boosha

AHH HAH AHAH HAA!!!
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.......I dunno... for some reason I thought that was really funny.

But to the topic at hand 'bout why argue all this jazz... I agree with everyone who thinks it's real fun! I'm still a baby in a lot of these areas, but I've come to teams with understand "to each his/her own".

And there's really cool atheists AND christians out there!
*high five*

Keeping it cool is the important thing.

sighhswolf

Its like a huge pileup on the interstate.
You are in the south bound lane the smashup is in the north bound lane.
You know it's going to be a twisted bloody mess,
with all kinds of injuries, and it may even turn your stomach.
But what do you do??
You slow down and try your best for a closer and better look.
You just cant help it.........you know it's gonna be awful, but you just cant help slowing down and taking a long look.
You know what I mean?
Wolf

bgponder

Dear moiii:

Welcome to the boards.

Ah, where to begin, and where to gather the strength not to spiral hellward into a pure and satisfying rant; let's see. I discuss and attempt to show the invalidity of the Bible and the inaccuracies of Christianity because I detest having to drive by church-signs with pithy messages obviously intended to make me feel "sinful", or at least less "good" in that I don't attend their services, or believe the stuff of dreams that they do; I abhor driving by pastures turned into zygotic Arlington National Cemetery simulations, and reflecting upon the very real possibility that Roe v. Wade could be overturned, and any one of my three daughters, or any other woman, could be forced to undergo an unwanted pregnancy; I wholly resent that I must drive forty-five miles, one way, to get myself a cold Budweiser, and if for some reason I can't do it on Saturday, I'm screwed; I resent the fact that a man who schooled his children at home because of various "ungodly" things in public school was elected county sheriff, in no small part due to campaign rhetoric touting him a church-goer and of supposedly high integrity--alas, he declined to run for a second term due to publicized allegations of infidelity with a female co-worker under his authority, the result of the affair(no pun intended) being divorce from his wife of many years; and many other common situations that will combine to show the ingrown control structures of Christian religion that pervade my beloved South, much to my chagrin, supporting the somewhat justifed comic(?) generalization of Wyrdsmyth above. But then, so many others in times past have said it so much better than I. Here's a couple good ones--

"I count religion but a childish toy/And hold that there is no sin but ignorance."--Christopher Marlowe

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."--Michel De Montaigne

But also, I hold it a duty to the truth.

Well, I think I hold with your opinion--if indeed one is comfortable in one's beliefs, one doesn't have to continually convince oneself. But as to convincing others, it gives me a laugh to hear Jehovah's Witnesses' jaws drop with a resounding thunk to my porch-floor.

Peace and cornbread, Barry

DarkBronzePlant

I think moiii flew the coop. Bummer; he/she/it seemed interesting.

bgponder

He/she/it must've been a Yankee.

hinduwoman

Hear! Hear!