Comments by "John Goldsworthy" (@johngoldsworthy7635) on "What we know about Boulder shooting suspect" video.

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"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."
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@James-me6dw “Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
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@James-me6dw “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16” “Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing”
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@James-me6dw The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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@James-me6dw God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
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@James-me6dw Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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@James-me6dw One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
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@James-me6dw That's not the point ye of little education. I'm just forcing my beliefs down your throat much like you're doing to me. I don't give an airborne capercaillie if you're religious or not, it is important that you believe what I believe if you want to be saved.
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@James-me6dw “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
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@James-me6dw I just noticed how full of hate you are. It's people like you that make me think thank god I'm not a Christian.
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@James-me6dw Beware of those who profess devotion to God. Their feigned piety is often the camouflage for their vileness and evil.
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@James-me6dw If you do not embrace my belief system then you are a walking abomination!!!!
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@James-me6dw “Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.”
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@James-me6dw “To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”
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@James-me6dw Does nurse Ratchet know you're out of the ward?
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@James-me6dw “Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
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@James-me6dw “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
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@James-me6dw “The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”
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@James-me6dw I just Googled my name and apparently, I am a god. I, therefore, curse you to an eternity of not very nice things.
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@James-me6dw I don't care if you're religious. The point is YOU MUST EMBRACE MY BELIEFS OR BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU!!!!!!!
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@James-me6dw You are a fraud!!!!!
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@James-me6dw It is you that is evil and you hide your vileness behind your fraudulent 'love' of a non-existent entity. You are a fraud and a hypocrite.
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@James-me6dw I also strongly suspect that you're on the spectrum.
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@James-me6dw “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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@James-me6dw “We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
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@James-me6dw “Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
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@James-me6dw “I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
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@James-me6dw “The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”
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@James-me6dw “How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16” “Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing”
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@James-me6dw “One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think—though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one—that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”
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@James-me6dw “To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”
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@James-me6dw Ye are batshit crazy!!!
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And the real news in Australia says Biden was elected.
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Beware of those who profess devotion to God. Their feigned piety is often the camouflage for their vileness and evil.
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@squarebiz71 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16” “Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing”
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@squarebiz71 That's all bullshit, bud!!
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@James-me6dw “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
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