note how the people who say they just don't find in themselves to believe are not aggressively rallying against everyone else. i guess that qrv was right.
Yet another religion thread: what constitutes weird?
- Thread starter hyena
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What are you talking about? Sorry for adding to the thread, if everyone just sat back and didn't join in on the discussion there wouldn't be very much to discuss. What's with the oversensitivity, isn't this a death metal forum?
I can respect how you came to your beliefs but I do not respect religious thinking. So I'm not saying anyone is dumb, I just can't take religious thought seriously anymore and that's why I come off as hostile.
rahvin
keeper of the flame
I think we should start a thread to investigate your idea of a "death metal forum". I'm curious as to what these magic words exactly entail for you. Do we have horns?
yes, i am kind of baffled too. but i think i'm understanding something about ian.de: probably one of the reasons why he in such trouble with christians has to do with a tendency toward stereotyping. if all people on death metal forums are expected to be blasphemous satanists with no 'oversensitivity', then certainly all christians have to be far-right nuts bombing abortion clinics or crazy mystics pretending they saw the virgin mary in their mac and cheese. if that were the case, i'd take exception to them as well. so maybe his problem is just that he should try and make sense of the idea that people do not fit in little boxes, except if they're, say, dead dwarves. 
All religious people are alike in the sense that they all have "faith"-thinking in common.
This Bill Orielly segment says it best:
This Bill Orielly segment says it best:
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DisplayofCharacter
Are You Scared Enough?
Credibility = Gone. Bill O'Reilly is a joke. This impartial article clearly proves it: Clearly Impartial Article
rahvin
keeper of the flame
His heart's in the right place, but you just wish his links never worked.
Wolfman Von Jones
The trouble with you
I posted the video so that you could see sam harris making the point that religious thinking is all the same. I absolutely hate Oreilly, did anyone even watch the video?
DisplayofCharacter
Are You Scared Enough?
Sounds like O'Reilly.
No, I wouldn't subject myself to that, though I appreciate the effort. (not sarcasm)
rahvin
keeper of the flame
I watched it, but he made no mention of your dislike for him. Maybe he likes to keep it private?
@rahvin: smile, you're on a death metal forum.
this deserves signature attention. best line i read in a while.
rahvin
keeper of the flame
You seemed to imply our watching the video would make it clear how much you don't like the guy. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't.
SharkBlack
Member
@ian.de: now you're being slightly naive. about half (or slightly more than half) of the people taking part in this discussion are not American. now, I happen to know who Bill O'Reilly is since I am interested in American culture in general, and rahvin probably knows because he had an American partner for a certain period hence became familiar with some known faces. However, it might come as a welcome piece of news to you that O'Reilly is not at all known outside the USA. As a consequence, the idea that people should know by definition that "socially liberal atheists" don't like this guy is a bit arrogant - the connection is not automatic in most readers' minds.
