Euphoric atheists

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ABE LINN COHN said:
The serpent is responsible for original sin, and therefore for all murder that has taken place ever since.
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The idea that the serpent, Satan, and Lucifer are all the same entity is a fairly recent idea, though. Satan was just a catch all term for people or supernatural entities that opposed the Israelites, with one in particular (haa-satan) working for YHWH to act as prosecutor against mankind. That's the Satan in Job specifically.
 
Chuck Gruden said:
Found this wackjob on Twitter
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Goddammit, not this again. Drag is about men dressing as oversexed caricatures of women (bonus points if they keep their body hair), and often features a lot of aggressive sexual shit. Not all crossdressing is drag, and the kind of drag shit that people get angry about is different than just a guy in a dress.

As for the "joke," it feels exceptionally childish to compare vestments based on Roman tunics to drag. I would dare say it makes Euphorics look like historically-ignorant morons to try to claim that pre-modern clothing constitutes "drag".
 
Flaming Insignias said:
Goddammit, not this again. Drag is about men dressing as oversexed caricatures of women (bonus points if they keep their body hair), and often features a lot of aggressive sexual shit. Not all crossdressing is drag, and the kind of drag shit that people get angry about is different than just a guy in a dress.

As for the "joke," it feels exceptionally childish to compare vestments based on Roman tunics to drag. I would dare say it makes Euphorics look like historically-ignorant morons to try to claim that pre-modern clothing constitutes "drag".
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Lord knows as a Catholic this makes me feel mad this person would think that.
 
Trilby said:
Lord knows as a Catholic this makes me feel mad this person would think that.
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Catholic clergy wearing dresses is a fairly common Protestant joke. Euphoric atheists seem pretty keyed into Protestantism in general, which I guess might be a cultural thing.

Either that or the Catholic euphoric atheists are like the average Catholic in the US where they only get mad at religion at Christmas and Easter.
 
std::string said:
Catholic clergy wearing dresses is a fairly common Protestant joke. Euphoric atheists seem pretty keyed into Protestantism in general, which I guess might be a cultural thing.

Either that or the Catholic euphoric atheists are like the average Catholic in the US where they only get mad at religion at Christmas and Easter.
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In my experience, most of exCatholic atheists take their euphoria from American Protestant atheists like George Carlin, Carl Sagan and all the other pop culture bullshit, so there's not much differece.
 
std::string said:
Catholic clergy wearing dresses is a fairly common Protestant joke. Euphoric atheists seem pretty keyed into Protestantism in general, which I guess might be a cultural thing.
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It's definitely a cultural thing. Protestant faiths are the mainstream in the US and Canada so you'd pick up a lot of their trapping via osmosis if nothing else.

CAPTAIN MATI said:
In my experience, most of exCatholic atheists take their euphoria from American Protestant atheists like George Carlin, Carl Sagan and all the other pop culture bullshit, so there's not much differece.
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Carlin was an Ex-Catholic and was very vocally against the church.
 
As a nerd, the history of Protestants and Catholics in the US is very interesting, and even today a lot of American atheists will use Protestant talking points to rail against Catholics, or just church in general. Nothing's wrong with that, obviously the organization of religion has issues because it is a human institution, but what I'm getting at is people like the fedora atheists really underestimate just how much rhetoric and science come directly from our history of religion.
 
John Titor said:
He omitted the part where this evil God is an imposter and you could escape the material prison by attaining enlightenment (pretty sure this is where Elder Scrolls got the idea for CHIM).
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Also the Prison Planet stuff, which is rapidly catching on in conspiracy theory circles.

Due to the lack of primary sources and the fact that it was an esoteric religion so the secrets weren't shared, Gnosticism just seems to be like well it means what I think or hope or believe it means.
 
Gnosticism is interesting and I blame Wendigoon for it cropping up lots of places now. I haven’t done any deep dives into it yet, but from what I can tell it is extremely esoteric.
 
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