2020 Non-Crows AFL Discussion Part 2

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I mean this thread is a perfect example of why you have to be careful. I had the audacity to say reminiscing about going to a strip club on twitter isn't the most christian thing ever and even that was enough to trigger a few people.

Ali G on religion: So why is so many nuns strippers?

Catholic priest: They aren't. That's an absurb suggestion.

Ali G: But there was one at me mate Dave's 21st, right. She said her name was Sister Fister

 

[kirky]

Calendars were invented by the pope. Keep pouring our New Years beers thanks mate.

The current calendar was but not the previous ones. Julius Caesar and the Egyptians.

God was invented to stop man from going insane. Have finished my discussion on things religious.

Any news from our little brother?

 

[WetCrow1991]

Schnitz are better

Yeah they are great. Love their chips.

 

[baldandbroke]

I am haha

Also a deep thinker, intrigued by people's beliefs.

Sweet Jesus.

 

[Samcro24]

Ali G on religion: So why is so many nuns strippers?

Catholic priest: They aren't. That's an absurb suggestion.

Ali G: But there was one at me mate Dave's 21st, right. She said her name was Sister Fister

Ali G: so let’s talk about the main man, the Mac daddy of da whole Christian fing... what is his name again?

Priest (seething): Jesus... Christ.

Haha, classic Ali G

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Ali G: so let’s talk about the main man, the Mac daddy of da whole Christian fing... what is his name again?

Priest (seething): Jesus... Christ.

Haha, classic Ali G

Ali G: So why was Jesus Christ gettin about with all them reindeers?

 

[arrowman]

They might not operate only on chance, but the operation as a whole can be determined by chance.

You need to be careful with that, though. The "it's all random and therefore impossible" is a favourite argument of the creationists and it plays well to an audience that doesn't understand natural selection.

 

[Sanders]

I don't like contributing to a thread derailment, but as an atheist myself, I am interested in this.

I don't think it's fair (or justifiable) to cast atheists as annoying anti-religion preachers. Any more than you can cast Christians as annoying proselytisers. Some are, some (I would say most, in both cases) aren't. I'll debate the existence of god with anyone who wants to, but I'm not going around knocking on people's doors saying "have you heard The Bad News".

fair call

I’m agnostic

militant atheists tend to be of lower intelligence, as often the most fervent religious types are.

the interesting thing is certainty that something doesn’t exist, absolute faith in the unknowable is still a form of theism.

 

[Sanders]

You need to be a theologian to understand that strip clubs are considered sinful? Lmfao.

yes.

 

[Sanders]

I like to think of myself as a better class of dimwit than that. Also, hyphenate garden-variety.

true. I didn’t want to confuse him with proper grammar

 

[Sanders]

That's a pretty hard position to justify.

Not sure how many people have committed hate crimes or terrorist acts in the name of atheism.

the Holocaust?

 

[Sanders]

I wasn't aware that those guys committed their crimes "in the name of atheism".

Atheist committing a crime does not equal person committing a crime in the name of atheism.

Think anti-theism, which is every time some nutter shoots up a church

 

[Sanders]

It's a complicated one. On balance I would say that Hitler wasn't motivated by atheism as such, but he did seem to have a set against organised (Christian) religion.

he was very anti-theist in one key flavour.

I do place a great deal of weight on Steven Weinberg's quote:
"With or without [religion] you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

where does Lance Armstrong and Livestrong fit in?

good guy who did bad things, or bad guy who did good things?

This is where, as an atheist, I have more time for the late, great Christopher Hitchens than I do for Richard Dawkins.

It was from Hitchens the premise about atheism still being absolute faith in the unknowable

 

[Sanders]

Agnostics are the worst. Basically a religious person that wants to pretend they are not a religious person to try and avoid discussions with atheists.

You either believe in <insert whichever god represents the physical location you were born in> or you understand that it is all made up.

Do you go with the same logic of "I'm not saying I do believe in ghosts, but I'm not saying that don't believe in ghosts either."

Religion = certainty
Atheism = certainty

agnosticism = everyone without certainty about the fundamentally unknowable

 

[Sanders]

Besides Santa

anagram of SATAN

 

[FR0GGY]

Ali G: So why was Jesus Christ gettin about with all them reindeers?

Reckon Ali G is his best character.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Reckon Ali G is his best character.

I have no idea how he dead-panned his questions

Buzz Aldrin interview

"Now there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there so maybe you can clear it up once and for all. Does the moon really exist?"

 

[spenze]

anagram of SATAN

Both known by "Old Nick"

Satan, Santa...never seen together at the same time

Both wear red

Both like giving things to small kids

In 17th century art, Satan was depicted having sex with reindeer...of course, that could have been a stag he was going though

 

[spenze]

I have no idea how he dead-panned his questions

Buzz Aldrin interview

"Now there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there so maybe you can clear it up once and for all. Does the moon really exist?"

Nah, when he was talking to the director of the FBI

"So, what do you do in the FB"

"Well, in the FBI"

"Aiiigh"

 

[Samcro24]

I have no idea how he dead-panned his questions

Buzz Aldrin interview

"Now there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there so maybe you can clear it up once and for all. Does the moon really exist?"

There’s a couple of times you’d see him smirk, but he’d recover quickly. Rare though.

 

[Geoffa32]

I have no idea how he dead-panned his questions

Buzz Aldrin interview

"Now there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there so maybe you can clear it up once and for all. Does the moon really exist?"

My questions about the Moon.

Why haven't humans been there since 1972?
Why have only the USA been there?

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[Doc_]

Western civilisation is built on Christianity.
It has provided a very good foundation for society.
Whether you believe or not, the Christian values are sound and not a bad way to live your life by.

 

[daniel_4tw]

Please, no more religion talk.

 

[Samcro24]

Please, no more religion talk.

Amen.

 

[mistylake]

Agnostic?

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