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Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

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wolverineTrumpet said:
My coworker was telling me how she was here before production started and a couple of guys were kneeling in the corner. She asked what they were doing, but they don't speak much English. Her guess is they were praying. She seemed freaked out about it.

I'm not at all. The timing would be about sunrise, and I assume they were praying. Would this disturb anyone on this board? Am I just nonchalant about it, because as an athiest I'm used to people praying without my participating in it? Are some Christians so used to everyone around them practicing the same religion, that to see someone practicing a different religion is scary to them?
Or is it more likely to be because these are black, likely Muslim, likely immigrant (don't speak much English) men that instills fear in someone?
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It doesn't sound to me that it is the Christianness per se of those people that makes them terrified of Muslims. It's their general reactionary f-ckwittery. Now, the characteristics that make people fall for right wing politics also tend to make them fall for certain garish flavors of Christianity, but we're really talking about the failed culture of rural whites -- their ideas about gods are just another cultural marker like their ideas about gunz or gubmint.
 
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Not everyone is capable of thinking about that. Just like Thumpers aren't real Christians Radical bombers aren't real Muslims. But then a lot of the Thumpers don't think Christians are Christian either.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Agreed. An extremist atheist website being outraged that a candidate for chaplain, who pronounces the merits of atheistic champlains, is certainly derpworthy.
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Derp ^^^
 
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Patheos is "extreme atheist" in the way that conservatives think liberal judges are "terrorists".

To man with only a hammer...
 
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5mn_Major said:
Agreed. An extremist atheist website being outraged that a candidate for chaplain, who pronounces the merits of atheistic champlains, is certainly derpworthy.
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The merits of a humanist chaplin.
Humanism is something I can get behind, and I think a Humanist chaplin would be a great asset for our military personnel that don't believe in a particular dogma. He could even be a good resource for those that are followers of a religion. (If you question that, think of how a non-believer can still gain things from a church service)
 
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What does a non-believer gain from church attendance?

A positive message? Well, assuming you aren't attending a fire & brimstone church, what does a non-believer stand to learn from the positive parts of a holy text that they couldn't deduce on their own? The modern Golden Rule is, "Don't be a dick." Most of us fail at it (some more than others), but the important thing is that you try.

Community/social involvement? Well, if all of those people are believers and you aren't, what is the benefit there?
 
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