Where is your crucifix hung in your home? And other religious pieces?
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Anonymous
This seems...extreme... |
Anonymous
On a side note, what if you are wrong? What if you get to the end of your life and discover you are completely wrong and all the other faith traditions in the world that recognize a form of the devil are tight? It sounds like you are doing this to be cute or tongue in cheek, but wouldn't it be better to send your money to someone like the humanists or and atheist legal group instead of the group you choose. If there is one thing a scientific mind should recognize it is that science is fluid and many things held to be scientific "facts" are often proven wrong the more we learn. |
Anonymous
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I have two large pieces from a convent that was destroyed by Katrina. The large brass cross sat in my bedroom window for a few years. It's about two feet high. Once I noticed it from the street, I moved it elsewhere in my bedroom. The other piece...I think it's on the piano right now. It's smaller and has space for candles. They are treated as artwork, I suppose, not holy artifacts. |
Anonymous
On a different side note, what if you're wrong and pp is right? Might as well do what makes sense to you while alive. Perhaps you should check out the Satanists before presuming that other groups are "better." |
Anonymous
The Satanists are essentially an atheist legal group. They use Satanism as a foil for Christian groups who attempt to pass Christian-based legislation. For example, they commissioned a statue of Baphomet to go on some public property where a certain judge who ought to know better kept trying to put a plaque listing the 10 Commandments, and in another state where Christian groups were distributing a Christian-themed coloring book in public schools, the Satanists sued to get the right to distribute their own coloring book. They use the courts to take on Christians in this country who keep trying to violate the 1st Amendment. |
Anonymous
Ah, good to see Pascal's Wager alive and well in the 21st century. |
Anonymous
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We have a cross of some sort or a picture of Mary/Jesus or some sort of religous saying/piece /reference in every room.
They are small and subtle but they are there. Wait, except the kitchen. No God in the kitchen. At least it's not a giant EAT sign with an arrow, matching chevron picture frames or Live Laugh Live shrug |
Anonymous
Another atheist DH with a lapsed Catholic DW. She has a couple of very pretty crucifixes that she hung above doors in bedrooms. Just a piece of art as far as I'm concerned, but they are important to her. The paintings sound beautiful. Wouldn't bother me from a religious perspective because, again, to me it's just beautiful art. In the same vein, she understands why I have a little statue of Baphomet on my desk and send checks to the Satanists legal fund to support their fights against Christians who have such difficulty understanding the meaning of the 1st Amendment This is so interesting. So you're an atheist who thinks that pranks against Christians (only) are productive ways to engage. And you're male (actually that has always seemed obvious from your posts). Are you the troll who disrupts most threads about Christianity with shallow silliness? |
Anonymous
This is so interesting. So you're an atheist who thinks that pranks against Christians (only) are productive ways to engage. And you're male (actually that has always seemed obvious from your posts). Are you the troll who disrupts most threads about Christianity with shallow silliness? ---- Are you the troll who disrupts most threads by complaining about atheist comments? one who is completely hung up on horas and mithras. |
Anonymous
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Maybe you should address post to target audience in the title? "Catholics: where do you keep..."
It takes away the presumption that anyone reading the title has one. Most people don't. |
Anonymous
Wow, just wow. I would not be offended if I saw a post titled "how many of your doorframe have a mezuzah?" I wouldn't think the OP assumed everyone has a mezuzah. I wouldn't need the modifier "Jews:" at the start of the title. I certainly would not click the thread just to write douchy replies. |
Anonymous
This is so interesting. So you're an atheist who thinks that pranks against Christians (only) are productive ways to engage. And you're male (actually that has always seemed obvious from your posts). Are you the troll who disrupts most threads about Christianity with shallow silliness? As the aforementioned atheist DH, I'll take your questions in reverse order. I highly doubt that I'm the person you're accusing of disrupting threads about Christianity. Nor would I consider this post trolling. I think my post here answered the question about where the crucifixes in my home are and I respect my wife's desire to have them even though she's a lapsed Catholic. To me they are beautiful pieces of art that have additional importance to my wife. As far as "pranking" Christians is concerned, the only time I consider it relevant is when certain groups attempt to legislate Christianity or do other things that impermissibly demonstrate governmental favor of Christianity in violation of the 1st Amendment. There are many ways to address it - one is to simply fight it in the courts on legal grounds, and there are groups that do that. Litigation is expensive and litigation over issues like this are a waste of taxpayer money. For example, the Dover School Board should've known better, yet they wasted enormous amounts of money attempting to defend teaching creationism in a public school. This kind of thing happens over and over, and, yet, certain militant Christian groups keep trying to force their beliefs into public schools. Another less expensive way to handle this is to demonstrate that if these particular Christian theocrats (and they are a very small, but vocal minority of Christians) get to do what they want, then the 1st Amendment means another group they despise - Satanists - will get to do the same thing. In those situations, the Christians usually decide they would rather not get their way if it means equal treatment for Satanists. Take Orange County, Florida, for example, where groups were distributing Bibles in public schools. An atheist group sued to prevent it, but while that suit was slowly working its way through the courts, the Satanists stepped in and said that if Bibles were being distributed then they had the right to distribute a "Satanist" coloring/activity book. Rather than have that type of "evil" literature distributed, the school board instead decided on a policy that cut off all distribution of religious material in the school. The Satanic Temple also uses the various state Religious Freedom laws, still championed now by certain Christian groups as a means to avoid recognizing gay marriages, to argue against restrictions on abortion that are consistently (and primarily) supported by conservative Christian groups. As an atheist, I'm not a Satanist (but, in truth, most members of the Satanic Temple are also atheists), but I support the legal work that they do in resisting the attempts by certain conservative Christian groups to insert Christianity into the public sphere in ways that violate the 1st Amendment. |
Anonymous
| Inside above the front door, outside above the front door. |
Anonymous
Wait, your fiancé? You have that much Catholicism going on and you are living in sin with children? |
Anonymous
---- Are you the troll who disrupts most threads by complaining about atheist comments? one who is completely hung up on horas and mithras. Groundhog! Is it you? In any case, we'll take that as a "yes," that you're the disruptive atheist troll. (No, I'm not the poster who coined the term "Groundhog" and keeps using it, but I find her response to your annual Horus and Mithras nonsense hilarious.) Please can I beg your indulgence, and since you're under the cover of anonymity, to ask you a few questions?! Here's the paradox of your behavior. Disrupting nativity displays at the courthouse is materially different from trolling DCUM threads. The first is a constitutional issue, as you say, and in fact I'm 100% with you on the constitutional issue (although I wouldn't address it by being obnoxious and juvenile, instead I'd hire serious lawyers). The second, trolling DCUM to disrupt conversations about religious imagery, has no constitutional rationale and you're free to leave any time or just not open the thread. In fact, by trolling here, you're disrupting the freedom of speech of posters here to discuss things like religious imagery in their houses. So, here are my questions for you: 1. What are you hoping to accomplish by trolling here? The courthouse hijinks have an obvious constitutional angle. But you seem to have changed direction with your trolling on a mom's chat board--no constitutional issue here. What's it to you that people want to discuss religious imagery? 2. Given that you're accomplishing nothing here besides making an ass out of yourself (deliberately or no), don't you ever wonder whether you should be spending your time more productively? Like, I dunno, going outside to enjoy the unseasonably nice weather, or taking up golf or something? Because honestly, dear Groundhog, your bombastic and shallow (cf Horus and Mithras) and just plain rude approach makes people roll their eyes instead of taking you seriously. I doubt you've made a single convert to atheism. 3. Do you only troll Christian threads? It sure seems like it. Why do you have a special animus for Christians? 4. What does your wife with the religious imagery think about your trolling here? Does she know about it? TIA! |