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- i_monk1
#MourningWhileBlack: Priest Calls Cops on Black Funeral-Goers, Tells Them to 'Get the Hell Out' of Church
- whatthefunk2
Virgins furious with Catholic Church for saying they can have sex
Christian women who have pledged lifelong virginity as “brides of Christ” have expressed shock at a Vatican document that suggests literal virginity is not a prerequisite for their consecration.
In a statement, the US Association of Consecrated Virgins, which says there are 235 consecrated virgins across America, said the document was “deeply disappointing in its denial of integral virginity as the essential and natural foundation of the vocation”.
- It's had to qualify all this "nun vow virgin no sex" stuff in terms of evolution, survival, passing your DNA etc.shapesalad
- sted2
"For most high-functioning individuals in modern society there is a balance between trust and paranoia, based upon a rationale appraisal of the situation based upon experience and understanding (Green and Phillips, 2004; Nelson et al., 2012). It has been proposed that religion and schizophrenia have similar evolutionary underpinnings (Dein and Littlewood, 2011). In this view, both theory of mind and attributing life events to an external agency are hyperextended and intrude thought processes and actions excessively. One way to view the brains of those who believe in a God, particularly fundamentalists, is that they have a low level of trust in people and so fabricate an external agency, a security blanket in which they trust."
- makes sensemonospaced
- Indeed. It sounds like belief in god(s) is a rational protection mechanism, no?Morning_star
- < I don't agree at all. This may have some contemporary relevance but trying to connect religion + schizo from an evolutionary perspective is a massive reachGnash
- Rational? I think it could be argued either way with ease. Some might say that not resorting to a fabricated supernatural is far more rational :)monospaced
- Only if you're willing to claim that our 200,000 year old ancestors were atheist.Morning_star
- Gnash Schizophrenia is a genetic disorder and one of the top symptoms are extreme adoration for a religion or with the occult.sted
- I prefer the theory that theism arose from the evolutionary advantages of seeing intention in things. If we can't tell what an animal may do, we could die.i_monk
- So we model the intention of other things, just in case there's a threat. But like seeing faces in clouds, it's easy to see intention in the world at large.i_monk
- So there must be intent behind that lightning, that flood, that tree... So, gods.i_monk
- Everyone is born atheist :)monospaced
- God bless America.shapesalad
- +1 i_monk. there makes senseGnash
- People that hear voices that tell them to kill their kids are locked up nowadays, two thousand years ago they were made saints._niko
- There is Also the phenomenon of sleep paralysis https://en.m.wikiped… which I’ve experienced first hand. If I lived a couple of_niko
- ...hundred years ago I’d absolutely believe I was visited by demons. Scary as fuck even though I can easily rationalize it._niko
- I get sleep paralysis and yep have seen and heard all kinds of insane shit. wasn't until my early twenties when found out what it was.inteliboy
- I have sleep paralysis as well. It's insanely terrifying. To piggyback on this topic, a lot of religious texts were written by people who were fasting..garbage
- ..which can trigger severe hallucinations that they then interpreted as divine visions.garbage
- HijoDMaite0
"Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1922–1991), there were periods where Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on State interests. Soviet Marxist-Leninism policy consistently advocated the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and actively encouraged atheism in the Soviet Union. However, most religions were never officially outlawed.
The state advocated the destruction of religion, and it officially pronounced religious beliefs to be superstitious and backward. The Communist Party destroyed churches, synagogues, mosques and Buddhist temples, ridiculed, harassed, incarcerated and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with anti-religious teachings, and it introduced a belief system called "scientific atheism," with its own rituals, promises and proselytizers."
- Sounds just like how every religion treats another religion. I see one common denominator here.formed
- Atheism is not a religion.monospaced
- He ment communismdrgs
- The common denominator here is Dogma, specifically Marxist Dogma.Morning_star
- dogma isn't part of atheism, thankfullymonospaced
- it's simply a non-belief in supernatural gods (and as a result, a rejection of religious dogma)monospaced
- whatthefunk4
- Not bad, but could be improved. +0.5 for the format.sarahfailin
- PhanLo-1
- BonSeff3
- the devil's doorbell. I'm gonna keep that one in my back pocketsarahfailin
- Careful there SF, nobody else will be able to find it.Morning_star
- utopian-11
- The brainwashed fanboys will downvote it!utopian
- No, it's a cultTurboslacker
- chukkaphob4
- Out of all religions, their logo is the cleanest. It follows the golden ratiohotroddy
- jesus was a good designerhotroddy
- It stands for Tyrannosaurus Rexshapesalad
- lolchukkaphob
- Gnash3
- Half of the US prays a ton, the other half gets shit done. Break it down by state and we'd be right on that line for the most part.monospaced
- Look at the incomes of religious groups in the US, and atheists are the highest earners, while baptists are by far the poorest.monospaced
- ^ Not true. Jewish, Episcopalian and Presbyterian are all groups with higher incomes than Atheists.Morning_star
- ^ don't forget the hindusGnash
- is that right?monospaced
- https://upload.wikim…Gnash
- Born agains/evangelical are doing great, tooGnash
- All that wasted time. Could be spent fappinfuturefood
- As I've been saying all along , a 2nd world countrydrgs
- See also: Protestant work ethici_monk
- Don't pray - ROOOOAAR like a Dinosaur. (We don't know if Dinosaurs roared, but recent research indicates they at least didn't whimper.)shapesalad
- monospaced2
- You know who's responsible for this chart don't you? the Jews!_niko
- OBVIOUSLY!monospaced
- Atheist is now considered a religious group?aslip
- this doesn't define how hard-core the devotees are in each religion, all the succesful Jews I know are completely atheist but still celebrate all the holidays_niko
- Not sure it's possible to be Jewish and atheist at the same time. Those are two opposing belief systems. And no, Jewish is not a race.monospaced
- And when I say opposing belief systems, I mean that Judaism is a belief system, and atheism isn't.monospaced
- I believe in Dinosaurs! They we're around for millions of years, and millions of years before stupid Jesus and your concept of money.shapesalad
- https://tinyurl.com/…PonyBoy
- Do you have 5min to talk about our Lord and Savior Tyrannosaurus Rex?Bennn
- Well, where do these demographics live? Which states/cities. What population live in the worst economies, which in the best.toemaas
- Interesting PonyBoy. I suppose that Jews are often treated as a racial group in a discriminatory way. There's no doubt in that.monospaced
- Personally, I believe it's just another religion. But I get why a judge would argue in favor of it, considering the history.monospaced
- What's this religion "all us adult" that I never heard of?pango
- lol, average?monospaced
- I like the religion "nothing in particular"
They sound chill ¯\_(ツ)_/¯pango
- PeterPancake0
- Translation of the page: Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today
To get through this thing called life
Electric word life it means forever..._niko
- Translation of the page: Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today
- drgs1
- https://www.youtube.…Gnash
- He just needs to embrace his rampant homosexuality.PhanLo
- All Islamic preachers need to embrace becoming Eunuchs, then they won't have anything to enact their indecent thoughts.shapesalad
- He's just saying what we're all thinking.i_monk
- chukkaphob4
- When they finally give in after holding it back, the sex must be really gooddrgs
- Indeed. The best damn 30 seconds of his life. Amen..Morning_star
- https://thumbs.gfyca…PhanLo
- https://i.makeagif.c…PhanLo
- Careful, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven, not in this life, not in the next. Matthew 12:31nuggler
- It's a good thing the holy spirit made me longer and thicker than a biblefuturefood
- PhanLo2
Drunk racist Vietnam vet and all round cunt, Jimmy Taylor gets angry that Ugandans don't believe in white Jesus.
- freedom4
- keep mixing it upBonSeff
- why downvote? this is 100% accuratemonospaced
- monospaced1
Christian festival founder sentenced to 18 years in prison for —surprise! — sexually abusing children.
- Hey Mono, You should listen to the first fifteen mins of Sam Harris' podcast this week (#135). I think his venom will resonate well with yourself.Morning_star
- I listened on your recommendation. I don't agree that the "church" exists partly as a system to allow men to molest children, despite it seeming like that.monospaced
- I think this is when Sam lets himself down a bit. His attacks on Islam follow a similar approach. He is good at it though.Morning_star
- I am not really familiar with him, but he does seem to come off as somewhat convincing.monospaced