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More asshole atheists....
Dec. 19th, 2020 01:31 amIt's like these ignoramuses just spawned out of nowhere!
1. Whatever you think of people who hold a degree in theology or divinity, a thread about Jill Biden (who, having delivered a baby and received a doctorate is surely allowed to style herself Dr. Biden) is not the place to say that people with degrees in those subject are all frauds.
2. With that said, whether or not you approve of the subject, earning a degree in either of those does not require you to believe in any particular religion or deity(s) and does require you to do rather more than simply read the Bible a few times and then pray about it.
3. No matter how silly you think it is, the Bible is an important collection of historical documents.
4. Yes, religious texts have to do with history.
5. Yes, some parts of the "storytelling" parts of the Bible definitely correspond with verifiable, real-world historical events. Other parts, some of which never intended to be taken that way in the first place, definitely do not.
6. Saying "nuh-uh" a lot and really loudly puts you on about the same bar as Ken Ham, who thinks "were you there?" is a genius rebuttal to any and all comments about evolution. He is wrong. (If you ever meet anybody who tries that line, the correct answer is "Yes". They don't deserve a better answer.)
7. No, all religions are not identical, not even on a superficial level.
8. There are other reasons for people to point out the fact that you're an asshole and an ignoramus than because they (I) want to convert you to Christianity. For example, it could be that you're an asshole and an ignoramus. That's true even when the person saying it has been an atheist her whole life. You are making the rest of us look bad.
9. Unrelatedly, but it's the same twerp - when you snidely ask "Would you write a dissertation about Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and somebody responds "Many people do, every year", the number of times you can say "REALLY?" is exactly once. You shouldn't do it at all, but for you, we'll set the bar low. Following up your series of "Are you sures?" with "But you actually mean this other, lesser paper" is a hanging offense.
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1. Whatever you think of people who hold a degree in theology or divinity, a thread about Jill Biden (who, having delivered a baby and received a doctorate is surely allowed to style herself Dr. Biden) is not the place to say that people with degrees in those subject are all frauds.
2. With that said, whether or not you approve of the subject, earning a degree in either of those does not require you to believe in any particular religion or deity(s) and does require you to do rather more than simply read the Bible a few times and then pray about it.
3. No matter how silly you think it is, the Bible is an important collection of historical documents.
4. Yes, religious texts have to do with history.
5. Yes, some parts of the "storytelling" parts of the Bible definitely correspond with verifiable, real-world historical events. Other parts, some of which never intended to be taken that way in the first place, definitely do not.
6. Saying "nuh-uh" a lot and really loudly puts you on about the same bar as Ken Ham, who thinks "were you there?" is a genius rebuttal to any and all comments about evolution. He is wrong. (If you ever meet anybody who tries that line, the correct answer is "Yes". They don't deserve a better answer.)
7. No, all religions are not identical, not even on a superficial level.
8. There are other reasons for people to point out the fact that you're an asshole and an ignoramus than because they (I) want to convert you to Christianity. For example, it could be that you're an asshole and an ignoramus. That's true even when the person saying it has been an atheist her whole life. You are making the rest of us look bad.
9. Unrelatedly, but it's the same twerp - when you snidely ask "Would you write a dissertation about Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and somebody responds "Many people do, every year", the number of times you can say "REALLY?" is exactly once. You shouldn't do it at all, but for you, we'll set the bar low. Following up your series of "Are you sures?" with "But you actually mean this other, lesser paper" is a hanging offense.
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