Marriage: a Christian love story – Deuteronomy 22:28-29
22:28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Isn’t that’s just breathtakingly beautiful?
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Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
From the picture it looks to me like the heavenly father is certainly helping a fowl of the air to get a meal. I guess the bit that says “Suffer the little children” was meant literally.
When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or cease to be honest.
Religion: the thing that makes honest people dishonest.
Yea… Christianity… totally makes sense. Totally.
And that’s assuming Jesus actually existed to begin with. Let me tell you, the evidence supporting that shady premise is… just a little thin.
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Islam! Religion of peace! Fuck yeah! And also of sweet justice! Yeah!
Read this:
http://www.examiner.com/article/saudi-arabia-islamic-cleric-rapes-tortures-kills-daughter-pays-fine
Let me help you with a pertinent bit:
In Saudi Arabia an Islamic cleric who admits to raping, torturing and killing his daughter received a fine but no jail time for his heinous crime. Saudi media reports that the father paid 200,000 riyals ($50,000 US) in “blood money” for his crime, but will not be required to serve any time in prison.
And:
Hospital staff reports the child’s rectum had been torn open and the abuser had attempted to burn it closed.
Reports indicate the father had doubted his five-year old daughter’s virginity.
What harm does religion cause anyway? Yea.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. — George Santayana, Reason In Religion, p28.
That fear keeps the gods alive, is perhaps just as true.
Reading the Bible for morality is like digging through shit for sweetcorn. Sure, there’s a little there but is it really worth it?
Indeed sir, indeed.
Oh, I feel the Christian outrage. “The Bible is the source and basis for all morality”, I hear them whine. I have but two things to say to that: killing babies and keeping slaves. Your God approves of both those things.
Nobody thinks that’s ‘moral’ right? Right.
Religion: retarding progress at every turn.
If not for the religion governed Dark Ages, where would we be today?
“Religion”, antonym of “progress”.
Religion: It’s magic. I ain’t gotta explain shit.
Religion: it’s magic! You couldn’t understand it if you tried so I won’t even try to explain how it works. Just believe me and everything will be ok.
That’s what is sold to religionuts around the world. It’s what religionuts around the world buy. What annoys me to no end is why they are willing to accept that answer. Why they refuse to try or even want to understand the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of their particular superstition.
Their self-imposed ignorance is nothing to be proud of and yet they are so proud.
Bertrand Russell on religion
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot however deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in the early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian Priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others. — Bertrand Russell
That.
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