Missed it. My bad.
Because I think punishment probably is inescapable, i.e. from God. Not necessarily the Christian God, but I think there is one.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
Sometimes, people say things that are exaggerations of reality or exaggerations of stereotypes, for comedic effect or to make a point. Much like Liberal probably doesn’t really think atheists should be raping and pillaging, I don’t really think Ayn Rand would berate me for being a nice person.
See, it’s called parody.
I suppose I could have responded by lambasting Liberal for being “stooopid” and not understanding atheists, but that would be silly.
On the other hand, in the modern day, semi-athy countries such as the UK and athier countries such as France are doing quite fine without the machine gunning.
Exactly. Guys like Starving Artist bring up the Communists over and over again - because that’s all they have to bash atheism with. They have to falsely equate atheism and Communism, or they’d have to admit that atheists don’t eat babies.
As for the 50’s; if you were a well off, conformist white man it was great. Otherwise, it wasn’t.
I’m starting to feel a little bad about raping and pillaging like a motherfuck all day today. Am I becoming a theist?
I wanna fuck a LOT of the females I see every day. Porno style. And I want them to renounce Jesus as I do them, too. EVIL KILL BLOOD NASCAR!
Out of morbid curiosity… Is that really the only reason you can think of?
No, it’s because huge segments of the planet’s surface were taken over by men who were athiests, and they operated officially atheist governments that murdered hundreds of millions of people without a qualm. So they function as likely examples of atheism taken to it logical extreme.
[Mr. Rogers] Can you say, “Horseshit”? Yeah, I thought that you could. [/Mr. Rogers]
How many people do you know who were alive in the forties, fifties and early sixties? Ask them how they felt about it at the time. (You know…while they were actually living it and hadn’t been convinced by feminists or whoever that their lives sucked.) I’d bet just about any amount of money that most of them would say that things were just fine. In fact, a great many grown women of that era were perfectly happy with things they way they were and resented feminism (or women’s lib, as it was called then) for fucking everything up.
This meme that only white men were happy pre-1968 is a fiction of liberal history revisionists.
Noooo! 
It’s all just fun, dude. Threads like these come out of the block wrecked. If you’re gonna enjoy it, you’re gonna have to get into a satire frame of mind.
And now, fuck you. Give me your money.
Bring me your finest meats and cheeeeeeeeeeses!!
(Can’t sleep. Sucks bad. May take medicinal action soon.)
Well, as others have said, if you really don’t give much of a shit about other people and the *only thing *that is keeping you from killing them is fear of God, then you are psychotic. That is a mental disorder, not just a different point of view. I mean, seriously, are you really so indifferent to the lives and suffering of others that if you didn’t fear punishment, there would be nothing holding you in check?
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I’ll agree that SSG Schwartz’s argument was ill advised at best, and that the flaws in SSG Schartz’s argument is well mirrored by the flaws in Liberal’s parody argument. Both take a relatively shallow view of religion, and wonder why the followers, or non-followers, of that religion don’t act in a manner that is directly derived from that relatively shallow view, ignoring the fact that the followers/non-followers are human. Atheists aren’t immoral monsters, because they are human. Christians aren’t suicidal baby killers, because they are human.
Cite?
All of it? All five dollars?
Man, you pillagers are cold!
(Pssst…see that blond over there? She looks pretty rapish. Hurry, she might get away!)
:: walks off whistling, stashes five bucks back in pocket ::
I sincerely hope you’re still just in the parodyin’ spirit, because if you actually mean that East Germany held their citizens captive because they were atheists, it’s probably the single most stupid thing I ever read on here.
Between this and Vox apparently just not going around killing people because he fears god is watching, this has become a scary thread.
Only probably? What are the odds? It could be worth a quick killing if the odds are only 10% don’t you think?
(if you are being serious I really can’t comprehend you, the very thought of hurting anything makes me feel very bad indeed. I accidentally killed a spider the other day and I still feel guilty about it.)
Don’t be silly. They were Communists; that was their motivation, not atheism. That why it’s the Communists SPECIFICALLY who acted like that, and not other groups with lots of atheists. You might as well claim they committed those atrocities because they were mostly right handed.
Yeah, I’m suuuure they liked being treated as second or third class citizens. I’m sure they liked being treated as sex slaves by their bosses and being abused without recourse by their husbands.
“Only” ? No. Mostly ? Yes. The America of the time was a cesspool of bigotry and intolerance and predation. That’s why vermin like you want to go back; you’d like to live in a society where you could beat a black or gay man to death or rape your wife and secretary or molest children and have the cops look the other way.
No, because they are restrained by the law. When they’ve been free to act as they wish, killing children is just the beginning of their cruelty. Christianity is a vicious, murderous, tyrannical system of belief. Very similar to Communism, actually.
I think he is referring to some of the ones like marrying your brothers widow or not, marrying an uncle or not, marryong a cousin or not, marrying clan turtle members immediate family ot not, marrying clan turtle to clan cow or not.
There are a lot of cultures that have a LOT of rules about who is allowed to stick what to where in whom.
Vicious and murderous yet curiously law abiding.