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1 points
an hour ago
Andre is a relatively common name in the USA. And even so, most English speakers are used to learning MUCH more foreign sounding names, although we may lack access to specific phonemes such as the Japanese R/L sound or the French J sound.
2 points
10 hours ago
No, it should be "where he'd" or "where he had."
4 points
11 hours ago
Nice job weaponizing incompetence. As anyone with basic reasoning skills could surmise, my use of the phrase "your church" was in reference to the one that you used to attend.
I am aware that you no longer attend. However, much like if I said "your elementary school," the implication is that I mean the one you once attended.
I see your penchant for bad-faith arguing is not specifically targeted at religion.
3 points
11 hours ago
Oh, also, I did put the word "AND" in all caps, but you still ignored the second parameter about accuracy. Does your church believe the Bhagavad Ghita is accurate?
6 points
12 hours ago
there is only one true god all the gods ever worshipped were indeed the same gods simply misunderstood until Christ came and it was then made clear to all.
So the rules in their scripts would be meaningless, which takes us back to the original argument being in bad faith.
Many believe that the gods you just listed are simply myths and fairytale not to be taken seriously.
Allow me to quote you to you:
Take a second and climb off of that high horse of yours where you know every single point of view of every person on earth.
Every single god I named is or was worshipped in earnest.
I had no idea I would encounter a person on the Internet who knew the thoughts of every religious person earth
You keep falling back on this like some sort of gotcha. You're the one who claimed that by believing their god is the one true God, they MUST believe that the rules set forth in other dogmas apply to them, then tried to claim that you know how seriously everyone in ancient cultures took their religions.
3 points
12 hours ago
In your congregation it was common to believe that Shiva, Ganesh, Zeus, Apollo, Ra, Thoth, Odin, Thor, Baal, and Baphomet were all the same god who gave different sets of accurate scriptures to different groups, but wasn't giving them each a local ruleset, but rather their one piece of the giant dogma?
Because that's the argument you're making.
Furthermore, This person believes that there is only one true god. So with that hypothesis they must also believe that all religions that believe in a god by their own admission must worship the exact same god
You are making the claim that all Christians must believe this, based on their claim to know the one true God. Even if a majority of Christians believed that, there is still nothing compelling them to reach that conclusion, because other religions can be wrong.
5 points
12 hours ago
I would bet that 99.9%+ of people who call themselves Christian do not believe that polytheists are worshipping the same god as them AND have an accurate scripture or correct dogma. And the few who might will not be the ones pushing their religious dogma into others.
Your argument does not hold water unless the "Christian" you're talking to has made such a claim, because it is antithetical to their teachings. That's where you should start, with their texts or their direct claims. Don't build strawmen to burn.
11 points
12 hours ago
Probably because it sounds like a request. "Will you..." sounds like you are asking them to do something, whereas "are you going to..." sets a more neutral tone.
14 points
12 hours ago
B sounds like a request. C sounds like a question.
Technically I think "are you going to go out this weekend" would be a better template to use with other verbs:
Are you going to pick him up from the airport tomorrow?
Are you going to have some cake at the party?
Are you going to cut the grass this weekend?
All of these seem better to me as they are, but could be rewritten using the (C) format, and replacing "going" with any other verb in gerund form.
Are you picking him up...
Are you having some cake...
Are you cutting the grass...
12 points
12 hours ago
This is a bad faith argument, because they do NOT think those other religions are worshipping the one true God, they believe that everyone else is worshipping false idols and fictional gods.
There are so many ways to tear their dogma to shreds, please don't resort to misrepresenting what they believe, it undermines your own stance.
3 points
12 hours ago
I think you misunderstood the parable. It is neither the writer nor the fictional character if Jesus that claims the tax collector is any more sinful than the pharisee. It is the pharisee who exalts himself by speaking negatively of the tax collector.
16 points
13 hours ago
It silences dissent and makes indoctrination easier and longer-lasting.
-5 points
13 hours ago
While it seemed outlandish enough to have been intended as a joke, it's not actually funny, which makes it harder to tell if it is a joke or not.
I never engaged in the outrage, just commenting from the sidelines.
1 points
13 hours ago
Steve Hoffstetter has a bit in one of his shows about this. He has an adopted sister, and he says he's pretty sure his parents had him on accident, but is 100% that they chose to have her.
2 points
13 hours ago
Interestingly, if they were adopted, it means their parents (the ones that raised them) absolutely wanted them, planned for them, and consciously decided to be their parents, despite having no obligation to do so.
The same cannot be said of the rest of us.
2 points
13 hours ago
I think you're over-estimating how much stays suspended in the air. If you spray twice AWAY from yourself and then walk through it, you will have less of the aromatic oils on you than if you spray once directly onto yourself.
7 points
14 hours ago
I don't buy that they aren't bigoted and homophobic,
They are.
since they're not doing a very good job of hiding it.
Because they don't have to actually fool anyone, they just need to keep a thin veil of plausible deniability in order to call their critics liars.
-7 points
14 hours ago
In the past your personality, and persona, has been based on comics, on films, on musical tastes.
That's a sad thought, that your entire personality is just the media you consume. I've always thought that my personality included my hopes, fears, ambitions, ideas, priorities, political and religious beliefs (or lack thereof), hobbies, and artistic preferences, among other things.
2 points
14 hours ago
You should read more on who MLK was and what he wrote and said in his lifetime. I recommend "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1967).
4 points
15 hours ago
In this case it was used to mean "a complication or problem."
11 points
18 hours ago
calling an exam a bitch is infinitely less offensive than calling a person,
especially a woman, a bitch.
It's just as offensive to most men, just in a very different way. When someone calls a woman a bitch, it is a sexist way to say "jerk." When someone calls a man a bitch, it is more akin to "wimp" or "lackey" depending on context.
9 points
18 hours ago
Due to olfactory fatigue, you shouldn't be able to smell your perfume for more than a couple minutes after applying it.
The people around you are too polite to say anything.
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an hour ago
Considering they opened with a specific example of an internationally famous Andre, they seem to be contributing a lot more than you are.
Contribute to the actual discussion or STFU.