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harmful effects of Christianity.1. The discouragement of rational, critical thought. 2. Vilification of homosexuality, resulting in discrimination, parents disowning their children, murder, and suicide. 3. Women treated like second-class citizens based on religious teachings. 4. Children growing up to hate and fear science and scientists, because science disproves their parents’ religion – leading to appalling scientific illiteracy. 5. Tens of thousands tortured and killed as witches (a practice which still continues today). 6. People aren’t making the most of this life because of their belief in an afterlife. 7. People dying because they believe their faith makes them immune to snake venom, or other lethal aspects of reality. 8. People dying – and letting their children die – because their religion forbids accepting medical help. 9. People choked, starved, poisoned, or beaten to death during exorcisms. 10. Genital mutilation of babies endorsed by religious texts. 11. Psychological and physiological conditions blamed on demons, preventing believers from seeking medical care for themselves and their children. 12. People disowning family members for leaving their religion. 13. Friendships and romances severed or never started over religious differences. 14. “Abstinence-only” sex education, resulting in five times the amount sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancies – often leading to ill-fated “emergency” marriages. 15. Women having septic abortions—or being forced to have unwanted children they resent—because religious organizations have gotten laws passed making abortion illegal or inaccessible. 16. Censorship (often destructive) of speech, art, books, music, films, poetry, songs and, if possible, thought. 17. The demonization of other religions, e.g. Christianity demonizing Pagans (“They’re devil-worshipers!”) 18. Children spending the period of their lives when the brain is most receptive to learning new information reading, rereading, and even memorizing religious texts. 19. People who believe the world is about to end neglect their education, are not financially responsible, and in extreme cases take part in mass suicides. 20. Long-term environmental issues ignored because of beliefs that the rapture/apocalypse or something will happen soon, so they don’t matter. 21. Wives told they will be tortured forever if they leave their abusive husbands (and vice versa). 22. Holy wars – followers of different faiths (or even the same faith) killing each other in the name of their (benevolent, loving and merciful) gods. 23. The destruction of great works of art considered to be pornographic/blasphemous, and the persecution of the artists. 24. Slavery condoned by religious texts. 25. Children traumatized by vivid stories of eternal burning and torture to ensure that they’ll be too frightened to even question religion. 26. Terminal patients in constant agony who would end their lives if they didn’t believe it would result in eternal torture. 27. School boards having to spend time and money and resources on the fight to have evolution taught in the schools. 28. Persecution of “heretics”/scientists, like Giordano Bruno (burned at the stake) and Galileo Galilei. 29. Blue laws forcing other businesses to stay closed or limit sales, while churches can generate more revenue. 30. Mayors, senators, and presidents voted into office not because they’re right for the job, but because of their religious beliefs. 31. Abuse of power, authority and trust by religious leaders (for financial gain or sexual abuse of followers and even children). 32. People accepting visual and auditory hallucinations unquestioningly as divine, sometimes with fatal results. 33. Discrimination against atheists, such as laws stating they may not hold public office or testify in court, or in half a dozen countries around the world, laws requiring their execution 34. Missionaries destroying/converting smaller, “heathen” religions and cultures. 35. Hardship compounded by the guilt required to reconcile the idea of a fair god with reality (“why is God punishing me? What have I done wrong? Don’t I have enough faith?”). 36. Human achievements—from skillful surgery to to emergency landings—attributed to gods instead of to the people actually responsible. 37. Mother Teresa, prolonging the agony of terminal patients and denying them pain relief, so she can offer their suffering as a gift to her god. 38. Tens of billions annually in the US alone spent to build, maintain, and staff houses of worship. 39. Grief and horror caused by the belief that dead friends and family members are tortured as punishment for disbelief. 40. Natural disasters and other tragedies used to claim God is displeased and present demands to avoid similar events (it’s like terrorism, but without having to plan or do anything). - See more at: www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/20…
Mostly religion, Christianity specifically, suppresses critical thought. In essence, it makes people less intelligent by telling them that faith is just as good, or better, than arriving at a conclusion through deductive reasoning and evidence.
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* Let the Guy in front of the Door hear the Sound of a Rifle being loaded *
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Christianity isn't about freedom, it's about servitude, which becomes freedom if you're deemed worthy, in other words it's stockholm syndrome
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Is that one a them mini drags? With Woody Allen on the bottom?
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Why are you dragging me into this, Lisa?
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Quite a bit of what you say in the description is bullshit.
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What an argument 
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Not true.
It should be more like "Let me in!"
"Why?" "So I can save you!" "From what?"
"The fear monster that is inside your house!"
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" from the hell, that you wouldn't even come into it, if I wouldn't have told you 'bout my sect." another option
"Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'" - Annie Dillard
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"Mostly Religion, Christianity specifically, suppresses critical thought." Not my church. Where I'm from, if you have a question, you search for the answer, and not let it fester in your mind.
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why you don't go praying, instead of trying to make believe people in bullshit?
Should we kill?
- Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill."
- Leviticus 24:17 "And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death."
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- Exodus 32:27 "Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, . . . and slay every man his brother, . . . companion, . . . neighbor."
- I Samuel 6:19 " . . . and the people lamented because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter."
- I Samuel 15:2,3,7,8 "Thus saith the Lord . . . Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. . . . And Saul smote the Amalekites . . . and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword."
- Numbers 15:36 "And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses."
- Hosea 13:16 "they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with children shall be ripped up."
For a discussion of the defense that the Commandments prohibit only murder, see "Murder, He Wrote", chapter 27 (Losing Faith In Faith: From Preacher To Atheist).
Should we tell lies?
- Exodus 20:16 "Thou shalt not bear false witness."
- Proverbs 12:22 "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord."
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- I Kings 22:23 "The Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee."
- II Thessalonians 2:11 "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."
Also, compare Joshua 2:4-6 with James 2:25.
Should we steal?
- Exodus 20:15 "Thou shalt not steal."
- Leviticus 19:13 "Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him."
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- Exodus 3:22 "And ye shall spoil the Egyptians."
- Exodus 12:35-36 "And they spoiled [plundered, NRSV] the Egyptians."
- Luke 19:29-34 "[Jesus] sent two of his disciples, Saying, Go ye into the village . . . ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither. And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him. . . . And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt? And they said, The Lord hath need of him."
I was taught as a child that when you take something without asking for it, that is stealing.
Cheap Sweet Years and Cheap Touch(+) . Discount Sport Pants , D&G Sport Leather Walking Shoes For Men - Black Sneakers . Discount Button Down Tops/Shirts and Armani Jeans Hoody Zip Pullover for Men- Black .Shall we keep the sabbath?
- Exodus 20:8 "Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy."
- Exodus 31:15 "Whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death."
- Numbers 15:32,36 "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. . . . And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses."
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- Isaiah 1:13 "The new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity."
- John 5:16 "And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day."
- Colossians 2:16 "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy-day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days."
Shall we make graven images?
- Exodus 20:4 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven . . . earth . . . water."
- Leviticus 26:1 "Ye shall make ye no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone."
- Deuteronomy 27:15 "Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image."
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- Exodus 25:18 "And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them."
- I Kings 7:15,16,23,25 "For he [Solomon] cast two pillars of brass . . . and two chapiters of molten brass . . . And he made a molten sea . . . it stood upon twelve oxen . . . [and so on]"
Are we saved through works?
- Ephesians 2:8,9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith . . . not of works."
- Romans 3:20,28 "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight."
- Galatians 2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ."
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- James 2:24 "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."
- Matthew 19:16-21 "And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he [Jesus] said unto him . . . keep the commandments. . . . The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven."
The common defense here is that "we are saved by faith and works." But Paul said "not of works."
Should good works be seen?
- Matthew 5:16 "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works."
- I Peter 2:12 "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that . . . they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."
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- Matthew 6:1-4 "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them . . . that thine alms may be in secret."
- Matthew 23:3,5 "Do not ye after their [Pharisees'] works. . . . all their works they do for to be seen of men."
Should we own slaves?
- Leviticus 25:45-46 "Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, . . . and they shall be your possession . . . they shall be your bondmen forever."
- Genesis 9:25 "And he [Noah] said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren."
- Exodus 21:2,7 "If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. . . . And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the manservants do."
- Joel 3:8 "And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it."
- Luke 12:47,48 [Jesus speaking] "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes."
- Colossians 3:22 "Servants, obey in all things your masters."
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- Isaiah 58:6 "Undo the heavy burdens . . . let the oppressed go free, . . . break every yoke."
- Matthew 23:10 "Neither be ye called Masters: for one is your Master, even Christ."
Pro-slavery bible verses were cited by many churches in the South during the Civil War, and were used by some theologians in the Dutch Reformed Church to justify apartheid in South Africa. There are more pro-slavery verses than cited here.
Does God change his mind?
- Malachi 3:6 "For I am the Lord; I change not."
- Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent."
- Ezekiel 24:14 "I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent."
- James 1:17 " . . . the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
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- Exodus 32:14 "And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people."
- Genesis 6:6,7 "And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth . . . And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth . . . for it repenteth me that I have made him."
- Jonah 3:10 ". . . and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not."
See also II Kings 20:1-7, Numbers 16:20-35, Numbers 16:44-50.
See Genesis 18:23-33, where Abraham gets God to change his mind about the minimum number of righteous people in Sodom required to avoid destruction, bargaining down from fifty to ten. (An omniscient God must have known that he was playing with Abraham's hopes for mercy--he destroyed the city anyway.)
Are we punished for our parents' sins?
- Exodus 20:5 "For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." (Repeated in Deuteronomy 5:9)
- Exodus 34:6-7 " . . . The Lord God, merciful and gracious, . . . that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."
- I Corinthians 15:22 "For as in Adam all die, . . ."
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- Ezekiel 18:20 "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father."
- Deuteronomy 24:16 "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."
Is God good or evil?
- Psalm 145:9 "The Lord is good to all."
- Deuteronomy 32:4 "a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
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You didn't even provide any evidence, just baseless assumptions.
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You are so funny! It says in the damn book that if you don't accept Jesus, you will burn in Hell.
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what exactly is baseless? That the bible is wrone? where is the evidence that the earth is flat?
Other mentions of the ends of the earth can be found in the following places. Deuteronomy 13:7, 28:49, 28:64, 33:17. Job 2:8, 19:4, 22:27, 33:13, 48:10, 59:13, 61:2, 65:5, 72:8.
The ends of the earth isn't the only signs of the flat earth in the Bible. In Job 11:9 it says that heaven and hell's measurements are "Their measure is longer than the earth And broader than the sea". How long is a sphere? There is no length in a sphere. Now a flat two dimensional object would have a length.
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Half of points is true and half of points is half-truth. But atheism is even worst, remember the greatest Atheist Hitler, Stalin Lenin Mao, Pol Pot. Atheism kill more people during 40 years than religion during 10 000 years.......
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the nazi uniform had a saying on the belt buckle that said 'god is with us' or something like that... Hitler hated Stalin because he was an atheist. Sorry but the holocaust is on a Christian ex-jew.
"Pol Pot does not believe in God but he thinks that heaven, destiny, wants him to guide Cambodia in the way he thinks it the best for Cambodia, that is to say, the worst." direct quote from the times. So not so much an atheist if you still believe in a cosmic power. He just didn't call it god.Pol Pot was a Theravada Buddhist. He studied at a Buddhist monastery and interestingly enough at a Catholic school for 8 years.
The following quotes are from: “Behind the bamboo curtain: China, Vietnam, and the world beyond Asia” By Priscilla Mary Roberts. Mao Zedong and Pham Van Dong, Beijing, November 17, 1968
Pham Van Dong: How are you, Chairman Mao?
Mao Zedong: Not very well. I have had a cough for some days. It is time to go to Heaven. It seems that I am summoned to meet the Good God. How is President Ho?
Stalin and Lenin are the only atheists you mentioned and their body count is not nearly as high as the religious death toll.
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You don't have to lie, when you don't like something!
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neither was pol pot as a Buddhist and Mao who mentioned a belief in god though he was not a part of any organized church because he disliked them. still believed in god though.
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yep, the organized religions are the misery! He can believe in santa claus if he wants to.
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At least religion is much more 'gentle' at the North American part of the world
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They said their religion is about love, but they put so much hate against gays, black people and others, i can't understand how is that about love.
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Well, guess they want to live their hatred with a better conscience, that´s why they call it love. Makes you feel better, while torturing People, for sure. Inquisition workers used that excuse too, I can imagine
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