Satan's Little Helper

I certainly have no issue with gay people myself. What I find annoying are the trolls in the various Internet forums who seem to be obsessed with the topic of homosexuality--I'm looking your way Aertqt. Especially when the forum is one like R&S that has nothing to do with human sexuality.

Is it because they need to grow the hell up and just accept that they're gay already? Most people, like myself, have no issue with others being gay--it's the latent homosexuals in denial who annoy people.

If you're going to ask atheists a question, why do some of you keep using "atheist" in the singular? Instead of "Why do atheists..." in the plural form, many of you ask instead, "Why do atheist..." in the singular form. It happens all the time here on R&S; you might want to learn proper grammar before posing questions to atheists.

I don't think so. I think most of them should have their Comic Licenses revoked and they should be sent to the Old Jokes' Home.

The Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation is that the wafer and wine aren't just representative of Jesus' flesh and blood, but that they're literally his flesh and blood in a very real sense. So isn't drinking his blood and eating his flesh cannibalism?

Why do you need clergy or even holy books when you can just talk to God directly already? As a 'recovering Catholic', the idea that the Church holds the Keys to the Kingdom and you can't get into Heaven without their intercession is a very distasteful doctrine to me.

One thing all religions have in common is that you can't simply exist--you have to DO something. You have to follow the Eightfold Path, or you have to acknowledge that there is but one god Allah and you have to do his will, or you have to accept Jesus Christ as lord and savior, and so on.

Why not just have a religion where you don't do anything at all? A religion that teaches that God has everything under control and that the universe isn't going to fall apart if you don't get out and start some holy crusade? Is it because a passive, do-nothing religion wouldn't need a paid clergy?

I ask again because only one person had the intellectual honesty to answer this question the first time.

Some of the medieval popes were so satanically evil they make the modern Mafia look like boy scouts in comparison. Did the whole chain of apostolic succession from Peter still continue through these very evil persons or was it derailed? Yes, I know it's old history, but the Baltimore Catechism insists that good can never come from evil and guys like Pope Alexander VI and Pope Innocent III were about as evil as possible.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/most-awful/popes-c...

http://thelistcafe.com/top-10-most-evil-popes

Jesus gave us the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus where the Rich Man ends up in Hell. In the Sermon on the Mount, he taught "blessed are ye poor...but woe unto ye rich". He told the Rich Young Man to sell all he had and give to the poor because it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

James Chapter 5 has a very anti-materialistic passage that begins with "Howl and weep ye rich..." and Paul said that the love of money is the root of all evil. And in Acts, the two followers Ananias and Sapphira get struck dead because they didn't give all their money to the Church.

I could point out a lot more verses that shows that Jesus and the early Christians were very anti-materialistic, yet we have a ton of televangelists who tell you that giving them 'seed money' will make them wealthy. I personally think the Health 'n' Wealth Gospel was one of the things that ultimately drove me into atheism.

Your thoughts?

Not really. The existence of rocks is so obvious that metaphysical arguments are not needed. So why does the Christian god need all sorts of metaphysical proofs for his existence?

Harvey the Invisible Rabbit says that Jehovah doesn't exist and Harvey is infallible. Since you can't prove a negative, you can't prove that Harvey DOESN'T exist, so he must be correct.

CHECKMATE!

I think so. Every time some zealot threatens me with damnation, it just reinforces my belief that Christianity is a fear-based religion and I drift further from it.

Then every church on Earth could have its own Jesus!