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[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

lol

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by KagatobLuvsAnimu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So busted... for having a good memory.
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So if she was white you would've said, "middle-aged bible-thumping white woman"?

Double busted. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by katrik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't have a 'big' problem with religion. I do believe that it sets the human race back as a whole, with the absence of needless wars and focus on advancement/science. But, culture is not a bad thing.. religion helps people cope with the reality of death, helps out local communities, helps feed the poor, etc. I do have a problem with extremists.. every religion has them.. which stinks. I'm an atheist, but i'm not in your face about it. I'm private about it, as I think all religion/beliefs should be.

I agree with a lot of this, especially the last sentence, but culture can and should be just as robust and vibrant and spiritual without religion as it is with religion. This idea that atheism somehow detracts from all the good things we enjoy in life, like music and the arts, or self-transcendence and enlightenment, and that these things can only be provided by religion is just simply false. Atheism is not acultural, nor does religion have some kind of monopoly on or secret keys to culture.

Every good thing you just mentioned that can be done with the help of religion can also done by the irreligious, except helping people cope with the reality of death - religion doesn't help people do this in any way whatsoever.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So if she was white you would've said, "middle-aged bible-thumping white woman"?

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Again no. White people being devout christians is slightly less hypocritical than black people doing so.

[paulgiamatti]

How very subtly racist of you.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How very subtly racist of you.

That's not what racism is. That's not even close to what racism is. Please try again.

[paulgiamatti]

Yeah, actually it's more overtly racist than just racist subtlety.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

White southerners were never slaves. Black southerners are descended from slaves. The bible not only condones but specifically endorses slavery as 'a legitimate practice'.

Do the fucking math you moron.

[paulgiamatti]

How about you develop some kind of a moral conscience instead of painfully defending your racism instead?

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How about you develop some kind of a moral conscience instead of painfully defending your racism instead?

Defending? I'm openly racist. The world would be a much better place if the middle east (Israel included) was walled off and never looked at again. Liberians are the morons of the month, raiding and destroying ebola quarantine zones, they deserve whatever happens to them. It would bring me the greatest amount of pleasure possible if someone nuked the fuck out of Puerto Rico considering at least a percentage of Mexicans actually try yet the fucking parasitic spics are never mentioned. Fuck the Irish, fuck the south, fuck Jehobos, fuck magical underpants mormons. I don't much care for the french and I've never met a Cambodian containing a hint of civility.

That my friend, is racism. It's emotionally motivated, rooted in stereotype and anecdotal evidence.

Originally Posted by KagatobLuvsAnimu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

White southerners were never slaves. Black southerners are descended from slaves. The bible not only condones but specifically endorses slavery as 'a legitimate practice'.

That is an observation. It's based upon empirical evidence backed up by observational study.

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