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Paschendale;1064770084No said:You may want to lose the unwarranted (and laughably mock-heroic) assumptions. I have been a supporter of SSM for a long time.
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[h=2] Change Doesn’t Usually Come This Fast [/h] By Nate Silver
As I said before, there is no discrimination against Christians. There are only repercussions against those who are douchebags about their religion. They are a minority of religious people.
I'm sure it is nothing to you if you don't want to even question why I posted the link.
Now that's funny. I think many have proved that wrong over the years. I still chuckle when I see that line.
When one asks for evidence, evidence should be provided to prove the point, not silly links that require questioning. Clearly you have no evidence, and are merely mucking all around the point to try to hide the fact that you have ZERO to back your claims. You kinda act like that capt whoever guy.
I'm sorry. I thought that maybe it would be a nice change if people actually used their brains to think instead of just using talking points.
That's a really poor deflection from the reality that you have yet to back your claims.
That's a really poor deflection from the reality that you have yet to back your claims.
He's desperately trying to make people forget that he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
Conservative Christians are the only religious/cultural group whom it is permissible to mock publicly. Having no religion myself, I offer that as a simple observation.
I'm an equal opportunity mocker. Anyone with a stupid belief gets it right between the eyes. Christians. Muslims. Jews. There are no limits, nor should there be.
Conservative Christians are the only religious/cultural group whom it is permissible to mock publicly. Having no religion myself, I offer that as a simple observation.
For true Christians, the mocking means nothing.
Christians are socially discriminated against, Try being a younger Christian in today's generation. Everyone likes to dog and attack people who actually live out their faith. Evangelicals are a mocked and socially persecuted minority.
One could argue the lawsuits where Christians were forced to cater to things against their beliefs (gay bakery/photo lawsuits) is also discrimination and intolerance.
There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Political correctness is idiotic.
Long before the term "political correctness" had ever been uttered it was considered bad manners to disparage another's religion in public.
Actually, you just defined political correctness.
We'll have to disagree. I think political correctness is the antithesis of good manners.
Being made fun of is not persecution.
Look, here's the analogy. There's a few serious people in this world who wholeheartedly believe that Elvis is still alive. There's not millions of people who believe that. Nor are there hundreds of institutions, universities or churches dedicated to the continuation of the belief. No, as Harris once pointed out, whenever someone seriously represents their belief that Elvis is still alive; that person immediately pays a social price in barely contained laughter. When then that person continues that train of thought -- "It's a matter faith that Elvis is alive", "You cannot NOT prove Elvis is still alive," "I'm going to eat crackers and sign hymns about Elvis" -- that really demonstrates how asinine those beliefs are.
With persecution, we've not passed laws against the belief that Elvis is alive. We're not throwing Elvis-believers in jail or are actively depriving them of their freedoms. We're just demonstrating, through the act of laughter, that the belief of an ancient Bedouin man performing a bunch of unrealistic magic tricks before raising himself from the dead, which goes against everything a learned person in the 21st Century knows about biology, physics, chemistry, etc., is a stupid idea that no serious person ought believe. It deserves every snicker and chuckle it has going for it.
"Political correctness" is a reworded term for the etiquette of the day.
Christians believe Christ rose again. Beyond that, they pick and choose all sorts of deviations and tenets to follow, some quite bizarre. That's why there are hundreds of separate tiny schisms cults and sectarian divides within it. I'm sure you are in no position to pass judgement on his faith or otherwise.
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