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Eons ago, during a period where I was on the market, I tried making an eHarmony account. They rejected/banned me right off the bat without explaining why. Something about the answers I gave during the lengthy profile creation process caused them to give up on me with no explanation, and no recourse.

I was told once that if you are a godless heathen then they will refuse to create your profile.
I am not saying that is why they rejected you, but it might be.
For the record, I personally identify as a recovering Catholic, and a godless heathen.

Netflix: Godless

This. I've got one episode to go, and it's a good, nasty Western. My wife votes for Red Oaks and Mozart in the Jungle. Both of us also liked Errol Morris' Wormwood.

Books: Black Widow and House of Spies by Daniel Silva
Film: John Wick Chapter 2
TV: haha, none

Netflix: Godless

I pity all the Godless communist hippy snowflakes who hate long, warm evenings in the spring and summer.

Wait, how will Jesus know how much I want those little kids to eat or have Christmas?

Facebook is obviously a godless heathen!

That Moore is an upstanding and moral christian, and all Democrats are godless heathens seeking to throw God Fearing Republicans into the maw of hell through their satanic government policies :)

Good luck with your quarter watt pirate AM station. Hint: Nobody listens, nobody cares.

That's not CB. 'CItizens band' has a meaning.

The diaper heads aren't looking to attract unwanted attention and generally don't like 'godless commies'. I suggest you look elsewhere.

This is why it is so important that those in authority are approachable, that they believe those who come to them, and that they handle the matter properly. Otherwise this is what we get, court of the internet trials with literally zero evidence.

Now you know DNS-and-Bind only applies this reasoning to conservative, right-wing, individuals, who are properly deserving of a complete exoneration in all circumstances because any and all complaints about their malfeasance are clearly and solely manufactured deceits from the vile and dishonest left-wing traitors who hate America.

We know this is true, because of DNS-and-Bind's support for Roy Moore himself. DNS-and-Bind reasons that Moore's edifice to the Ten Commandments is a sacred object, and if it were in any way at all possibly offensive to God, then surely he would have been struck down. Instead? He will be elected to the highest of offices with the full and complete support of all right-thinking Alabamians. And also Donald Trump. Would God let a man be so prosperous and wealthy if he were not righteous and just? Of course not! No way about it. Thus it is the will of the Almighty that he rule us with his divine right! It is the mandate of Heaven.

Now bow down and show your obeisance, you godless heathen AmiMoJo, you are clearly contemptible, but if you grovel sufficiently, it is possible the infinite Mercy will spare you the eternal damnation you so richly deserve.

oh well.

So it is an easy push to villify them.
Those godless Democrats are trying to push an atheist addenda source with those few people who happen to be democrats and push an atheist adgenda.

Those idiot republicans who are trying to bring the country back a century. Reference by those few people pushing a racist agenda who have red trump hats.

If you are on the side of the Democrats you may be a god fearing individual and you realize that these people are not representative of you but a subset group.

If you are a Republican however you are very inclusive and tolerant, you see the racist as not representative of you and the republicans on whole.

We see the news headlines liberals/conservatives are doing something you don’t like. Not a subset of the group is doing something you don’t like. So it just reinforces tribalism tendencies that we have and bypass common sense and you make sure those other guys don’t get power, because they are far more dangerous then your side is.

That's absolutely true. We force brick and mortar retailers to build more parking than the market thinks is necessary, and we mandate minimum setbacks, maximum floor area ratios, and height limits, and if stores don't meet these arbitrary requirements that drive up their building costs and property taxes, we don't let them build at all.

I encourage you to look up pictures of Kowloon from before China tore it down. Without those godless commie job-killing regulations, that's what happens.

Did you ever notice that in the capitalist "free" market first world that people are never satisfied? No matter how much technology progresses we are never happy. We cannot be. The greatest enemy of the system is contentment. Being ok with what you have means you need no more. "The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want." You see, this means that when the Lord is your Shepard, you shall not be in want - you shall be content. "Thou shall not covet your neighbor's ass..." do not lust after what belongs to your neighbor. "One cannot love God and Money, he must hate one and love the other". The lust for money is a lust for power for what good is money except for influence over another who shares insatiable desire? Our whole world is fueled by this discontent, this insatiable want that no matter how much we have, its never enough. We have become godless idolators who live to collect more and more until ultimately we die. Another wasted life. Do we not know that we are on the road to destruction? Do we not know that all the great kingdoms before us, Rome, Spain, Great Britain, Athens and others like them all fell for the same reasons? The lust for comfort makes a man weak. There is a reason why it works that way. Find that reason and you'll find the truth.

Sometimes you need what the Vatican called a "Devil's advocate" when considering whether to venerate person as a saint.

Heaven knows that the late Christopher Hitchens was "one step above a stalker" of Anjezë Bojaxhiu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

On the other hand, Mother Teresa became an object of unquestioning cult veneration while living and after her passing. Her personal sacrifice, her willingness to work with the sickest of the sick among the poorest of the poor, what saintliness. "Mother Teresa" becomes a throw-away line in a Sunday sermon.

Maybe, just maybe, this saintly lady had her own obsessions. She was running a hospice, after all, but maybe her practice could have made better use of pain-relief medication rather than having end-stage cancer patients in agony, telling them that their suffering is a virtuous imitation of Christ?

So why do I "believe" the godless Mr. Hitchens instead of Catholic Christian believers regarding Mother Teresa? Maybe I have heard many accounts as well as experienced for myself where belief becomes an ideology not properly tempered by common sense? Don't tell that patient that their indescribable pain is making them go to Heaven, give them some morphine, please! Yes, Mr. Hitchens may have been crazy to doubt Mother Teresa's goodness, but there is that trope that crazy people sometimes utter truths, not just that, warnings one ought to heed.

So what is so wrong about "making her a saint." For all of Hitch's knocks, Mother Teresa is in Heaven for all I am able to know and for all I am permitted to judge. On the other hand, the rush-to-sainthood on her, in light of suppressing her human frailties, weakens the moral authority of the Vatican with respect to its role in steering others towards becoming unheralded saints. I am told the Vatican cut corners in this process (like Elon getting his Model 3 line running?) by leaving out the Devil's advocate.

OK, I have played out the analogy of Missionaries of Charities to a car, but one can get the idea. Father Elon is shepherding us towards our de-carbonized transportation Future, but there is an Amen Corner of supporters who cannot admit to any of his shortcomings. Do you think that the Niedermeyers (and Hitchens) are doing a service in that their absence, there will be no questioning taking place?

It would be interesting to get a slashdot poll, but from what I've seen over the years, most slashdot readers appear to cater to the godless left, except when it comes to the topic of discrimination. Gender, Color... for what ever reason they don't seem to play along with the politically correct narrative you would except. Its like watching a backwoods blue collar worker vote democrat due to union loyalty... it makes sense, but its still a little shocking.

only *ALLOW* slavery of non-white/non-christians, since they were godless heathens who were akin to farm animals.

This was accepted and practiced by some, but not all colonies, which eventually lead to the political conflict which eventually escalated into the Civil War some 1-2 centuries later.

Very interesting read for those of you who want to know the political, economic, and social ramifications of this decision and its effects on shaping America (including, the Alamo!)

Yes. separation of church and state in the west was implemented first by Christians. and before that Christians did not have a separation of Church and state. That was my point.

There are countries like this and like that. Homosexuality was illegal in Germany till mis 1980s. When were the relevant laws in the US removed?

You are constantly mixing up social development with religion. Both are two different things. Islam does not forbid homosexuality, Some islamic countries however might. But you mix it up constantly and blame islam. Instead of blaming the not working democracy or tyrannic oppression of the king or what ever.

I see no difference if the catholic church influences a democratic state to make homosexuality illegal versus an islamic imam influencing his society doing so.

The countries we are talking about, just take all of those with a majourity of islamic religion: they would be exactly the same if they would be christian or had any other religion! Because they are simply just 150 - 300 years out of the middle ages. They simply are few hundred years in mental/social development behind. When the Shah came back to Iran in the 1950s, the country was on the exact same level as in the year 500, except for a few hundred cars in Teheran.

The problems there are social, humanistic of nature and not of religion nature. Claiming otherwise only shows that you have no clue about religions. Or history.

I said liberal democracy is simply not compatible with Islam. Democracy that violates the rights of minorities and that violates individual liberties, is, of course, compatible with Islam.
Yeah, and where in the Quoran is that written? Hu? That is your _idiotic_ opinion, and not a fact that comes from any interpretation of the religion.

Atheism is illegal in several of those countries That was true all over in Europe under christian reign, too! Worse than a Pagan is a godless person as he is the true vessel of demons/satan ... and much harder to convert.

So all your arguments like: but look, there homosexuality is banned, there atheism is banned all that: has nothing too do with the religion called Islam.

It has to do with power! People and structures that have power don't want to lose it. This are partly imams and partly nobility. Partly terrorists groups payed by men in the back.

And instead of polluting your readers minds with the hate of your ignorance: I suggest to visit such countries and look for your self. Or check youtube and watch some documentaries. E.g. Morocco/Marocco ... how ever they mostly speak french there ;)

Anti-socialists don't need sources. What they say is automatically true because they are not godless pinko communists.

Thanks for volunteering yourself, Mr. Vice President. Unfortunately due to NASA budget cuts to focus on important things such as building a wall, we can only afford a one way trip. There is room for your running mate and his entire family, thankfully. Bonus, there aren't any godless homosexuals on the moon to make you uncomfortable as they try to buy a wedding cake.

"Ass-holes at the Atlantic and Buzzfeed, that think Google and Facebook need to think for us, failed us."

So you strike a note for critical thinking, then set no standards on how a news aggregator should act, attacking those that put those thoughts forward as assholes.

You don' t stand as any sort of good proof of someone who can self-moderate their own critical thinking that you are supposed to have--news is different than rumor and lies. Algorithms that use problem sources, much less can't recognize legit stories from real ones, as proofed by the end results to the early coverage proved, are failures of modeling. You, however, set no standards that set them apart and don't even comprehend the difference much less the argument.

You might of well have made an argument that because you have blood and move, you are alive and thus a chicken. In a year, we won't be able to tell online anymore the difference between you and an AI.

I, for one, will welcome our machining overlords, as they will make the likes of you irrelevant as they drown out your voices for those of foreign government and the resources of the elite. What a truly godly world of the godless you advocate with your advocation of fake facts and pliable, fake news.

Back in the day it was required for every man to practice with the longbow every Sunday. Contemporary Switzerland shows that this still works. Who can't be trusted with guns and ammunition is godless communist democracies.