You’ve banned god, mocked people who believe in Jesus, and you think guns are the problem?
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Yeah, because no one struck me down the last time i belittled a god, creationism, Jesus, Mary, the Apostles, any Church,or the boogeyman.
Guns, hiwever, strike people down...
If an omnipotent being exists, you can't meaningfully ban them. If an omnipotent being doesn't exist, you also can't meaningfully ban them.
You can ban religions. Outside of some Muslim dominant countries and maybe a few Buddhist dominant ones, nobody's doing that, however. You can ban religious practices, which normally only happens when it interferes with other people's religious freedom. I suspect you have a problem with that part.
It's not common to mock Jesus per se, though it is somewhat common on the internet to mock the concept of a messiah, or to mock his most misguided fans. I don't think that's even remotely common as an inspiration for murder, mass or otherwise, though.
You forced the issue, you lot were asking for it as a result, Yes: Dylann Roof, and in that order.
Now STFU and become Quakers/Unitarian Universalists. If they aren't banned, nobody mocks them, and not one of them has so much has thought in a violent way, what's your excuse?
Also, Knoxville . You have less right to so much as think the way you do, Whinan.
...which brings us right back to the very beginning: why your so-called 'God' is more than asking to be banned.
If Ryan's god was so powerful, he wouldn't have let himself be banned, his followers mocked, and any death by guns to happen.
@Thinking Allowed
Unless of course, he allows it, in which it means either he cares more about free will than lives, is a jerkass, doesn't care a damn or he doesn't exist. May or may not be exclusionary.
No one has banned God, god, or gods in any way shape or form. I don’t mock people who worship Jesus, just people who insist that I have to worship Jesus, which has more to do with my decidedly anti-authority streak than the religion.
Guns are *a* problem. Access is *a* problem. Publicity through such actions is *a* problem. Combine these together, and you get *a* clusterfuck.
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Skareamoose
"I wonder what kind of gun OP thinks Jesus would have carried."
Not sure about the OP, but I'm thinking NERF gun. A big NERF gun. You know, like:
Jesus: "...and love thy neighbor as thyself. Be kind to people around you"
Voice from the crowd: "But what if they're gay?"
[PHUT]
Voice from the crowd: "Hey! Cut that ou..."
Second voice from the crowd, interrupting: "And what if they worship the old gods?"
[PHUT]
Jesus" "Anyone else? Good. As I was saying..."
Something like that, anyway.
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg
Yes, guns are the fucking problem you dumbass. When have you ever seen a mass murderer killing 50 people at once with a baseball bat?
And if you're really religious and believe in the power of prayer, what the fuck do you need guns for anyway? Why not pray to God to protect you from evildoers 24/7? Why not pray to God that he prevent our government from turning into a totalitarian dictatorship? Why not pray to God that he deliver food to your door so you don't have to go hunting?
Tell you what, we'll take away everyone's guns and if you complain about it we'll offer you thoughts and prayers for your loss of your guns.
First god is not banned
His believers are only mocked when they try to force their beliefs on others or harass unbelievers
Third churches have been attacked, Knoxville and South Carolina but I still remember my history classes teaching about a bombing of black church in Birmingham. Perhaps you are right in that guns aren't the problem. Perhaps the problem is right wing psychopaths having access to guns. Perhaps rather than blame guns how about stronger background checks? Training courses. Ensure that if someone owns firearm they have had background check and can be monitored. I mean I am sure you were ok monitoring Muslims. You have nothing to hide right?
Take it up with George, Thomas, Benjamin, both Johns, James, Alexander and the others, bub....
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....THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - A secular Democratic Constitutional Republic founded on the Principles of The Age of Reason....not religious writ.
@Skareamoose
"I wonder what kind of gun OP thinks Jesus would have carried."
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Because he was a carpenter, of course.
Well, they are the problem.
See I live in a country where we pretty much do all that. Not so much mocking people who believe in Jesus, but religious hypocrites certainly cop the payouts they deserve. As for "banning god", good luck, I don't think anyone could. If you tell him he's not welcome in the club, both the bouncer and the whole building could be struck by lightning...hypothetically.
However, in Australia we do have gun control. Nobody has been murdered in a massacre since 1996. Oh, and the gunman at Port Arthur, whom many of the victims' families still refuse to name, he did use an AR-15. They're not exactly designed for potting rabbits.
In Glastonbury - a sacred place of early Christianity in Britain: and which has Protestant Christianity as a state religion to this day, and reputedly the place where Joseph of Arimathea brought & buried the Holy Grail - there are Arcana shops where one can buy Celtic runestones, and Egyptian statues of cats.
Strange then, how Danu & Bastet aren't banned here: nor are those who practice such ancient beliefs at the annual Festival there mocked: indeed, are celebrated as part of Britain's culture , and do so in a country that - since 1996 - is gun-free, ensuring they are completely safe to do so.
The Church of England is still here, still unbanned . How can it be: when clergy from that state religion are part of the legislational body who draw up the law of the land: the Palace of Westminster.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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