How to atheists return to religion? I don't understand

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Returning to religion, especially Christianity, is an extremely common lie Christians tell each other. It is like so many other lies and just so stories they use to occupy their empty lives. If you ever run into one, ask them the definition of an atheist. They'll always give you the incorrect Christian definition, where an atheist is one who makes the claim that god doesn't exist. The correct definition is that an atheist does not have a belief in any of the various gods. Other than that, possibly a few people never spent any time learning anything about atheism. Atheism has a rich and amusing literature, some of which lampoons Christianity. One would have to have a full-on brain fart to forget all that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQDkuAhYOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBBoGAHCJ-8

Two good ones…

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

And what happened to the DOJ's prosecution of Trump for the crimes detailed in the Mueller Report. Mueller testified that Trump could be prosecuted upon leaving office. The DOJ and FBI have been corrupted by partisanship. THAT is what needs to be investigated.

What's the craziest thing you ever heard come out of the mouth of a religious leader?

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Keep 'em coming. We need to shove this shit down their throats...

"The Fox News Christmas tree was set on fire last night.

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Actually, there was a cross inside, but they didn't think it would be a 'good optic.' (...so they covered it up.)

'God had cornered me': Mark Meadows explains why he had no choice but to work in Trump's White House...

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

"It was God, which is part of the doctrine of Divine Command Theory, which puts God at the source of any and all actions in one's life." (...that you would otherwise be utterly ashamed of doing, and don't have the balls to take responsibility for. )

Lauren Boebert Posts Christmas Photo of Young Sons Brandishing Assault Weapons Just a little ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

A Majority of Gun Victims Know Their Assailant https://newrepublic.com/article/122627/majority-gun-victims-know-their-assailant And when the youngest has had enough of the wacky family bullying, time to send them all to heaven...

Change my mind.

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

For sure it shouldn't just be via the supernatural. We should be 'terrorizing' them on a consistent basis.

That's the funny thing

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

You should add an AR-15 and pokemon...

Lin Wood Claims Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Under Influence of ‘the Devil’

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

We should be working harder to promote divisions within the GQP...

Tucker Carlson Sides With Putin Over Ukraine, Right to Defend Borders

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Just what happens when the GQP openly declare themselves as Putin stooges? They're openly racist; what's a little treason matter as long as the libs are owned...

Four Filter Fusion: Hubble Captures a Stunning Stellar Whirlpool [scitechdaily.com]

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

I wonder what process has mostly swept away the dust in the center? Photonic pressure?

What do you want to see under your Christmas tree?

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Looks more like charcoal. Pass...

Did they not test market it?

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

If olive oil is made from olives, corn oil from corn, what do they make baby oil from?

Prove this first

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Everyone is atheist whether they admit it or not.

An assembly of church messages brought to you by your friendly FFRF community.

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

"Up yours" has ALWAYS been their pledge.

Go, California! California Plans to Be Abortion Sanctuary If Roe Overturned [apnews.

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

We need people to vote, and to know what they're voting for.

I’m an atheist..

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Almost cute, but no. That's an attempted joke that relies on stupidity.

Anti choice is just another ploy to keep women from empowerment and equality.

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

For every unwanted embryo forced to go to term, a man should be sterilized at random...

America’s Forgotten Internment The United States confined 2,200 Latin Americans of Japanese ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Lots of racist mass murders and disasters in US history. But then, that history will soon be over...

“Your destiny is not determined by an outside force, it’s determined by YOU, and you ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Ridiculous. A platitude that uses fallacious exaggeration to make an absurd point. Lying is no way to impart wisdom. Even from a certain point of view.

Stephen is right

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Um, no. per wikiP: graduating from Yale in 2001 with a B.A. magna cum laude in history, That makes him dangerous.

Big Oil Profits Surge to $174 Billion in 2021 Amid Rising Gas Prices: Report "Americans looking ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

And the pockets of the Sedition Caucus...

[theguardian.

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

What will it take to sterilize most men and women? (Especially in industrialized countries)

[theguardian.

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Answer: We don't. Therefore, the Resolution was an exercise in futility and a waste of time. but I'm sure everyone felt better afterwards. And isn't feeling better all that matters? Humanity is such a joke.

Just going to leave this here ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

That sucks...

I'm going to put it out there

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Tolerating stupidity is one thing, tolerating hate is another...

Let’s face it. It didn’t happen.

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Where's the toast and the dog's butt? https://www.google.com/search?q=god+dogs+butt=AOaemvLIeBdl5y76qVQDUVcsZ-n2bbz5Rw:1638847073286=lnms=isch&sa=X=2ahUKEwiYjJON3dD0AhWQkGoFHU9jBuEQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw=1541=740=1 https://www.google.com/search?q=god+toast=isch=2ahUKEwiz4-OO3dD0AhWsAjQIHcvhCi4Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=god+toast=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgYIABAKEBgyBggAEAoQGDoHCAAQsQMQQzoECAAQQzoGCAAQCBAeOgQIABAYUKM-WPJFYKpIaAJwAHgAgAFhiAGXBJIBATeYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ=img&ei=ZNKuYbOhKqyF0PEPy8Or8AI=740=1541

Video from Right-Wing Watch QAnon conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed "prophet" Johnny Enlow...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

The megalomania is spreading... ...also the dementia....

For all the people that said white supremacists attacked jussie smollett, not one owned up to their...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Conservative humor. What? Doncha get it? It's funny! I'm laughing....see... (trying to pretend it's not white grievance).

Just asking?

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Cross-Dresser (in gay films) The Lamb of God (in gay films)

The proof is in the basement

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

"Room for one more, honey..."

Article on Trump having 21 million "insurrectionists" wanting bloodshed.

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

It's a bug hunt... Except bugs aren't cowards...

It was inspiring — really inspiring.

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Yet how quickly that respect is brushed away by Wokeist hate-mongering...

I think the abortion debate is putting the cart before the horse because we have no widespread ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

We can clearly see that those who promote pro-life canards have no real interest in protecting human life. Abortion has never been anything more than a gimmick to corral the sheep. It should not be afforded serious discussion because it is insincere to begin with. Only those unwilling and incapable of understanding argue otherwise. Religious bullshit should not be imposed on the rest of society. What's the argument against birth control, because you better believe that is next.

How about updating a chant that was used during the Vietnamese War - Hey, hey, LBJ How many ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

The NRA is owned by Putin too, and he has no problem with school shootings (in the US).

Devilish Delight

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

So much better than nuns with guns.

Ash heap of history material.

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Except the cockroachs should be lined up listening to him. Although that's an insult to cockroaches.

Now The Public Health Dictators Want You Masked in Your Own Home Simon Black December 3, 2021 ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

The law is unenforcible, and nothing will come of it. What it will do is to emphasize ordinary precautions in a society where Republicans have politicized a health emergency with horrific effects. And even after a half million, and now more, Republicans have doubled down compelling the loyal to stay unvaccinated, and thus prolong the pandemic indefinitely. Plainly there's no comparison.

San Francisco Police Do Nothing as They Watch a Robbery Unfold When a legal marijuana dispensary ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Every cop on that scene should be fired. Dispensaries pay ridiculous taxes, and police protection should be part of that.

Another vision of the future.

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Being the optimist, I'll make a prediction... We'll have another, even more serious pandemic develop before this one fades away.

Following yet another school mass murder event in America, should the US government add another ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

We're going to need guns to take down the fascists... (all too soon).

Republican Triggered By Uppity Blacks In TV Commercial.

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

That is Trump's treasonous Evangelicals, opening their raincoats for all to gaze on their racism. And now they've chosen to pursue fascism because Roe fried their brains.

I realize that not everyone here is into this sort of action-item, but I am passing along this link ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Some interesting ideas, but still taking a sponge to the ocean.

Another great one from the young environmentalist;

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Perhaps Thunberg knows better that to call out religion as the culprit.

Doesn't think there wasnt?

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

The incoherence seems to be spreading...

Gaetz Slammed for Saying Getting COVID Is Best Protection Against It

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

If he's so fearless, he should volunteer his superman superiority to serve in a Covid ward (without a mask, of course).

working out - has anyone read any credible looking links as to whether it's genuinely lower risk to ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2021:

How much is that camaraderie worth? My opinion is that you should wait at least two months to see what happens with Omicron and with the winter spike.

Get it??? All right!

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

(audience member murmers: "What's a man?")

A juicy one from R. Dawkins

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Some days Eve thought she was Black, and some days she thought (identified as) she was Asian. Some days Adam thought he was Aborigine, and some days he thought he was American Indian. The snake sometimes thought he was white...

Woman Arrested For Masturbating With A Vibrator On Georgia Beach | ThatViralFeed

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Had she put the towel over her, she'd have been OK. And come on, how much moaning can you do in 20 seconds. And just who is listening for that?

Sorry Religilous, Jebus cannot come this year due to the pandemic.

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

That last nail is going to be tricky...

I love unusual words.

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Very cool. Several unknown to me. While these are such wonderful words, one must know when they can be used without confusion...

Yes please do..... [vimeo.com]

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Free Darwin Awards for white trash...

A GOP Lawmaker’s “Earthen Vessel” Rant is Being Condemned for the Wrong Reason | Hemant Mehta...

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Abortion is just the tip of the spear. Evangelical Republicans seek to outlaw birth control, and even other religions. They have started to fill prisons with women who happened to have had miscarriages. Practically all women have miscarriages!! Yeah, put them all in prison - - unclean, unclean...!!! Having junked all loyalty to the country, the Putin-Christians won't stop until they have full control, and they'll intimidate or kill everyone that gets in their way. This IS Nazi Germany.

If I decide to get a tattoo, this will be the first one.

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Yes, there is something about Mary (Jesus's true origin)

The level of ignorance is astonishing!

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

And the line through the zeros makes sense because? Because otherwise it would be 6066, and that doesn't mean anything? And why was 2020 omitted? Infantile.

Pope Francis calls neglect of migrants the 'shipwreck of civilisation' on visit to Lesbos ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Does he mean the civilization that arose out of the Dark Ages caused by Christianity? How much will the Catholic Church put up to help those migrants?

Someone recently told me that they were smart which triggered my research into this subject.

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

The need to express overconfidence or narcissism comes from a deep insecurity.

How do you display this in your home?

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Shouldn't the cow be in front of the plow?

I hate it when my wife gets mad at me for being lazy. It’s not like I did anything!

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2021:

The opportunity cost piles up...

It’s a night off alright 😂😂🙌🙌🙌

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

What a cutie. I wonder what it's behavior is like? (Would it be pet material? Or always ramming you in the calfs?)

Eeewwww🤢🤢🤢🤢

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

She has no features. What is there to remember?

[abcnews.

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

I could tell you stories about trying to evade drug testing...

Star Trek Discovery.

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

Star Trek was not that great to begin with, but when you're starved for content, you'll watch anything. And yet, by all accounts, the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises have been sold out to utter idiots. I'm glad not to have wasted my time. Even the review below seems too kind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyMHkkB5gXg

Who do you believe about Russiagate?

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

I believe the Mueller Report that says Trump's campaign had more than 100 contacts with Russian agents, some of them involving the provision of polling and demographic data which Russia then used to effectively deploy social media bots. Bannon and Manafort provided the data, and Flynn helped coordinate this activity. Trump received rubles via the NRA and laundered Russian money through his properties. Trump received financial assistance from Deutsch Bank which funneled rubles to Trump. And so much more.

There is a path to happiness.

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

Except that the person who is without sin gets kicked and beaten-up by those who, by virtue of their religion telling them it's OK, disregard all those fine sentiments.

Kavanaugh cites landmark gay rights cases in argument about abortion restrictions

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

And when the fascists take power, say goodbye to gay rights, women's rights, birth control, separation of church and state, goodbye to elections, democracy, the country, and any shred of self-respect. We will become the laughing-stock of the world, and Putin's gang will sell off every asset awarded by Trump. Kleptocracy will reign like it does in Russia.

North Dakota school superintendent slams critical race theory, calls to teach 'Christian heritage' |...

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

"Christ centered Republic" should be replaced with "Christ-centered bigotry." Christians have been the primary source of hatred and racism, so it's clear why Christians resent efforts to dispel racism.

Imagine if you will...

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

I pull up to a string of cars waiting for the light to change. I notice that far ahead, a vagrant is sitting on the curb. After several minutes go by, it becomes apparent that the first car hasn't pulled onto the pressure sensor (out of deference to the vagrant?). So I pull out of line and getting next to the idiot, I flash some choice hand signals. As soon as he edges forward, the light changes...

New Covid variant: How worried should we be? [bbc.com]

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

Worry achieves nothing. And it's unlikely that we'll need to do anything more than what we should already be doing.

Trump threatens to sue Pulitzer Prize board if it doesn’t rescind ‘Russiagate’ awards ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

Nazi historical revisionists used to be content with trying to disguise Europe's mass murder. Now we have a treasonous Nazi ex-president trying to disguise his loyalty to Putin.

I tend to just say what comes to mind, it might be Happy Hannukah or Merry Xmas or Have a Nice Day, ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

I'm, dreaming of white... grievance.... just like the racism I used to know...

Very punny groaner

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

That's what happens when you foal around...

[msn.com] Lifeguard spots giant manta ray off Florida beach

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

That's a big one alright...

Any line of reasoning stemming from an untestable assertion, no matter how logical, is inaccurate ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

Can you cite some examples? Just assume it relates to religion? And then, what is the implication that such reasoning is inaccurate? You mean false? How about string theory?

Op-Ed: Why QAnon’s similarity to other cults makes it a significant national security threat ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

Q members are drawn almost exclusively from the Evangelicals. As this is the core support for the Republican Party, it is unlikely that any serious action will be taken against them.

Cults use language to cast their spell Why intelligent — even sceptical — independent ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

I would assert that people who succumb to cults have holes in their emotional maturity that the cults can fill. Emotional security is not overlapping with intelligence, so intelligent people often have as much vulnerability as the not so bright. The real problem comes where a cult's behavior and dogma has the effect of generating still more emotionally defective people. These young people are then brainwashed with narratives that reinforce their captivity. Another problem is how defective personalities are molded by the cult to perform specific tasks well-suited to their defect. Cults direct outgoing motormouths into being the street evangelists.

Trump's White House doctor calls Omicron a midterm elections trick [thehill.com]

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2021:

I'm sure there are any number of hospitals who could use his help storing corpses. He should want to give his fellow party-members a respectful send off...

[youtube.com] Women jailed for miscarriages in U.S.

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

These prosecutors need to be incarcerated.

Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a new 2021 photography winner.

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

So, what, they're both watching porn?... The bedding covering the guy's ass has obviously been placed there...

MAGA Cultist: Trump’s Base Won’t Support Him in 2024 Unless He Disavows Vaccines | Beth ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

"What vaccine...?"

Ohio pastor who bragged about hunting people is charged in shooting death of Casey Goodson Jr.

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

" Oh, but it was self defense..."

<Speechless> Super-Ripped Cat With Bulging Muscles Due to Rare Condition Stuns Internet ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

I wonder what a pit bull would look like?

Our relationship with conspiracy theories is as old and complicated as time.

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

Except that some conspiracies actually happened. Jan 6 is a conspiracy in the un-making...

Simpler times?

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

That's how they got to be Wise Men.

A girl can dream…

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

However, one of Roosevelt's first acts was to eliminate the gold standard. That so angered the bankers that they began to pursue a coup. They hoped to use veterans who had been promised money, but the payments had been delayed. These veterans would violently depose Roosevelt. Congress conducted investigations, but the insurrectionists were too important, and the whole thing was whitewashed. Per Wikipedia on The Business Plot : "Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler asserted that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified under oath before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack–Dickstein Committee") on these revelations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot So we don't have to go all the way back to the Civil War to find an analogy to Jan 6. "In July 2007, Scott Horton wrote an article in Harper's Magazine claiming that Prescott Bush, father of US President George H. W. Bush and grandfather of then-president George W. Bush, was to have been a "key liaison" between the 1933 Business Plotters and the newly emerged Nazi regime in Germany."

Damn you Westerners.

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

And being morons, they forgot everything. It reminds me of how the Russians always took credit for the technology they stole. Indians have produced many outstanding scientists. They should revere them instead of wasting time with silly lies.

Here comes Death Santis' brown-shirted goon squad that he controls![cnn.com]

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

And has Biden done anything to remove the goons from HS, DEA, Park Service, etc. that Barr used to abuse protestors? Every one of them violated their oaths and should have been fired.

Are those bite marks?

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

Hickeys.

The types of traitors who deserve the firing squad.

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

And most took money from our hostile adversaries.

Richard Dawkins Urges People to Sign “Declaration” Opposing Trans Rights | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

Obviously religionists have no monopoly on being gullible. SJW's, ugh, spare me... Critical thinking is to be used, people. (Let anyone show where Dawkins said or did anything Transphobic. )

And you thought that paradise didn't exist

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

And algorithms breed neo-Nazis for profit.

From "Girls on the Rocks," here's Miss Mila again, overlooking a small coastal town in Ukraine.

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

She looks uncomfortable...

Parents of high school shooter charged

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

I hope they can find charges that will stick.

Yes it started here

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

I always knew Jesus was part jackass... Mary, for shame...

I love the costume party idea except for the getting married part. [didyouknowfacts.]

racocn8 comments on Dec 2, 2021:

And the website is blocked by my firewall...

Now that's some good shit that they've been smoking.

racocn8 comments on Dec 2, 2021:

So much better, and cleaner... What's the deal with killing a perfectly good tree so it can stink up the house for a month. What a waste!!! Buy a fucking can of air freshener instead for christ sakes.

Someone has a strange sense of humor

racocn8 comments on Dec 2, 2021:

What, no grounding plug? He'll short circuit for sure...

Richard Dawkins Urges People to Sign “Declaration” Opposing Trans Rights | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 2, 2021:

Trans people should be respected, but not at the expense of other discriminated groups. It's disappointing that people don't or won't recognize this propaganda for what it is.

Pick one!!!

racocn8 comments on Dec 2, 2021:

How about none of the above....