Ash Wednesday
March 2nd, 2017 at 11:40:15 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
And that's why real Biblical Xtions don't celebrate pews or Lent or AW of Mary being divine, it's not scriptural. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 12:07:34 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18240 |
I seriously have to ask if you are an atheist why does it bother you so much? The President is a fink. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 12:31:40 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
Atheists are always having to deal with the belief systems of others. Why do atheists bother Xtions so much? The Church used to kill them. "The Church started killing unbelievers as early as the 4th century. The killing (often with torture) of heretics, church splinter groups, dissenters, atheists, agnostics, deists, pagans, infidels and unbelievers was supported by almost all mainstream Christian theology for over a thousand years, starting with the intolerant St. Augustine (died 430 AD)." If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 1:19:35 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18240 |
Deal with in what way? Did someone drag you to an Ash service or something yesterday? The President is a fink. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 1:43:13 PM permalink | |
RonC Member since: Nov 7, 2012 Threads: 8 Posts: 2510 |
Everyone has to deal with the belief systems of others. It isn't like you are the only ones. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 1:46:32 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
No, but I saw TV news people with dirty foreheads and went wtf and had to find out why. That's having to 'deal' with the Dark Ages superstitions still appearing in today's modern world. I just got the lab results back from my bloodwork and not a single test they did was for anything supernatural. When I go for the complete physical next week, the doc won't ask me a single supernatural question. You know why? It doesn't exist, it can't be shown to exist and is irrelevant to daily life unless you purposely include it. My doc has no interest in anything except provable testable science. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 2:15:31 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18240 |
I find it hard to believe you could make it to adulthood without having heard of Ash Wed. For crying out loud, Mari Gras is based on the lead-up to it. Have you been living under a rock all your life?
And guess what? It cannot be shown not to exist, either. You are free to have faith or not as you like. I have said my position, that being until you can prove how life rose up out of nothing then the scales tip to there being something out there. Of course, you are free to have your own opinion. What I do not get is why you spend so much time worrying about something irrelevant to your daily life. If it were irrelevant you would not post or care about it. Much as I do not post about say basketball since I have no interest in it. A true atheist would just live their life and show up for work on December 25. The President is a fink. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 2:33:12 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
Obviously I know it, I posted here about it last year. It always takes me by surprise to see the dirty foreheads, I never see it coming.
I only think about it when there is a decent authority to speak with, like a Catholic Priest. Do you know how rare it is to have a real live priest talk to atheists for 2 1/2 years? It's unheard of. Most of them are too pompous and arrogant to give us the time of day. FrG is a rare find so you can bet I will talk to him about religion. Other than that, it never crosses my mind. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 2:46:22 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18240 |
Last year? Hadn't you heard of it 40 or 50 years ago? Just check when Mardi Gras is happening. The President is a fink. |
March 2nd, 2017 at 2:51:50 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
If I did it had no meaning to me. Lent either, I had heard of it all my life but didn't know what it was. All the Xtions I know are Baptists. I sent my wife an email last night asking if any of her sister's celebrated AW. Her answer was "Why would they." If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |