Cap, I'm not any flavor of rainbow, and I agree with you that transwomen are men. I'm your friend.
Not too close of a 'friend', I hope.
Oh no. I see the gays, bis, trans, bitrans, transbis, pedoerotics, zoo enjoyers, necro fans and any kind of other sexual degeneracy as very real. I also admit that schizophrenia and insanity are real. Heck, it very much might be genetically predisposed. It ain't normal though. It is literally a sickness, which can be and should be labeled as such and treated as well. The real dangerous part is that it should not be something done by force, lest the state would gain too much power over the very concept of normalcy. But these days, thanks to atheism, insanity is rampant and any wacko can label his illnesses as both a mark of diversity and victim hood. Bar that this gives free reign for loonie people to act loonie out in the open, it also builds up resentment and anger from normal people, who still are and always will be a majority, and eventually that will lead to really bad shit for everyone.
There are assholes in every community. To even call it a community is cringe, just like that early movement in new Atheism to call themselves 'Brights'. It's not a special club, you just don't believe in God(s). It doesn't bar you from being a retard in other matters.
It's a stepping stone to a better society, but post Enlightenment it's got very little moral value to add. This is the same argument Muslims make about the 'Golden Age' of Islam, whilst discounting the centuries of suppression, subjugation, and conquest that led to a cultural regression which that part of the world has never properly recovered from.
I'm saying its a product of its time morally speaking. The bad side is just conveniently absent from sermons and general practice because it can't be defended.
Conveniently skipping over several secular countries here, all of which are religiously pluralistic. Pakistan operates under the Sharia. They have no separation of religion from the state. Their societal morals are religiously prescribed. North Korea is a despotic state with mandated worship of a political head of state. It's a dictatorship. China is running on a socialist mandate and has a huge number of problems that go far beyond anything that Christian morality and the golden rule could address.
Again, I'm not saying this is the best method but every single one of those examples are covered by the "optimize for the well-being of conscious creatures" approach, and some examples you gave are Biblically endorsed at times. God made us not be savages, but quite enjoys the occasional human/animal sacrifice, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Christianity is not the worst in this area, sure. But this is what I mean by picking and choosing.
Agreed on the first part. All I'm saying is you don't need to believe in God, or the Bible, to live in a moral way. This is evidenced by a rise in irreligion not corresponding to a rise in violence, rape, or other morally questionable acts.
Receipts please. Not heard about any of this but even if it were true, it doesn't disprove any of his positions.
Not sure what you mean here. There is space, but it's a task for philosophers who want to get into the weeds of ontological arguments and specific methods of argumentation that most people don't consider important in their day-to-day. People discount bad ideas with poor evidence. We do it all the time. You do it for every other religion. Post Enlightenment societies have driven society forward and religion has been playing catch up ever since. If you want to argue that they got the ball rolling, then fine. But you also have to acknowledge that they have consistently tried to slow or prevent its progress too.
No worries man, this is a chill, off-topic thread, no tax, no jannies, barely any rules, we just smoke weed n' shiet wooo
Track record of what? Building western civilization, establishing human rights, running countless charity networks and being the last bastions of reason?
Which is unnatural.
I can grant you this. Christians are told not to judge, as in, not to ever judge anything at all, but to not be judgemental and feed ones own pride that way. If certain individuals feel so strong about living a depraved life, within the confines of each others' consent, the very least practical thing to do is leave them be and spend precious time on something productive than hating the gays most of the day and achieving nothing by it.
Key word being suppressed. If you ignore those urges instead of facing them and putting in effort to "beat" them, you're doing yourself wrong, because these urges will not stop and the deeper you indulge, the worse it is going to be. It's a massive human problem and in today's porn world it has become a really messed up issue, because now it has begun to involve kids. That shit is unacceptable.
As a Christian myself, I disagree. The depth of the Bible's wisdom can help, because it's whole deal is explaining the nature of sin and dealing with it, accepting it in repentance, fighting it and defeating it through Christ. You are absolutely right that it is a very complex problem, but that is why we need unity and wisdom to deal with it.
Yes it does and the countless examples of the worst kind of people from criminals, psychos, depressed and suicidal people who came to Christ often time through radical means with radical changes show that Christianity specifically is a massive boost to people in need for purpose and relationship.
I seem to remember an ex-Muslim chick with a really nice voice with the pseudonym Nice Mangos or something similar being quite good, then she got weirdly pro-people who wanted to kill her and anti-white people who didn’t want to kill her around Trump time. I’ll have a look though as ex-Muslims tend to be pretty based.
I don't need a lesbian tradwife nor does a lesbian need to become one. Maybe she'll never get rid of her inclinations, but at least she can put up a fight. She can at least not indulge in it. And let me tell you what, the less you indulge on your urges, the easier it becomes and that garbage does not control you. If you can't fight them early one, with age it becomes much easier regardless.
As is every single moral system. If human nature was in tune to order and rationality, the very concept of morals would not exist. We'd be like cats. We'd just do thinks and our conscience would be clear, but it doesn't work that way.
Excuse me. Christians have been mauled by lions, burned, crucified, slaughtered like cattle from day 1 and still Christianity has managed to survive, thrive, build world conquering Empires and form a culture unmatched by anything in human history.
It's unethical to accept any indulgence of human carnal nature as equal to basic rights of human equality. It's the secular who want to boil everyone down into some dumb mass of unrecognizable, gray people like in some commie fever dream. Christianity defies cultural differences. Every continent has their own diverse groups of Christians with very rich histories and cultural differences, but they still all follow the same Biblical basis.
My slow minded friend. Let me reiterate myself.
I'll grab the beer. But I am not calming down. Ever.
Yes. That's because it's their fault.
Yes. because it worked in the past and it will work in the future.
Life was hard. It wasn't bleak. My parents and grandparents grew up in absolute shit tier rural poverty because the Russians robbed everyone blind. And yet still they were the toughest, smartest, in many ways kindest and honest people I have ever known with very many friends and family around them, with experiences though hardship and all kinds of stuff that today's pussy youth lack, both in real life experience and human relationships. Many of the old folks were also devout Christians, even under the Soviets who casually brutalized believers, because muh sky daddy lool yolo
There aren't really any regular decent ones. It depends on what you're interested in.
Respect. Living up to your username is commendable.
Agreed. Some of the most headstrong, dependable people I know/knew grew up in Soviet Russia/USSR. They just get on with it, and if you say something they think is dumb they will straight up tell you as much. It seems like many young people in the West take its freedoms for granted. It probably doesn't help that they were all taught asymmetrically about the worst moments in their countries history. And very little of the achievements that made it great.
I've never seen somebody undermine their own argument as thoroughly as you have.
That is very spot on.
Atheists are as much people as any of us. It's the atheist ideology that I truly hate, not the people.
Only atheists would think they're cool like that. Most of them are just dorks
I know. One of my oldest friends is a militant atheist and trust me, I know how they think, bar from many other examples not locked down to youtube. You can say the reverse, but about Christians too. Some fake Christians, say like Nick Fuentes, are some of the most despicable retards imaginable. But yet again, it's the ideology to be judged on its own, not by any random fool saying that he follows this or that doctrine, even when if he's clearly going against the teachings he claims to profess.