What DU has taught me about religion.
The past few days have been very enlightening. Here's what I've learned:
- When the topic is sexuality, women's rights, or the age of the Earth, conservative Christians are "literalists".
- When the topic is income equality, conservative Christians are "selective".
- What church leaders think of gay marriage is irrelevant, because most believers are okay with it.
- What most believers think of the death penalty is irrelevant, because most church leaders are against it.
Makes sense, right?
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If someone wants to discriminate against anyone - LGBTQ, women, minorities - it's AUTOMATICALLY not because of their religion, because religion is never behind anything bad!
You need to read more Reza Aslan and Karen Armstrong, kiddo. 
I only had to do the Catholic Sunday school thing once a week, plus the silly requisite rituals. I still hated it with every fiber of my being, though, even as a child.
Hey, on the bright side, you're qualified to have an opinion on Christianity now! You see, according to some here, you have to understand Christianity before you can criticize it. I wish I could, but I can't. I'm currently working on reading all of Erich von Daniken's books so that I can have the opinion that UFOs are bullshit, after which I plan on learning all about astrology so that I can credibly state that the motions of the heavens have fuck-all to do with the events of our daily lives. Maybe I'll get to the Bible after that.
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As founding member, I hereby claim the title of Vermin Bruce #1 (aka Vermin Bruce Prime) (on the pretense and presumption that I have actually traveled to Wollongong {voluntarily no less} in real life {RL™}) and declare the following rules:
1) No poofers! (aka “gods”, or those entities with the propensity to cause, create or invoke phantom “poof”-ing which subsequently instills unreasonable awe, devotion and/or admiration from the faithiests, FSM excepted).
2) No member of the faculty is to maltreat the "faithiests" in any way whatsoever, if there's anyone watching.
3) No poofers!
4) For this term, I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out.
5) No poofers!
6) There is no... rule six.
7) No poofers!
8) Enumerating what meager nuggets of wisdom or irrationality, folly or thoughtlessness (as the case may be) that might have been inadvertently excavated by the faithiests in the other forum over the previous week, and
9) Engage in copious drinking
Right,
That concludes the readin' of the rules, Bruce.
This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
Here at the UofW, we shall (but not only):
Discuss the history, development, advancement, debauchment, confinement, improvement and practice of Philosophy,
Sing our favorite song,
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Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel.
And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shanty was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: 'I drink, therefore I am.'
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed,
and drink copious beverages
Any takers?
Are there any other Vermin Bruces who would like to become members of the faculty?
then most of them would pee in it .
But don't you dare make fun of other Christians' beliefs. 
If you're a member of a local church whose global parent church gives vast sums of money to anti-gay efforts, there's no need to worry that any of the money you give makes its way up the chain to the parent church to fund those donations. I mean, that's just like when you buy an iPhone or other Apple product at your local Apple store, right? Not one thin dime of any of that money goes back to Apple, Inc., does it?
