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Enzo Bearzot - 8 Dec 2023 3:29 PM
Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 3:12 PM

I'd say they adopted the baby because only women can have babies.

Why is this so difficult for you?

Am I not sexualising them enough?
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"So that's not their real dad, Dad?"
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'That's right sweetheart. A lady had that baby and gave it to them because they can't have one.'

Where are you going with this? Are you trying to trap me in some convoluted logic trap you've set? 


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Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 3:35 PM
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"So that's not their real dad, Dad?"
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'That's right sweetheart. A lady had that baby and gave it to them because they can't have one.'

Where are you going with this? Are you trying to trap me in some convoluted logic trap you've set? 
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"Doesn't the baby miss its mum?"
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Enzo Bearzot - 8 Dec 2023 3:42 PM
Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 3:35 PM

'That's right sweetheart. A lady had that baby and gave it to them because they can't have one.'

Where are you going with this? Are you trying to trap me in some convoluted logic trap you've set? 
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"Doesn't the baby miss its mum?"
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'The baby wouldn't remember.'
'It's like when we got our puppy. Remember we picked him up from that lady. Rex wouldn't remember his mum'.

I'm off for a body surf.

You keep playing your silly little game. My parenting style is to be honest about sex without getting specific. If you want to paint me as some sort of pervert to satisfy your pigeonholing of 'marxist atheists' then go for it.





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Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 3:32 PM
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Again thats a presumption mate and you are fishing...  Insinuating that "no thought" has gone into a belief just because you find it improbable.... 

I dont wanna get into a personal attack because I like debating you (and I respect your thoughts on the matter regardless on what or how much i agree on)  but I have found (amongst many others that I have spoken to) that the majority of people who are staunchly atheist or agnostic, usually have a hatred of religion based on previous bad experience.. Its rarely just an "intellectual" discovery through education its more often than not a denial of what is see as "holding you back"....

Keep an open mind old fella, it doesnt hurt to respect each others beliefs.... anyway Im exhausted...

This was fun btw.
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I'm an atheist because my mum was religious and my dad wasn't. So while we got dragged to church every Sunday he sat at home. Except for Easter and Christmas when he went too. We moaned about it incessantly until one day, when we were about 15, my dad said to my mum 'you can't make them go forever'.

And that was that. We never went again.

Over time I've gone from a believer to an agnostic to an atheist. (By the by I think agnostics are just soft cock atheists.) Just commit already. 

I never had a bad experience about religion except I was bored out of my skull listening to old mate up the front drone on for what felt like hours.  

I was baptised, did the confession thing and had communion. I was a full on, keys to the door, catholic.

No priest ever diddled me but we never went to Sunday school or were in a choir where I think a lot of this stuff happens. 

I've also enjoyed it. Have a good weekend.
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Being forced to go every week is your "bad experience" mate... totally get it... My folks never shoved it down our throats, religion was always sort of in the background so to speak ... Catholics do tend to be alot more intense about it I find. overall but some of my Orthodox bible basher compatriots can be fairly full on also.

Have a good weekend too...  And play nice with Enzo ... you've both got a lot more in common than you think... play the ball NOT the man..... behave ::P


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Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 3:53 PM
Enzo Bearzot - 8 Dec 2023 3:42 PM


"Doesn't the baby miss its mum?"
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'The baby wouldn't remember.'
'It's like when we got our puppy. Remember we picked him up from that lady. Rex wouldn't remember his mum'.

I'm off for a body surf.

You keep playing your silly little game. My parenting style is to be honest about sex without getting specific. If you want to paint me as some sort of pervert to satisfy your pigeonholing of 'marxist atheists' then go for it.


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I could go on, but that's not the point.  The point is 5 year olds don't need to be thinking about any of this.  They're five years old. 
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Enzo Bearzot - 8 Dec 2023 3:35 PM
tsf - 8 Dec 2023 3:30 PM


You're walking back your ignorant ill-researched claim with more non-sense.  Just stop.


No I am not. I am saying my figures were for the catholic church ALONE

Add in protestants etc..number is massive. Times that by 100 according to you and we have the sexual abuse figures for public schools 

LOL it's actually insane. But typical of those in the church to diminish and look the other way to sexual abuse, yet come out swinging 'protecting kids' over crap like books they don't like. 

Could guarantee you'd show more anger to some idiot drag queen reading a book to a flock, then the local priest touching them up. 


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tsf - 8 Dec 2023 5:12 PM
Enzo Bearzot - 8 Dec 2023 3:35 PM

No I am not. I am saying my figures were for the catholic church ALONE

Add in protestants etc..number is massive. Times that by 100 according to you and we have the sexual abuse figures for public schools 

LOL it's actually insane. But typical of those in the church to diminish and look the other way to sexual abuse, yet come out swinging 'protecting kids' over crap like books they don't like. 

Could guarantee you'd show more anger to some idiot drag queen reading a book to a flock, then the local priest touching them up. 




You had no idea how much worse the abuse figures were in secular institutions like public schools when you posted your comment.  Admit it.  

Like typical secularist, you went after religion rather than the individuals involved without even knowing that the level of child abuse in secular institution were even worse.  Admit and we can move on from your nonsense allegations.





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Enzo Bearzot - 8 Dec 2023 5:50 PM
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You had no idea how much worse the abuse figures were in secular institutions like public schools when you posted your comment.  Admit it.  

Like typical secularist, you went after religion rather than the individuals involved without even knowing that the level of child abuse in secular institution were even worse.  Admit and we can move on from your nonsense allegations.





Admit that there is ten times as much sexual abuse by teachers at public schools than in in the church? 

No I won’t admit it because it could be one of the craziest things I’ve heard in this thread and that is saying something. 

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tsf - 8 Dec 2023 7:34 PM
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Admit that there is ten times as much sexual abuse by teachers at public schools than in in the church? 

No I won’t admit it because it could be one of the craziest things I’ve heard in this thread and that is saying something. 

More evidence:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/do-the-right-thing/201808/separating-facts-about-clergy-abuse-fiction

The best available data reports that 4 percent of Catholic priests sexually violated a minor child during the last half of the 20th century with the peak level of abuse being in the 1970s and dropping off dramatically by the early 1980s.

Putting clergy abuse in context, research from the US Department of Education found that about 5-7 percent of public school teachers engaged in similar sexually abusive behavior with their students during a similar time frame


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If you think what you posted is evidence that there is  10x more sexual abuse by public school teachers than in the church then I can see how easy it is for you to believe in god and not believe in things like climate change. 
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Sure thing bud.
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More evidence:

She said the FOI figures confirmed that crimes well documented within the Catholic church were more widespread across society.“Unchecked abusers in positions of authority leaving a trail of destruction across generations is not a problem that’s confined to the church. The state and other institutions are also reckoning with their own similar legacies,” she said.
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tsf - 9 Dec 2023 2:52 PM
If you think what you posted is evidence that there is  10x more sexual abuse by public school teachers than in the church then I can see how easy it is for you to believe in god and not believe in things like climate change. 

I dunno where you get the idea Enzo said "10x more sexual abuse by public school teachers than in the church".

As I read Enzo's statement, it is that 4% of Catholic clergy did the evil deed - versus 5-7% of teachers in U.S. public (i.e. government) schools.

If Enzo has cited data/evidence to that effect, it's pertinent that you and Muz are responding in your typical pattern, which is: (1) ignore the evidence.data, and (2) insult the person.
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That's how they roll-wokeness is intolerance dressed up as compassion.  Rather than do their own research, if a fact doesn't fit their world view, these jokers resort to personal attacks. 

Using the numbers of teachers and the numers of priests and the rates of abuse in each group its easy to calculate the relative numbers of abuse, but I won't bother as it won't change their closed minds.

The evidence points to secular insitutions having far more incidents of abuse.  Where is the media?  Where is the hyperoutrage?  Where is the Royal Commission?  Where is the criticism to the leadership response?  Where is the compensation?  Where is the apology from the heads of the government under whose watch this occurred?

Anyway the pertinent point is that religion doesn't create pedo's, these people are already that.   But the aetheists hate religion so much, and will use every opportunity to destroy it, they can't accept their secular institutions has committed worse.

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Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 3:23 PM
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Im saying that, according to society of the time it WAS OK...... 

Here one example 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_of_England
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OK. I'm not arguing that it was. I've already said, at great length, morals change over time PROVING beyond doubt that the bible and religion have very little to do with man's moral compass. Virtually none.

Enzo would have you believe (Rusty more so) without the bible and a belief in god anarchy would reign and people would kill and murder without a second thought.
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Not entirely true. I have to go rack my brain to find an example because this is my memory going back about 15 years, but there is some things morally in rules (not many) that differ from the Old Testament and the New, so there is SOME scope of religions having an aspect of change over time in moral compass (very rare though)


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Monoethnic Social Club - 8 Dec 2023 3:57 PM
Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 3:32 PM

I'm an atheist because my mum was religious and my dad wasn't. So while we got dragged to church every Sunday he sat at home. Except for Easter and Christmas when he went too. We moaned about it incessantly until one day, when we were about 15, my dad said to my mum 'you can't make them go forever'.

And that was that. We never went again.

Over time I've gone from a believer to an agnostic to an atheist. (By the by I think agnostics are just soft cock atheists.) Just commit already. 

I never had a bad experience about religion except I was bored out of my skull listening to old mate up the front drone on for what felt like hours.  

I was baptised, did the confession thing and had communion. I was a full on, keys to the door, catholic.

No priest ever diddled me but we never went to Sunday school or were in a choir where I think a lot of this stuff happens. 

I've also enjoyed it. Have a good weekend.
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Being forced to go every week is your "bad experience" mate... totally get it... My folks never shoved it down our throats, religion was always sort of in the background so to speak ... Catholics do tend to be alot more intense about it I find. overall but some of my Orthodox bible basher compatriots can be fairly full on also.

Have a good weekend too...  And play nice with Enzo ... you've both got a lot more in common than you think... play the ball NOT the man..... behave ::P

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Might be a European thing - Catholic, but Italian, and my family was very much the same. Nonna has her little religious trinkets around the house, and as a family, we generally only went to church for events (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Easter, Christmas) - although we went to Catholic schools, so maybe my parents thought we got enough religion during the day?
I think the ones who usually went a lot in my experience were people who had suffered a loss.
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NicCarBel - 11 Dec 2023 9:34 AM

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Being forced to go every week is your "bad experience" mate... totally get it... My folks never shoved it down our throats, religion was always sort of in the background so to speak ... Catholics do tend to be alot more intense about it I find. overall but some of my Orthodox bible basher compatriots can be fairly full on also.

Have a good weekend too...  And play nice with Enzo ... you've both got a lot more in common than you think... play the ball NOT the man..... behave ::P

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Might be a European thing - Catholic, but Italian, and my family was very much the same. Nonna has her little religious trinkets around the house, and as a family, we generally only went to church for events (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Easter, Christmas) - although we went to Catholic schools, so maybe my parents thought we got enough religion during the day?
I think the ones who usually went a lot in my experience were people who had suffered a loss.
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I honestly feel that if my Dad was religious like my mum I'd be religious now.

It's possible I'd still have become a non-believer but it would have been an outside chance.

To instil a belief in a supernatural construct is amazingly easy. Think about how easily kids believe in Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy all because you tell them so and people surrounding them back it up. 

All man-made fantasies that, with enough anecdotal confirmation, are accepted without a barely a cursory sceptical reflection. Every parent knows how simple it is.

It baffles me that some religious people profess an all knowing belief given the above. Do they ever think to themselves maybe I believe all of this because that's what I've been told?


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johnsmith - 9 Dec 2023 9:20 PM
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I dunno where you get the idea Enzo said "10x more sexual abuse by public school teachers than in the church".

As I read Enzo's statement, it is that 4% of Catholic clergy did the evil deed - versus 5-7% of teachers in U.S. public (i.e. government) schools.

If Enzo has cited data/evidence to that effect, it's pertinent that you and Muz are responding in your typical pattern, which is: (1) ignore the evidence.data, and (2) insult the person.

probably from the part he claimed there was 10x much abuse 
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All about protecting the kids...from the people who soak in every word from the likes of Alan and Alex Jones....one who touches up and the other who diminishes the murder of children for his own financial benefit
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Enzo Bearzot - 10 Dec 2023 8:08 AM
That's how they roll-wokeness is intolerance dressed up as compassion.  


I certainly have no tolerance lol
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NicCarBel - 11 Dec 2023 9:34 AM

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Being forced to go every week is your "bad experience" mate... totally get it... My folks never shoved it down our throats, religion was always sort of in the background so to speak ... Catholics do tend to be alot more intense about it I find. overall but some of my Orthodox bible basher compatriots can be fairly full on also.

Have a good weekend too...  And play nice with Enzo ... you've both got a lot more in common than you think... play the ball NOT the man..... behave ::P

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Might be a European thing - Catholic, but Italian, and my family was very much the same. Nonna has her little religious trinkets around the house, and as a family, we generally only went to church for events (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Easter, Christmas) - although we went to Catholic schools, so maybe my parents thought we got enough religion during the day?
I think the ones who usually went a lot in my experience were people who had suffered a loss.
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The only church I got was on Sunday morning. On every other day of the week, including the minute we walked out the church door, we weren't religious at all. 

'Sunday christians' as my mate used to call us.

The whole of my extended family were the same save for one Aunty who was a bit of a nutjob about it. 

The real shame of it is my poor mum suffers from enormous 'religious guilt' which has really become evident the last few years as she's gotten older. This is the bit that pisses me off. She absolutely believes she is 100% unworthy of god's love. It's a pretty disgusting thing to have foisted upon your conscience. (She did grow up in the 60s and went to an all girls primary and high school.) The more I talk to her now, particularly since dad passed the more I realise they've damaged her pysche.

Bunch of cunce.


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Munrubenmuz - 11 Dec 2023 10:11 AM
NicCarBel - 11 Dec 2023 9:34 AM

Might be a European thing - Catholic, but Italian, and my family was very much the same. Nonna has her little religious trinkets around the house, and as a family, we generally only went to church for events (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Easter, Christmas) - although we went to Catholic schools, so maybe my parents thought we got enough religion during the day?
I think the ones who usually went a lot in my experience were people who had suffered a loss.
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The only church I got was on Sunday morning. On every other day of the week, including the minute we walked out the church door, we weren't religious at all. 

'Sunday christians' as my mate used to call us.

The whole of my extended family were the same save for one Aunty who was a bit of a nutjob about it. 

The real shame of it my poor mum suffers from enormous 'religious guilt' which has really become evident the last few years as she's gotten older. This is the bit that pisses me off. She absolutely believes she is 100% unworthy of god's love. It's a pretty disgusting thing to have foisted upon your conscience. (She did grow up in the 60s and went to an all girls primary and high school.) The more I talk to her now, particularly since dad passed the more I realise they've damaged her pysche.

Bunch of cunce.
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So pretty much as Mono guessed then.  

Do you think  Section 116 of Constitution should be amended so that it is no longer illegal for the Commonwealth to make laws that prohibit the free exercise of religion?
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Enzo Bearzot - 11 Dec 2023 10:21 AM
Munrubenmuz - 11 Dec 2023 10:11 AM

The only church I got was on Sunday morning. On every other day of the week, including the minute we walked out the church door, we weren't religious at all. 

'Sunday christians' as my mate used to call us.

The whole of my extended family were the same save for one Aunty who was a bit of a nutjob about it. 

The real shame of it my poor mum suffers from enormous 'religious guilt' which has really become evident the last few years as she's gotten older. This is the bit that pisses me off. She absolutely believes she is 100% unworthy of god's love. It's a pretty disgusting thing to have foisted upon your conscience. (She did grow up in the 60s and went to an all girls primary and high school.) The more I talk to her now, particularly since dad passed the more I realise they've damaged her pysche.

Bunch of cunce.
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So pretty much as Mono guessed then.  

Do you think  Section 116 of Constitution should be amended so that it is no longer illegal for the Commonwealth to make laws that prohibit the free exercise of religion?
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Don't know enough about it. Care to summarise?

I hardly classify being 'bored' as a bad experience that led me to atheism. I credit my father and his sceptical outlook on the world and my own brain for not falling for a mass delusion.  I've been an atheist for 40 years. It's only recently, the last 10 years since my dad died, that I've realised the psychological damage they've done to my mum.

And who cares how I got there. What's the implication of having a 'good experience' with religion? You question none of your beliefs because it might force you into some uncomfortable reflections on the delusion you're undergoing.

'Oh church and religion are wonderful to me and my family and provide answers to existential questions about, life the universe and everything and it brings me comfort in times of need. Who cares if it's real or not.'

That's you blokes.


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Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 2:46 PM
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So are you saying that evil sexual perversions enacted by despicable pieces of shit are a result of their faith in a god, any god? Seriously? 

So the fat sack of shit in Dog Dick Creek Far North QLD, with thousands of files  on his computer of pre teen porn that catfishes a troubled girl and rapes her senseless and buries her in the outback is a Christian?

I agree that the Catholic church seems to attract a terrifying majority of these types of people to its ranks but it is NOT the sole institution that perpetrated horrors... Im sure the Lebensborn and the Tyskerbamas of the 30s and 40s? Surely that was the Church's (any church's) fault?
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No. For the fifth time I'm not saying that. I'm arguing that being a christian or any other god believing/fearing person doesn't make you morally superior given that religious people are just as capable of horrible things as non-believers are.

The whole multi-page argument on the other thread about morals was that without religion we'd have none. It's clearly bullshit because even god believing/fearing christian adherents are capable of the most sadistic and sick crimes imaginable.

And no, for the 5th time, that doesn't mean all christians are like that.

I'm arguing morals have nothing to do with religion. 

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I can't let this one go.

No-one said that without religion we'd have *no*morals.  The real point is would have the "morals" of a Godless society been better overall for the numerous societies that have existed over the thousands of years?  Are there any real world examples of how hat turns out in the real world.

We don't have to go that far back, the 1980's is sufficient.  Tell me how banning God went in the Eastern Bloc ?  Before yo go there you cannot extricate aetheism from those socio=political and economic systems to say "Well no aethesim had nothing to do with it" because aetheism is foundational to those systems.

Your views are actually very similar to those of Hitchens and Dawkins.  All of 3 of were and are the beneficiaries of being the last generations of societies founded on Christian principles.  Middle class, capitalists, educated and generally free to say and do what you want.  You cannot extricate Christianity form those outcomes.  Focus on the negatives of religion, judged to the standards of your life experiences, shaped by the time and place you live in, yet everywhere else where religion was banned was horribly worse.

In essence, not only do you have no real idea if Godless societies would been any improvement in the past, you have no idea how banning religion would go in the future.  And because banning religion can be done with the stroke of a pen, it doesn't take much for the real fun to begin if the aetheists take over.


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Munrubenmuz - 11 Dec 2023 10:41 AM
Enzo Bearzot - 11 Dec 2023 10:21 AM


So pretty much as Mono guessed then.  

Do you think  Section 116 of Constitution should be amended so that it is no longer illegal for the Commonwealth to make laws that prohibit the free exercise of religion?
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Don't know enough about it. Care to summarise?

I hardly classify being 'bored' as a bad experience that led me to atheism. I credit my father and his sceptical outlook on the world and my own brain for not falling for a mass delusion.  I've been an atheist for 40 years. It's only recently, the last 10 years since my dad died, that I've realised the psychological damage they've done to my mum.

And who cares how I got there. What's the implication of having a 'good experience' with religion? You question none of your beliefs because it might force you into some uncomfortable reflections on the delusion you're undergoing.

'Oh church and religion are wonderful to me and my family and provide answers to existential questions about, life the universe and everything and it brings me comfort in times of need. Who cares if it's real or not.'

That's you blokes.
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The implication is that people who have a good experience with religion are probably not going to become passionate atheists.  

Sect 116 is pretty straightforward: Live and let live.  No-one is required to take up religion, but everyone is free to do so.  No religious qualification is required to hold public office, but no-one is prevented if they have.

That aligns with my view: there's many positives across the thousands of years, there are negatives too-nothing like Godless societies- if people wish religion to be a small part, large part or no part in their life choices, then who am I say otherwise?


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Enzo Bearzot - 11 Dec 2023 10:54 AM
Munrubenmuz - 8 Dec 2023 2:46 PM

No. For the fifth time I'm not saying that. I'm arguing that being a christian or any other god believing/fearing person doesn't make you morally superior given that religious people are just as capable of horrible things as non-believers are.

The whole multi-page argument on the other thread about morals was that without religion we'd have none. It's clearly bullshit because even god believing/fearing christian adherents are capable of the most sadistic and sick crimes imaginable.

And no, for the 5th time, that doesn't mean all christians are like that.

I'm arguing morals have nothing to do with religion. 

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I can't let this one go.

No-one said that without religion we'd have *no*morals.  The real point is would have the "morals" of a Godless society been better overall for the numerous societies that have existed over the thousands of years?  Are there any real world examples of how hat turns out in the real world.

We don't have to go that far back, the 1980's is sufficient.  Tell me how banning God went in the Eastern Bloc ?  Before yo go there you cannot extricate aetheism from those socio=political and economic systems to say "Well no aethesim had nothing to do with it" because aetheism is foundational to those systems.

Your views are actually very similar to those of Hitchens and Dawkins.  All of 3 of were and are the beneficiaries of being the last generations of societies founded on Christian principles.  Middle class, capitalists, educated and generally free to say and do what you want.  You cannot extricate Christianity form those outcomes.  Focus on the negatives of religion, judged to the standards of your life experiences, shaped by the time and place you live in, yet everywhere else where religion was banned was horribly worse.

In essence, not only do you have no real idea if Godless societies would been any improvement in the past, you have no idea how banning religion would go in the future.  And because banning religion can be done with the stroke of a pen, it doesn't take much for the real fun to begin if the aetheists take over.

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Well that's where you're wrong chump. One whole side of my family grew up in what was Yugoslavia without the church or religion. And guess what they're all getting on just fine. In news that is probably surprising to you crime, murder, rape are no higher in the former Yugoslavia than they are anywhere else in Europe. Amazingly they're beautiful people going about their business without a moment's thought to some magical being in the sky. 

Are you saying Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Czechia and the rest of them are rogue nations because they didn't have religion? Are the people there somehow deranged, immoral, criminals in the main? Of course they're not.

In fact if you want to look at the grand daddy of all and shit behaviour then look no further than one of the most 'chistian' societies in the developed world, the US.  

As to your point about being free to say what I want. What do you want here? An acknowledgement that after literally hundreds of hundreds of years enough people have freed themselves of the shackles of religious indoctrination and censorship to have the ability to speak freely without being branded a heretic (at the best). Clap, clap, clap. How wonderful. Thank you religion.

But back to your morals point. If you're picking and choosing what bits of biblical text to follow and what not to then you don't need a book or a bible. The fact you don't realise this is one of the things I'll never understand about you blokes.





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Enzo Bearzot - 11 Dec 2023 11:08 AM
Munrubenmuz - 11 Dec 2023 10:41 AM

Don't know enough about it. Care to summarise?

I hardly classify being 'bored' as a bad experience that led me to atheism. I credit my father and his sceptical outlook on the world and my own brain for not falling for a mass delusion.  I've been an atheist for 40 years. It's only recently, the last 10 years since my dad died, that I've realised the psychological damage they've done to my mum.

And who cares how I got there. What's the implication of having a 'good experience' with religion? You question none of your beliefs because it might force you into some uncomfortable reflections on the delusion you're undergoing.

'Oh church and religion are wonderful to me and my family and provide answers to existential questions about, life the universe and everything and it brings me comfort in times of need. Who cares if it's real or not.'

That's you blokes.
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The implication is that people who have a good experience with religion are probably not going to become passionate atheists.  

Sect 116 is pretty straightforward: Live and let live.  No-one is required to take up religion, but everyone is free to do so.  No religious qualification is required to hold public office, but no-one is prevented if they have.

That aligns with my view: there's many positives across the thousands of years, there are negatives too-nothing like Godless societies- if people wish religion to be a small part, large part or no part in their life choices, then who am I say otherwise?

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Yep and more's the pity because they happily accept what they've been told and accept it without regard for what might actually be true.

I almost feel sorry for some people who you can tell believe in god because that's what they were told and how they were brought up. They have wonderful, enquiring minds on every aspect of their lives except religion. They're so close but they push that side of their minds down because they don't want to know what they probably know deep down to be true. They're only religious because that's how they were brought up.

People are free to be religious in Australia is my understanding. The government shouldn't change that. I'd prefer we were more secular than we are. RE (religious education) is still taught in NSW schools. What a farce. And it's not 'this is what religion is' or comparative analysis type studies. It's zealots talking about Jesus.

Get the fuck out of public schools.





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Munrubenmuz - 11 Dec 2023 11:13 AM
Enzo Bearzot - 11 Dec 2023 10:54 AM

I can't let this one go.

No-one said that without religion we'd have *no*morals.  The real point is would have the "morals" of a Godless society been better overall for the numerous societies that have existed over the thousands of years?  Are there any real world examples of how hat turns out in the real world.

We don't have to go that far back, the 1980's is sufficient.  Tell me how banning God went in the Eastern Bloc ?  Before yo go there you cannot extricate aetheism from those socio=political and economic systems to say "Well no aethesim had nothing to do with it" because aetheism is foundational to those systems.

Your views are actually very similar to those of Hitchens and Dawkins.  All of 3 of were and are the beneficiaries of being the last generations of societies founded on Christian principles.  Middle class, capitalists, educated and generally free to say and do what you want.  You cannot extricate Christianity form those outcomes.  Focus on the negatives of religion, judged to the standards of your life experiences, shaped by the time and place you live in, yet everywhere else where religion was banned was horribly worse.

In essence, not only do you have no real idea if Godless societies would been any improvement in the past, you have no idea how banning religion would go in the future.  And because banning religion can be done with the stroke of a pen, it doesn't take much for the real fun to begin if the aetheists take over.

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Well that's where you're wrong chump. One whole side of my family grew up in what was Yugoslavia without the church or religion. And guess what they're al getting on just fine. In news that is probably surprising to you crime, murder, rape are no higher in the former Yugoslavia than they are anywhere else in Europe. Amazingly they're beautiful people going about their business without a moment's thought to some magical being in the sky. 

Are you saying Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Czechia and the rest of them are rogue nations because they didn't have religion? Are the people there somehow deranged, immoral, criminals in the main? Of course they're not.

In fact if you want to look at the grand daddy of all and shit behaviour then look no further than one of the most 'chistian' societies in the developed world, the US.  

As to your point about being free to say what I want. What do you want here? An acknowledgement that after literally hundreds of hundreds of years enough people have freed themselves of the shackles of religious indoctrination and censorship to have the ability to speak freely without being branded a heretic *(at the best). Clap, clap, clap. How wonderful. Thank you religion.

But back to your morals point. If you're picking and choosing what bits of biblical text to follow and what not to then you don't need a book or a bible. The fact you don't realise this is one of the things I'll never understand about you blokes.


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Are you talking about Tito's Yugoslavia?  He never banned religion. 

What was the quality of life for the people of living whilst living under the Communist regimes of the day in those countries you mentioned? The Czechs aside, all those examples are majority religious, Poland is around 90% religious.

What am I trying to say?  Without religion, you might have ended up as like one of the 60 million citizens killed in th USSR.  Its only chance that you weren't born there and then.



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Munrubenmuz - 11 Dec 2023 11:19 AM
Enzo Bearzot - 11 Dec 2023 11:08 AM


The implication is that people who have a good experience with religion are probably not going to become passionate atheists.  

Sect 116 is pretty straightforward: Live and let live.  No-one is required to take up religion, but everyone is free to do so.  No religious qualification is required to hold public office, but no-one is prevented if they have.

That aligns with my view: there's many positives across the thousands of years, there are negatives too-nothing like Godless societies- if people wish religion to be a small part, large part or no part in their life choices, then who am I say otherwise?

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Yep and more's the pity because they happily accept what they've been told and accept it without regard for what might actually be true.

I almost feel sorry for some people who you can tell believe in god because that's what they were told and how they were brought up. They have wonderful, enquiring minds on every aspect of their lives except religion. They're so close but they push that side of their minds down because they don't want to know what they probably know deep down to be true. They're only religious because that's how they were brought up.

People are free to be religious in Australia is my understanding. The government shouldn't change that. I'd prefer we were more secular than we are. RE (religious education) is still taught in NSW schools. What a farce. And it's not 'this is what religion is' or comparative analysis type studies. It's zealots talking about Jesus.

Get the fuck out of public schools.


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But that's just you pushing your view onto them. They don't feel sorry about themselves, indeed they might very content, why should you feel sorry for them?

Is RE compulsory in public schools?  If its not, they have the same right as anybody to attend (or not).  Should they be hosted in schools-are the parents taxpayers?  Do they vote?  Then they have the same rights to access publics schools as all the other nut-job loons teaching made-up things.

How do you become "more secular" without banning religious freedom?
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Enzo Bearzot - 11 Dec 2023 11:36 AM
Munrubenmuz - 11 Dec 2023 11:19 AM

Yep and more's the pity because they happily accept what they've been told and accept it without regard for what might actually be true.

I almost feel sorry for some people who you can tell believe in god because that's what they were told and how they were brought up. They have wonderful, enquiring minds on every aspect of their lives except religion. They're so close but they push that side of their minds down because they don't want to know what they probably know deep down to be true. They're only religious because that's how they were brought up.

People are free to be religious in Australia is my understanding. The government shouldn't change that. I'd prefer we were more secular than we are. RE (religious education) is still taught in NSW schools. What a farce. And it's not 'this is what religion is' or comparative analysis type studies. It's zealots talking about Jesus.

Get the fuck out of public schools.


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But that's just you pushing your view onto them. They don't feel sorry about themselves, indeed they might very content, why should you feel sorry for them?

Is RE compulsory in public schools?  If its not, they have the same right as anybody to attend (or not).  Should they be hosted in schools-are the parents taxpayers?  Do they vote?  Then they have the same rights to access publics schools as all the other nut-job loons teaching made-up things.

How do you become "more secular" without banning religious freedom?
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You have to opt out of RE. Ethics, which is available in primary school, is not allowed to be offered as an alternative or even put into a newsletter until the child opts out. Thanks Fred Nile and the Christian Democrats or whatever they're called.

I would bet a million dollars against one of your dollars that if a Moslem Imam made representations to your kid's school because they wanted to teach a sharia version of Islam you'd be the first bloke on A Current Affair blowing up about it. (Don't forget they're taxpayers too.)

I said 'I ALMOST feel sorry for them'.

I definitely feel sorry for my mum. They've fucked her head good and proper. 





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