They even say that the girl had to die for the sins of the group. Throughout the episode whenever they were accussing one of the group they were sure to show them wearing their crosses.
Sorry for the rant but it's just so noticeable I can't believe I never registered it before
The first breach in my Atheism was fully realizing how much they hate Christians, Christianity, and Jesus. If you think something is dumb and illogical, why spend every single second exclusively talking about it? Because "it's the dominant culture?" Yeah, maybe 70 years ago before every institution became converged.
My story is similar to yours.
I noticed that they hated Christianity, but Judaism and Muslim could do no wrong. "Magic sky daddy" being illogical only applies to Jesus.
A fun way to make them jump through hoop is whenever anyone complains about religion you repeat it back them and replace "religion" and "religious people" with judaism and jews.
Then comes the backpedaling.
Its really fun to get them mocking the Old Testament and its fantastical elements, then once they are going on it hard just throw in "those Jews are so wild believing that shit."
Because 99% of them forget that the Jews believe in that too.
Continual, extended conquest since its inception 1300 years ago? Gulags, struggle sessions, and secret police? Bombing embassies, gunning down allied ships, and enforcing an open-air prison on an entire population? Spanish Christians killed 3000 people over a period of 400 years centuries ago and modern Christians are sometimes slightly mean to gays!!!!!!!
The Spanish Christian's midtake was stopping
Yeah, but the 3000 people they killed were 'conversos', meaning 'jews'. Otherwise no one would care.
Plenty of the New Atheists like Dawkins and Sam Harris went after Islam just as hard as they went after Christianity, which is the main reason why New Atheism was kicked out of the broader left-wing coalition to begin with.
There are plenty of great releases that show Muslims as evil. Land of Bad being a recent one. Rendition being another, Twin Towers. All of it based on real life of course. There is even one that shows the fleeing Nazis converting to Islam.
I'm still an Anti-Theist, but the fetishization of Islam is suicidal.
Literally.
Catholics, Mormans, even the authoritarian Protestant theocracies are better than "moderate" Islam.
Unless I'm black and living under an early Morman theocracy. Then I'm running for the fucking hills.
My view is I still view it is illogical, my enemies hate plenty of things, doesn’t make them true.
Of course. It's smoke is all. Not all smoke means a fire, but smoke appearing should also be investigated. I investigated.
The 2010 surge in atheism was in response to an attempt by evangelicals to take over the education system and make factually untrue claims - namely young earth creationism. This pushback was necessary and largely successful, most of the prominent evangelical wackos became laughing stocks or were exposed as hypocrites or even criminals.
However, they couldn't leave good well enough alone and Dawkins et al set about dismantling and dismissing all community and spiritual benefits of religion. It quickly became apparent that this left them vulnerable to infection - Atheism+ infiltrated and destroyed the entire community because they had no strong beliefs or unified principles that could be used to expel them.
As they say, tradition is the solution to a problem we have forgotten.
You're on a forum dedicated to rooting out propaganda in media yet believe 2000s era anti-Christian scaremongering, curious.
The Evangelical movement of that decade has been spurned even by a lot of Evangelicals of today. Most of the leaders of that movement were faggots, frauds, and fuckwits who were commercializing faith and pushing total garbage.
They destroyed themselves more than anything, and they earned it.
It's one of the reasons a lot of the political leaders either opposed Trump, or were very hesitant to support him.
I have absolutely zero love for Evangelicals but let's not also claim that the Jon Stewart era 2000s was at all neutral towards Christian Conservatives of any stripe.
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While there were and are retarded Evangelicals, the idea that the hallowed halls of the public school system were under critical threat by 60 IQ, sisterfucking, Jesus-dinosaur-riding-endorsing, toothless biblethumpers is so out of pocket it's embarassing considering the site we're on. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Christian Conservatism that voiced opposition to things like gay marriage, and were told about slippery slopes, now find themselves in a position where they're actively persecuted while being completely vindicated.
I'll bet you think it was right wingers going after games in the early 90s too. Get out of here with that shit.
It was both sides. Everyone is aware of Hillary & Tipper Gore's moves on the Left, and that was predominantly because they wanted to play "family values" nonsense from the Left, while most of that was right-wing moralizing from the televangelist evangelicals.
Those guys didn't just attack video games, they attacked cartoons, they attacked rock music, they attacked metal, they attacked cursing, they attacked shock-jock radio; etc.
This was an evolution from back in the day when they were attacking rock and roll music at it's outset. They attacked betting, drinking, dancing, all sorts of silly shit.
Phil Arms lecturing about Pokemon is basically fucking legendary.
Hell I personally fucking posted HERE about how Six Days In Fallujah was originally killed by Fox News before it re-built itself, and was immediately attack by Leftists, showing just how full circle everything had come.
You ever think that perhaps those wildly Extreme Evangelicals were a fringe bunch of wackos that were getting undue attention and power because the Left wanted them front and center to make Christians/Rightwingers/White people look retarded and their "institutions" need to be torn down?
Because the fact that we spent years hearing about the Westboro Baptist Church, despite it barely reaching 3 digit membership at the time and basically consisting of one big extended family total, makes it pretty clear that was the case.
No, you see, when the media creates propaganda demonizing Gamers randomly because some Counterstrike playing autist called one of them a fag once, that's when we notice and care. When it's Christians? Well they deserve it because 20 years ago three of them pushed back publicly against the idea that putting a bunch of monkey skulls in a row immediately proves we spontaneously burst into life from inanimate matter and then graduated from being fish.
Most of these guys are just still mad their grandma or schoolteacher took away their gameboy or Pokemon cards and are still seething from it.
I lost mine too, but because we were gambling with it and I see as an adult why they did that.
Why are you presenting their position like you agree with it? I thought they were "60 IQ, sisterfucking, Jesus-dinosaur-riding-endorsing, toothless biblethumpers" propped up by the media as controlled opposition. Do you agree with the young earth creationists or are they a media invention? Or are you just shapeshifting slime?
Now that you've established a criteria for being a wacko retard (young earth creationism), do a little informal poll of churches in your area to find out how many people are retarded wackos (according to you).
You can use the gallup poll format for consistency:
I didn't that was you.
I went to both Catholic and Baptist churches in the 90s/00s (long story) and was well acquainted with most people during the time such was a peak discussion. Minimal wacko was openly discussed, and the handful of times it was was struck down by the Pastor or another man in charge (because it always came from panicky women). And this was the deep dirty Swamp South, the place literally used as the stereotype of where such madness happens.
I didn't even need them to tell me to hate gays. I just saw pro-gay fluff pieces on the news about Pride Parades and learned to do it on my own.
So I've got most of a large Parish worth of anecdotal data across two denominations pointing to the opposite of what the media told me it should be, and in 2024 we've got strong evidence how often said media will lie wholecloth.
Yeah, I remember back when the church and evangelicals were in control of the education system and it wasn't 100% run by democrats nationwide.
Oh wait, no I don't, because that never happened in my lifetime.
Also, for how "evolution" is presented in most modern media, it might as well be creationism. Things like X-Men are fun but if they actually existed, it would be a disproof of evolution. And the common understanding of evolution is so bad that most people think X-Men scenarios are actually how it works.
I actually can't think of a single movie/show/story that uses evolution as a hook that is even close to accurate.
I literally pulled my kid out of public school.
Yeah, what a bang up job those Christians did!