Is baiting Christians a hobby or a sport?
- sneakorocksolidposted 14 years ago
0Feel free to babble.
You said it...atheist rooms, not forums here on hubpages.
I see all these religious posts telling me I am going to hell, where are all the atheist posts? We don't bother to tell the rest of the world the bloomin obvious!
Yes, we are all terrified of you and your god! All that hate hell and damnation, we are here to save our souls from common sense!
hilarious!Not the topic - your ridiculous religion offends me. And here you you are all in one place congratulating each other on how special god thinks you are compared to the heathens.
Hard to resist.
That explains a lot. Religious chatrooms! The best source of side splitting comedy on the web!
So that's your background. Not at all surprised!
Hi Sneak!
Good luck with your thread !
A food?
Geeze Misha! You know it's a sport!
You must stop eating christians! Now, I'm a diehard Christian but this one made me laugh. See we can enjoy a laugh together now and then.
I hope that's a compliment. Even though I hold to my faith I love a good belly laugh. If one cannot laugh at life then what's the point of it all. Sensibility is something we ALL could dip our ladles into a little more. If we don't investigate it and embrace it we will never attain tolerance in our individual lives.
I've learned to laugh at myself. I have a large nose and I often get California's weather before they do - and I'm in Iowa!Compliment, yes (and that joke was originally about Barry Manilow
)
I thought this was, quite literally, terribly hilarious myself, golden.
ETA: A band called Dethklok would say, "It's funny because it's not."
I have to give up eating any religionists, I am developing an allergy.
Come get baptised and married and I promise you no one will need to worry about your diet or allergies.
We have lots of single sisters looking for a few good men.
LOL and as you get to know me better, you'll....errr...know me better too. Slight hint? I must just have an excellent sense of sarcasm detection LOL
No probs, I knew you were kidding (sort of) and I was too
though I do actually appreciate intelligent conversation - so long as it isn't way over my head!The smell is pretty strong upwind as well.
Pleasant surprise to see you here Shades.
Is your head full of knowledge yet?
I think that smell is the overflow
I haven't been round here for a while. Lots of new blood I see!
cheers,
Eric G.
- I love this.
A bit like shootin ducks on the pond really, but yep, if they were fish they would all eat well tonight.
Hey tantrum!
Hi Everybody!
Hi Earnest
- sneakorocksolidposted 14 years ago0
Hello my fellow combatants! I love you all even though you're always wrong! See I can be sensitive.
Well I consider it a sport but I'm pretty competitive. Mostly it's fun when everyones on their game and using their wit. It can be both fun and funny!
Hi tantrum
Hi everybody! (I'll just go Earnest's route...don't wanna leave anyone out)The sensible Christians stay out of the waffle we tend to generate, because they know we're full of sh-t. They have their beliefs and they're sticking to them, and we can sod off. Which is the way it should be
(Some of the Christian posters are sensible... I'm generalizing for effect.... ie Christian baiting....
)As I said, like shooting ducks in a pond.
You know what I see a lot? I see a lot of threads started by religionists with the argument in the name of the heading,
Why? Are they looking for people to believe in their fairy story or more accurately, horror story?
That would be arrogant! The next greatly thought out move is to tell everyone who does not follow their version out of hundreds from a book that is full of nauseating hate, that they and the ones they love will rot in hell. Wait! Where do people get off arguing with that? I guess we are "illogical" Is baiting Christians a hobby or a sport?
: Depends on how many fall in the process...Well I know of one who came on here all hero like only to run away and hide a week later. He has done it before, way back, Mark mentioned it also. Others have done a similar thing and whinged their way off and then come back as another sock puppet the next day. Keeps me entertained!
No. religion is ignorance, that is why you get scoffed at. For your ignorant belief in an invisible control freak!
I believe in many things I cannot have physical evidence for, but an old fashioned head trip on religion is too far away from any potential for reality it makes the tooth fairy look real! What a yarn the bible is, a patchwork of ridiculous hate and fear to keep the very easily frightened in line centuries ago. What blows my mind is that anyone could actually read it cover to cover and then say, "Yep! That sounds like the truth!"
Got up your nose a bit eh?
Don't worry SaraTonyn,
If you're around, they'll soon go to sleep.
And we don't need religion to make fools of ourselves.
We're experts in that in LOTS of other topics!
P.S. Nice name!
G'day Earnest,
Still doing the odd bit of smiting I see
Getting right back on track again now.
For some people, baiting Christians is neither a hobby or a sport.
It's a vocation!
Like it is for many Christians to try to convert non Christians.
But the Christians are far more organised.
The Non Christians are just an uncouth rabble. Look at Earnest here, and Mr. Knowles, and the rest of their pitiful rag tag army.
Don't you think that if there WERE a God, he would have taken these idiots out long ago?
Therefore, I respectfully submit that this is proof that there is no God.
Game, Set, Match.
Cheers,
Eric G.Any more out of you Graudins and we'll tow that bloody Island even further out to sea!
Oh don't do that.
It's already expensive enough to cross that bit of water.
Although the prospect of being a bit further away from you is attractive!Cutting Eric! Dark and cutting!
Is baiting Christians a hobby or a sport?
Baiting is for fishing, either in a pond, river, stream, lake or ocean.
Christians don't need bait.
Usually, they are the bait and the non-believer/atheists, are the only doing the 'fishing', per se.
It's neither a hobby or a sport for me, for which, I have no religious connection at all. I've learned by walking the path they walk and finding the end of the road, for which, has nothing at the end, except for death.
The only reason people choose to believe in "GOD" is so that they themselves can feel good about themselves, even if they really are not helping better society, as a whole.
Many go out of their way to assure those who choose not to believe as they do, so as to inform others of their damnation, should they not heed their words.
That is ridiculous in and of itself, because neither they nor does anyone else, know for a FACT what if anything comes after death. They all assume their life is eternal, because they read it in a book that told them if they believe that their soul/spirit would be save, after death.
Which is another ridiculous thought, all by itself.Ah! The reinforcements have arrived.
Reinforcements? Oh - that is right - you are fighting a war against those who do not subscribe to your ridiculous belief system. Sorry - how could I forget your god is so pathetic he needs people to fight on his behalf?
Silly me.
Sure - if you read it in a book - it is just hearsay and exactly the same as believing in the invisible super being. That what you want to hear?Please go ahead. Is it better than cocky or condescending? Or at least more inventive......
Well, we are going to have to agree to disagree. I favor mocking as an approach for several reasons.
I am planning on selling dinosaur hunting trips to China to christian groups from the mid West. I see a lot of potential in this.
Mocking again - I know......- Marliza Gunterposted 14 years ago0
been reading all these comments...gees...what a long and winding road!...ok, so you get the children of light, the children of darkness and then you get the crossbreeds...the children of darkness will never come and sit close to the children of light..not even for a quarrel...cause they cant stand the light...but you'll find them with their own kind...but the crossbreeds...its them who you will find constantly drawing near to the light...even if they can argue any matter...just to hide the fact that they communicate with the children of light...
Do I qualify as a crossbreed then?
Honestly, I find both sides extremely interesting -- and both annoying as can be at times.
Seriously though, it's too bad it's so difficult to have intelligent discussions about the differences between the two when 'extremists' (for lack of a better word) on either side turn conversations into war zones. I understand the issue is highly emotional so it doesn't take much to light a fuse. How to reduce the emotion, or at least set it aside for a while is the question. And I certainly don't have the answer! The best I can do is try to put out a fire here and there without starting one of my own.
The thing that keeps me hopeful peaceful discussions are possible is the fact that both sides have some extremely intelligent people. If you've read the thread from the beginning I'm sure you've seen examples of that. Hopefully they can help 'rein in' their side's extremists a bit.I wish more people thought of it that way. Wanna build a "crossbreed couch"?
Absolutely! Hmm. I wonder how many people it will need to hold?
(Dibs on the left end!)
"Pretzly?"....ROFLMAO....."Pretzly?"...Heh..heh.hehe...LMAO....stop it, stop it...i'm friggin cryin over here.....ROFLMAO....say it again...pleeez..."Pretzly".....ROFLMAO......LMAO....lol...lol..lol..lo.......aaaaaah. sigh.
I'm sorry. When you can't hear someones tone it's hard to know how they meant something. I wanted to tell you that your post was apropos; that is to say I agree with you. It's just that I got this funny visual along with the word "pretzly"...HeHe...LOL...God I'm gonna start laughing again....SIGH...ok...i'm good. I wasn't laughing at you. It's just that the metaphor, hmmm or is it a simile...I don't know if "pretzly" is either....ROFLMAO....LMAO........heheheheheh...haha....LOL>>>>>LOL......oh God ....stop it............Very good word.....very good...and again I'm not laughing at you. It's an excellent word and I hope you don't mind me using it. Sincerely.
I just love the scared little boy defences! No one will ever change my belief and all that bravado type talk is amusing!
The funniest thing is the argument about truth.
The entire structure of science and scientific method is a only a joke!
The truth is it is all controlled by the dead guy in a book through his ghost and his father, who just hates everybody and wants them dead or tortured if they do not follow his hate trail.
It makes so much sense!
You must be sooo confident in your beliefs!
In case you haven't noticed, non-believers don't seem to feel the same need to create hundreds of crazed threads screaming about how a fairy is gonna wipe out those that don't believe in it.
You are a riot and this should be a comedy sketch!who are you talking to earnest. Me?
Yeh, bring it on big boy!
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this is still going on.
And a lot of baiting fulfilled. earnest --
Just a couple of quick there's-no-wrong-answer questions for you.
Do you believe there absolutely is no god, no supernatural entity of any kind?
Or do you allow that there is a possibility of some type of god but you completely reject the Christian god?
I want to be sure I understand your position correctly.I am an ex religionist, bought up with a religious mother who was big on the fire and brimstone, as most religionists are when they want to control and claim it is "god speaking."
I have knowledge of science, religion, psychology and brain chemistry.
I believe that Carl Jung had part of the answer in :religiosity of soul. I need no belief in god to understand soul or spirit.
I believe that people like Lawrence Krauss have a far better handle on life than any religionist does.
I subscribe to beliefs found on the BLTC site regarding sentient life, and believe the proof of brain chemistry affecting behavior as proved in the case of prairy moles. I think David Attenborough's time frames are likely to be very close, and am gobsmacked at the ignorance by choice of religions.
I do not believe wild conspiracy theories, that the Government is out to get me or that fairies live in the sky and control our lives.
There is no proof of a god ever, it is a psychological need.
That the bible was written should not surprise students of the human condition. Does that help?Yes, but "I don't believe in a god of any kind" would have sufficed.
Oh! OK.
- You couldn't tear yur undies! Not too scared of you as an "intellectual giant"
A legend in your own loungeroom! What did I get wrong? Was it the bit about the sky fairies?
I just love the way you expose who you are in bringing nationality and non native animals into it.
I didn't have time to google search it like you did. sorry.
while you are at it, look up 'cane toad' haha
- sneakorocksolidposted 14 years ago0
I don't remember that!
Well, it IS light reading for the trip.
Just another bad Dad joke.
Me too. I was a devout bible student at one time, and the stories about JC are pretty benign on the whole in my view, even if I do believe the stories preceded the man and were from times past as some of the bible stories appear to date back a lot further than the bible itself.
Exactly!
When it comes to reciting scripture I have two words for you.
Ned Flanders! The kids and wife are a riot too! - Ghost32posted 14 years ago0
According to several of my past life memories as a Roman citizen, it's both a hobby AND a sport.
According to my lone past life memory as a Christian in Rome, it's pain. Being lunch smarts a bit.
According to my two past life memories as lions, it's both lunch--obvious--and substitution for the folks we'd really like to get our fangs into, namely the Roman buggers that caught us and put us in cages prior to hitting the Arena.
But what do I know? It is the christians who lay the bait!
How many atheist forums are there?- Ghost32posted 14 years ago0
Prayers in schools: Are the atheists forum?
Sorry, Earnest. Couldn't resist.- Hey ghost how's the house comin on mate?
Well, you could call me the master baiter, but I usually work in private.
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