The Tim Tebow Thread
12-20-2011, 10:24 PM
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I think I get it. Theologically speaking your an atheist, or at least an agnostic. However, you do not like the THINK MY WAY OR **** YOU, YOU MORONIC PIECE OF BACKWARDS DOG **** mentality that SOME atheists possess. Would this be an accurate statement?
I just like trolling the devout.
I just like trolling the devout.
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12-20-2011, 10:28 PM
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I **** on things when I feel it's needed. I do find myself becoming a bit more confrontational lately. I'm sick of atheists in this country being treated like some sort of insane people. Outside of this country, in the rest of the modern world, atheists and their fellow men, ones of faith, live together, as equals... and make up a much more close to equal number 
I at least try to **** on people with a little respect and understanding.
I at least try to **** on people with a little respect and understanding.What specifically?
The modern equivalent of a Neanderthal in jorts. The Tebow is of course, from Florida.
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12-21-2011, 02:16 AM
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I **** on things when I feel it's needed. I do find myself becoming a bit more confrontational lately. I'm sick of atheists in this country being treated like some sort of insane people. Outside of this country, in the rest of the modern world, atheists and their fellow men, ones of faith, live together, as equals... and make up a much more close to equal number I at least try to **** on people with a little respect and understanding.
I at least try to **** on people with a little respect and understanding.Interestingly, more Christian terrorist acts have happened in the US than every other religion combined.
/Bombshell thrown, and with that...good night!
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12-21-2011, 11:47 AM
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however!
if you bring religion into my house, I will smite thee upside the frontal lobe.
I also do not like being forced to participate in religious activities outside of the context of church or church-like celebrations.
sports arenas are not an appropriate place for singing hymns. but I do not tell the other 40 to 300 thousand people to stop. I just sit quietly and roll my eyes while they all do their thing.
I actually have no issue at all with christmas carols and whatnot. I also recognize that other religions have holidays too. but I dont act a fool and pretend that hanukkah is bigger than yom kippur just because it happens in december.
oh and if you come up to me and say "this is a christian country!"... your god help you.
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12-21-2011, 11:55 AM
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^I'm not christian, but this is a christian country. Everything from the pledge of allegiance, to the words printed on our currency, to our policy making is heavily influenced by christianity.
Heck, I spent most of elementary school being told I'm going to hell for not being christian. This was in multiple public schools, in NYC (arguably the most diverse city in the world).
Heck, I spent most of elementary school being told I'm going to hell for not being christian. This was in multiple public schools, in NYC (arguably the most diverse city in the world).
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12-21-2011, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by US 1A
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The image gets the point across, but its not 100% accurate
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Originally Posted by Treaty of Tripoli: Article 11
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
I'm not saying there are not contradictions to this in more recent documents, because obviously there are. My point is that these are more recent leanings and were NOT the intentions of the 'founding fathers'
Christ, I may need to move this rant to the "Politics" section
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12-21-2011, 12:42 PM
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Although you could reasonably argue that the US was fundamentally founded on the basis of tax evasion, it's impossible to ignore the strong Protestant undertones in most of the architecture of the young America.
For example, the US Deceleration of Independence, which could be considered to the foudnational document of the entire nation, states in the first three paragraphs:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them (...)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (...)
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
The phrase "divine providence," in the context of a late 18'th century society, describes a theological belief that God (that would be the Judeo-Christian God, specifically) takes an active interest in the day-to-day operation of the world, and exerts influence over it. In other words, they were saying that, in declaring war against King George III, "we rely upon God to protect us."
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (...)
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
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