Tuesday, December 1, 2015

End of Break Post

My morning break is about to end and I'll point out that with all of the whining and complaining and outraged response to me pointing out the obvious encouragement to male entitlement and willful violence in rock songs, no one has yet pointed out anywhere in the Bible where someone doing what Robert Dear did is recommended or even excused.   

I'll add that to the list of pending challenges I've made which atheists have not yet answered, beginning with this one, pending since last April.  

Update:  If you think Hugh Hewitt or Ted Cruz are religious figures, it's no wonder you hate religion so much.  Let me relieve your misconception, they are political hacks and liars who break the commandment against bearing false witness pretty much every day of their public lives.   They are to Christians what ... well, no, actually, there is no prohibition against lying and bearing false witness and inciting violence and hatred for personal and political gain in atheism so there is no equivalent.  What they're doing is not forbidden by atheism which you profess, it is forbidden by Christianity which they and those like them falsely claim to follow. 

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  1. What church are Hewitt and Cruz affiliated with? What denomination? What congregation recognizes them as pastors, elders,clergy of any description? Who do they represent as people of faith?

    How are they "religious figures"? Because they proclaim themselves as such? And what is a "religious figure"? Anybody in public life who doesn't say they are an atheist? Barack Obama professes Xianity. Is he a "religious figure"? Is Hillary Clinton?

    What stupid arguments you get from people.

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  2. WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/us/robert-dear-planned-parenthood-shooting.html?ref=us&_r=0

    And please shut the fuck up with the "not a real Christian" crap. Who the fuck do you think does this shit on a regular basis -- atheist rock and roll fans?

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    1. Were you never taught in, like the third grade that you need to read things before you know what they say? Here, from your own citation in the NYT

      The man she had married professed to be deeply religious. But after more than seven years with Robert L. Dear Jr., Barbara Micheau had come to see life with him as a kind of hell on earth.

      By January 1993, she had had enough. In a sworn affidavit as part of her divorce case, Ms. Micheau described Mr. Dear as a serial philanderer and a problem gambler, a man who kicked her, beat her head against the floor and fathered two children with other women while they were together. He found excuses for his transgressions, she said, in his idiosyncratic views on Christian eschatology and the nature of salvation.

      “He claims to be a Christian and is extremely evangelistic, but does not follow the Bible in his actions,” Ms. Micheau said in the court document. “He says that as long as he believes he will be saved, he can do whatever he pleases. He is obsessed with the world coming to an end.”

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  3. In other words, he's a Christian.
    :-)

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    1. Well, I can imagine you called yourself a journalist but that wouldn't make it true.

      Richard Nixon considered himself the personification of law and order.

      East Germany was named the German Democratic Republic

      The Nazis called themselves The Master Race

      Seth MacFarlane calls himself a comedian and a singer.

      I could go on with this list.

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  4. Missing the point on an epic scale, but I'm too tired to even make fun of you at this point.

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    1. You really are amazingly stupid, Simels. But, then, you think that fiction is biography and "alternative history" ....

      You know, from the description of his ex-wife, you would seem to have the same habits of thought that turn what something says into what you want it to say and you cannot be shown your errors when those are friggin' obvious. You read things just like he apparently reads the Bible. Assuming he did and wasn't just lying about that, too. Another point of commonality.

      You've got more in common with Robert Dear than you'd ever be able to admit.

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  5. "You've got more in common with Robert Dear than you'd ever be able to admit. "

    You're so right. Now excuse me, I have a date to bomb an abortion clinic.

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    1. Oh, I've heard The Floor Models, you're expanding your repertoire of bombing.

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