I’m a preacher’s kid. Second in line. People thought I was going to take the torch from my dad when I became old enough.
I have a couple of friends in the Church of Christ, but I can tell you church is the last place I’d want to be shot.
Dear shooters, please don’t add to my misery.
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Church is also the best place to pray for forgiveness for shooting all those people.
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You’re right of course, but to outsiders they really look like Taliban/IS types.
Without the excuse that imperialist injustice against their people led them to a Bolshevik solution. They just seem to have chosen their extremist hate. It’s incomprehensible.
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but according to that last line, they are rooting out evil by… shooting it, i guess? which means if you get shot in church you’re evil… and hold on while my head explodes.
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While at the same time, signing a law allowing mentally ill people to obtain guns, and pushing health care that does not cover mental illness.
Christ, what an asshole.
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This is flailing. This is “I’m drowning but at least I’m in the ocean.” This is facing your terminal cognitive dissonance and deciding “nope, I’d rather die than face the possibility of evolving as a human being.”
Fuck you and your pretty hate regime. May you choke upon the monster truck of history’s truck nuts.
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Most people don’t attempt to seek any kind of reflective coherence in their beliefs. At best they lampshade it as a “mystery of faith” or some such.
Also, there are still plenty of churchgoers out there who think atheists shouldn’t use the word “good” because they think that without God there’s nothing for the word to refer to.
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This strikes me as the sort of statement they encourage to get the skeptics to pick up the remote and change the channel. Brainwashing goes better when the audience is all with you.
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Theologically it’s a terrible argument as a number of prophets including Hosea, Isaiah and Jesus, make it clear that there is nothing special about churches or temples. To argue that there is, in fact, is to go directly against Biblical teaching.
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A question that has been asked for thousands of years.
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Religion per se doesn’t undermine rational thought - if you think so try arguing with a Jesuit. The need to spout stuff you don’t believe in order to get paid regularly, on the other hand…
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Annoying. I think I’ve read almost all his books and I forgot it was him who said that. I should have attributed.
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Guy once got nailed to a tree for making that suggestion.
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Theologian Ainsley Earhardt as quoted from the article:
So, I’m trying to look at some positives here
You see that is a huge fucking cultural problem in the U.S. that goes far beyond this incident. There is nothing positive about this incident, as there is nothing positive about countless historical events.
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Not-fun fact:
The first mass shooting in the US took place in 1948.
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So you are saying that her statement makes no meaningful distinction. So she’s lying when she says she thinks church is the best place to be shot? It’s just as good a place to be shot as anywhere else? You should let her know what she means so she doesn’t get confused.
*Modern mass shooting unrelated to manifest destiny & native tribes.
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