Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited December 2020

    Obviously, as an active member of this thread, I am not religiously inclined (HO HO), however, if I were a believer in Christianity as Kayleigh McEnany touts with her choice of jewelry, I would demand that she not wear that hypocrisy around her neck for public display. Nothing but lies come out of her mouth in support of a racist, fascist, president who would have chosen her Christ for immediate execution for his federal crimes. drump's push to execute federal prisoners is not what I would perceive to be the meaning of christmas. But then again, I am not a christian.


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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited December 2020

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  • Miriandra
    Miriandra Member Posts: 1,327
    edited December 2020

    Actually, if Jesus had been a girl, I think she would have improved on a lot of dogma.

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited December 2020

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited December 2020

    Spookiesmom...love it - but maybe good news?

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited December 2020

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited December 2020

    HAPPY WHAT EVER ya’ll. Feed me.

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited December 2020

    Remember: Let it snow wrapping paper to be used for large packages. Who knew they came in small flat boxes?

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited December 2020

    Thanks for the morning laugh Magic.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited December 2020

    So that’s where mine went!!!

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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  • Miriandra
    Miriandra Member Posts: 1,327
    edited December 2020

    Awesome, Magic! xD xD xD

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited January 2021

    One's philosophical and religious beliefs have significant influence on policy. Take those of Senator Hawley.

    In multiple speeches, an interview and a widely shared article for Christianity Today, Mr. Hawley has explained that the blame for society's ills traces all the way back to Pelagius — a British-born monk who lived 17 centuries ago.

    The most eloquent summary of the Pelagian vision, Mr. Hawley went on to say, can be found in the Supreme Court's 1992 opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Mr. Hawley specifically cited Justice Anthony Kennedy's words reprovingly: "At the heart of liberty," Kennedy wrote, "is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."

    In other words, Mr. Hawley's [senator Josh Hawley] idea of freedom is the freedom to conform to what he and his preferred religious authorities know to be right. Mr. Hawley is not shy about making the point explicit. In a 2017 speech to the American Renewal Project, he declared — paraphrasing the Dutch Reformed theologian and onetime prime minister Abraham Kuyper — "There is not one square inch of all creation over which Jesus Christ is not Lord." Mr. Kuyper is perhaps best known for his claim that Christianity has sole legitimate authority over all aspects of human life.

    I knew the current thinking but this historical context is new for me. WOW!

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  • moth
    moth Member Posts: 4,800
    edited January 2021

    magiclight - I think the yearning for a Christian theocracy is not talked about often enough in the press. Hawley is one of a number, I suspect. It is disturbing ... the only thing that offsets is that poll after poll show younger people becoming significantly less religious so this might be literally a dying movement, in spite of young faces like Hawley's

    Btw, he clerked for superme court justice Roberts :/


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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited January 2021

    moth, you are so right about younger people. On a side note, about cultural shifts, I just watched a funny show - The history of swear words - [do not watch if you are opposed to hearing them], but one idea proposed is that young folks do not have the same problems with swear words offensive to my (very old) generation. They do, however, have a problem with slurs (an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation). Part of the history of swear words discusses how language evolves and how the younger generation is taking back and owning words that historically have been insults to a particular group.

    Obviously, I've been doing a lot of streaming

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  • illimae
    illimae Member Posts: 5,710
    edited January 2021

    Saw this today, lol

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited January 2021

    Mae - WONDERFUL. Thanks. I'm going to start considering just that.

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  • Miriandra
    Miriandra Member Posts: 1,327
    edited January 2021

    Ha! Love it!

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited January 2021

    I began that in March of 2020!

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited January 2021

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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  • jo6359
    jo6359 Member Posts: 2,279
    edited January 2021

    it annoyed me to no end when friends and strangers would pat me on the shoulder and tell me just turn it over to God he'll take care of you or you have cancer because you're an atheist. No, I have cancer because I was damned unlucky. For the most part I respect other right to practice their religious beliefs as long as they're not shoving it down my throat. It would be nice if my religious family members and Friends would respect my atheism. I didn't believe in God prior to my cancer diagnosis and I still don't believe in God 3 years post my diagnosis. When I was diagnosed with cancer in Dec. 2017, I did become less patient with others who either wanted to blame me for having cancer or suggesting God was testing me. My goal everyday is to be the best person I can be. Some moments are better than others. I'm one of those people who follow the science. Contrary to what many religious people believe their beliefs are not based on science. I'm back after taking an 18-month Hiatus from breast cancer.org. I really enjoy reading your post.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited January 2021

    jo - nice to see you back. Your post is Right on!!!

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited January 2021

    Jp - good to see you back. This is a supportive place for atheists. And we sure need it.

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2021

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2021

    illimae, your WWJD? meme is flat out hysterical!


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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited March 2021

    ❤️❤️❤️

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited March 2021

    Has anyone ever snuck a peek at the religious threads? I haven't, but I saw the Catholic one pop up today and I was sooo tempted to ask if Catholic cancer is different than Methodist or Jewish or Baha'i or any other kind. Like, are the tumors cross-shaped? Do they have Jesus' face on their breasts?

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  • Trishyla
    Trishyla Member Posts: 1,005
    edited March 2021

    For some strange reason. I don't think that would go over very well, Alice. Just a guess on my part.😏

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited March 2021

    Divine I also the meme.

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2021

    Alice, your post reminded me of this meme:


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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited March 2021

    DivineMrsM

    It drives me BONKERS when religious people say that their god saved them from cancer or heart disease or a hangnail or whatever. You gonna give a god credit, you better also give it the blame for what went wrong in the first place. But at least it's not as obnoxious as the loud public thanks to their god for getting through some disaster, when other people died in it. Yeah, your god saved your pervy husband but killed that 3-year-old kid, nice work there!


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