[regarding Barack Obama]
He was born a muslim and die a muslim, I was born a catholic and die a catholic, practicing a religion is a different issue, religion is genetic.
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Ok, time to close all the evangelical churches then. Since religion is genetic and cannot be changed, there's no way a preacher can ever, EVER convert anyone.
Oh BTW, my parents are both christian, but I'm an atheist and my sister's pretty much agnostic. Does that mean we were mutated or is it just a recessive gene?
If it's a mutation, then that means we fucking EVOLVED.
Religion is Genetic?
Wouldn't that mean that 2000 years ago a group of Jews MUTATED into Christians!?
So doesn't that mean that christianity came about because of EVOLUTION?!
Yes, i know evolution doesn't work quite that way. But this guy is such a maroon i doubt he would get that.
Sure, religion is genetic: if a breeding pair are Catholic, Baptist, Jewish or Muslim, their religion will be passed down to their offspring.
Proof you don't have to be conservative to be a fucktard.
Does anyone see what he does here? If religion is genetic, and God makes all people or is at least involved somehow in the creation of each individual person, then that means that God specifically makes people disbelieve in them just so he can punish them. At this point I have to ask, is Satan even necessary?
Just to go out a limb, let's give this guy the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant genetic in the sense of relating to origins. E.g. genetic fallacy.
He's still retarded. And that is indeed genetic.
My ancestry comes from western Europe and the British Isles. If religion is genetically determined, does this mean that I should be worshipping the Teutonic pantheon of gods, per my father's ancestry, or the Celtic pantheon of gods, per my mother's ancestry?
Ah, forget it. I don't believe in them any more than I believe in the god you'd probably want me to defy my genes to worship.
Using your logic, I should be worshipping the British, Lithuanian, French, Irish, and German pagan gods.
No, no, no. You're confusing it with stupidity. You can change your religion, but your stupidity may be in your genes.
Ow, my poor, poor braincells. Please tell me no one can be this stupid? I just... wow.
(Although, a lot of people seem to refer to themselves as 'Catholic' merely because they were Baptised and Confirmed in the Catholic Church. And many even say that 'you're always Catholic' even if you never practise it, believe in it or even join another religion.)
Following your logic, my family and I should still be worshipping Zeus and the rest of the Olympian pantheon! Heck, none of us should have Christian names either! Starting tomorrow, I shall rename my father Pericles and I shall rename my mother Agave. My brother will be known as Creon and I shall call myself Sappho. Instead of going to church, we shall sacrifice hamburgers and steak to the gods and consult the Oracle of Delphi for news.
After all, it must all be genetic...right?
No, you were born a human being, and then dunked into water by your parents, without your consent.
Barack Obabm isn't a muslim, and not matter how many times you try to say he is, isn't going to make it true.
Troll/Poe.
If not - whooot! Think of all the exiting new breeds of religion we can get. Say you breed a fundie Muslim with a Wiccan, or a Southern Baptist with a Hindu ^^
Or maybe an Evangelical with a fundie Muslim, then you get something that works itself into a frenzy, speaks in tongues, and explodes :)
Well in that case, no one is Christian except Jesus, because he didn't have any kids and couldn't have passed down his Christian DNA. and how did he even become Christian, I thought he was born Jewish? How did you become Christian for that matter ..
ah forget it.
Hindu + Jew - Hinju
Anyways...
You Sir, are no liberal. You are also not a bounder or a cad or any of those things cause they are awesome!
Also...
Its a sad day when the worlds only superpower and indeed what most of the world regards as the worlds best country is indeed deciding on the fate of its ruler not by the man's plans for the country, but by his name.
So if my father was a Lutheran and my Mother was a Protestant.
Is that what made me an atheist? God doesn't want me because he doesn't know which heaven to put me in when I die?
And if it is genetic, why do Christians insist in shoving it down our throats?
Interesting take. So when a religion gets started, it acts as a mutagen? Or were Christian genes present but dormant in the millennia before Jesus?
I'm suddenly interested in the recessivity of religious genes. I have inherited Calvinist and Greek United Catholic genes, and am an atheist - it does not figure. And what happened to the genes of my ancestors which would have predestined me to show unconditional respect to Blue Sky the All-Seeing and, incidentally, to feel a nasty urge to get up and raid Western Europe whenever I catch a glimpse of spring grass suitable for the horses?
My mitochondria are purely Calvinist, though.
*looks at commenter's name*
Is something wrong here? I never thought a liberal could be a fundie. Also, I thought fundies believed "everyone is born a christian"?
Barack Obama is a Christian. His paternal grandfather was a Muslim, but his parents were both agnostic.
In my own family, both my parents are Christian, and my brother and I are both atheist.
If religion were genetic, a Muslim man would not have an agnostic son, two agnostics wouldn't have a Christian son, and two Christians would not have atheist children.
It just doesn't work that way.
Osiris wrote:
"If religion is genetic, and God makes all people or is at least involved somehow in the creation of each individual person, then that means that God specifically makes people disbelieve in them just so he can punish them. At this point I have to ask, is Satan even necessary?" Satan is the means God uses to ensure than His cunning plot to make and punish disbelievers succeeds.
That way, He can blame it on the Devil and appear innocent.
Congratulations, you just came up with a perfect reason for evolution, since both Christianity and Muslims are johnny-come-latelys in the scheme of world religions, therefore evolved from the Jewish religion.
I thought his mother's family had been non-religious for generations, and his father was a Muslim who became athiest...
[regarding Barack Obama]
He never was muslim and likely die a non-muslim, I was born a idiot and will die a idiot, practicing a religion is a different issue, stupidity is genetic.
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Yes, clearly you have deciphered what scientists around the world have tried to study, and failed to unravel. DNA is clearly not a specification of amino acid sequence, but is instead, the bible itself. Religion is very much genetic, and not simply the unfortunate consequence of breeding couples too stupid to think for themselves, passing hateful lies onto their offspring. I am glad that "God" put beacons like you to shine the way for the rest of us.
okay my family is catholic, jewish and christian, to me they are all the same thing just a bit of difference in the bible. I am wiccan its not genetic, it is what you choose that fits your life style.
Um actually I was baptisted Catholic, not born that way...in fact don't y'all fundies believe unbaptized babies go to hell? And Im not dying Catholic because once I was a teenager they said wanna be confirmed?(yes a sect of Christians that let me walk away once old enough to think for my own damn self!)And the whole genetic thing might walk you straight into the deadly embrace of science - run while you can still hang onto your ignorance!
Oh and if it is genetic I have another good reason stem-cell research should be legal and well funded.
"religion is genetic"
Stupidity is genetic.
Religion is bullshit.
Stupidity is genetic.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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