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Warpy

(113,131 posts)
15. How very odd
Fri Nov 20, 2015, 03:55 PM
Nov 2015

It seems someone is criticising the mote in your eye while ignoring the plank in his own (I love using babble quotes on the godly) and refusing to see that the only way he can maintain a belief in a fairy tale is by associating with people who provide consensus.

On the other hand, there's nothing comforting about disbelief. Nobody's going to swoop out of the sky and save our asses. Our sports teams will win or lose on their own merits. God is not on our side in a war, just a bunch of greasy capitalists who want to get greasier.

Far from an echo chamber, this group is a safe spot where we can avoid people who want us to provide consensus for whatever religious pap they believe in. There's no pressure here to pay lip service to their spooks. We can come out of the "I'm not religious" closet here and admit the reason we sleep in on Sunday morning is that we don't believe a word of it.

And that's the only thing we have in common. Otherwise, it's like expecting everybody with curly hair to think exactly alike. Churches, on the other hand, do expect everybody to think alike, it's how they stay afloat in an ocean of scientific data that contradict their Bronze Age belief system.

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HELLO hello hello hello hello nt PassingFair Nov 2015 #1
Careful, you could cause an avalanche! mr blur Nov 2015 #2
... Arugula Latte Nov 2015 #7
Wie heißt der Bürgermeister von Wesel? Ron Obvious Nov 2015 #3
Perhaps we should start disagreeing on exactly how god does not exist AlbertCat Nov 2015 #4
How Big-endian of you! PassingFair Nov 2015 #8
I agree! WillParkinson Nov 2015 #5
Aw, somebody mad we don't hate each other? Iggo Nov 2015 #6
Hey, they have to have something to talk about skepticscott Nov 2015 #9
You know what, though? skepticscott Nov 2015 #10
Hey, I'm here for the laughs, and there are many here. mountain grammy Nov 2015 #11
Oh sod off, you British git. And take your unnecessary "u"s with you. Goblinmonger Nov 2015 #12
And the stupid way he consumes it. n/t trotsky Nov 2015 #14
But...but...doesn't everybody smoke it? mr blur Nov 2015 #16
Every church Mr.Bill Nov 2015 #13
Every church is the very definition of an echo chamber. AlbertCat Nov 2015 #19
How very odd Warpy Nov 2015 #15
hear, hear!! Well said. mountain grammy Nov 2015 #18
Well, you finally got it right. Curmudgeoness Nov 2015 #17
Well we don't block people just for not agreeing with us. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #20
I got the Echo if you got the Chamber... onager Nov 2015 #21
Yeah, but Hank's a bloody great guitar player! mr blur Nov 2015 #22
Did not know that, t(hanks)! onager Nov 2015 #23
Let's build anaechoic agnostic temples Yorktown Nov 2015 #24
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