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Posted: 08 February 2018 at 10:17am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

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Andrew Bitner
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Darwin strikes again.
The people most likely to heed this idiot's call against vaccination will be the ones to get sick and die because of it... but of course, the "halo effect" means that many non-believers will get sick as herd immunity is decreased.
This is how humanity will be taken down: our own stupidity.
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Why not put her faith to the test? Why not handle snakes in church? Venomous ones! And drink some poison.

It's all there in Mark 16:17-18:

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

But that's the thing. She won't. Yet if she truly believed, she would do it.
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Ugh! People like that give us believers a bad name.
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We can't get any dumber? What's the high score? 'Cause I think we're going for it in the U.S. right now...

I have no problem with Darwin taking his toll on this people. Skip the flu vaccine. Trust in God to keep you safe (never mind that God MADE that flu in the first place, and inflicted it on YOU, holy and best beloved of the Lord!) Trust God to make your illness dissipate quickly. And trust God to  make your death painless.

No, what bothers me is that this dimwits enforce their will on others who can't make their own decision... or who are too simple to understand the basic illogic. I mean...
     God made the flu.
     God also made the flu vaccine.
     Why would he want one and not the other?

I don't object to what others believe, as long as the don't hurt others, and I'm neither smart enough nor experienced enough to say that they're wrong and I'm right - I only conclude from what I see and hear. But sometimes, it seems that beliefs are not being applied consistently, and maybe that's the issue at hand.
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Beliefs aren't consistent.

I mean, why do Jehovah's Witnesses focus on abstaining from blood by refusing blood transfusions? Blood transfusions weren't around then, anyway, so the passages could clearly not have been referring to non-existent blood transfusions.

Yet for some reason, JWs focus on that, which has led to some dying because of not wanting a blood transfusions; yet they do not seem to apply countless other OT/NT rules.

And I sure would like to get Pence's opinion on 45's outbursts. Does this 'Christian' approve?
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God didn't make the Flu. The Devil did. God just doesn't do anything about it.

(One of my best friends from high school believes this, along with Old Nick making all the dinosaur fossils. I am constantly amazed by how stupid smart people can be.)

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Oh my, the dinosaur fossil thing. I found that embarrassing.

I did work with an evangelical Christian once (and the office manager eventually told him to stop proselytising). He was forever bringing literature and other stuff in. He was a follower of Kenneth Cope and would mail stuff to him (imagine the airmail costs!).

He once mentioned how Satan had probably manipulated things so that trees and rocks (and other things) looked older than they were.

Unbelievable.
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When we get to the point where Satan maniplates reality for his nefarious needs, I wonder why does God or Satan even need us? Couldn't they just create loyal followers? Trying to control humans is like herding cats.
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 I am constantly amazed by how stupid smart people can be.

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So am I, JB. Boggles my mind almost on a weekly basis these days.

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I wonder why does God or Satan even need us? Couldn't they just create loyal followers?

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Well, isn't that organized religion?? Cults??

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I have a story in the works that posits God is the equals sign of a vast equation that must balance in multiple dimensions. Lots of power but very few ways to exert it... and the story even suggests that God may not be sentient in the way we understand sentience.
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That 'southern evangelical' crap needs to go.
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