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Okay, here's something I don't understand.
The people who get all frothed up over another person's religion get twice as frothed up if the person has *no* religion.
Shouldn't it be better in their eyes, 'cause not believing in anything should be less horrible than believing in the "wrong" thing, shouldn't it?
I know. I should let it go. But I really don't understand the frothing people and every now and then, I try to.
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As you may have noticed, Sam got an ipod for her birthday (I gave it to her early) and I've turned control of her journal over to her. This should be interesting.
Though, she's still posting everything under friends lock and I still have the password. She's only turning twelve after all. :)
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There's a church down the street and around the corner from us. As we were heading out to the movies on Friday, I caught the sign out of the corner of my eye.
"God is Coming
Is the Son in your eyes?"
Couldn't get a picture (though, still hope to) 'cause I was laughing far, *far* too hard. Someone had to know, right? It's all just a giant practical joke, isn't it?
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Getting to know Mister Rogers.
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A New Set of Avengers Pics in which No One is Happy.
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Oh, if anyone is playing DrawSomething, my usernames are Myschyf & Dandelion_Diva. Yeah, I don't even know why at this point. But, there ya go. :)
The people who get all frothed up over another person's religion get twice as frothed up if the person has *no* religion.
Shouldn't it be better in their eyes, 'cause not believing in anything should be less horrible than believing in the "wrong" thing, shouldn't it?
I know. I should let it go. But I really don't understand the frothing people and every now and then, I try to.
~~~
As you may have noticed, Sam got an ipod for her birthday (I gave it to her early) and I've turned control of her journal over to her. This should be interesting.
Though, she's still posting everything under friends lock and I still have the password. She's only turning twelve after all. :)
~~~
There's a church down the street and around the corner from us. As we were heading out to the movies on Friday, I caught the sign out of the corner of my eye.
"God is Coming
Is the Son in your eyes?"
Couldn't get a picture (though, still hope to) 'cause I was laughing far, *far* too hard. Someone had to know, right? It's all just a giant practical joke, isn't it?
~~~
Getting to know Mister Rogers.
~~~
A New Set of Avengers Pics in which No One is Happy.
~~~
Oh, if anyone is playing DrawSomething, my usernames are Myschyf & Dandelion_Diva. Yeah, I don't even know why at this point. But, there ya go. :)
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I'm playing DrawSomething as a distraction from the UGH of life - rebellibrarian is my name - but I warn you, I am BAD at the drawing thing. My "somethings" have a habit of being very very simple but I do try to get the point across. :-)
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If you don't believe it is even possible, then there is no chance they can convert you to their version.
So, you're farther away than any kind of believer.
The Really-Trying-To-Be-Kindly Atheist Says....
One very interesting way of attacking atheism that I've noticed is for the non-atheist to say the atheist is actually an agnostic, because if sufficient proof in the existence of a God was found, said atheist/agnostic would believe. They don't seem to grasp that, by the lights of an atheist, such proof would be so profound that, yeah, confronted with it, pretty much anybody would believe.
However, the kind of proof we're likely to have, i.e., the same "proof" we've had all along, makes the existence of God -- certainly one as they envision -- so far out of the realm of possibility that it may as well be impossible.
Re: The Really-Trying-To-Be-Kindly Atheist Says....
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1) Your soul is in play! Double points or something to redeem it.
2) Since believers are so handicapped (they tithe money you don't have to, they waste Sundays/Ssturdays/whatever doing the God thing, they have to deal with guilt) they are incredibly JEALOUS of someone who is not so encumbered. So instead of going to you they would rather drag you down to them.
Makes sense if you think of God as a virus.
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Saturdays and Sundays are manmade timeboxes. We should is live good lives all days, or try to.
Nothing is soulless. Energy comes from somewhere and goes somewhere. That's all I know for sure.
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They really need to back off and attend to their own souls :)
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Is the Son in your eyes?"
ALL THE DOUBLE ENTENDRES
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Shouldn't it be better in their eyes, 'cause not believing in anything should be less horrible than believing in the "wrong" thing, shouldn't it?
It depends on how you look at it. Imagine that there's an Ultimate Tea Snob, who thinks that There Is Only One Tea Worth Drinking. And there's people who drink the Wrong Kind Of Tea, and people who don't drink tea at all.
Which one is closer to Drinking The Right Kind Of Tea?
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This applies to all subjects, not only religion. Tolerance is lost in this era. Somewhere down the road the world & the U.S. population specifically has lost the meaning of tolerate & co-existence.
I've spent a life-time with friends and relations on all sides of just about any topic you can name. It has only been within the last decade or so that I've seen such vitriol. People are so danged quick to become outraged and offended. Two words that are so over-used they should be erased from the dictionary. To be truly outraged as often as folks claim would cause burst blood vessels & crowded emergency rooms. And don’t even get me started on the offended, the pseudo-apologies, and apologies proffered where no apology is required.
The need to RIGHT is ruining civil discourse. (that is ‘right’ as in correct not a political leaning, by the way.)
This concluded my soap-box blathering for today. Feel free to return to regularly scheduled program
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