Not sure if this thread is where I kicked off the Fbook thing with my work mate, but here's the latest.
"For my friends & family who are going through some issues right now including me: Let's start a prayer avalanche. We all need prayers right now. If I don't see your name, I'll understand. May I ask my "FB Family" wherever you may be, to kindly copy, paste and share this status for one hour to give a prayer of support to all those who have family problems, health, struggles, worries and just need to know that someone cares. Do it for all of us for no one is immune. I hope to see this on the walls of all my friends just for moral support. I know some will!! I did it for a friend too"
A fucking 'prayer avalanche' FFS!
I sent very specific 'secular best wishes'.
How far should our lack of respect for religion go?
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Re: How far should our lack of respect for religion go?
A tsunami of god's attention!
Oh, wait.
Oh, wait.
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Re: How far should our lack of respect for religion go?
The whole prayer thing seems increasingly comical to me.
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There's little about religion that isn't hilarious on further inspection.
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Re: How far should our lack of respect for religion go?
Sad thing is, they are very serious about it, and there is probably nothing you or anyone else could say to break through the programming - that has to start from the inside.
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It won't happen in the case of my old work mate. He is a lay preacher and his social network is all Christian pretty well and he will go to his death thinking that something wonderful awaits him afterwards. Its a nice thought I suppose and there are times I wish I could share it, though not many.Ayaan wrote:Sad thing is, they are very serious about it, and there is probably nothing you or anyone else could say to break through the programming - that has to start from the inside.
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You never know. If I got out, anyone can. It can start with something as simple as the search for an answer to a question.Rum wrote:It won't happen in the case of my old work mate. He is a lay preacher and his social network is all Christian pretty well and he will go to his death thinking that something wonderful awaits him afterwards. Its a nice thought I suppose and there are times I wish I could share it, though not many.Ayaan wrote:Sad thing is, they are very serious about it, and there is probably nothing you or anyone else could say to break through the programming - that has to start from the inside.
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Re: How far should our lack of respect for religion go?
42Ayaan wrote:You never know. If I got out, anyone can. It can start with something as simple as the search for an answer to a question.Rum wrote:It won't happen in the case of my old work mate. He is a lay preacher and his social network is all Christian pretty well and he will go to his death thinking that something wonderful awaits him afterwards. Its a nice thought I suppose and there are times I wish I could share it, though not many.Ayaan wrote:Sad thing is, they are very serious about it, and there is probably nothing you or anyone else could say to break through the programming - that has to start from the inside.
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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I'm not interested in undermining anyone's faith. If they have it, that's their business. So long as it stays that way -- their business -- I don't care what they believe.
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Thumpalumpacus wrote:A tsunami of god's attention!
Oh, wait.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
Re: How far should our lack of respect for religion go?
I think a more accurate description would be a bukkake of prayer. Loads and loads of them all putting it in your face at the same time
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It's just like a dog pissing on a tree - marking (and trying to claim new) territory.
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Re: How far should our lack of respect for religion go?
And REALLY studying the babble can do amazing things - I should know.Ayaan wrote:You never know. If I got out, anyone can. It can start with something as simple as the search for an answer to a question.Rum wrote:It won't happen in the case of my old work mate. He is a lay preacher and his social network is all Christian pretty well and he will go to his death thinking that something wonderful awaits him afterwards. Its a nice thought I suppose and there are times I wish I could share it, though not many.Ayaan wrote:Sad thing is, they are very serious about it, and there is probably nothing you or anyone else could say to break through the programming - that has to start from the inside.
Ayaan, it still tickles me pink that if I had met you some 20 years ago, we could have had a right row about what following Christ really meant, and you most likely would have been convinced that I was going to hell
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Studying the Bible always seems to imply swallowing someone else's guff without question. 
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Re: How far should our lack of respect for religion go?
...unless it becomes the road to deism and/or atheism. There are ex-christians who rejected their beliefs because they sat down and studied the bible.Brian Peacock wrote:Studying the Bible always seems to imply swallowing someone else's guff without question.
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