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Author | Topic: Religions are fairy tales for adults. Should we encourage them to grow up? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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Faith writes: My point is very simple: if ANY human law, doesn't matter what its source, contradicts God, a Christian must disobey that law. ...and if you must hold those primitive beliefs, and you find yourself compromised and unable to do the job you're paid to do, then you do the honourable thing and resign your publicly funded post. But we all know that actively seeking out and hoping for martyrdom is the dream of the delusional fundamentalist.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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saab93f Member (Idle past 1424 days) Posts: 265 From: Finland Joined:
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My point is very simple: if ANY human law, doesn't matter what its source, contradicts God, a Christian must disobey that law.
Why does a devout believer almost without exemption also have to be a d1ck? No matter how much hurt they caused with their actions, it is more important to...just continue hurting. Normal people refrain from hurting others and rejoice on othershappiness.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9
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Faith writes: I really don't know what point you are trying to make. My point is very simple: if ANY human law, doesn't matter what its source, contradicts God, a Christian must disobey that law. Period. That's why jailed Christians have always packed our prisons and jails, nobly, humbly, secretly resisting unjust man-made law.
There's no lie involved. I guess Ms. Davis had a cross in her pocket when she swore her oath and when she later told the judge she had never imagined herself in this position. Not only had she imagined it, she'd already decided what to do. They're other folks around the world who claim their understanding of God trumps human law. For the most part, their hands are bloody, and their consciences are clean."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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I really don't know what point you are trying to make. My point is very simple: if ANY human law, doesn't matter what its source, contradicts God, a Christian must disobey that law. Period. Fine, but she also must live with the consequences of her choice.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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Even in the earliest examples of Christian martyrdom, they go out of their way to create the situation. Even now with their whining about "how much they are being persecuted", they go out of their way to be so hateful so that they can then whine about how much everybody hates them. Duh?
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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When do we get to see the lions in action? Can we get NBC to carry them live? Can we get Michaels and Collinsworth to do the bite-by-bite?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 314 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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I really don't know what point you are trying to make. My point is very simple: if ANY human law, doesn't matter what its source, contradicts God, a Christian must disobey that law. Well ... a Quaker doesn't have to join the army and then refuse to fight, so as to actively disobey human law in favor of what he considers God's law. He can just not join the army. If instead he joins the army and demands that he get the pay and the housing allowance and the uniform and the pension but shouldn't be expected to fight ... well, what would you think of that? Does that make him a brave martyr sticking up for his principles or just an asshole?
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ringo Member (Idle past 441 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Faith writes:
If your job requires you to break God's law, you quit your job. You don't just refuse to do your job.
My point is very simple: if ANY human law, doesn't matter what its source, contradicts God, a Christian must disobey that law.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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For that matter, since she's an elected government official, shouldn't she have had to have been sworn into office? Shouldn't her oath of office have included wording to the effect that she would faithfully execute her duties to the best of her ability? And shouldn't she have ended that oath of office with the words, "so help me God."?
So then by willfully shirking her duties, she is breaking an oath she had made to God.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Kim Davis refuses to allow her assistants to issue licenses because they have to do so in her name. Presumably now that she is in jail, her assistants will be able to issue licenses. And guess whose name is going to be on them despite her wishes to the contrary?
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
According to a news report I read on my phone (so, sorry, no link), the clerks are issuing marriage licenses, but they're not signed since their boss isn't there to sign them. The clerks insisted that the licenses are still valid even without her signature, a position also held by the county attorney and the gay couples' lawyer. However, she and her lawyer say that those licenses are void and "not worth paper that they are written on".
With her fervor for keeping government from working, are you sure she's not a closet Republican? In other news, did you hear the one about the Tennessee judge, Jeffrey M. Atherton, who refused to grant a divorce for a straight couple because of gay marriage? Edited by dwise1, : Tenn. judge
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Delicious.
I understand that as an elected official, she can only be removed by impeachment in the legislature. Still, there must be some provision for the clerk's duties when one is incapacitated or otherwise unable to perform her duties. I suspect an automatic delegation to assistant clerks is that process, and she implicitly consented when she swore her oath. Ms. Davis, via her attorneys, refuses to "authorize" her assistants to stamp her name and suggests couples would be risking an invalid, 'unauthorized' license. What a ferret-like martyr! I'd almost marry somebody to get a limited edition license. I savor each one they stamp. When she's out, will she try physically to stop her assistants? It could be epic."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4451 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
Presumably now that she is in jail, her assistants will be able to issue licenses. And guess whose name is going to be on them despite her wishes to the contrary? God is going to really pissed off about that. She's going to burn in hell....Satan will probably make her have a gay wedding.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Unsigned? That's unusual--most county offices run on rubber stamps.
If I was the judge, I'd let her sit till she signed. He has said both that couples would just have to take their chances with those licenses and that she could be released if the assistants issued them That doesn't sound acceptable to me."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Fortunately, this is still the United States and her opinion is about as empty and worthless as the pitiful evil God she tries to market.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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