tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post8771018076332191700..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Gays, god, and forest firesGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-26800985673656001852019-01-04T07:32:31.473-08:002019-01-04T07:32:31.473-08:00It is unusual to reply on old text but I have to s...It is unusual to reply on old text but I have to share this with you all :)<br />In 2014. there were huge flood in my country. It was mix of several factors, human errors and unexpected rains but high ranking orthodox church official (actually second in command line)publicly, on tv in presence of several whiteness in studio, said that reason for floods was Austrian singer (transgender) who won Eurosong contest earlier that year. Studio guests were probably in shock and one of them asked how can Austrian singer be guilty for floods in Serbia? Mitropolit (his official rank) replied - yes, but tv audience from Serbia probably voted for her/he! <br />Had to share, it is important that stupidity has no borders! Bracahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06702308494383238033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-32036474499196433842015-01-10T21:33:33.757-08:002015-01-10T21:33:33.757-08:00GOD EXISTS. I would like to say that I am a proud ...GOD EXISTS. I would like to say that I am a proud Mormon. I believe I am not an ignorant person, and I have a very open mind. I try to make sense of the world and my beliefs regardless of the source or regardless of the source. I love science by the way. love it. and the only way one can really know if God is real is to open their mind to the possibility of its truth and truly seek. some find this out easier, some never do in life, some sooner, some later. its not something you can really prove to somebody else. people will just refute what is shown. the mind is powerful it can justify and explain its way around many things. have you ever truly tried to seek out to know God? here is my opinion, here is my belief. and please don't base what these ministers are saying to be the overall "Christian" belief of God, his judgment, and their strange argument of God burning Colorado because of gay people in it but the part that was burned was the more conservative area. because that does not make sense to me. im not saying that God would burn or is going to burn or kill the "gayer" area of Colorado, im not saying he wont or that things like that don't actually happen. and by the way I have thoroughly researched homosexuality and I know that there are a number of people that are born gay, and what the neurological difference is in the mind and all that. the question is, if that person believes or knows that God does not want people to act out in homosexuality, are they going to suppress it or try to not do it and use the gospel and Gods help to find happiness in their life, or are they going to act on it and do it? spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06707235764382070365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-40430230322301067142014-07-27T04:11:18.712-07:002014-07-27T04:11:18.712-07:00God almighty has just reasons for His decision mak...God almighty has just reasons for His decision making.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-10198979894730886272014-03-08T18:02:03.524-08:002014-03-08T18:02:03.524-08:00I guess you may not know that gays are also the ca...I guess you may not know that gays are also the cause of floods in Great Britain, according to some representative of god or God; his opinion was reported by a few British papers, with, for some reason, not very flattering comments. Next we'll learn that they also control earthquakes and tsunamis. Who knew that my friends James and Cameron, a gay married couple, had such powers. BTW, I don't get why god did not smite Canada - we have gay marriages for years and years by now. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05753828291692284366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-60431918963963776522013-09-16T06:18:30.466-07:002013-09-16T06:18:30.466-07:00Then, the question came up as to why, if god was t...Then, the question came up as to why, if god was trying to smite Colorado for supporting gays, the fires hit the religious and conservative areas near Colorado Springs, rather than far more liberal bastions of Denver or Boulder.<br /><br /><br />Boulder Flooding this week. hmmmmmm. If you all cant see whats happening your blind as the guy leading this country.Airbornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14111086382222152874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-37643850153582537212013-07-21T10:47:56.621-07:002013-07-21T10:47:56.621-07:00What's the difference between the mainstream C...What's the difference between the mainstream Christian right and Westboro Baptist church again?Grimwinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00092457651997438471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-480010890684592492013-07-01T21:18:01.383-07:002013-07-01T21:18:01.383-07:00I like the last idea. I'm willing to try almo...I like the last idea. I'm willing to try almost anything to smite Ann Coulter.Nancy Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05138313832899984644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-20039452743920487342013-07-01T17:59:19.285-07:002013-07-01T17:59:19.285-07:001200 miles of ditch keeps most of them out, but ma...1200 miles of ditch keeps most of them out, but makes Australia close enough for sunny holidays. About 15% of New Zealanders live there now, so it's a bit hard to say who has been inflicted upon who!! :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03876281078705122615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-21497805485691025862013-07-01T17:42:53.316-07:002013-07-01T17:42:53.316-07:00New Zealand has Australians as neighbours. They...New Zealand has Australians as neighbours. They're pretty much inundated with wrath already. ;-]<br /> -- llearchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-31266438590529756882013-07-01T16:14:53.277-07:002013-07-01T16:14:53.277-07:00Still don't understand why Colorado and not so...Still don't understand why Colorado and not some other den of iniquity such as, for example, New Zealand - I mean New Zealand is about to allow gay marriage (law has passed, takes effect in a month or 2) - so why not a few plagues to sort THEM out before they rush to Sodom?? New Zealand also has legal prostitution, gun control, is more-or-less socialist, and increasing number of atheists and any number of other obviously ungodly traits but seems unaffected by much wrath at all.....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03876281078705122615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-68770845978063749222013-07-01T12:22:53.041-07:002013-07-01T12:22:53.041-07:00Christianity is Boot Camp.
If someone in the trai...Christianity is Boot Camp.<br /><br />If someone in the training group doesn't make their bed correctly, everyone's going to be doing pushups for it. Statistics dictate that, out of 60 trainees, there is always going to be at least one trainee who makes their bed wrong. The first week of training, everyone is taking these scenarios seriously... "Dude! Learn to make your bed!"<br />4 or so weeks in, nobody is upset anymore at the guy who can't make his bed right... pushups are happening regardless. Playing into the fear and repercussion gives way to ambivalent obedience. Everyone understands the charade and plays their part.<br /><br />"If gays kiss, God will smite us!"<br /><br />*yawn* "Yeah... Whatever."Hontseur Thotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10799765178908406877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-7214130130745352472013-07-01T12:20:50.681-07:002013-07-01T12:20:50.681-07:00Will these idiots ever go away? When they die, wi...Will these idiots ever go away? When they die, will their sons and daughters take up delivering these horror stories and statements to make bad matters worse? Why do religious people disregard science? The church has ignored amd enslaved and jailed men with scientific minds that could have brought mankind answers to disease and dispair. How much farther along we would be today without religion?Kent Torchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04959300812459714046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-81351844335051504952013-07-01T06:54:16.297-07:002013-07-01T06:54:16.297-07:00Religion saps our strength as a nation. We need re...Religion saps our strength as a nation. We need real world answers and real world action to real world problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-90029787704245513402013-07-01T05:58:24.780-07:002013-07-01T05:58:24.780-07:00Can behaviour be 'consistent' with such an...Can behaviour be 'consistent' with such an inconsistent text? The Bible is full of contradictions, so by the basic principles of formal logic, *anything* can be deduced from it (this may be part of the problem, though it's generaly regarded as a flaw with modern formalism). Adding further facts to a set of statements which already contain contradictions can't eliminate the contradictions (and thus induce consistency); only changing some of the extant, contradictory facts/statements can.Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16677076598470332030noreply@blogger.com