Dogma Debater Gifts

"Don't punish yourself for who you are. That's God's job."

"I imagine the men who wrote the Bible giggled every time they wrote 'I am the lord'."

Religion, This End Up

'Today's sermon is on Eve and Adam....'

'Just ask yourself -- Are you better off now than you were two thousand years ago?'

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Dialogue

"You seem troubled, Pastor. Is anything worrying you...I mean aside from the sins of the world, the vanity of humankind, man's inhumanity to man..."

"Now that's a win."

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

"I see you're back from church. What was cherry-picked for you today?"

"That's six 'noes' and one 'aye', the ayes have it"

"Mrs. Marsha Mullhouse, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, asks, "Are You subject to the laws of physics, or are the laws of physics subject to You?"

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

'Are you sure You can be objective? -After all, You did CREATE them.'

"I wonder how many people are claiming to be your messiah right now?"

"Any distinguishing 'PARSONAL' characteristics?"

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

"Mr. Pope, please give this summons to your boss. The prosecutor wants to know how god can allow so much misery."

"I understand the allure of religion. It offers hope in a world that's often cruel and unfair. But religion's promises have been consistently proven false. Science, on the other hand, has actually delivered the things that improve human life...."

"He really isn't bad, per se, but he is kind of a jerk."

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

"If everything is God's will, tell me again why I need to study for exams?"

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

"How do I know God is not real? For the same reason I know people on TV can't see me."

You're on "Ask Sadie." What's your problem?! Super delegates. A candidate could win the most votes in the primaries but lose anyway of the superdelegates want someone else! Can you believe that? Oh stop yer sniveling. In my day, the parties chose candidates in smoke-filled backrooms without even pretending the people get a vote. At least this charade gets you out of the house. Gets the blood pumping. I guess.

A not-so-happy God, with the Humans, sticking an Eviction Notice to the Earth

Like Minded

"I'm an agnostic now that I've started having self doubts."

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

Debating Society. I can accept that money is speech as long as we can agree that some spending is like yelling fire in a theater.

The only Universal Truths that all religions agree upon.

"Having completed the formation of the earth, on the seventh day the Lord rested. Then, on the eighth day, the Lord said, 'Let there be problems.' And there were problems."