six45ive Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 and how it permeates through the political and legal systems. This documentary is 2 hours long but is worth watching as it highlights how religion is used as an umbrella or smokescreen as a cover to justify racism, homophobia, misogyny and general all round bigotry and prejudice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 All fundamentalism lacks any sense of irony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Oh dear, comedy gold. "I taught US history, ... I taught world history. ... You picked my one weakness, I can't remember dates." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six45ive Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Oh dear, comedy gold. "I taught US history, ... I taught world history. ... You picked my one weakness, I can't remember dates." Keep watching, there's more to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Brilliant, truly brilliant. "There was an 8th grade teacher who was raped by her pupils ... they should've read the 10 commandments". Those 10 commandments that don't prohibit rape. The sheer irony. It's crippling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six45ive Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 The film drags a little towards the end but the over riding impression is that religious indoctrination seriously impedes the normal development of the mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 A two hour documentary sparked by one person who doesn't want religious symbols on a war monument....necessary? And why so sensitive to something like a flag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagel Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I don't get why people use the abbreviation 'xtian' for Christian. I'm an atheist myself, but it seems infantile to try and demean the religion by giving it this meaningless abbreviation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sibon Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I don't get why people use the abbreviation 'xtian' for Christian. I'm an atheist myself, but it seems infantile to try and demean the religion by giving it this meaningless abbreviation. I think you answered your own question there. It is a pretty infantile, petty and disrespectful thing to do. It also distracts from the substantive part of the argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I don't get why people use the abbreviation 'xtian' for Christian. I'm an atheist myself, but it seems infantile to try and demean the religion by giving it this meaningless abbreviation. You'll be given the usual explantion about the abbreviation which I can't fully remember anyway, something to do with x being pronounced chris in some alphabet or language or other. At the end of the day, Christianity is so named after a person, and his name wasn't X, it was Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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