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What's always annoyed me is the classic "why do you need an assault rifle?" This annoys me mainly because title 2 weapons are currently illegal in the United States so what they mean to say is "why do you need an AR-15?".

I believe this is a joke, but it can be difficult to tell with many feminists, however I doubt anyone would seriously hold this position from one of the comments. "How is a man allowed to abuse his privilege like this? It's 2016, come on people, a man should not be allowed to hold a position that can influence so many people. What if he tells people to rape children or abuse women? Ever think of that? Step down John, you sexist piece of shit" Like I said I don't believe anyone sincerely holds this position, and I think this whole thing is mocking feminists.

I see what you did there... (smiley face)

What are you implying by your post? Assuming what you are saying is true is believing in a deity without sufficient evidence justified?

I still cannot tell if this is a serious video or not. To paraphrase "I went to a party, so I got raped." So many of these events just do not follow. I was reminded of a funny Key and Peele Video.

Simply restating what you said earlier is not an argument. I believe you are under the impression that substituting words with abstract variables makes what you say true, so I'll try this in your language. X+Y=M so obviously X+X =2X = M and Y+Y =2Y =M Would you be persuaded by this? Do you understand that this is not an argument. I've kept the structure of your quote unquote "logic" yet you still disagree with this. I'll put it another way. 3+3 =6 but magically 2+4=6 and so does 12-6=6. Three ways to get the same outcome yet all made up of different components. Therefore gay marriage is the same as straight marriage. This is obviously not an argument, and I think anybody should clearly be able to understand that.

Literally every example (with the exception of priests raping boys) I gave is Catholic Doctrine promoting evil. Like I'm honestly asking did you not know this? These are all exact quotes stating the churches Doctrine on the issues. Again Obviously their is no support for priests raping boys, and for some reason I couldn't find the Church admitting to the existence of hell, but we all know they believe that. "The Catholic Church believes that artificial contraception is sinful and immoral and may frustrate a divine plan to bring a new life into the world." "The Church opposes same-sex unions based on Genesis 1:25–28" "Catholicism regards life as sacred, and taking any innocent life is immoral and sinful. The Catholic Church uses same principles to condemn euthanasia as it does to condemn abortion." "The root of all this evil is the apostasy from christianity, so marked in some countries, and the acceptance, or influence, of atheism Once given that there is no god, it immediately becomes unjust and impossible for anyone to exact obedience and submission from anyone else. If there is no God. there can be no master. The anarchist conclusion is therefore illogical."

I disagree with that. Whether or not I believe in the threat makes no claims claims on the existence of the threat. Whether or not the likelihood of the threat being real is high or not again makes no claims on the existence of the act of threatening someone. Muslims still believe this being a threat against me, and I still recognize this as a threat against me. Whether or not this threat will actually occur if essentially irrelevant because the actions taken by Muslims and myself alike net the same whether it is true or not.

I don't know about what may or may not constitute terrorism, but I believe by combining several statistics that roughly 60% of worldwide muslims support Sharia law, (and as the religious politically correct love to say their are 1.6 billion muslims) so if my math holds i think somewhere in line with 960 million muslims support sharia law which I would call terrorism, however islam inherently supports hell for nonbelievers as with all major religions so I would consider being muslim as inherently a terrorist act, so I believe their are 1.6 billion terrorists. I'm assuming somebody just disagreed with you on another page, but since you can't downvote the same post twice then he just wanted to give as many downvotes as possible to you, so I'll upvote you this one time to sort of apologize for that jerks actions.

I don't think you have really thought about this because defending the evils of modern day Catholicism would be incredible tough. Care to talk about African AIDS? Basic human rights for gay people? Priests raping boys? What they've said against Right to Die movement? Support for the state? Hell? Do you intend to defend the catholic church's actions? While Catholics are not known to strap a bomb to their chest armed with an M16's they do support evil in many other facets of society.

And just to point out the obvious. I don't think you are really a Muslim unless you support violent Jihad and Sharia law. It's kinda a major part of the koran.

I laughed so hard when I read that. Literally this was my exact thought when I read Flyings post. Why would you go out of your way to say your going to answer something then not answer the actual question.

What a huge claim to make. Spaceballs your entire post astounds me. You realize your "math" equation provides no evidence that gay marriage is destroying marriage, and you could use that eye glass example to justify literally any form of discrimination. But again it provides no evidence that gay marriage is destroying marriage. Did you really not know that gay people have not always had the right to marry, and in fact not more than 15 years ago no gay marriage was recognized by the US government. Did you know that the catholic church still does not recognize gay marriage, as does nearly every denomination of Christianity several exceptions. I hope you have understood that you have not provided any logic.

I agree that feminists are the largest cause of division among genders, but my biggest concern is how does actions like hookup culture impede on heterosexual marriage? The only way I can think of is that married men want to try hook up culture, and in which case these married men must have a bad marriage. I think it would then follow that a bad marriage is less preferable to a society with social acceptance towards actions like hookup culture.

And the implication here is that these things are bad, impede on heterosexual marriage, and these are all started solely by homosexuals? I think that is a pretty big assumption to make.

I guess I agree with most of this post, however knowing you Donnadogsoth I think you are implying some sort of sexual immorality inherently follows from non traditional methods of marriage, and obviously I am referring to gay marriage. Not that you directly made this assumption, however I would disagree with that. I think gay couples love each other just as much as I believe your ideal form of marriage couples (god fearing christian man and subservient woman) would.

I got to agree with dsayers here.

Even though I have a strong dislike towards the idea of democratically voting for politicians. I might actually vote for Deez Nutz. I figure why not try to make a mockery of the political system.

I have mixed feelings about Ayn Rand. Just kidding.

I've been in that situation just two semesters ago that was me. Just a piece of advice for my prof I could bring up free market anarchism without negative consequences, however if you want an A in the class (and this sounds terrible I know but) do not defend peaceful parenting. I faced social ostracization, and what I believe to be a letter grade deduction for daring to say we shouldn't verbally abuse children.

I applaud you for stopping what appears to be an act of senseless violence. I never know what to say in situations like that, and unfortunately if I was in that situation I'm not at a point in my life where I would comfortabley stand up for the owner of the car. However if it was a child that had been punched in the face by a parent then I have no doubt that I would intervene. I'd just be to scared to take the risk, and to stand up in defense of an adult.

To the best of my knowledge the "gay agenda" is just something that right wing conservatives, and proselytizing christians say whenever social change occurs that they don't like. I don't normally hear anarchists bring up the "gay agenda" because it might as well be a non issue. Similar to saying "should blonde people have equal rights?" Obviously any reasonable person would say yes blonde people should have equal rights similar to gay marriage. Well biologically speaking it wouldn't make any claims on homosexuality. Unfortunately I do believe that homosexuals are just as likely to abuse their children as are straight people. My reasoning for this is just that where you put your reproductive organs has little to do with how you raise your children. However I believe I've read a few articles on how gay couples don't hit their children as often, however I am sure they are just as likely to verbally abuse children so I would consider a wash. I believe it is relatively common for gay people to have been abused as children, however I believe it's instances where the parents tried to beat the gay out of the child, and not the other way around where the beatings turned the child gay. I absolutely support the social acceptance of gay, and transgendered people in our communities. I find it deeply disturbing that people can still support the idea of assaulting children. Fortunately it seems to be getting better, however we are far away from social acceptance of peaceful parenting. I've noticed more video's surfacing of people stepping in whenever a parents assaults his child at wal-mart, granted that comments are heavily polarized, I still think this is progress.

I don't believe the dead are applicable under the non agression principle, so treating a corpse as property is fine just as you would treat a rock.

This sounds similar to "lighting up a cigarette is a suicidal act".

I'm certainly not a catholic, and despise a lot of what they do, however I was curious if anyone had any thoughts on the practice of confession. I think it can be positive to express to someone problems that you are facing maybe even therapeutic, and I live in isolation without anyone to do this with in real life, however I hate the idea of the preacher (or pastor or whatever he is) requiring some sort of punishment like 50 hail marries if movies are accurate. I've never been to confession, and I was curious has anyone here been, and what is that experience like, and is their any merit to that practice for atheists? Edit. My bad I should have looked through the forums to see if this topic had already been addressed https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/20893-the-psychology-of-confession/?hl=%2Bcatholic+%2Bconfessionhowever I am still curious if anyone had anymore thoughts on this topic, and maybe a personal experience?