Captain Picard Facepalm

Well, thoses two are the most powerful social forces at the moment, and keeping them in balance is the best we can for now.

Why even bother, just hit the upvote button and move on to the next one on the conveyor belt

Sorry you have to work with us bro, but freedoms yo.

atheism leads to communism libtard there's evidence stalin and hitler were atheists ergo all atheists were commies

Astrophysicist Carl Sagan said, “An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.”

Those are not followers of Christ, not sure what those are. They might say Christian, but they ain't.

No, they literally aren't. The reject the Nicene Creed, effectively making them non-Christian. Almost all of their theology goes against what the Early Church Fathers have been teaching for the last 2000 years.
Calling yourself Christian without at least believing in the ideas of Christianity does not make you a Christian: it makes you a liar.

Thanks for your amazing rebuttal

there was no need.you literally made my point by pointing to the metric that YOU use,(or to be fair,your religion/church) to judge another Christian as being a "real" Christian.

There's no problem in calling out non-Christians when they are. As an example, many Christians (Even in Protestant denominations) denounce Mormons as a lot of their views are explicitly non-Christian.
I'm willing to call even the most hardcore of Baptists fellow Christians (Obviously), however, I am not willing to call the heretics that are members of the Westboro Baptist Church Christians

How do they violate the Nicene Creed?

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, the maker of heaven and earth, of things visible and invisible. (?)

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the begotten of God the Father, the Only-begotten, that is of the essence of the Father. (X, rejection of Trinity)

God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten and not made; of the very same nature of the Father, by Whom all things came into being, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. (Don’t know, but probably X)

Who for us humanity and for our salvation came down from heaven, was incarnate, was made human, was born perfectly of the holy virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. (X, rejection of the Holiness of the Most Holy Theotokos, rejection of the sinlessness of certain people)

By whom He took body, soul, and mind, and everything that is in man, truly and not in semblance. (?)

He suffered, was crucified, was buried, rose again on the third day, ascended into heaven with the same body, [and] sat at the right hand of the Father. (?)

He is to come with the same body and with the glory of the Father, to judge the living and the dead; of His kingdom there is no end. (?)

We believe in the Holy Spirit, in the uncreated and the perfect; Who spoke through the Law, prophets, and Gospels; Who came down upon the Jordan, preached through the apostles, and lived in the saints. (X, rejection of Trinity)

We believe also in only One, Universal, Apostolic, and [Holy] Church; in one baptism in repentance, for the remission, and forgiveness of sins; and in the resurrection of the dead, in the everlasting judgement of souls and bodies, and the Kingdom of Heaven and in the everlasting life. (X, rejection of Apostolic Succession and legitimacy of Early Church)

All question marks mean that they agree with it.

Ahh, so since they're Protestents they're not Christian?

You guys crack me up, usually I have to deal with them here claiming Catholics aren't Christian, even after I remind them they invented the damn thing.

The words you posted, any of them in the Bible, including the fake additions added on by the Son of Jackal seated in Rome who stole the religion of the Chosen and called it their own, but not before corrupting it beyond recognition?

ONLY begotten? And what of the Nephilim?
Apolostolic Succesion? You mean like that piece of shit rat bastard Peter who betrayed your God in the flesh Jesus three, THREE, T-H-R-E-E times in one night as He predicted, only to say, "Yo, but he's cool with it, he even made me capo now" or Saul/Paul butcher of Christians who stole the crown for himself and created the con to corrupt it, also as predicted?
From one to the other and all in between, there's a reason none of it is in the Bible. Can you guess why? (HINT: Because it isn't)

In the meantime, look at Church history and how it used to treat "sinners." Makes those placard wavers look like Mother Theresa.

Not because they are Protestants (They don't even follow Lutheran or even actual Baptist theology), but because they are heretical. Their beliefs contradict what the Bible says.
And I don't care about what some Pope added, or what the Catholics believe about Saint Peter, because I'm not Catholic. Catholics also didn't "invent" Christianity. Hell, they didn't even put the original Bible together; you can thank the Greek Orthodox for that. There's also plenty of evidence that the Catholics schismed in 1054.

The Nicene Creed was called the Nicene Creed because it was adopted in the city of Nicaea by the First Council of Nicaea in 325 which also compiled the Bible.

You have said nothing to prove those Christians in that pic aren't Christians.
Most folks can't recite the Nicene Creed, and, as you yourself have shown, are unaware of its origins, even though that is in its name.
So whether they stick to its finer points is irrelevent.

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Apparently I mixed something up, because it was to my belief that the Orthodox put the Bible together (Original New Testament is Greek), and that the Nicene Creed is called that because it was made in the city of Nicaea, Byzantium under the jurisdiction of Saint Constantine (verneated only in Orthodox churches). Also, all the Ecumenical Councils improving on it (originally way too anti-Arian) we’re under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church
I explained why the reject the Nicene Creed. If you reject it, logically you aren’t a Christian. -> To your original comment

You seem to throw a lot of accusations out for no apparent reason. I’ve done my homework on this topic
And you have to stick to its finer points. Everything in the Nicene Creed is worded extremely precisely, and every line is supported by Scripture. Every point is a hallmark of what Christians should believe, and every word matters. Since you apparently know a lot about this Creed, you should remember that each statement was woven to stop the spread of Arianism and other similar Early Church heresies. You can’t reject any part of it

Council of Nicea, 325 AD, authorized by Emperor Constantine.
Google is your friend.

What parts contradict what?
And it isn't copy-paste lol.

Did I not say that? Anyway, we’re talking about 2 different things. You’re bringing up facts about it, while I’m talking about how the Westboro’s reject it.

No, you're talking about how the Wesboros' actions are not in keeping with the Creed, when what that Creed itself established was used as justification for millenia of torture, murder, invasion, exploitation, rape, slavery, and other sorts of abuse not only to people of other religions, but to other Christians as well.

There is no documentation you can provide showing Westoboro officially rejecting anything of it. They ARE - like it or not - a Church.

What the Creed established was the fundamental beliefs of Christians. Find me How any part of the Nicene Creed justifies any bad action.
And through their beliefs (Primitive Baptist), you can find what parts of the Creed they deny.

The Creed is still irrelevent.
They're Christians, doing what Christians have always done minus the burning at the stake. Yeah, I don't like it either.

Did you look up why it's called the Nicene Creed & why it was adopted by the Council of Nicea when they compiled the Bible and created the Church?

The Creed is relevant. Without it, there would be no definition for what a Christian believes in. Since the Westboro Baptist Church don't believe in half of it, then they aren't Christian
I don't know why you keep asking about the information behind the Creed, but here you go (Idc if it's bait):
In 325 AD, Arianism (Non-Trinitarianism) was being a widespread problem. To counteract the rise of this, the Early Church Fathers organized a meeting of all the Church bishops at the time. The main purpose of this was to create a fundamental belief statement for ALL Christians to follow and believe in, while rejecting and making Arianism obsolete. They created the Creed to stop heresies. I don't know why you're bringing it up so much.
The Bible wasn't compiled in 325 A.D. Nicaea; it was compiled much sooner than that.

Copypastes without citin the source, then leaves off the second part in order to contradict it.

Can you stop lying? God don't like it.

Hyper-belief in limited atonement

1) Because if Christ’s Resurrection is null and void should God decide on it, then it renders Christ as less than the Father, making Christ not God
2) If Christ’s Resurection was not for the sins of all, then it
a. Failed the prophesies in the OT
b. Made the Resurrection a failure, as sin did not be fully forgiven (this has its own theological implications)
Ironically, Calvinists accept the Trinity on word. I don’t think it holds up with their other doctrine though.

They do, but that theologically doesn’t make any sense.

I've seen fake Christians riling up homosexuals during the day at Decadence and switching to their leather jock straps at night to party. Crowdsondemand.com

Don't ask...

HAha, the sad sap.

Did you ever see Mr Savethuchildrenz's TWO memes mocking that poor kid whose folks threw a party at a pizza place and no classmates showed? Grind wanted to make it template! Yeah, big man mocking a lonely child, calling him "loser"

A pattern emerges here.....

When your girlfriend wants to take a vacation and finds out a festival is happening in New Orleans, but neither of you bother to read what the festival is about...

You're one heck of a multi tasker.

I don't even know when you slept between Christmas Eve and Day and before and after, because you were all gonzo on your extended pony cardiac arrest for days.
Then you claimed you were at a party at your family's and your gf was there, for two days straight, no less.

Santa not give you enough toys to play with?

Look up Decadence. Believe it or not, I've been on more than one date with my gf.

But it's such a big word, Mr Purity Ring.

"Believe it or not, I've been on more than one date with my gf."

What are you, 10?

"Muh sock puppet gf thinks I'm so hot, I've been on an actual date with her, yup."

But muh intercouse!

If only atheists would adhere to their own worldview. Oh, I forgot, they cannot.

Which has no basis in logic. For every effect, there must be a cause. You deny this fact and premise of logic!

No basis is what logic? That the GodS created the universe, and then maybe 3500 one of them took to liking one small group of people in one tiny obscure heap of sand and tormented them for 1500 years, then disappeared 2000 years ago, but if you don't worship him even though you're most likely not one of those people he picked you will tortured forever in fire?

Yeah, nice logic there.
It's also a nice heap of bull.

Let me throw a little gasoline on the fire, because the character limit won't let me type out the 10,000 page essay required.

1) Theoretical physics supports the idea of a multidimensional reality. We can complete the Unified Field Theory if we consider more than 3 spatial dimensions. This is not the same as Hugh Everett's theory that for every quantum event a copy of the entire universe is formed for each possibility. Theoretical physics also supports the idea of extradimensional entities able to do things that would appear to be magic or miracles due to our limited dimensional perceptions.
2) To give a scientific answer to where God and the angles lived, in 1888 A.T.Schofield wrote Another World where he proposed that God and spirits exist in 4th dimensional space. In 1893 Arthur Willink wrote The World of the Unseen where he said 4th dimensional space wasn't good enough, it had to be infinite dimensional space. Previous religious writings could also indicate other dimensions, such as when Jesus told the story of the rich man and the beggar, where Abraham said there was a great "gulf" between them that could not be crossed either way. As well as other religions talking about higher levels of existence.
3) In Genesis, it talks about God intentionally separating mankind, who was working together, speaking one language. This was done because this world is a proving ground, not a paradise. People are here to be tested. And separating them by language and culture helps with their testing. Having them unify under one religion would also have affected God's test, so it's likely he appeared to different people in different forms. One cartoonist had God saying, "What can I say. I love cosplay."
4) In the First Commandment, God himself says he's not the only one of his kind. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me, for I am a jealous god". The "jealous" part of the translation is often left out due to church politics. However, he is the primary architect of this universe, and claims it as his own.
5) 2000 years ago we saw a shift from the Old Testament "eye for an eye" to Jesus telling people to chill out. It was a change in policy by the extradimensional entity which moved us into a new phase of testing.

Want to bend the space/time fabric? Take a rectangular box. Measure Length, Width, Height. Now turn the box on its side. Measure Length, Width, Height. Now turn the box on its end. Measure Length, Width, Height.
Congratulations. You have bent the very fabric of space/time.

That's all dimensions are, the simplest way to gain a relatively complete measurement of an object utilizing the simplest basic angles to gain said complete(-ish) measurements. Want an extra dimension? Cool, throw in diagonals. More? Get an a pentangonal object of enequal sides and make up as many dimensions as you want to try to accurately measure that baby. Round off one corner and measure it with that if you really want to dazzle your colleagues.

Not all scientific theory is valid (they are, after all, called "theory" for a reason). Some has validity, some is silly 'science' whipped up by physicists who have to warrant earning research grants so they can then have the creds to write stupid books about the ridiculous notions they've conjured because no one can disprove them despite the utterly ridiculous stupidity they cough. You know, like with religion.

Unless Abraham had a Physics degree whose name got lost in the translation from the original Sumeri-, excuse me, Hebrew, no. In fact, as with what I said above, extra dimensions & Abe don't mean a thing.

The Creation story is not about one God. "And we shall create them in our image..." was not a homage to Christians in the future (oooh, time travel!). Nor is it Hebrew from who they got it from, nor Babylonian who they got it from, nor Sumerian who they got it from, nor Egyptian who they got it from, but rather from the followers of the Great Serpent God of Knowledge, the Good God in the Genesis story, the one whose bestie got all jealous over their pet apes partaking of the fruit from which the Gods got their knowledge and cast them out in anger, the world being ruled by evil (Him) ever since. Skip that hippy "God is a real mellow fellow" bs, he's a big bad mofo.

Yahweh is a tribal God, plain and simple. That's why he was the MAIN God of one rather small group of people. A rather larger group of people who gained control over the Jews after conquering Babylon introduced them to the concept of a one God. The final battle between good and evil, the afterlife, soul, Heaven and Hell - heck, the concept AND word "Paradise" (Pairidaeza) are Iranian.

If God is real, he's an apostle of Ahura Mazda, and His faith is Zoroastrianism.