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Religious People Described as Moral Retards (copied from another forum)
Religious People Described as Moral Retards
Yeah, figured that title would get your attention.
A professor from Brooklyn College in New York city has "ignited a firestorm of controversy" over some opinions and questionable comments he made about organized religion - on an online journal. Professor Timothy Shortell is set to become head of the schools Sociology department, but that appointment may be in serious trouble.
I'm all for free speech, but I think he may have crossed the line, away from debate, and into the realm of "hate speech". His new blog on his website - www.shortell.org, seems reasonable - until you actually read the essay that sparked the outcry. Read it for yourself. Reasonable opinion? Hate Speech? Radical Intolerance? "On the money"?
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I don't think he crossed the line, he stated his opinion. Religions said far worse things... I'm not trying to throw this back at religion or anything i'm just saying what he said isn't all that bad and still an opinion worse things have been said.. Besides a lot of people may agree with it. And Fox probably took the worst sentences from the report. Unless I see all he wrote I refuse to judge him for writing this, and even then I probably wouldn't care..
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not to say bad things about organized religion but SOME people in organized religion ARE moral retards....people need to realise that we are NOT in 1665 where religious intolerance and intolerance towards a person of another lifestyle is the norm....i thought we had moved waaaaaay beyond that however and sadly, we havent esp when a man of God who professes to be a minister and "doing Gods work" is allowed to set up a website called www.godhatesfags.com to me that is moral retardation and abuse of the trust and power you have as a minister makes you such....
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I'm with him on that too. I don't think he went too far. Like magee said organized religions have done far worse. Its not like he is sending people to die by feeding them to lions or anything. Hes just stating his opinion.
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The preachings and teachings speak for themselves.
Nowhere in his article did he say one person speaks for the whole concept of religion.
I completely agree 100% with what he had to say. That's its even an eyebrow raising issue completely appalls me! Is this how Christians react when they hear something intelligent and logical? Are they so used to their fantastical fairy tales that common sense and reasonable logic stuns, confuses and infuriates them?
Absolutely ridiculous!
Religions based on revelations are the number one threat to social and human advancement. A cancer freely carried by, and spread to, the ignorant, uninformed and weak minded.
Doesn't surprise me one bit that FoxNews is the only major news source carrying the story. The vengeful Christian watchdog.
It is real strange.No one is afraid to say anything bad about christians but have a fear of making fun of budist and jews and Musiams.Now why is this?
I have no idea.But either way it is wrong.JM
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First there are aboot a million jokes aboot jews so that is not true.
Islmaists are maybe not made fun of but we see them in the most critical light and even start wars against whole countries because there is one islamist we don't like ( with we I mean the US)
Buddhists might possibly be the nicest and most caring "religion" (its not really a religion) in the world so why the hell should we ridicule them ( although I am sure there are some jokes aboot them)
Now Radical Christians ( that hade Gays, Muslims, Mormons, Abortion doctors or whatever...basicallly people that agree with anything on the Wep Site posted by magic hate ball) are just as bad as islamists maybe even worse. They deserve to be ridiculed and maybe even openly attacked for their moronic beliefs....calling them moral retards is not an insult, its to good for them.
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Thats what I am saying...its fair of course I just gave the reasons why the christians are more ridiculed than the buddhists...nothing wrong with ridiculing them though (but seriously what do you want to say aboot them? " This stupid buddhists they don't even kill anyone what the hell is wrong with the...they belive that you can be nice to each other...dammit I am so happy I am Christian"? Nah doesn't really work, does it?)
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i dont know if my points about my comment were in question but i find most of the retardation in question going on in the fundamentalist part of any religion....not just Christian but all religions have some fundamentalism that crosses the line of extremism which makes them moral retards....
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