It's becoming increasingly common isn't it? along with labeling "conservatism" a cure all? I've been around _TheDonald for 5 years and this is one of the more irritating developments. I'm not sure what to make of it yet.
I know, right? You show up in the eleventh hour and there's, like, a culture already there or something! And it's about damn time everyone changed to make you feel more comfortable!
Then you can bring in all your friends, change all the rules, and evict everyone who was there beforehand--just like the SJWs do!
The two things are unrelated. Nice try. I see you're making the same kind of assumptions SJWs do though. You can keep telling your antiquated fairy tales, but you're going to hear my disrespect of them just as much.
You can respect or disrespect at your own eternal risk. But don't bitch because we don't change our beliefs or culture to please you, especially as you've shown up late to the Right Wing party.
I'm not sure what you're saying but religion has always been a big part of this movement. I don't believe in any of it but respect the values and social integrity that Christians strive towards.
I think my sarcasm comes from frustration these days; folks think you can have a building without its foundation. We grow ideas from assumptions, and societies grow from those ideas. You can have people who dissent from the assumptions and still work fine as a whole, but once you dispense with the assumptions on the whole, your foundations crumble and the next thing you know your house is falling down around your ears.
Whether you believe in it or don't, ultimately you can't have America without certain fundamental theistic values as part of the culture, and you can't really get the "values and social integrity" without the religion--and enough people adhering to it to make it the norm.
And I wish more atheists would be aware that the more you push your belief that God is a made-up fairytale bearded spaghetti skyfairydaddy, and demand to suppress anyone expressing any other opinion, the more you undermine that foundation. Why else do you think the Left has been taking a jackhammer to the entire First Amendment with such enthusiasm?
Look, you can check my post history for the years I've been here, the ONLY time I ever mock religion is when a religious person needs to a reality check. There is a particular attitude and it's rare, but it's the "I've been given a divine understand of things you mere mortal could never hope to obtain. Religion is perfect, never errs, and if you cant see that you're simply lost, my child."
It's times like these I cant help but point out the ridiculousness of it all. Now, state your opinion, keep the condescending holier than thou bullshit to a minimum, and practice your values far more than you preach them, and we're never having words about it. In fact I'll die to defend your right to believe and practice your faith because that's what I believe in as an American, and I know who I'd want to spend the rest of my life with... it ain't lefty atheists.
Every other poster being a religious nut is getting a bit old.
Sabe me Jebus! Trust in thy lord and everything will be fine. You might kill me, but I'll have the moral highground in the afterlife
It's becoming increasingly common isn't it? along with labeling "conservatism" a cure all? I've been around _TheDonald for 5 years and this is one of the more irritating developments. I'm not sure what to make of it yet.
I know, right? You show up in the eleventh hour and there's, like, a culture already there or something! And it's about damn time everyone changed to make you feel more comfortable!
Then you can bring in all your friends, change all the rules, and evict everyone who was there beforehand--just like the SJWs do!
The two things are unrelated. Nice try. I see you're making the same kind of assumptions SJWs do though. You can keep telling your antiquated fairy tales, but you're going to hear my disrespect of them just as much.
You can respect or disrespect at your own eternal risk. But don't bitch because we don't change our beliefs or culture to please you, especially as you've shown up late to the Right Wing party.
I'm not sure what you're saying but religion has always been a big part of this movement. I don't believe in any of it but respect the values and social integrity that Christians strive towards.
That's what I'm saying.
I think my sarcasm comes from frustration these days; folks think you can have a building without its foundation. We grow ideas from assumptions, and societies grow from those ideas. You can have people who dissent from the assumptions and still work fine as a whole, but once you dispense with the assumptions on the whole, your foundations crumble and the next thing you know your house is falling down around your ears.
Whether you believe in it or don't, ultimately you can't have America without certain fundamental theistic values as part of the culture, and you can't really get the "values and social integrity" without the religion--and enough people adhering to it to make it the norm.
And I wish more atheists would be aware that the more you push your belief that God is a made-up fairytale bearded spaghetti skyfairydaddy, and demand to suppress anyone expressing any other opinion, the more you undermine that foundation. Why else do you think the Left has been taking a jackhammer to the entire First Amendment with such enthusiasm?
Look, you can check my post history for the years I've been here, the ONLY time I ever mock religion is when a religious person needs to a reality check. There is a particular attitude and it's rare, but it's the "I've been given a divine understand of things you mere mortal could never hope to obtain. Religion is perfect, never errs, and if you cant see that you're simply lost, my child." It's times like these I cant help but point out the ridiculousness of it all. Now, state your opinion, keep the condescending holier than thou bullshit to a minimum, and practice your values far more than you preach them, and we're never having words about it. In fact I'll die to defend your right to believe and practice your faith because that's what I believe in as an American, and I know who I'd want to spend the rest of my life with... it ain't lefty atheists.