Misrepresentation of Christians
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pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(September 06, 2016 05:13 AM)
You should look up the definition of a cult, as you clearly don't understand the meaning. Cults, by definition are small. You say that you hate all religion, yet don't care about the actual doctrines of different religions. This proves you to be a close minded bigot. You say Christians don't condemn violent acts by the very small minority that disobey the teachings of peace new testament Christianity teaches, yet here I am doing it, proving you wrong. I challenge you to find one single teaching of Christ teaching violence. Love your neighborbe charitabletreat others as you want to be treatedOH SUCH VIOLENT TEACHINGS. You just want to justify your bigoted hatred regardless of facts and logic. You've used the term fairy tale which is typical of mindless anti theists. From everything we know about the perpetuation of life and complex systems, thinking life could ultimately come from non life and that complex systems could come from non design is far, far more silly and fictional than the idea of an intelligent creator.
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Loveunderlaw — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 04:46 AM)
MY PARENTS, AUNTS, UNCLES, ETC ACT JUST LIKE MS. CARMODY!!! AND WHAT'S GOING ON IN INDIA AGAINST THE HINDUS, BY THE ABRAHAMICS IS PURELY SHAMEFUL & EVIL IMO.
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Connor_Kenway — 9 years ago(May 28, 2016 09:36 PM)
She was clearly a fanatic. I don't think anyone would doubt that for even a second.
There's a difference between extremists, and rationalists. Both of the polar opposites, will always exist within any given religion, movement or other belief held systems. The extremists, are the ones giving - particularly Islam and Christianity - their religious practice a bad name.
The lady in the movie (forgot her name), was intentionally displayed as being clearly a nutcase right from the beginning; this is further reinforced by some of the locals claiming she was always like this, before the events at the supermarket.
The old biker dude, also made a point of this to the audience, when he said that he too believed in God, but not in the same way she did.
Hey, crazy lady, I believe in God, too. I just don't think he's the bloodthirsty beep you make him out to be.
So I don't think you have anything to prove here. If people are really that naive, to believe all Christians are like this, then there's nothing you can do or say, that will ever change their interpretations. Their minds have been preset already on the subject. -
burnplant — 9 years ago(June 25, 2016 09:16 PM)
Seemed accurate to me.
Maybe if Christians behaved more like Jesus, and less like Carbody, that would have been the depiction.
Maybe you should just stick to complaining about stores not saying "merry Christmas" oh greatest persecuted ones. -
SunshipBalloons2011 — 9 years ago(June 26, 2016 10:45 AM)
There is no hidden disdain for religion here. No need to have this be a us vs. them mindset here.
To me this woman is not depicted as a typical religious person but a mentally ill person who has nonsensical, violent pious ideas. Typical religious people wouldn't fall away this fast or even this easy.
The people that followed her were terrified and happen to be trapped around the charisma of a mentally sick person - much like the way mentally vulnerable people are drawn to the promises of charismatic cult leaders. This is exactly what David's group are discussing when they voice their concerns of Mrs. Caramody's popularity. Additionally, many scientific studies show that almost all people are capable of truly violent and dehumanizing things when they are slowly eased into it, religious or not.
~I even umI ate some of their brains and I tried to cook a little~ -
Chanpuru — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 03:45 PM)
I'd be interested how many people who are not religious would agree with you. I found her frighteningly believable.not because I think all religious people are like that but because by its nature, religion encourages people to abandon rationality and also to embrace the end.
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pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(July 24, 2016 06:36 AM)
Atheism also encourages irrationality. The very nature of life has only shown perpetuation and by nature, programming and complex systems only come by design. Atheists by definition cannot believe in intelligent design. The idea that these things are ultimately random are incredibly irrational.
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lord_kobel — 9 years ago(July 25, 2016 08:33 AM)
Because, as I said, you're talking bollocks. You brought up ID as if it was anything other than a piss poor attempt to shoehorn creationism into education in order to continue one of the forms of child abuse inherent in christianity. there's no need to refute that, except to point out that it's utter bollocks.
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scootergirl9988 — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 05:21 PM)
Random chance is irrational? Fine. Prove it. After all, the onus lies on those who say the universe and everything in it was designed for a reason to disprove the scientific theories that, through empirical data and mathematics, all point to the contrary.
You have nothing, absolutely nothing, to back up any theory of intelligent design by an omnipotent being. All you have are beliefs and yet you call atheists irrational. OK. Whatever.
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pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(December 26, 2016 11:43 AM)
I made the case for intelligent design. I cited the observed nature of life and complex systems. Believing in random eventuality is like believing a monkey could write a coherent novel if he bangs on a keyboard long enough. I think this is irrational.
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pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(December 26, 2016 03:23 PM)
Yes random chance is irrational. Believing all this is a random eventuality is like believing a monkey could write a coherent novel if he bangs on a keyboard long enough. It's illogical. The perpetual nature of life and the nature of code and complex systems is evidence (not proof) of intelligent design. If you were intellectually honest, you'd see that.
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desepticon — 9 years ago(January 06, 2017 12:08 AM)
You display an ill-conceived notion of evolution. Evolution is far from random.
Mutations
are random; however, natural selection (and myriad other processes like sexual selection) are decidedly not random. If a random mutation produces a fitness (reproductive) benefit, those mutations propagate throughout a species. If they are deleterious (decrease reproductive success), they are winnowed from the gene pool. Again, this is not a random process.
If you wish to learn more about what evolution is actually about you really should pick up any number of books that are available for laymen. You are merely attacking a straw man with your nonsense about randomness.
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pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 06:49 AM)
I never stated evolution was random I wasn't even talking about evolution at all. I was talking about the theory that the first living cell came from random eventuality of conditions. Do you understand now?