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LaserMonks Offer Prayer, Printer Cartridges
Minnesotan writes "According to a Twincities.com article: If you need discounted inkjet- or laser-printer cartridges, Wisconsin's LaserMonks say they'll give you a doozy of a deal while you 'support prayer for the world'. The Cistercian priests - yes, they're actual Catholic monks - oversee a novel e-commerce enterprise out of their rural abbey. Proceeds go to maintain the monastery and finance charitable works around the world."
Way way overrated.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
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Christ on a pogo stick! Get over it already. I'm personaly an atheist, but I still think it's sort of a neat idea. Spit your venom elsewhere, please.
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periodically heads aloft in a 1954 Piper Tri-Pacer recently donated to the abbey and maintained by private donations
he will use it for travel to business meetings as LaserMonks continues to grow.
McCoy, like his brethren, is allowed no possessions other than a few mementos with deep meaning.
I think this is why some religious organizations have such a bad name. Although they preach humility, piety and charity, as you dig deeper you find pure bred dogs, private aircraft, and a desire not to mix with unwashed masses by flying commercial. Sure they don't own anything, but that is almost like a rich man transferring assets to a proxy to avoid taxes and insure entrance to heaven. These things have to be more than technical requirements.
Combine this with their heavy sales pitch that a purchase will help those less fortunate, and one gets close to the likes of girl scout extortion, the selling of papal indulgences, and claiming to be the protector of the environment while sucking electricity like there is no next generation.
There are a lot of fine religious leaders out there. I have worked with many of them, and the come from all faiths. Most of them would not consider excessive luxuries for themselves before the needs of others. Most of them would take responsibility for they blessings they use, and not hide behind technicalities.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Somehow, the Christians have managed to brainwash themselves into thinking that faith somehow justifies their belief in a deity. Faith is central to the Christian religion, and all "true" Christians are required to have a significant amount of it. After asking a person what their reason for believing in an invisible sky pixie is, the answer is often "faith". I'm not entirely sure how faith became the most common answer to such questions, but one thing is for certain: the Christians who think in this manner have no idea what faith really is, and more importantly, what it implies when one must resort to it.
Faith is defined as belief without evidence that supports the belief. Having faith in the existence of God quite simply means that there is no evidence supporting his existence. That is, after all, exactly what faith is. I find it amusing when a Christian claims that he or she has found irrefutable proof of God, for such a thing would make faith of this sort impossible. Belief isn't faith if the belief has been proven. Seeing as faith is so important to Christianity, proof of the existence of God would actually be rather detrimental to their principles.
Consider the statement "I believe because I have faith." I personally have encountered this statement many times when arguing with Christians. Let's examine this reasoning more closely. If faith is defined as belief without evidence, then the statement can be rewritten as, "I believe because I believe without evidence," which essentially means, "I believe because I believe." This is purely circular reasoning. The same kind of logic is used by five-year-olds when asked a "why" question. Ask a child of that age why he did a certain thing, and he may very well answer "Because," and nothing more. Ask him, "because why?", and he will again reply with, "Because." The same circular logic is used by Christians when answering why questions with faith. Faith, therefore, is not an answer of any kind to questions concerning the reasons for religious belief.
Suppose for a minute that faith did somehow justify a belief in God. If it can be used as reasoning for the belief in one god, then why not another? If having faith in the Christian god somehow makes the belief in him valid, then wouldn't it also validate a belief in Zeus, Odin, or Thor? If Christians are supported in their beliefs, then so are members of every other religion with a belief in a deity.
The only reason that faith is a major part of Christianity is that there simply is no evidence for the existence of God. Christians must resort to faith because there is, and never will be, proof of God. If there were, then they would be using it in their arguments, not just depending on blind, baseless, and irrational dogmatic beliefs.
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