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Anonymous wrote:The actions of people cannot shake my faith in God. I believe God is all powerful and all knowing. Bad things happen in every generation and this is our test to rise up against the evil in this world. When I see people hurting, it doesn’t make me mad at God, it makes me want to follow His advice and be a better person. I believe that Satan confuses people and erodes their faith. It’s easy to accept God in good times, but true faith will accept God in difficult times as well. God gave us free will to choose our actions.

If God is all powerful and all knowing, yet he didn't know to prevent the fall of lucifer, the temptation of eve, cain slewing Abel, etc 😶‍🌫️🤔🫠

Of course God knew about Lucifer, Adam and Eve. It’s a part of His plan. We have only a fraction of Gods knowledge so we cannot understand why He does certain things, but God has given us free will so we can choose to do good or evil on this earth. Lucifer challenged God to see if he could confuse people. Lucifer was a part of Gods plan.

Well if you can't understand, fine. Can you stop claiming to then? Your statement is a masterclass in self-contradiction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^And to follow up: atheists don't have any explanation for the existence of evil, either. Christians are not on the hook to provide one.

What Christianity has that atheism does not is a coherent answer to "How can the world be rescued from all this evil?".

Yeah, and if that answer is bullsh*t, and the fact that it is BS evidenced by the existence of the statement itself, who cares, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

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Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

You're right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them [the pagans] and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it make you lose faith in religions.

Already did before all this.

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Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.

Jesus' teaching had a noticeably positive and often radical impact on women, especially when you compare it to the cultural norms of Ist-century Jewish and Greco-Roman society.

He treated women as full moral and spiritual equals. In a time when women were often excluded from formal religious learning, Jesus Christ openly taught women, spoke with them in public, and treated them as capable of understanding spiritual truth.
-He taught women directly (like Mary sitting at his feet as a disciple-something normally reserved for men).
-He engaged them in serious theological conversation (e.g., the Samaritan woman at the well).
-He praised women's faith publicly.

This signaled: women are not spiritually inferior.

Jesus challenged double standards around sin and shame. One of the clearest examples is when a woman caught in adultery was brought to him. Instead of condemning her, Jesus shifted attention to the hypocrisy of her accusers.
-He protected her from public humiliation and execution.
-He acknowledged her wrongdoing without reducing her to it.

In that culture, women often bore the brunt of sexual shame. Jesus disrupted that pattern.

Jesus included women in his inner circle of followers. Women weren't just passive listeners-they were active supporters and participants in his ministry.
Examples:
Mary Magdalene
Joanna
Susanna

These women:
-Traveled with him
-Helped financially support the ministry.
-Were present at key moments when many male disciples fled.

This gave women a visible, active role in public religious life.

Jesus showed compassion toward marginalized women. Jesus consistently reached out to women who were socially rejected:
-Widows (economically vulnerable)
-The bleeding woman (ritually "unclean")
-Women labeled as sinners
Instead of avoiding them, he:
-Spoke to them directly
-Healed them
-Restored their dignity in public

Jesus challenged systems that pushed women to the margins.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.

Jesus' teaching had a noticeably positive and often radical impact on women, especially when you compare it to the cultural norms of Ist-century Jewish and Greco-Roman society.

He treated women as full moral and spiritual equals. In a time when women were often excluded from formal religious learning, Jesus Christ openly taught women, spoke with them in public, and treated them as capable of understanding spiritual truth.
-He taught women directly (like Mary sitting at his feet as a disciple-something normally reserved for men).
-He engaged them in serious theological conversation (e.g., the Samaritan woman at the well).
-He praised women's faith publicly.

This signaled: women are not spiritually inferior.

Jesus challenged double standards around sin and shame. One of the clearest examples is when a woman caught in adultery was brought to him. Instead of condemning her, Jesus shifted attention to the hypocrisy of her accusers.
-He protected her from public humiliation and execution.
-He acknowledged her wrongdoing without reducing her to it.

In that culture, women often bore the brunt of sexual shame. Jesus disrupted that pattern.

Jesus included women in his inner circle of followers. Women weren't just passive listeners-they were active supporters and participants in his ministry.
Examples:
Mary Magdalene
Joanna
Susanna

These women:
-Traveled with him
-Helped financially support the ministry.
-Were present at key moments when many male disciples fled.

This gave women a visible, active role in public religious life.

Jesus showed compassion toward marginalized women. Jesus consistently reached out to women who were socially rejected:
-Widows (economically vulnerable)
-The bleeding woman (ritually "unclean")
-Women labeled as sinners
Instead of avoiding them, he:
-Spoke to them directly
-Healed them
-Restored their dignity in public

Jesus challenged systems that pushed women to the margins.

This is a great example of the hypocrisy of modern Christians that advocate for limiting and subjugating women. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.

Jesus' teaching had a noticeably positive and often radical impact on women, especially when you compare it to the cultural norms of Ist-century Jewish and Greco-Roman society.

He treated women as full moral and spiritual equals. In a time when women were often excluded from formal religious learning, Jesus Christ openly taught women, spoke with them in public, and treated them as capable of understanding spiritual truth.
-He taught women directly (like Mary sitting at his feet as a disciple-something normally reserved for men).
-He engaged them in serious theological conversation (e.g., the Samaritan woman at the well).
-He praised women's faith publicly.

This signaled: women are not spiritually inferior.

Jesus challenged double standards around sin and shame. One of the clearest examples is when a woman caught in adultery was brought to him. Instead of condemning her, Jesus shifted attention to the hypocrisy of her accusers.
-He protected her from public humiliation and execution.
-He acknowledged her wrongdoing without reducing her to it.

In that culture, women often bore the brunt of sexual shame. Jesus disrupted that pattern.

Jesus included women in his inner circle of followers. Women weren't just passive listeners-they were active supporters and participants in his ministry.
Examples:
Mary Magdalene
Joanna
Susanna

These women:
-Traveled with him
-Helped financially support the ministry.
-Were present at key moments when many male disciples fled.

This gave women a visible, active role in public religious life.

Jesus showed compassion toward marginalized women. Jesus consistently reached out to women who were socially rejected:
-Widows (economically vulnerable)
-The bleeding woman (ritually "unclean")
-Women labeled as sinners
Instead of avoiding them, he:
-Spoke to them directly
-Healed them
-Restored their dignity in public

Jesus challenged systems that pushed women to the margins.

This is a great example of the hypocrisy of modern Christians that advocate for limiting and subjugating women. Thanks!

I have been Christian woman my entire life and no one has ever limited me or subjugated me.

Are you a former Christian woman who has been subjected and limited? By whom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.

Jesus' teaching had a noticeably positive and often radical impact on women, especially when you compare it to the cultural norms of Ist-century Jewish and Greco-Roman society.

He treated women as full moral and spiritual equals. In a time when women were often excluded from formal religious learning, Jesus Christ openly taught women, spoke with them in public, and treated them as capable of understanding spiritual truth.
-He taught women directly (like Mary sitting at his feet as a disciple-something normally reserved for men).
-He engaged them in serious theological conversation (e.g., the Samaritan woman at the well).
-He praised women's faith publicly.

This signaled: women are not spiritually inferior.

Jesus challenged double standards around sin and shame. One of the clearest examples is when a woman caught in adultery was brought to him. Instead of condemning her, Jesus shifted attention to the hypocrisy of her accusers.
-He protected her from public humiliation and execution.
-He acknowledged her wrongdoing without reducing her to it.

In that culture, women often bore the brunt of sexual shame. Jesus disrupted that pattern.

Jesus included women in his inner circle of followers. Women weren't just passive listeners-they were active supporters and participants in his ministry.
Examples:
Mary Magdalene
Joanna
Susanna

These women:
-Traveled with him
-Helped financially support the ministry.
-Were present at key moments when many male disciples fled.

This gave women a visible, active role in public religious life.

Jesus showed compassion toward marginalized women. Jesus consistently reached out to women who were socially rejected:
-Widows (economically vulnerable)
-The bleeding woman (ritually "unclean")
-Women labeled as sinners
Instead of avoiding them, he:
-Spoke to them directly
-Healed them
-Restored their dignity in public

Jesus challenged systems that pushed women to the margins.

This is a great example of the hypocrisy of modern Christians that advocate for limiting and subjugating women. Thanks!

I have been Christian woman my entire life and no one has ever limited me or subjugated me.

Are you a former Christian woman who has been subjected and limited? By whom?

Oh so then it definitely never happened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.

Jesus' teaching had a noticeably positive and often radical impact on women, especially when you compare it to the cultural norms of Ist-century Jewish and Greco-Roman society.

He treated women as full moral and spiritual equals. In a time when women were often excluded from formal religious learning, Jesus Christ openly taught women, spoke with them in public, and treated them as capable of understanding spiritual truth.
-He taught women directly (like Mary sitting at his feet as a disciple-something normally reserved for men).
-He engaged them in serious theological conversation (e.g., the Samaritan woman at the well).
-He praised women's faith publicly.

This signaled: women are not spiritually inferior.

Jesus challenged double standards around sin and shame. One of the clearest examples is when a woman caught in adultery was brought to him. Instead of condemning her, Jesus shifted attention to the hypocrisy of her accusers.
-He protected her from public humiliation and execution.
-He acknowledged her wrongdoing without reducing her to it.

In that culture, women often bore the brunt of sexual shame. Jesus disrupted that pattern.

Jesus included women in his inner circle of followers. Women weren't just passive listeners-they were active supporters and participants in his ministry.
Examples:
Mary Magdalene
Joanna
Susanna

These women:
-Traveled with him
-Helped financially support the ministry.
-Were present at key moments when many male disciples fled.

This gave women a visible, active role in public religious life.

Jesus showed compassion toward marginalized women. Jesus consistently reached out to women who were socially rejected:
-Widows (economically vulnerable)
-The bleeding woman (ritually "unclean")
-Women labeled as sinners
Instead of avoiding them, he:
-Spoke to them directly
-Healed them
-Restored their dignity in public

Jesus challenged systems that pushed women to the margins.

This is a great example of the hypocrisy of modern Christians that advocate for limiting and subjugating women. Thanks!

I have been Christian woman my entire life and no one has ever limited me or subjugated me.

Are you a former Christian woman who has been subjected and limited? By whom?

Oh so then it definitely never happened.

What about Islam? Do you think Islam limits and subjugates women. I have lived in Islamic states/countries as a woman. I have personally seen the huge difference in the lives of women in the US vs countries dominated by Islam.

[Anonymous]

Guess "friend" couldn't handle being told the truth. You poor little snowflakes!

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Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.

Jesus' teaching had a noticeably positive and often radical impact on women, especially when you compare it to the cultural norms of Ist-century Jewish and Greco-Roman society.

He treated women as full moral and spiritual equals. In a time when women were often excluded from formal religious learning, Jesus Christ openly taught women, spoke with them in public, and treated them as capable of understanding spiritual truth.
-He taught women directly (like Mary sitting at his feet as a disciple-something normally reserved for men).
-He engaged them in serious theological conversation (e.g., the Samaritan woman at the well).
-He praised women's faith publicly.

This signaled: women are not spiritually inferior.

Jesus challenged double standards around sin and shame. One of the clearest examples is when a woman caught in adultery was brought to him. Instead of condemning her, Jesus shifted attention to the hypocrisy of her accusers.
-He protected her from public humiliation and execution.
-He acknowledged her wrongdoing without reducing her to it.

In that culture, women often bore the brunt of sexual shame. Jesus disrupted that pattern.

Jesus included women in his inner circle of followers. Women weren't just passive listeners-they were active supporters and participants in his ministry.
Examples:
Mary Magdalene
Joanna
Susanna

These women:
-Traveled with him
-Helped financially support the ministry.
-Were present at key moments when many male disciples fled.

This gave women a visible, active role in public religious life.

Jesus showed compassion toward marginalized women. Jesus consistently reached out to women who were socially rejected:
-Widows (economically vulnerable)
-The bleeding woman (ritually "unclean")
-Women labeled as sinners
Instead of avoiding them, he:
-Spoke to them directly
-Healed them
-Restored their dignity in public

Jesus challenged systems that pushed women to the margins.

+1

I’m an atheist but it’s clear that the women’s rights that we enjoy today exist only because of Christianity.

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Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.

If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.

Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.

You can do it.

+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???

You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.

Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.

Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.

Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.

What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.

Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.

Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.

Jesus' teaching had a noticeably positive and often radical impact on women, especially when you compare it to the cultural norms of Ist-century Jewish and Greco-Roman society.

He treated women as full moral and spiritual equals. In a time when women were often excluded from formal religious learning, Jesus Christ openly taught women, spoke with them in public, and treated them as capable of understanding spiritual truth.
-He taught women directly (like Mary sitting at his feet as a disciple-something normally reserved for men).
-He engaged them in serious theological conversation (e.g., the Samaritan woman at the well).
-He praised women's faith publicly.

This signaled: women are not spiritually inferior.

Jesus challenged double standards around sin and shame. One of the clearest examples is when a woman caught in adultery was brought to him. Instead of condemning her, Jesus shifted attention to the hypocrisy of her accusers.
-He protected her from public humiliation and execution.
-He acknowledged her wrongdoing without reducing her to it.

In that culture, women often bore the brunt of sexual shame. Jesus disrupted that pattern.

Jesus included women in his inner circle of followers. Women weren't just passive listeners-they were active supporters and participants in his ministry.
Examples:
Mary Magdalene
Joanna
Susanna

These women:
-Traveled with him
-Helped financially support the ministry.
-Were present at key moments when many male disciples fled.

This gave women a visible, active role in public religious life.

Jesus showed compassion toward marginalized women. Jesus consistently reached out to women who were socially rejected:
-Widows (economically vulnerable)
-The bleeding woman (ritually "unclean")
-Women labeled as sinners
Instead of avoiding them, he:
-Spoke to them directly
-Healed them
-Restored their dignity in public

Jesus challenged systems that pushed women to the margins.

+1

I’m an atheist but it’s clear that the women’s rights that we enjoy today exist only because of Christianity.

I am calling BS, please provide evidence for this claim.