Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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Thanks to all your horse stories, I now recall my youth and mostly uneventful rides just outside of town and those horses always wanted back in the barn. Then many years later, took up riding again and had the great pleasure of riding a Tennessee Walker. A one time experience I loved and an easy comfortable ride after my misadventure with being thrown. [Fortunately this was a horse that was not trained in cruel competition methods]
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Not at all, ananda - I thought it was funny. And since I wasn’t seriously hurt, my ow story seems comical from the distance of so many years. You also reminded me of the horse on our farm as a kid. Casper would tolerate us riding him, but only for so long. We rode bareback and when she was fed up, she’d just scrape us off under a tree branch.
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Okay, sometimes a religious group gets it right. But UCC is usually one of the decent denominations.
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Clearing out some notes on my phone, I came across one that I jotted down while watching a local New Year's Eve special. The reporters were downtown interviewing revelers about their New Year's resolutions. One young boy said, "Ah do wanna be a praycher." He said it in such an East Tennessee drawl that they actually had to use subtitles to tell you he was saying, "I do want to be a preacher." I truly didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
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John Oliver did a fantastic “Last Week Tonight” episode on medical debt collection. They also bought a block of debt for pennies on the dollar and sent blanket debt forgiveness letters. https://youtu.be/hxUAntt1z2c
If hospitals (often church-affiliated) can accept pennies on the dollar from debt sharks, why can’t they offer those rates to their debtors in the first place?
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I don't know if I came up with this or vaguely remember hearing it elsewhere, but I think there's a phrase to describe the actions of aggressively prayerful types: Assault with a godly weapon.
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And that weaponized religion is currently being considered by our government to insure that religions have the right to discriminate against American citizens they believe their god does not approve.
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It's going to take a LONG time for this country to heal.
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It started out divided. Our very Constitution was a compromise between people who thought in terms of equality and those who thought in terms of property. Read Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville written in 1835. We have been in a cold war since the Civil War was ended. We have been and always will be divided. We must take to the polls and win not only the Presidency and the Senate and the House but also to win State and local elections. Democrats not voting in 2012 gave us a Republican Senate and Republican control of our States. Democrats sitting home in 2016 gave us Trump. When we don't sit home, we win just like we won the House in 2018.
Check your registration. Voter suppression is real and happening in every red and purple State. Make certain your friends are registered. The deadline for registration for the primaries are is just 30 days away in most states. Every primary election ballot also includes other offices and ballot initiatives. Every vote from here on out is critical for our Democracy.
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Part 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.ht...
Part 2: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/816/816-h/816-h.ht...
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Time to call your Senator and tell them Americans want to hear witnesses and have documents produced.
Call 202-224-3121.
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Ananda - I distinctly remember learning in kindergarten that the universe was infinite. I tried as hard as I could to imagine that - but couldn't wrap my mind around how something could go on forever without stopping, but also if it did stop - what would be beyond that? The concept of that kind of vastness brought me to tears.
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Carl Sagan once described us "We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Ever since I heard that I have considered myself as of the Universe rather than in the Universe. The vastness makes me feel calm.
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You know that expression about feeling small when you stand beside the ocean? All my life I have felt vast when I stood by the ocean. Like I was part of it and I WAS it.
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On days when the pain and painful reality of living with the consequences of cancer treatment feel overwhelming, I stand outside at night and feel myself an integral part of an infinitesimal dot on what Carl Segan referred to at the Pale Blue Dot (earth). That profound sense of awareness of my place in this multiuniverse calms me tremendously. Fortunately, I live in a dark skies area where it is rare that the night sky is not bejeweled with stars.
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It is difficult to understand the distances between stars. Here is a video that tries to explain the distances between the planets of our solar system.
" Space is really, really big, and there's been a couple of great videos out there that show off the relative size of objects. This video puts the scale of the solar system into real perspective by showing how it takes you pass through the solar system at the speed of light. Light travels 299,792,458 m/s, and it takes just over 45 minutes from the surface of the sun to reach Jupiter. This video takes you past the planets at lightspeed, and it shows off just how long it takes to get around the solar system. "
https://io9.gizmodo.com/fly-through-the-solar-syst...
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When I tap into the awareness of the universe, I feel so flipping lucky.
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Excuse me !! This is not how a president speaks. Wake-up call. Time to Dump Trump in the party of history where he belongs. The Federal Hoosegow.
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Apologies for the post I removed. I lurk here because my son is an atheist and I have respect for his choice and that of anyone who lives the truth that is right for them. It was a political post for those who may not have seen it before I deleted it. I am sorry and will try my utmost to be careful in future.
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Such an interesting book. I had forgotten the part about striped sticks.
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Ananda8
That post made my day! Thanks!
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Oh yes... particularly the 'women should keep quiet' line !!!
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ananda, what a great thing to read first thing in the morning! The really crazy part is that there are still a lot of Bible literalists out there.
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wanderweg, Bible literalists are an odd group. It makes one wonder if they have ever read the Bible. Reading the Bible cover to cover is the most common reason that people become atheists. The craziness and cruelty starts people asking questions.
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😁😁😁😁😁
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So true, Alice. I read the Bible cover to cover and it started me on the path to atheism. I tried hard to find work arounds to the craziness, but ultimately had to walk away.
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Saw this quote on a relative's FB page. Even though we've never met, I swear she's my sister from another Mister. I hit "love" on everything she posts.
"America will never be a Christian nation because the moment it becomes a Christian nation it will cease to be America'
It was originally posted by Andrew Seidel.
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Just watched part of the PBS show on the Ark. Doubt that PT Barnum said that, but the sentiments is right ---there is a sucker born every minute and they are lining up to see a story about the 6000 year old universe.
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It’s been four or five years since I stepped beyond my Christian faith into the great unknown. It was so scary at first because like many, I’d been conditioned with religious beliefs my whole life. It’s not that I intensely seek answers on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. I meander. I’m an avid reader, so if I a book or article that gives insight into what a former believer might experience, I will read it.
This has served me well. I feel much more clear about why I am no longer Christian and I don't feel defensive or scared about my choice anymore. I saw how religion tries to get you to be submissive and not ask questions, and I can’t buy in to that. I’m more in the agnostic range. I think I’ve probably read more on religion in the past few years than a lot of church goers. They just get their information from the pulpit and seek no further. Hey, easier for them.
My sister in law recently sent me a religious music video clip—she wants to heal me, I guess. The beautiful woman in the video dressed in a flowing white gown while walking through cliffs above the ocean with waves crashing into the shore, was singing to god to rescue her. It seemed to me Cinderella waiting for her prince to come save the day. More societal conditioning that women are to remain passive and let men take care of the hard stuff. First of all, I don’t live a life that I feel I need rescued from! I am also pretty sure if it was sil’s brother dealing with cancer, she would not send a video of a manly man singing to god to come rescue him.....
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