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Re: Bibles in Afghanistan: A Tribute to the Power of Belief - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Fubtag — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:13:32 -0000

Re: Thou shalt not copy: Playmobil is not playing around - ExChristian.Net - News and Opinion

Fubtag — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:37:24 -0000

I suppose that even, if he had the IP permission, he could not create figures to depict certain aspects of the church, because that would violate European prohibitions on child pornography.

Does he have anything planned for the older kids? Maybe a first person shooter game in which kids could take up God's sword and kill all the Arabs?

Religions are sick.

Re: What do you do with the pain? - Letters to the Webmaster

Fubtag — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:05:44 -0000

Having someone to hug is hugely important. I am sorry for your loss and pain. Clearly one of the things keeping Christianity alive is that it is comforting, even if utterly false to have a future reunion or kind eternal father fantasy. What is real is time and the capacity of a healthy mind to absorb and overcome loss through our evolved grief cycle. There's no rushing that process sometimes. I wish you strength.

Re: A Doe in the High Beams - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Fubtag — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:07:19 -0000

The religious overtones in the current political environment remind me of a poem by well-known Soviet dissident Alexander Galich. He writes that we ought not fear anything in the world, but

You ought fear only he
Who says, 'I know how it's got to be.
Let's go, people, follow me.
I'm going to teach you how it's got to be.'

The hubris and ignorance of the Republican campaign, like the current administration's track record is something to fear indeed. They've nothing to teach a free person.

Re: Sins of the Savior - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Fubtag — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:13:03 -0000

I'll concede that it takes multiple lines of reasoning to disuade people from a mistaken notion, and that the arguments that resonate will vary with the individual. So I'll ammend that comment. It is pointless on its own to debate the actions of a non-person, except perhaps as literary analysis. If this is further used in that series of arguments that proves that apart from being fiction, the Bible is bad fiction, I can see your point. I personally stay away from those lines of reasoning with people. I'm not an evangelist for atheism, but a defender of my own psychological well being after a lot of abuse. The powelessness of the church stems from the non-existance of its principals.

Re: Sins of the Savior - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Fubtag — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:25:21 -0000

Silly question on one level. There was no such person in history. So any debate about what he did or did not do is pointless.

But I guess that if we're looking at the merits of the authors and editors who compiled the tripe in the Jesus fables, you could say they were inconsistent in their portrayal.

Still pointless as a video, though. Does more harm than good to even pretend for the sake of argument that their man-god even existed.

Re: Any Baha'i adherents here? - Letters to the Webmaster

Fubtag — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:08:21 -0000

Leaving one religion to join another suggests a lesson half learned. They're all wrong in their own ways.

Re: What is the euphoria that often comes from initial conversion? - Letters to the Webmaster

Fubtag — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:03:33 -0000

My view: Dogs, cats, flies, horses and humans all fear things. It's an evolved response that supports survival. Misdirected, we can fear abstractions that do not exist. Many religions operate by doing just that. Heighten fear, misdirect reason, and then offer safety. The relief, which I felt myself at one point, is nothing more than the release of psychological tension that was manufactured with that intent.

Re: Fundamentalist Christianity is a CULT!

Fubtag — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:00:33 -0000

You write: "“isolation from outside”

This can be an issue in some churches, but I don’t believe it to be common except in the sense that Christians are often denied the knowledge of the existence of materials critical of their faith."

I think you understate the case here. This IS an issue in MANY fundamentalist churches, particularly in the case of children.

Homeschooling is one of the forms this isolation takes. There are also the many extracurricular activities in which children are made to participate. Much of this activity may have little or no religious content (open gym time, teen nights, etc.). However, it does effectively keep them out of other activities in which they may be exposed to secular views.