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Farmer-Rick

(11,875 posts)
25. I disagree
Mon Nov 28, 2022, 09:53 AM
Nov 2022

First I gave evidence. It may not be evidence enough for you, but you can not dismiss it as an opinion. Videos of dead religious people who failed to take minor precautions. That is evidence.

On the other hand, you gave opinions on what these dead religious people were thinking. You didn't even give evidence of their state of mind. You opined with no evidence on what they thought. You think you know their thoughts but the video evidence did not support your opinions.

I gave the recorded interviews of those who were about to die due to their inability to take minor precautions as evidence. You gave your opinion of what you thought they were thinking.

This fear of death and supposed life after death is what makes people imagine gods according to you. Is that what you think? I don't want to put words in your mouth. But you contradict yourself saying this imaginary life after death actually makes people chase death and causes more deaths than what Nature already provides for.

Through out the ages the religious have chased death. They commit suicide in mass like the Jim Jones and Heaven's Gates suicides. Then there are the atrocities of mass murder like the Christian Witch burnings, by different religious groups. If religion is caused by the fear of death, it seems to have backfired even according to you, because it seems to promote much more death.

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This message was self-deleted by its author jimfields33 Nov 2022 #1
Far longer than we will be alive. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2022 #2
not til after the rapture unfortunately msongs Nov 2022 #3
It never will. It comes with being human. PSPS Nov 2022 #4
nope Skittles Nov 2022 #9
My existence stops at the end of my fingers Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #18
When we find a way to become immortal? qazplm135 Nov 2022 #5
I don't see that Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #19
Pretty narrow frame qazplm135 Nov 2022 #21
You framed it I did not Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #22
You didn't give evidence you gave qazplm135 Nov 2022 #24
I disagree Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #25
Lol qazplm135 Nov 2022 #26
Religions have a million and one ways of conning people Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #28
I'm agnostic lol qazplm135 Nov 2022 #29
Agnostic isn't a belief position Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #32
In spite of your qazplm135 Dec 2022 #34
We are NOT born with an idea of an afterlife Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #33
So when you think about qazplm135 Dec 2022 #36
Seriously? Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #31
Lol qazplm135 Dec 2022 #35
It's not going away. RockRaven Nov 2022 #6
+1 Auggie Nov 2022 #12
I don't see it coming back if we could stamp it all out Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #23
Not soon enough! PortTack Nov 2022 #7
not soon enough Skittles Nov 2022 #8
Like a bad penny, it always seems to come back Warpy Nov 2022 #10
One can only hope, SOON! joshdawg Nov 2022 #11
Christmas has become a secular holiday Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #20
The twelfth of never Walleye Nov 2022 #13
I don't know, but we need to TAX churches NOW. vanlassie Nov 2022 #14
9 grandkids.... 3 are adults. None of them go to church or even talk about religion. 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 #15
Since Trump is considered a god by some Cartoonist Nov 2022 #16
there always seems to be a 35% that hang on to the old ways. rurallib Nov 2022 #17
When the religious nuts finally blow everything up and no one is left. BluesRunTheGame Nov 2022 #27
Too long Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #30
within 10-20 years RussBLib Jan 2023 #37
Stop sending money to televangelists and mega church "Pastors" Sessuch Feb 2023 #38
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