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   MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago

   Bill O’Reilly will die one day, and then – if the pope is right – will be told by God what “he” thinks about people that turn his sons birthday into an opportunity for division, hate, propaganda, fame and political gains…
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   cjr53 said, 6 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   Except there is no god, no heaven and hades does not exist either.
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   cjr53 said, 6 months ago

   It’s all a money making, people controlling scheme.
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   BrassOrchid said, 6 months ago

   There is no pool of fire 93M miles below us, and no infinite heaven above us. There is only the great blue oyster shell and the disc on which we live.
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   BrassOrchid said, 6 months ago

   @cjr53

   Charity is easier when it is other people’s money. My money and power I hold dearly. Yours I will give away in the name of goodness and mercy.
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   hankolini said, 6 months ago

   It is amazing how strongly opinions about something that cannot be known are asserted as fact. Morty, you better hope you’re right!
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   DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

   We pagans and all peoples around the world have been celebrating Dec 25th as the Day of the Return of the Sun for about 30,000 years.

   
   The Johnny-Come-Lately Christians showed up only 2,000 years ago and claimed our date as their own, claimed they originated it, and then demanded we follow THEIR customs.

   
   Forget it.
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   cjr53 said, 6 months ago

   @BrassOrchid

   if you can convince me to relinquish some of it to you.
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   cjr53 said, 6 months ago

   And if any church does convince anyone to relinquish some of their money, you can be sure that the amount that goes to goodness and charity is only a tiny fraction of what was received.
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    Tigger said, 6 months ago

    @cjr53

    All chruches convince their member to relinquish 10% of their Gross Inome before Taxes, and it does go to goodness
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    DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

    @Tigger

    ^ It goes to pay off the victims of the Church when they sue.
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    omQ R said, 6 months ago

    @Tigger

    Last month my wife received a demand from the Catholic Church to pay them €178. Austria is one of the few countries where a church can demand of their members a percentage of their taxable income: 1.1%.
    My wife earns absolutely no income in Austria nor receives a single cent from the Austrian state.
    Where the Catholic church thumb-sucked this figure from she has no idea.
    She had no say in becoming a member of the Catholic Church but she does have a say in staying one.
    Austrian Catholics resident in Austria can be subjected to a lawsuit from the Catholic church to receive this 1.1% tax or face excommunication.
    Despite easily proving she has no income, she has decided enough is enough. The Catholic Church has no business demanding money from her and getting the Austrian state to act as its stooge & strongman enforcer in order to collect it.
    She is opting out from the church. She excommunicated herself last Wednesday after initiating the process 10 days ago. Please note how she uses a local government office to do so. This is why there must be separation between church & state.
    
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    Ketira shena Pretarasedrin said, 6 months ago

    @Tigger

    All Christian “churches” you mean. Not all Churches are Christian….
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    Mikeyj said, 6 months ago

    Religion is a joke, the bible was written centuries ago by men who believed the Sun and stars revolved around the Earth on crystal spheres and that disease was caused by demons in your skull… and we should take THEIR advice on things?
    As for Jesus, nice guy, good person, great philosopher, but, otherwise deluded, with followers who wrote the World’s most popular fiction when they wrote about him. “Immaculate conception”, “Angels” “Rose on the 3rd day” and other BS

    All of that said, I’m perfectly fine with someone saying Merry Xmas to me, I answer “you too” and enjoy all the lights and decorations
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    Chillbilly said, 6 months ago

    @omQ R

    At fear of comparing the Swiss and the Austrians, my Swiss friend had himself excommunicated and doesn’t owe taxes to the pope anymore.
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