dannno
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This is about 80% accurate.. maybe less.. the rest is total crap. I'm pretty sure it was made by born-again Christians.
That reminds me of the time when I was a teenager and my parents found out I smoked pot occasionally. They sent me to this place that was Christian based but was in a hospital. I had no idea where they were sending me. I was in there with crackheads and heroin addicts (and alcoholics) and they would ask me why I was there. I told them "cuz I smoked pot" and it was like that scene in Half Baked with Bob Sagett.From what he described, it sounded like a criminal rehab facility, forbidden to leave, calls at certain times, from certain people.
Given a mandate job, which probably pays for the prison...
They had counseling sessions, but my friend quickly found out that it wasn't really counseling... it was monitoring...
as in, he was honest to his counselor about his feelings of homosexuality, he was then put on tighter restrictions.
So no therapy was really being given, just being worn down mentally until you submit to their will.
You know... the usual chrisitan love thing.
If that is the theory, then we are all born bi-sexual, and we choose to be hetero... hmmmmm, maybe....
After all, kids have rights, and they are not the inert property of parents. The very idea that parents can hold their teenagers captive
You believe the lies of Joseph Smith's enemies.
It amazes me that people like Mitt Romney's sideburns are so concerned about what people want to do with their own life.
Bill Maher is an asshat. He is no friend to critical thinking and skepticism. He admits he believes in God, its just religion he has a problem with. Hes another one of those douchebags too afraid to accept what they believe and dont believe, so he goes looking for a happy intelectual middle ground where he doesnt have to get caught up on taking sides. Much like fake libertarians like Neal Bortz
He reminds me a lot of our very own Truth Warrior. He wont commit himself to a position, he just makes fun of everyone else.
Bill Maher is an asshat. He is no friend to critical thinking and skepticism. He admits he believes in God, its just religion he has a problem with. Hes another one of those douchebags too afraid to accept what they believe and dont believe, so he goes looking for a happy intelectual middle ground where he doesnt have to get caught up on taking sides. Much like fake libertarians like Neal Bortz
He reminds me a lot of our very own Truth Warrior. He wont commit himself to a position, he just makes fun of everyone else.
I disagree. Bill Maher takes the only logically defensible position. He's an agnostic just like every single human being on the planet. He's an atheist agnostic, just like the Pope is a Catholic agnostic, Rick Warren is a Christian agnostic. Fundamentalists like Pat Robertson, Richard Dawkins, Fred Phelphs, Osama Bin Laden and company are all equally kidding themselves if they think they know for sure.
You make the false assumption that because you don't know, no one can.
Of course, that makes sense from an atheist agnostic PoV.![]()
No he doesnt believe. He just doesn't know for sure.
I disagree. Bill Maher takes the only logically defensible position. He's an agnostic just like every single human being on the planet. He's an atheist agnostic, just like the Pope is a Catholic agnostic, Rick Warren is a Christian agnostic. Fundamentalists like Pat Robertson, Richard Dawkins, Fred Phelphs, Osama Bin Laden and company are all equally kidding themselves if they think they know for sure.
unicorns, fairies
"I can't answer with a simple yes or no. I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."
--Albert Einstein
Saturday Evening Post (Oct. 26, 1929, p.17)