Originally posted by Tired-Hiker
I came up with a punishment system for pedos back in the day, but it never seemed to catch on. It was 'The Silverback Treatment.' Basically pedos and rapists were required to be dropped into a cage with a mad silverback gorilla who is hell bent on raping people.
I like and agree with the concept, except there's one fatal flaw in your idea, gorilla's have extremely small penises, smallest of the primates I think, about 2 inches.
Originally posted by dadudemon
You're several years late on the hate bandwagon, bro.That reminds me: does anyone remember that guy Grand Moff Gav?
Wish he were still around: we had some good arguments.
I do, he was a decent guy and I enjoyed many of his thoughts/post. He probably became did finally become a priest and is busy, with his priestly duties.
Was a totally repressed homosexual though, imo, not joking about that either.
this is good.
When people get too much power, they become corrupt. Personally, I think one of the biggest factors in the molestation and rape and such by catholic priests was Saint Augustine who said that people shouldn't only not have sex, but if you do have sex (for the specific purpose of having a child) not to even enjoy it.
Oh, and one problem I have with this guy is that he says that there are 2 big sins in Christianity and those are (1) being female and (2) being Jewish. And that's not true. In the Bible, several women are held in high regard and the Bible preaches nothing against the Jews, in fact, it never even calls them anything other than God's chosen people. It was the Catholic church which condemned Females and Jews, not Christianity.
Originally posted by Mandrag Ganon
Oh, and one problem I have with this guy is that he says that there are 2 big sins in Christianity and those are (1) being female and (2) being Jewish. And that's not true.
the speaker makes incredible effort to specify the Catholic church as the target of his opinions at many points in the video.
That aside, if you really want to have at it, with the exception of incarnations that have emerged in the past 50-70 years, the big three religions (jews, christians, muslims) are inherently anti-woman. We can see this in an appeal to religous texts or by looking at how the religion has been applied to its followers and how people of both genders have used religion to cement social practice.
You may be able to interpret individual figures as having things you think are good traits, however, there are no figures who actively challange gender essentialization and certainly none who are praised for not "following their role", role determined by gender (among other things).
Originally posted by inimalist
the speaker makes incredible effort to specify the Catholic church as the target of his opinions at many points in the video.That aside, if you really want to have at it, with the exception of incarnations that have emerged in the past 50-70 years, the big three religions (jews, christians, muslims) are inherently anti-woman. We can see this in an appeal to religous texts or by looking at how the religion has been applied to its followers and how people of both genders have used religion to cement social practice.
You may be able to interpret individual figures as having things you think are good traits, however, there are no figures who actively challange gender essentialization and certainly none who are praised for not "following their role", role determined by gender (among other things).
Simply because a religion sets "gender rolls" doesn't automatically make it "anti-woman". In fact, if you actually read the bible, it sets man and woman in rolls that compliment each other, rather than one being over another. Woman was not truly put into a position completely under man until the leaders of the catholic church started saying "oh, this was mis-quoted, what it really meant was this..." Ironically this is also how atrocities such as the crusades and the Inquisition happened.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
which is the root of all modern Christianity, except maybe the weird loony ones like the Mormons.
It may have been the first church, but I wouldn't call it the "root" of Christianity. The "root" is the teachings of Jesus, which catholics have gone directly against time and time again.