If you think Mormonism is retarded, why you think the Bible is any different?

Started by Tamas, October 24, 2012, 03:46:26 PM

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mongers

#15
October 24, 2012, 06:06:06 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 24, 2012, 06:00:45 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 24, 2012, 05:03:56 PM


You've been taking lessons from Marti, haven't you.

Meri and the Mormons are talking about religious beliefs*, whereas your 'scenario' describes extremely unlikely, but real happenings; thinks apples and claymore mines.

I think his point is that if believe someone to be in danger, you really have a moral obligation to warn them don't you?  Do something to prevent them being harmed?

Hint it's not a real danger, up until now no religious belief has been 'proven' so it's a fantasy danger, until proven otherwise.

When someone can show me a soul, then I'll believe it can be imperilled.
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#16
October 24, 2012, 06:06:41 PM
Raz, you should go door to door and invite people to mass.  :pope:
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Razgovory

#17
October 24, 2012, 06:18:38 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 24, 2012, 06:06:06 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 24, 2012, 06:00:45 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 24, 2012, 05:03:56 PM


You've been taking lessons from Marti, haven't you.

Meri and the Mormons are talking about religious beliefs*, whereas your 'scenario' describes extremely unlikely, but real happenings; thinks apples and claymore mines.


I think his point is that if believe someone to be in danger, you really have a moral obligation to warn them don't you?  Do something to prevent them being harmed?

Hint it's not a real danger, up until now no religious belief has been 'proven' so it's a fantasy danger, until proven otherwise.

When someone can show me a soul, then I'll believe it can be imperilled.

Irrelvant.  All that is relevant is that you believe it's a danger.  If you believe someone is danger, then don't you have a moral obligation to do something about it?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Viking

#18
October 24, 2012, 06:45:49 PM
Quote from: merithyn on October 24, 2012, 05:04:52 PM
Quote from: Viking on October 24, 2012, 04:52:04 PM
The analogy would be that I know that there is an ax-murderer hiding in your bathroom ready to lop your head off when you go off to do whatever it you females call urinating and you do not know that. Not only do you not know that you are a sensible person and you have no good reason to believe that there is an ax murderer in the bathroom, things like that do not happen and to be honest I am being really really creepy by saying this. Now, in that situation, what is my moral obligation? Send the police to your house? Kidnap you before you need to wee? Watch you get kebabbed and sliced by Jason from Friday the 13th?

Warn me, then let me decide for myself how I respond to that warning. It's called free-will for a reason.

... and that is precisely what the annoying Mormons and Jehova's Witnesses are doing when they knock on your door at an ungodly hour on saturday mornings.
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A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
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Razgovory

#19
October 24, 2012, 06:53:45 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 24, 2012, 06:06:41 PM
Raz, you should go door to door and invite people to mass.  :pope:

I don't really like my neighbors.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Caliga

#20
October 24, 2012, 06:57:30 PM
The reason why it's ok to mock Mormons around here is because we don't have any Mormon posters. :bowler:

If I may make a Martlike analogy: saying Mormonism is nuttier than Catholicism is like saying John Wayne Gacy is more evil than Charles Manson.  Past a certain point of ridiculousness, it really doesn't matter, does it?
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Eddie Teach

#21
October 24, 2012, 07:03:26 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 24, 2012, 06:57:30 PM
The reason why it's ok to mock Mormons around here is because we don't have any Mormon posters. :bowler:

Besides Psellus and Jaron, that is. ;)
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CountDeMoney

#22
October 24, 2012, 07:07:15 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 24, 2012, 06:57:30 PM
If I may make a Martlike analogy: saying Mormonism is nuttier than Catholicism is like saying John Wayne Gacy is more evil than Charles Manson.  Past a certain point of ridiculousness, it really doesn't matter, does it?

Wrong.  It's more like saying some amateur retard with delusions of grandeur that can't cut straight with a box cutter to Charles Manson. 

Really wish you people would appreciate the concept of historic institutions.

Caliga

#23
October 24, 2012, 07:07:46 PM
I hate history. :rolleyes:
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Ed Anger

#24
October 24, 2012, 07:11:41 PM
Too much kneeling in a papist church. MY KNEES
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CountDeMoney

#25
October 24, 2012, 07:15:21 PM
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Queequeg

#26
October 24, 2012, 07:24:18 PM
It's also seriously tacky.  Christianity and Judaism still inspires a great deal of Art-see Taverner, for instance-but Mormonism does nothing but inspire this-

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Sheilbh

#27
October 24, 2012, 07:26:35 PM
The idea that LDS leaders still receive revelations makes it a bit unusual in comparison to most religions.
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Queequeg

#28
October 24, 2012, 07:30:20 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Valmy

#29
October 24, 2012, 07:55:57 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 24, 2012, 06:57:30 PM
The reason why it's ok to mock Mormons around here is because we don't have any Mormon posters. :bowler:

Yeah like that has stopped us before.
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