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Y
2015 Jun 5, 8:03pm
This is a great debate. You Boyz keep at it. I'm going to make a fried spam sandwich...
MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Jun 5, 8:05pm
This is a great debate. You Boyz keep at it. I'm going to make a fried spam sandwich...
What, don't you have a couple of hours to go, or is that Socal?
komputodo
2015 Jun 5, 10:16pm
This is a great debate. You Boyz keep at it. I'm going to make a fried spam sandwich...
Damn you. Now you got me hungry for a spam samich.
MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Jun 6, 2:35pm
"I have not come to bring peace, but with a sword... to set father against son, brother against brother, etc. etc." - Jesus, Paraphrased.
Yet he is billed as either "Love" and/or the "Prince of Peace" in the same document.
curious2
2015 Jun 6, 3:33pm
Paraphrased.
The quotation you are looking for is:
In fairness, the context seems probably to imply a metaphorical sword, cleaving family relationships but not bodies.
If Jesus lived as an actual person (which Paul seems not to have believed), then Mark 3:21 describes him as what we would call schizophrenic: "And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself." Back in those days, religious people prone to believe in unseen spirits believed that the symptoms of schizophrenia resulted from demons, i.e. demonic possession. That made sense to them because schizophrenia manifests usually around age 20, when around 1% of the population start hearing voices and suffering delusions of grandeur and persecution. The character Legion ("for we are many") seems clearly to be suffering from schizophrenia. Schizophrenics can be otherwise brilliant (e.g. John Nash), somewhat like the autistic idiot savant character in Rain Man had extraordinary counting ability. Most people recognize that schizophrenics are clearly delusional, but the early Christians seem to have made a different choice: to present schizophrenic delusions as fact. That turned out to be much more lucrative than any other approach (until PhRMA came along and turned anti-psychotic drugs into a booming industry, including ads on TV for suckers who had been fooled into buying toxic SSRI placebos; when the SSRIs don't work, it means the patient must be psychotic and need aripiprazole). Monetizing mental illness goes back a long way, from faith healers casting out demons to the current Vatican priests selling exorcisms and Obamneycare mandating prepayment for toxic and disproved pills.
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It's official. We Irish have defeated humanity. It's been a long and difficult battle, but we've finally wiped humanity off the face of the Earth. So anyone left on this planet must be a butt-pillaging ballsweat demon.
Same-sex marriage: Irish vote 'defeat for humanity' says Vatican official
After all, the only alternative to this dystopia vision is that religion is a stain on the world's taint that masquerades bigotry and ignorance as morality and holds back the moral and ethical advancement of society.