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Honest question. Is this site a religious site?

843 replies

follderol · 26/01/2009 18:01

It seems to me there's a large amount of Christian posts. I've also noticed a fair amount of disapproval for other religions.

I am an atheist. I don't really want to be part of a christian site posing as a parenting site.

So is this actually a Christian place?

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RustyBear · 28/01/2009 22:35

DH has gone off to 'think about it'

Which on past experience means that he will ponder for about 3 days and then come up with a very detailed explanation, which I will pretend to understand, by which time this thread will have hit 1000 posts and expired, unless anyone on it knows the secret of life-after-death for threads.

In the meantime, he has gone away and left the TV on movies4men with the remote out of reach, and I am immobilised by my laptop. It is currently showing an unidentified fantasy film featuring monkeys in orange monks' robes, dodgy 80's hairstyles and Dorothy Stratton.

Luckily the sound is off.

UnquietDad · 28/01/2009 22:32

It's convenient for believers, because they always have an answer: "oh, well, my god is special, my god is different, you can't prove MY god doesn't exist, yah boo sucks."

It's all made up, you know.

TheFallenMadonna · 28/01/2009 22:30

Well, yes. You do have to define dragons to decide they are mythical. As explorers and biologists could tell you.

IorekByrnison · 28/01/2009 22:30

Convenient for whom?

UnquietDad · 28/01/2009 22:29

I know I'm never going to convince anyone through the force of my reasoned argument, and that "faith" is this nebulous and woolly thing which has no truck with logic, so I am on a hiding to nothing. I just like to keep making it clear that I'm being rational.

UnquietDad · 28/01/2009 22:27

Which is all terribly convenient.

There have to be gods you don't believe in if you do believe in one or a type of one. There are gods you have "discounted". As in left aside, not as in got 10% off.

I mean - look at 'em all

Atheists just go one step further and discount the whole damn lot. It's not hard. Anything else is just special pleading.

Do we need to define "dragons" in order to know that "dragons" are mythical?

IorekByrnison · 28/01/2009 22:24

Or what rusty bear said.

IorekByrnison · 28/01/2009 22:24

Unquiet dad, there is a huge range of things that "believers" believe in. Even within a single congregation you would have a variety of concepts of "God".

RustyBear · 28/01/2009 22:24

But which believer, UQD?

UnquietDad · 28/01/2009 22:23

Presumably in order to believe in god you are defining it, otherwise you are just believing in some nebulous load of shite. So we'll use the same definition believers do. Thanks.

IorekByrnison · 28/01/2009 22:19
Grin
RustyBear · 28/01/2009 22:18

IB - DH says 'Probably'

RustyBear · 28/01/2009 22:15

He's got bored with the Avocado Jungle now, and says you don't know how many faces the die has got. He also thinks you can't define God, which though possibly true is probably not helpful....

IorekByrnison · 28/01/2009 22:12

Do all statisticians turn to the lurid and fantastical whenever they stop their fiendish calculations?

WilfSell · 28/01/2009 22:11

Well, at least they are not vomiting simultaneously.

Skelmersdale levitators: TM brigade. For some reason there are many in Skelmersdale. I once hired a birth pool from one who is probably reading right now tried to persuade me. Clearly they don't have any particular hotline to the big guy in the sky (or whatever they believe) since I only got in for 10 mins before being whizzed to hosp in a nee-naw for an Emergency Section.

justaboutisnotastatistician · 28/01/2009 22:09

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IorekByrnison · 28/01/2009 22:08

Oh, just seen the cannibal avocado thing - never mind.

IorekByrnison · 28/01/2009 22:08

Unquietdad, your die with the 5 ones and the 6 only works if you can actually define "God" and therefore have some way of assessing the probability of the existence of such an entity. (Mr RB is this right?). Can you do this?

RustyBear · 28/01/2009 22:07

Justabout - I hope you are not expecting an explantion of complex ststistical theories from Mr Rusty tonight, as he is currently watching "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death".....

UnquietDad · 28/01/2009 22:05

Oh heck. Iorek and I have found something on this thread we have in common... Three days to go!!

justaboutisnotastatistician · 28/01/2009 22:01

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ruty · 28/01/2009 22:01

Can you stop bloody rubbing it in onebat and just go?

IorekByrnison · 28/01/2009 22:00

tax collectors! shit! my tax return!

pointydog · 28/01/2009 22:00

going out at 10pm? Sound slike you're off to a Niteclub

UnquietDad · 28/01/2009 22:00

I wish I'd never started this biscuit thing.

Blessed are the cheese crackers.