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Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
14. I wish I could believe that there was an explanation,
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 03:27 PM
Sep 2014

but it is hard to imagine that most of the people who follow a religion have abnormal brains. I do not presume that I am one of the few who are "normal". And to be honest, that is not something people usually call me.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. They think that being 'forced' to tolerate other people's existence is persecution.
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:12 PM
Sep 2014

That they can't just round up and put away every group they don't like is pure hell for them.

Let's bring back the lions and remind them what persecution looks like. Then maybe they'll shut up for a second.

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)
13. Reminds me of a time when I was in line in a bookstore.
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 02:20 PM
Sep 2014

I was behind a couple of young women who kept going on and on about the Rapture, and how good it was going to be, who was bound for the down-below place, etc. They were quite obnoxious about it.

I could tell the clerk was about to say something, so I piped up: "Christians. Can't live with them, can't feed them to the lions anymore."

That shut them both up really quick. They gave me some ugly looks, but paid for their book and took off.

Sometimes, I'm just in a mood, ya know?

 

1dogleft

(164 posts)
3. that was a beautiful pile of crap
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 05:14 PM
Sep 2014

if you want to believe in a higher power that's just swell
but pleeezze don't use the "g" word around my family

Always very polite and considerate of others LOL

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
8. if you want to believe in a higher power
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 11:16 AM
Sep 2014

I don't BELIEVE in a higher power....


I KNOW there is a higher power!

Namely.... the laws of physics.


Just try circumnavigating around any one of them.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
12. Arguing with a Christian is a demonstration of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle....
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 02:09 PM
Sep 2014

They can't determine where you are at or where you are coming from at the same time.

Much less where you are going.

pablo_marmol

(2,375 posts)
11. Yeah but, yeah but, yeah but..........
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 01:35 PM
Sep 2014

........I drive a Bentley and live in a mansion in Hollywood.

Well ---- alright. Not really. You win.


 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
9. I found that being an atheist was just too hard so I joined a church.
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 12:20 PM
Sep 2014

I am now Pastafarian with a slight leaning toward fettaccine.

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