[quote]pat wrote:
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/going-clear#/
Ooooo, goodie. I can’t wait to see this. Except I don’t have HBO anymore. But I am sure I will be able to find it.
Corruption, abuse, intrigue, oh my![/quote]
Oh the documentary is about corruption and abuse in Scientology, not Christianity?
Ok good, I’m less familiar with the corruption and abuse in Scientology than Christianity. Maybe I’ll learn some new things.
[quote]H factor wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/going-clear#/
Ooooo, goodie. I can’t wait to see this. Except I don’t have HBO anymore. But I am sure I will be able to find it.
Corruption, abuse, intrigue, oh my![/quote]
Oh the documentary is about corruption and abuse in Scientology, not Christianity?
Ok good, I’m less familiar with the corruption and abuse in Scientology than Christianity. Maybe I’ll learn some new things. [/quote]
Don’t be silly. There can’t have ever been any corruption or abuse in Christianity, because real Christians are not corrupt or abusive.
You must be thinking of corruption and abuse perpetrated by people masquerading as Christians.
That’s gotta be it.
Besides, this thread is about Scientology, dammit! No hijacks to bad-mouth “real” religions… unless you’re bad-mouthing Islam. That’s acceptable, because, well, it’s Islam, isn’t it?
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Besides, this thread is about Scientology, dammit! No hijacks to bad-mouth “real” religions… unless you’re bad-mouthing Islam. That’s acceptable, because, well, it’s Islam, isn’t it?
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Well, if you ask the only person who consistently stands up for atheists, the Well-Meaning Liberal of Shallow Thoughts will probably tell you that Islam should be insulated from criticism because it doesn’t pose the same threat Christianity does to the day-to-day general comfort level of Well-Meaning Liberals of Shallow Thoughts.
Atheists need better friends. Maybe we’ll catch on in Southwest Asia.
[quote]twojarslave wrote:
Atheists need better friends. [/quote]
90 percent of the world scientific community isn’t good enough?
[quote]Maybe we’ll catch on in Southwest Asia.
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Plenty of atheists in Israel. About fifty percent identify as hilonim or secular, even though they are culturally “Jewish”.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]twojarslave wrote:
Atheists need better friends. [/quote]
90 percent of the world scientific community isn’t good enough?
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It will be good enough when champion athletes start thanking science and saying they want to go to Kennedy Space Center in their victory speeches.
A close second would be Tim Duncan thanking Xenu if the Spurs repeat this year. I’d really get a kick out of that. That’s Timmy for you, always good for a laugh.
[quote]twojarslave wrote: Maybe we’ll catch on in Southwest Asia.
This is something about the world that I didn’t know until just now. They still have a lot of disbelieving to do to catch up to my state, though.
Maine. First in tree coverage, bad tattoos and heresy. The way life should be.
[quote]twojarslave wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]twojarslave wrote:
Atheists need better friends. [/quote]
90 percent of the world scientific community isn’t good enough?
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It will be good enough when champion athletes start thanking science and saying they want to go to Kennedy Space Center in their victory speeches.
A close second would be Tim Duncan thanking Xenu if the Spurs repeat this year. I’d really get a kick out of that. That’s Timmy for you, always good for a laugh.
[quote]twojarslave wrote: Maybe we’ll catch on in Southwest Asia.
This is something about the world that I didn’t know until just now. They still have a lot of disbelieving to do to catch up to my state, though.
Maine. First in tree coverage, bad tattoos and heresy. The way life should be.
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Maine definitely has Israel beat in the tree coverage and bad tattoos departments.
From your link:
“What’s alarming about those numbers is that more than 300 years after the country was founded by people seeking religious freedom, the large numbers of nonaffiliated folks out here is just the norm.”
Nothing alarming about that, or even surprising. Religious freedom, of course, also entails being free from religion.
And the reverend should check his history. The North American continent may have been colonized in part by people seeking religious freedom, but that’s not who founded the United States, and it certainly wasn’t founded more than 300 years ago.