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- Ramanisky23
- yeah but a rock serves a million other purposes, the least of which is killing. a gun on the other hand...why am I talking to a meme? lol_niko
- The response I saw was "a rock can't kill 50 people at oncet you fucking idiot" and it sounded appropriate...whatthefunk
- What if it's a really big rock?palimpsest
- Less rocks, less people being killed by them. Holy shit.monospaced
- so it is about the rock?whatthefunk
- If someone needs a rock to kill a made up creature from their imagination they should get their head checked. And register the fucking rock.monospaced
- But where do those rocks go? If we break up rocks into really small rocks they won't be able to kill people anymore. So really, more rocks: smaller rocks.palimpsest
- We've hit rock bottom, ban the assault rocks, period. The risk of a person in the U.S. dying in a mass shooting was 70% lower during the period in which the...whatthefunk
- assault weapons ban was active. The proportion of overall gun homicides resulting from mass shootings was also down, with nine fewer mass-shooting-relate...whatthefunk
- fatalities per 10,000 shooting deaths.whatthefunk
- What about rocks in your shoe?Continuity
- I'm just suggesting that we just can't regulate rocks. And it's not about the rocks, anyway, it's about _some_ rock-owners' mental health.Continuity
- Thoughts and prayers.Continuity
- What if the rock is stationary? 137:9Gnash
- Good one!palimpsest
- Anyway. Just takes one good guy with a rock, amirite?Continuity
- Still not about the rock, Gnash! Mental health!Continuity
- But again. If there'd been a good guy with a rock, none of that dashing would have happened.Continuity
- Oh right. Mental health.monospaced
- just cut off all hands... problem fixed.neverscared
- Jerking off The Rock did WHAT to Goliath?hydro74
- A Mario created a multi-generational phenomena that influenced countless lives. A Mario also tweeted feckless platitudes.garbage
- It's not about the Mario.garbage
- Ban the use of rocks while maintaining a database of everyone who enjoys throwing rocks.imbecile
- Smoke rocks, don't throw them.palimpsest
- Rocks Rock!robthelad
- ^ Rock shill, right here.Continuity
- The National Rock AssociationRamanisky2
- lol @ RamContinuity
- I used to be a pebble man :)robthelad
- palimpsest1
Happy Shavuot!
- whatthefunk2
Shepherds don't look after sheep because they like them. They either want to fuck them...fleece them...or eat them.
- Christopher Hitchens
- utopian9
- Well, colonizer Jesus wondrgs
- He only won because his daddy was a fraud.monospaced
- nepo baby!pango
- nepo baby zombie death cultmonospaced
- eat his flesh, drink his blood, gaze upon his body nailed to a cross, and worship him or else this asshole will torture you for eternity, because he loves you.monospaced
- literally makes no sensemonospaced
- David O'Doherty?MrT
- no solid "historical" Jesus though outside of obscure referencesinteliboy
- LolGnash
- Good thing the historical existence of Jesus has no bearing whatsoever on any of the supernatural claims surrounding him.monospaced
- There absolutely is a secular scholarly consensus on his historicity.garbage
- White Jesus is also real: He lives in the hearts of believers and makes them pay rent..garbage
- ..and lives rent-free in the minds of people who've never passed grade-school atheism.garbage
- I don't see how they can be so sure he was real just because there are a handful of references in other texts.yuekit
- My guess would be he was a real person but there's a weird disconnect between the claims there's a consensus and what the actual evidence is.yuekit
- Dat5timuli
- @yue Full disclosure: I'm an atheist that studied theology and almost went into the ministry when I was young.garbage
- There's way more than a handful of evidence there was a historical Jesus (or even multiple people). But the Christian religion has had two millennia to..garbage
- ..write whatever narrative they want, and so much was lost in translation. Even the "Joshua" in this image is wrong.garbage
- I can bore the hell out of you with Jesus, lol.garbage
- I go to church for my wife, last time I just stared at the cross thinking, "dang, who is this white guy, I feel sorry for him, accused of crimes he ddnt commit.canoe
- @garbage You're probably right then...I do wonder how accurate the details people repeat about him are.yuekit
- Do you think Jesus himself claimed to be the son of god or was all of that embellished after the fact?yuekit
- That's where things get really fucking muddy. From what I know, he was essentially a very charismatic cult leader that upset the ruling religious ruling class..garbage
- ..the Pharisees were planning on kidnapping and killing him silently for a bit, but then saw Judas, and how cheaply he could be bought off.garbage
- So they essentially sold Jesus to the Romans, gaining favor with them and making an example of a cult leader in one swoop.garbage
- He preached some good things, but yeah probably also thought he was the son of God.garbage
- The Gospel of Mark, which is the foundation of the New Testament was written 70 years after his death. Just imagine the holy phone game happening there.garbage
- But there are plenty of contemporary texts that revere him. Many Islamic denominations consider Isa / Jesus the final prophet, but not the son of god.garbage
- But yeah, end religious rant because I could go on for boring day after day.garbage
- Yeah interesting thanks! I think it shows the degree of Christian influence on society that even non-religious people tend to automatically assume Jesus was ayuekit
- good person. A lot of ideas attributed to him are positive but if you look at the basic personality type, it would probably be someone like Joseph Smith oryuekit
- David Koresh. But you almost never hear that discussed, it's like a black pill that would too upsetting for Western society to consider.yuekit
- But like you said it's like a game of telephone. It could also be that his followers embellished all of that.yuekit
- I believe he was real. I just don't believe he was anything but a man.monospaced
- you dont believe he could do Criss Angel
shit and walk on water?!?!?!pango - blasphemy!!pango
- whatthefunk6
- The fact that the Catholic Church STILL actively spends insane amounts of money to defend and cover up these offenses is disgusting.monospaced
- They ear marked $1B for this purpose. Money given to them by Catholics. A portion of every penny is spent to ensure more kids are raped. Daily.monospaced
- The bad faith arguments from the religious right are getting fucking crazy. These fucks are attempting to hold onto some ideal that never existed fearing a...whatthefunk
- change that is inevitable. Fingers crossed these next generations clearly identify the abuse, vote them out, and change this shit b/c I fear boomers and gen x..whatthefunk
- are not getting the fucking job done. This is beyond the palewhatthefunk
- vote them out? The Vatican is an actual nation. The leader is the pope. It’s a dictatorship and clergy is appointed.monospaced
- "No boycotts from the right...just more boycocks"
– KnobGobblers Anonymous®utopian - vote out the politicians that allow for religion in govt that allows for this to perpetuate under the cover of law and then get the source...whatthefunk
- and a new generation of people who are not growing up under the rule of religion who won't be burdened with the cognitive dissonance might be able to changewhatthefunk
- Literally decades of outrage for something that's been going on for decades.i_monk
- I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think the US government is protecting Catholic pedophiles, nor that the Catholic Church is ingrained in the US governmenmonospaced
- The Catholic Church on the other hand, which doesn't pay taxes, is paying lawyers and victims BILLIONS of dollars IN COURT to cover it up and defend themmonospaced
- Maybe "both sides" need to realize pedophiles (and other sociopaths) will spend years doing whatever it takes to get access to their victims.i_monk
- Neither side / nobody is pro-pedo. Only pedos are pro-pedo.i_monk
- To joke quote Father Jack: "It's an ecumenical matter."garbage
- To give a dream solution: A Third Vatican Council that addresses the ills of the church and scribes out crippling parish penalties.garbage
- Nobody’s pro pedo? Then why isn’t the church turning them into law enforcement when they’re caught?monospaced
- Vatican should dismantle and let the greater judicial system handle it. They obviously fail and have too much money to perpetuate it.monospaced
- "It's an ecumenical matter".garbage
- They're pro-Vatican, which means covering up scandals. They literally believe they are infallible.i_monk
- utopian0
Steven Arey, a California youth pastor & department of corrections employee, has been sentenced to 300 years in prison for the rape of 3 children under the age of 14.
- imbecile11
- LOL!Continuity
- Trigger Warning!utopian
- Praise jesus!Akagiyama
- scarabin3
Utah primary schools ban Bible for 'vulgarity and violence'
- "I can't think of what's in the Bible that you would have to take out of it. Its not like there's pictures in it."
Sigh.Continuity
- "I can't think of what's in the Bible that you would have to take out of it. Its not like there's pictures in it."
- utopian0
- Well I'm pretty sure Jesus was gay https://www.theguard…_niko
- How long until it’s discovered he’s also homosexual?monospaced
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