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The Hazards of Belief

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  • #632
    sionnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭sionnach


    "Un-Islamic" law is repealed and Yemen is a better place for it.

    Oh wait no, it results in the perpetuation of a disgusting practice and this horrific story:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8610491.stm


  • #633
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,419 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    http://www.news.com.au/national/geelong-church-defends-graphic-crucifixion-re-enactment-on-busy-shopping-strip/story-e6frfkvr-1225849949863


  • #634
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    sionnach wrote: »
    "Un-Islamic" law is repealed and Yemen is a better place for it.

    Oh wait no, it results in the perpetuation of a disgusting practice and this horrific story:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8610491.stm

    I lament for the state of humanity, I truly believe that I live in a barbaric age.


  • #635
    sonicthebadger*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭sonicthebadger*


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    http://www.news.com.au/national/geelong-church-defends-graphic-crucifixion-re-enactment-on-busy-shopping-strip/story-e6frfkvr-1225849949863

    The pastor claims to have turned around "and there were about eight children ... watching it and none of them looked distressed".

    Somehow, I doubt that. Unless they too, are so utterly delusional that they can't see how disgusting it is to torture a human being to death.


  • #636
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    http://www.news.com.au/national/geelong-church-defends-graphic-crucifixion-re-enactment-on-busy-shopping-strip/story-e6frfkvr-1225849949863

    JESUS! :D


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  • #637
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    http://www.news.com.au/national/geelong-church-defends-graphic-crucifixion-re-enactment-on-busy-shopping-strip/story-e6frfkvr-1225849949863

    That's messed up. We have a words for that kind of crap over here - 'paedophilia' and 'manslaughter'. Another life lost because of religious dogmatic crap.

    Anyone fancy compilling a dossier of all these hazards and sending it to the IONA institute under the title, "Religion is bad for you."


  • #638
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Anyone fancy compilling a dossier of all these hazards and sending it to the IONA institute under the title, "Religion is bad for you."

    That would be way too depressing, and an overwhelmingly difficult task to include it all or even most.

    Pity we can't just resort to mindless rhetoric like them.


  • #639
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Anyone fancy compilling a dossier of all these hazards and sending it to the IONA institute under the title, "Religion is bad for you."
    Much better, I'd have thought, to copy their fancy graphic design, fill it with the contents of this thread, then release it to the media!


  • #640
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    This scared the sh!te out of me:


    http://www.atheistnation.net/video/?video/00118/atheist/jesus-camp/


  • #641
    iUseVi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭iUseVi


    Shocking. Just shocking. If you make it through the entire 6 minutes without facepalming you deserves a medal.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-cpzGWVwE


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  • #642
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,255 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    iUseVi wrote: »
    If you make it through the entire 6 minutes without facepalming you deserves a medal.
    19 seconds, and I was consciously trying not to...

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #643
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Kudos to that Chris Carter chap.

    How he manages to keep from jumping across the table and throttling that bunch of pathetic yes-men, I do not know. That segment was a prime example of Christians trying to justify a sweeping pre-conceived conclusion.


  • #644
    ColmDawson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭ColmDawson


    iUseVi wrote: »
    Shocking. Just shocking. If you make it through the entire 6 minutes without facepalming you deserves a medal.

    *seethes*


  • #645
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    iUseVi wrote: »
    If you make it through the entire 6 minutes without facepalming you deserves a medal.
    If you make it through it at all, facepalm or not, you deserve a medal!


  • #646
    iUseVi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭iUseVi


    robindch wrote: »
    If you make it through it at all, facepalm or not, you deserve a medal!

    I've upped my facepalm resist medal threshold to 100. Make it through without 100 is pretty darn good.


  • #647
    uncleoswald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭uncleoswald


    iUseVi wrote: »
    Shocking. Just shocking. If you make it through the entire 6 minutes without facepalming you deserves a medal.

    Oh god, I just realised that this is meant to be a business show....


  • #648
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,163 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    why is a priest giving a sermon on a news/business program?? at least I assume its a business show as it's called Fox business.

    And to my understanding secularism isn't the same thing as paganism.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #649
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,255 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    koth wrote: »
    why is a priest giving a sermon on a news/business program?? at least I assume its a business show as it's called Fox business.

    And to my understanding secularism isn't the same thing as paganism.
    It's Fox, that's all you need to know before removing all credibility

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #650
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,163 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    It's Fox, that's all you need to know before removing all credibility

    So that wasn't an usual way for a news segment to go for Fox??:eek:

    I'm not familiar with Fox so that clip was just weird to me.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #651
    sonicthebadger*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭sonicthebadger*


    When Chris Carter says (while looking downcast and shaking his head) "I can't even dignify this entire segment with a response right now" Somebody in the background bursts out laughing. I wonder is it all some kind of big scripted joke, please, please say it's a big joke!


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  • #652
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,255 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    koth wrote: »
    So that wasn't an usual way for a news segment to go for Fox??:eek:

    I'm not familiar with Fox so that clip was just weird to me.
    Haha, I wasn't sure if you were serious, that explains it. Basically Fox tend to bias everything towards a conservative Christian/republican point of view. Very much Christianity = Patriotism type stuff.

    Btw you're right, paganism isn't remotely like secularism, even mentioning them in the same sentence is odd. I'd say they know damn well what they're doing though.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #653
    ColmDawson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭ColmDawson


    I'm just going to pretend they're all actors.
    :(


  • #654
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,163 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Haha, I wasn't sure if you were serious, that explains it. Basically Fox tend to bias everything towards a conservative Christian/republican point of view. Very much Christianity = Patriotism type stuff.

    Btw you're right, paganism isn't remotely like secularism, even mentioning them in the same sentence is odd. I'd say they know damn well what they're doing though.

    appreciate the explanation about Fox. the segment doesn't seem as weird now, still weird though :D

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #655
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Not sure if this has been posted already, but if you want that much needed fertility treatment, then you had better get convertin'!

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0415/1224268372829.html


  • #656
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    koth wrote: »
    I'm not familiar with Fox so that clip was just weird to me.

    Wow it's true what they say, ignorance is bliss. If I could only go back to the giddy carefree days before I became familiar with Fox News, perhaps my face and palm might not be so hideously misshapen.


  • #657
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,779 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Was either here or humour... Feel free to move.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8631775.stm

    MrP


  • #658
    Blank_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭Blank_


    "One of his friends, and his uncle (they did not know each other) both told me that Jesse called them hours before he took his life and that he had lost all hope because he was convinced that God did not exist, and this book was the cause,"

    ...


  • #659
    sonicthebadger*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭sonicthebadger*


    From that website... ^^^^

    "If Evolution is true, then we are just highly evolved animals.
    We are a result of millions of years of evolutionary misfits and mistakes.
    There is no meaning, and no purpose to life.
    Your life is to live anyway you want it. There is no one to answer to.
    If you are unhappy with your life, you can end it at any time."


    Exactly. My life is mine. Simples. :)


  • #660
    cavedave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭cavedave


    Brain shuts off in response to healer's prayer
    WHEN we fall under the spell of a charismatic figure, areas of the brain responsible for scepticism and vigilance become less active


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  • #661
    hiorta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 457 ✭✭hiorta


    Many Healers do not vocalise or attempt to influence the outcome, content to let things take their course. It is doubtful whether they could do so in any case.


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