friendlyatheist asked: I'm not telling anyone who they are. It is the bible, specifically Jesus who said Christians have the responsibility to proselytize.

Study the bible a bit more and then you might be able to give an informed opinion on the matter.

In reason:
-FA

Tellin’ people what to do again. I have no interest in studying the Bible because I’m not Christian. And I never tried to quote the Bible or apply reasoning from it—that was you, honey. Also, can I just—”and then you might be able to give an informed opinion on the matter.” Really? I mean, beyond the truly galling condescension, it’s quite something to be told by an atheist to school myself on the Bible.

Seriously though, how can you possibly say “I’m not telling anyone who they are” while at the same time bitching at somebody who doesn’t follow the “Jesus told Christians to proselytize” bits of the Bible for not following those bits because apparently all Christians have to do what the Bible says. You are woefully misinformed about Christians if you think they should follow everything the Bible says in order to be Christians. I’ll toss out the um, hi, I think people are allowed to define themselves, thanks, argument again. Their reasoning may be totally contradictory to you, but is that really your problem? After all, if the “nice” Christians who don’t follow the Bible strictly are the Christians who aren’t Christians (if that’s what you’re saying), then do atheists really need to be picking on them? They’re a hell of a lot more on the atheistic, reason- and science-based side than by-the-Book Christians. I didn’t realize you believed that the world was divided into good (atheists) and evil (theists).

"A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics."

Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via cocknbull)

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Jon Stewart and Kristen Schaal give examples of how Republicans can link abortions to just about any program they want to de-fund.

KRISTEN:	Our taxes are going to abortions in ways no one is even talking about.
JON:	Well, let's talk about it now. How?
KRISTEN:	Well, for starters, we have to cut funding for fire departments.
JON:	Why would that be?
KRISTEN:	Helllloooo? What if an abortion clinic catches fire, and firefighters put it out, paving the way for more abortions? Abortionist firefighters, paid for with our taxpayer dollars.
JON:	Well that's like saying we need to de-fund the Coast Guard because abortion providers go to the beach.
KRISTEN:	I hadn't even thought of that. But you're right -- no more Coast Guard! Give me another. This is fun.
JON:	F.A.A.
KRISTEN:	Mile-High Club. Number one cause of unwanted pregnancies between Newark and LAX.
JON:	Mining Safety Commission.
KRISTEN:	Mile-BELOW Club.
JON:	Library of Congress.
KRISTEN:	Sexy librarians.
JON:	NASA.
KRISTEN:	Space abortions!
JON:	Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
KRISTEN:	Jon, please. I'm getting pregnant just listening to you.

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Friendly Atheist: When atheists try to convince me I'm wrong for being Christian →

friendlyatheist:

throwawayregrets:

I get so annoyed because I’m sorry but I’m very respectful & I never said anything bad to you or tried to change your beliefs

why are you disrespecting mine? don’t you get offended when people try to convince you to believe in God?

Then I assume you are offended by the…

So, and I know this has been hashed out before, but let me get this straight: all people who call themselves Christians even if they don’t follow all parts of the Bible either shouldn’t call themselves Christians because they don’t know what the Bible means or shouldn’t call themselves Christians because they are implicit in the meaning of the Bible even if they don’t follow it… Okay, never mind, I don’t get this at all. Basically, you’re telling people who they are. How presumptuous! I’m pretty sure that people are allowed to define themselves. Being a Christian means whatever people think it means. There’s no set definition for Christianity or, for that matter, atheism or agnosticism or queerness or blackness or any possible categorization or label people could put on themselves. I agree with throwawayregrets: if you’re defining her identity then you’re disrespecting her and trying to change her beliefs. Even if she was doing that to you—which, good for her, she’s not—she wouldn’t deserve for you to do it to her. Just because there’s a standard net of belief in place for Christians doesn’t mean Christians can all be held to every single one of those beliefs. Atheists are kinda lucky because they have less contradictory stuff to believe in. They don’t have to deal with a long and confusing tradition carried out in multiple languages over thousands of years. Well, that may not be true, since the religion of atheism is science (if you will, which you probably won’t), and actually, it does have a long a confusing tradition carried out in multiple languages over thousands of years… but I’m getting away from the point, which is that everybody picks and chooses, even atheists, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

friendlyatheist:

“In my 19 years not once have I ever been confronted by an individual who realized independently that I was raised by a gay couple. And you know why? Because the sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.”

Let's go to the mall!: Things I wish D.A.R.E. had told me about smoking: →

• okay, kid, here’s the deal
• you are not going to become a smoker after one cigarette
• that’s a myth
• but smoking is still bad
• you’re going to have a really hard time remembering that when you’re feeling like Don Draper kicked back on Mardi Gras with one of your dad’s cigars
• 
  
• and…

This is on my list of Top Ten Tumblr Posts In The History Of Tumblr Oh My Fucking God I Died Of Laughter, Robin I Love You it’s a very specific list shh

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genderbitch:

serenity-fails:

Inception sex swap! I did this last year and it is still one of my favorite things. Mostly Eames, though, because in my head canon Eames is so very genderqueer <3

Oh wow this is cool.

I’m actually having trouble iding some of the chars. I think cuz I’m bad at remembering characters.

Left to right:

Saito, Arthur, Ariadne, Cobb, Mal, Yusuf, Eames, Fischer.

oh my god, Yusuf is SO CUTE

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i just, i need to reblog this again, this was my girlfriend’s suggestion

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~~~~~~~~IT’S PERFECT~~~~~~~~~

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romulan women are not like vulcan females.: Unpopular fandom opinion: →

foreheadtittaes:

• I don’t understand the aversion to het pairings.
• I understand having a preference for dude!slash and dicks
• But why is it okay to say things like “EWW WHAT EVEN IS STRAIGHT SEX GET IT AWAY” or “YOU DON’T EVEN GO HERE, VAGINAS LOLOL”
• It seems like some slashers hold the belief that male/male…

this. thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis.

That moment when you realize that your fic is going to have to have at least 7 parts

robin-sparkles:

I AM DANCING AROUND MY HOUSE SCARIN MY CATS WHATEVER WHATEVER I DO WHAT I WANT OH YEAHHHHHHH

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