The universe doesn’t hate us.
Satanism condones any type of sexual activity which properly satisfies your individual desires - be it heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or even asexual, if you choose. Satanism also sanctions any fetish or deviation which will enhance your sex-life, so long as it involves no one who does not wish to be involved.
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Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible. 1969. YOU NEED MORE SATAN, PEOPLE. (via sine-cosine) |
Blasphemy Law
For exposing a miracle, a man will be thrown in jail.
This is Sanal Edamaruku, President of the Rationalist International - a group that seeks to end superstition, promote an open society and endorse scientific method amongst others.
On 10th March, Sanal was invited by a TV channel to investigate a “miraculous crucifix” in front of the Church of Our Lady of Velankanni, India. This crucifix had become the center of attraction drawing believers from far and wide. For some days, there were little droplets of water trickling from Jesus’ feet. Hundreds of people came daily to pray and collect the “holy water” in bottles.
The dripping crucifix.
After careful investigation, Sanal identified the drainage near a washing room as the source of the water, it reached Jesus feet through capillary action. (And I won’t even comment on implications. Drainage, really now?)
In a live program, Sanal explained his findings and accused the Catholic Church officials of miracle mongering, as they were very aggressive in PR measures, even distributing photographs certifying the “miracle”.
The Church, obviously, got pissed.
Fr. Augustine Palett, the priest of Our Lady of Velankanni, and representatives of the Association of Concerned Catholics (AOCC) demanded that Sanal apologize. Sanal refused and engaged them in a debate in live TV instead. Most of which was spent by Church leaders berating Sanal. As if volume was directly proportional to sense.
For not bowing down to their demands, they filed a blasphemy case against him. On the 10th April, Sanal received a phone call from a police official directing him to come to the police station to face the charges. He will be arrested for “hurting the religious sentiments of a particular community”.
Sanal Edamaruku is now under threat of arrest for exposing the “miracle” of dripping crucifix.
This is why blasphemy laws are ridiculous. So it’s o-kay to delude people with a “miracle” because exposing them is “hurtful to religious sentiments”? Blasphemy laws are a serious affront to the freedom of expression!
For challenging the Church, Sanal faces prosecution. How - what’s the word - medieval.
Complete story here: Rationalist International and here too: kractivist.
JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN’T PROVE MY FARTS ARE MAGICAL AND MAKE WISHES COME TRUE DOESN’T MEAN IT’S NOT REAL
JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN’T PROVE THE LITTLE TINY UNICORN THAT SPEAKS WISDOM TO ME IN MY DREAMS DOESN’T EXISTS DOESN’T MEAN THAT SHE ISN’T REAL AND MORE POWERFUL AND WISE THAN YOU
JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE CARS ON THE HIGHWAY DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE REALLY THERE THEY ARE INVISIBLE GHOST CARS AND YOU CAN WALK THROUGH THEM
I could do this allll day. <3
Two Reasons Why Atheists “Just Don’t Get It” (Romans 1)
oh boy
HELLO HELLO HELLO AGAIN! Servant Jo Lo here with some insight on things, more specifically UNBELIEF!
“Unbelief.” I’m fairly sure that belief isn’t something you can “un-“.
I was in QT (Quiet Time) with Daddy and honestly this whole discussion came out of nowhere.
There are two reasons why an atheist CANNOT really grasp the concept of there being a God.
God is such an infinite being, and the magnitude of His identity is so great, that the only person who can understand God is God Himself. This is the reason why we need the Holy Spirit to establish a relationship with the Father at all. His Spirit is in us, and therefore, He decodes the vast mysteries of God so that we can understand beyond our massively finite minds. (Paul breaks that down more in 1 Corinthians 2)
That’s a very disingenuous way to describe belief… and rather circular.
You can’t believe unless you understand- you can’t understand unless you believe.
Circular logic is not valid.
Furthermore, by your logic, it is impossible for non-Christians to convert- something which I doubt very much you believe in.
A comparison for your argument would be someone saying that only people who believe in fairies can see fairies, or that only people who have migraines can know they exist.
Requiring a belief in something in order to understand it is illogical and quite suspicious.
Other ways of saying it:
- You need to have a bias for believing in something in order to believe in it.
- You need to have a pre-existing condition that will make you accept something as true in order to accept it as true.
See?
The other reason can best be described by looking at the nature of natural relationships. If a man sees a beautiful woman, everything that he understands about that woman is coming from an outside perspective at first. If that man never goes forth out of faith to talk to that woman, he will never truly know her, or have an opportunity to establish a relationship with her. But when he goes to speak to her, he’s moving out of faith that the two may have things in common, and that she will accept him for who he really is.
This is not a correct comparison.
Atheists aren’t people who believe in god and just don’t have a relationship with god, they’re folks who don’t believe in god.
In your story, you’d have to first make the person not believe the woman exists. It’s not an issue of atheists just not having a relationship with god, because it’s logically and physically impossible to have a relationship with someone you don’t believe in.
The same is between man and the Trinity. Without moving forward out of faith to get to know the Son personally, (instead of concluding from other outside perspectives) man cannot receive the gifts and benefits that come from that relationship. Specifically, man cannot be introduced to the Holy Spirit through Jesus, and to come to know that relationship either. Without the relationship between man and the Holy Spirit (Spirit of Truth, Spirit of Christ), man will never be introduced to God the Father.
From the absence of a small step of faith, man will forever be looking through a window fogged by logic at the Triune God of the Universe, when in reality, He has already extended an invitation to us all. The only ones who are truly excluded from God’s presence and Love are all who are under the rule of the rebellious one, Lucifer. We are all born captive under his rule through sin but Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection changed all of that. Today we stand in peace and joy knowing that the ransom has been payed for, and that we can now experience the amazing relationship with God we were supposed to have, now and forevermore.
Salvation has so much simplicity, that it’s foolishness in the minds of men. Why? God is SPIRIT and where the SPIRIT of the Lord is, there is liberty. No matter what people say, you are a spirit being. The body is a vessel, and your mind is a part of that vessel. The vessel is perishing, but the spirit moves on into either eternal love connection, or eternal separation condemnation. Don’t let your brain (which will perish) tell your spirit about your Heavenly Father. Take that small step to repent and invite Jesus in. I promise you, it is the longest lasting good decision you will never THINK to make. MUCH LOVE!!!
http://www.bigthink.com/think-tank/neil-degrasse-tyson-atheist-or-agnostic
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?
What’s the Big Idea?
Richard Dawkins, the most famous atheist in the world, created a stir when he recently declared that he was not an atheist after all, but an agnostic. The news, which came during a debate with the Archbishop of Canterbury last month, seemed at first to be a big get for God. However, in The God Delusion Dawkins was frank about his agnosticism.
So, how does Dawkins square his public persona with his lack of certitude? Easily. No matter how strongly Dawkins is associated with atheism, he is first and foremost a scientist. Therefore, ”the existence of God is a scientific hypothesis like any other,” he claims.
Similarly, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims the title “scientist” above all other “ists.” And yet, Tyson says he is “constantly claimed by atheists.” So where does Tyson stand? He tells Big Think: “Neil deGrasse, widely claimed by atheists, is actually an agnostic.”
I’d still hit that.
