morons.

Maybe, except if you had the awareness to know you're a moron that couldn't function without it, then you're kind of not a moron.

 

[CunningCanuk]

Maybe, except if you had the awareness to know you're a moron that couldn't function without it, then you're kind of not a moron.

Okay, I had to read that a couple of times. I say still a moron.

 

[Don't Bogart]

Religion is for morons.

So... what religion do you belong to?

 

[mooray]

It's funny, I often see people that were raised with religion having a hard time comprehending the notion of not having a religion.

 

[HGCC]

That's a joke right? I honestly can't tell.

Its so hard to tell satire from the actual views of the Republicans these days.

The only thing I know for sure is that I want nothing to do with those women.

Edit: Yikes. You would think you could do a little checking and see if it is a parody - but it just muddied the water even more. So I went to yootube comments on the video. If it is a parody, the commenters certainly don't know it. Maybe it started out as one but made enough money that it isn't anymore. I don't know. I just don't know. Goddamn, the fact that this isn't understood as parody when it really seems like it is ("we'll probably send a man to the sun?") makes me really embarrassed for us.

I have some inlaws that didn't really grasp Talladega Nights was making fun of some Nascar aspects. They got that it was a comedy, loved it actually, but the jokes hit in an entirely different manner. Whatever floats boats

It's funny, I often see people that were raised with religion having a hard time comprehending the notion of not having a religion.

It blew people's minds when I was a kid that I just didn't have any. It wasn't that i left any sort of religion, I was raised with none. Just that people believed in various things we did not.

 

[Fogdog]

Ok, let's say they win, end democracy in America and install the Jesus-lovin' dictator we all know they want. What would that be like?

What would it have been like on Middle Earth if Sauron had won?

 

[hanimmal]

It's funny, I often see people that were raised with religion having a hard time comprehending the notion of not having a religion.

That is why I really dislike the attempts to apply some explanation of religion label non-religious folks. Atheist/Agnostic IMO are just basically slander words.

 

[hillbill]

That is why I really dislike the attempts to apply some explanation of religion label non-religious folks. Atheist/Agnostic IMO are just basically slander words.

They can be used like that, and are being used in that way in many Fundamentalist (Evangelical) Protestant pulpits right now on this fine Sunday morning.
I consider myself a Christian Agnostic.

 

[potroastV2]

They can be used like that, and are being used in that way in many Fundamentalist (Evangelical) Protestant pulpits right now on this fine Sunday morning.
I consider myself a Christian Agnostic.

Well then, I consider that to be an oxymoron.

 

[Fogdog]

They can be used like that, and are being used in that way in many Fundamentalist (Evangelical) Protestant pulpits right now on this fine Sunday morning.
I consider myself a Christian Agnostic.

Do Christians allow that?

 

[hillbill]

Do Christians allow that?

Do I give a shit?

 

[hillbill]

Well then, I consider that to be an oxymoron.

Oxymoronic speech is systemic in religion so why not?

 

[Fogdog]

Do I give a shit?

I don't think so.

What is the difference between a Christian agnostic and a humanist?

 

[CatHedral]

I don't think so.

I don't understand the difference between a Christian agnostic and a humanist.

I think of myself as plain agnostic. I do not feel that the term is a slur. Imo you are agnostic or Christian but not both.

 

[Fogdog]

I think of myself as plain agnostic. I do not feel that the term is a slur. Imo you are agnostic or Christian but not both.

I don't even concede a possibility there is a supernatural being who created everything.

 

[CunningCanuk]

I’m an atheist. You can call me an atheist, I don’t consider it a slur.

 

[CatHedral]

I don't even concede a possibility there is a supernatural being who created everything.

I toe the agnostic line. If there is a divine principle, it is so far beyond my understanding that to practice religious tasks is at best using energy that belongs to the mundane.

 

[mooray]

It blew people's minds when I was a kid that I just didn't have any. It wasn't that i left any sort of religion, I was raised with none. Just that people believed in various things we did not.

Can I asked what part of the country you grew up in? Growing up in NorCal, it was backwards from yours, where it was unusual for anyone in our group to go to church. We never talked about it or really even thought about it.

 

[CatHedral]

Can I asked what part of the country you grew up in? Growing up in NorCal, it was backwards from yours, where it was unusual for anyone in our group to go to church. We never talked about it or really even thought about it.

Coastal NorCal is one thing. Valley and east are a whole ‘nother.