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Pastor: I pray that God strikes 'wicked' Conor McGregor down with a lightning bolt!

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#1 ·
Pastor Donnie Romero from the Stedfast Baptist Church in Texas has spoken passionately about Conor McGregor comparing himself to God. He has even gone as far a proclaiming that the UFC Featherweight Champion is “a wicked person”. Romero told his congregation “I’m going to pray that God strikes him down with a lightening bolt”. He also told his followers “shame on you” if you were a fan of the Dubliner.

http://www.shockmansion.com/2016/02/01/video-i-pray-that-god-strikes-this-guy-dead-american-baptist-church-minister-asks-god-to-kill-conor-mcgregor-with-a-lightning-bolt-after-conor-said-hed-knock-jesus-out/


I had a premonition where I saw hell coming down to this thread followed by an apocalyptical padlock. :laugh:
 
#4 ·
Lol, cue the retarded Catholic hate train. You guys are equally as bad as that which you despise. Couldn't come up with an original idea if your lives depended on it.

I'm not even religious but holy crap the rhetoric is overdone. Like a merry go round repeating the same thing going in circles, except you people get an ego boost repeating the stupid rhetoric.
 
#5 ·
Who said anything about catholic specifically? I don't differentiate between fairy tales. They are all equally silly to me and it's silly to me that adults still believe in that.
But hey, go ahead with your ignorant comments, since that clearly makes you feel better about yourself.
 
#6 ·
There is no person on this planet god needs to strike before Conor McGregor.... he is clearly the worse of them all.

This is as bad as Ronda's mother wanting a guy in jail to further Ronda's fighting career.

I'm cool with your religion... But surely anyone can see Pastor Donnie NoForGayJesus is a bad example of it...
 
#17 ·
I don't know why y'all can't see it. It's so ****ing clear. Ido Portal is some poor soul whose body has been possessed by the Dark one. He's here because goober sold his soul for ufc gold.




it's the only thing that makes sense.



y'all need to get right with God while there's still time.
 
#18 ·
Oh, religion is brought up, I guess I should immediately proceed to insult everyone who believes in religion cause of reasons.

The funniest thing to me is people are like "Religious people try and force their beliefs on you. Religious people are idiots" and don't notice the irony.

Atheism is essentially a religion these days with the militant stance people take.
 
#19 · (Edited)
1. Nobody here is insulting people who are religious, they are insulting the religion and the characters in that religion.

2. Nobody here is saying religious people are forcing religion on anybody

3. You don't have to be an atheist to see how ridiculous religion and its practices are. There are many, many people who believe in some form of God/deity who hate religion and find it to be horrible and evil, and or detrimental to society.
 
#38 ·
When people say "atheism is basically a religion" because atheists are pushing there beliefs on to people and generally being insane... why does that make them a religion? Because they are nuts? Thats what makes it comparable to a religion?

Atheists are insane, so atheism = religion?

Stop saying that...

But really... anyone who is either strongly atheists or strongly religious are just people who don't know anything, because none of us know anything, telling people what to believe... and that is insane.

I feel like... if you are a smart, strong individual, you will be in the middle... a slight lean one way or the other is fine, but in this case, the wisest man admits he knows nothing.

But some people do need hope.... they need something to have faith in, i say... let them believe what they like on the other side, People who think their religion gives them the right to tell you what to do... stab them in the chest with a pitchfork.
 
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But really... anyone who is either strongly atheists or strongly religious are just people who don't know anything, because none of us know anything, telling people what to believe... and that is insane.

I feel like... if you are a smart, strong individual, you will be in the middle... a slight lean one way or the other is fine, but in this case, the wisest man admits he knows nothing.
I'd say a wise man doesn't believe in things for which there is literally no evidence at all. It's weird that people will totally agree that unicorns probably aren't real, and they don't worry too much about keeping an open mind on the topic, or who might be offended if they disagree with unicorn-based legislation, but when it comes to religion, we all have to tip toe around, even when religious people are busily altering textbooks and laws to reflect their faith-based views?

Kinda like eating tortured, dead animals. Oh, the justifications.
Go back under your bridge please.
 
#73 ·
@M.C., go through this thread. You, HexRei, slapshot and more have decided "I see the word God in the title, it is now my sworn duty to post about how awful and unintelligent religion is".

Why did you guys have to post that? Did you gain something from it? The thread has absolutely NOTHING to do with religious beliefs or if religion is good or bad, it's about one ridiculously hypocritical guy putting too much stock into MMA.

That's what annoys me about atheism. @ReptilianSlayer's example with eating meat is actually very close to it. He feels it's somewhat his duty to stop people from eating animals. So you and me feel fine going and getting a burger, but he fires in and starts annoying us with "Meat is murder" and we scoff at him. Any mention of eating meat will get his back up, and we dislike that. Yet at the mere presence of seeing God in the title, you and these other guys felt like coming in to post whatever the more condescending analogies you could whip up on the spot were.

And I know this cause I did this. I got the internet in 2007, so I basically spent most of my time on the internet following the rivalries of VenomFangX Vs Amazing Atheist. I was the "rebellious teen" who basically read word for word the bible so I could basically highlight things I found to be contradictions. Now VenomFangX is different because he believes in the fundamental word of the bible. Like he believes Adam and Eve existed on the planet (cause it's not like any religious figure would ever tell a 'parable') and stuff. But none the less, I dedicated large portions of my time to anti-religion. I actually had the audacity to call myself a "realist" as if it was my religious belief. I would say to my religion teacher "Hey, how come God says at Leviticus 18:BlahBlah he says not to lay with your mum, but surely Cain and Able had to do just that?". Poor bird had no reply, like I can erase that by saying "Jesus died, absolving us of said sins" but she had nothing for me in those regards. Why did I feel that burning desire to challenge her beliefs? I believe that beliefs are there to be challenged but I don't believe it's my role to challenge someone else's.

If someone wants to believe something without harming another, then that's fine. Why do I need to challenge that or insult that belief? Who am I to do that? I don't believe in ghosts. I'm not in church or have went through any religious ceremonies. I don't believe in a lot of shit. But I no longer feel like it's my duty to insult or challenge anyone else's belief.
 
#75 ·
The thread is about a pastor and God and religion. Of course we're commenting on it.

You are talking about your body.
Where's the evidence that shows the mind is separate from the body? We know that a person's personality is based on brain function, as is their memories. You can injure your brain and completely alter your personality forever, or lose all your memories. Every single part of "you" is connected to your brain and be altered if your physical brain is altered. Where's the evidence that shows that there's anything BUT a physical body? There is none, and in fact the evidence shows the human body is all that there is.

Your MIND (brain) is dead and does not have life. You are born, as is your brain, as is your life. You then die, your brain dies, and so does your life.

There's zero reason or evidence to show that your body and mind are two different things, as such there's no reason to believe that your mind doesn't simply goes into darkness the same way it was before you were born.
 
#101 ·
Sportsman, I clicked like for the last line lmao. You've got a few gems, I'll give you that.


I already said something about mediums before and with being your bird, I'll leave out my thoughts on that side of stuff cause as I said, I'm hypocritical in defending religion but being against things like mediums.

The blind faith is believing that the person you are praying to is a sentient being. I am like everyone else. I can say what I want but looking around, it's really an absolutely incredible thing that we all just "evolved" by some form of biological password hacker that was running numbers until the right ones clicked to form humanity. The complexity of child birth alone is just absolutely stunning to have developed, so sure, I look at things like that and think "Man, that's really an INSANE piece of growth". Also, we all have the "How are we even here in the first place? What was that FIRST thing?". But really, believing that a sentient being was the father of all of this is really not the only possible conclusion. I feel that explaining the universe would likely be something humanity will never achieve. I imagine teaching humanity the ins and outs of how the universe came to be would be like leaving a the development of a rocket ship in the hands of a single puppy. It just wouldn't happen. Questions like "What if there was no beginning, what if the universe was ALWAYS here?" alone are hard to wrap your head around because every single aspect of the human brain is programmed a certain way and we won't really be able to understand any pattern that doesn't have a beginning.

It's all just absolutely bonkers. But in summary, to believe that you (and me, I'm lying if I said I don't pray myself at times) are actually talking to a living, breathing and sentient being who is taking in out information is nothing other than absolute, undenying blind faith. If you tell me that your bird has PROVEN to you the existence of the after life, bring her to some sort of scientific testing facility and have her prove this scientifically. There was a girl on Youtube who predicted, with absolutely no knowledge of weather effects, the tsunami in Japan down to an absolute TEE just one week before it happened. INCREDIBLE. She then made a second prediction. It didn't happen. Had she left that at one prediction, she would have had what appeared to be the ability to tell the future. It was an incredible prediction. But her second shot at it disproved the spiritual side of things. Sometimes information you receive that can appear to be so real isn't as such, which is why I wouldn't believe in mediums. I've said for years, if no one knows I'm going to a medium, I use a fake name, and not a single person there knows me, I would put every single penny I have in the world down that the medium would not be able to tell me information about me or my life, and even more so they wouldn't even try.
@Voiceless, I haven't seen the video in years but there was a cracking video when I was into my blasphemy days showing Jesus Christ and half of his stories and monikers to be identical or extremely similar to those of prophets and Gods that came before him in other religions, specifically from Egyptian mythos. Here's one video similar to that but in a smaller capacity.



Not that it proves anything about religion. The thing I feel everyone should remember in regards to the bible is that it was only ghostwritten by God, and physically written by man on earth.
 
#102 ·
Erm.

All I'm going to say is, blind belief in trickle down economics, austerity, foreign and domestic policy, war in the middle east, the patriot act, NDAA and other economic and political policies. Blind belief in politicians, the government, scientists, experts and other institutions are far more damaging than blind belief in invsible unicorns or religion.

Religion for the most part is just a scapegoat the public is encouraged to blame to prevent them from focusing on issues that are really important.
 
#115 ·
It's funny how tolerance and forgiveness is a major part of most religions yet no-one seems to be able to actually enact it when someone doesn't share the same belief system!

I'm very much an atheist, simply because I can't see how a world with so much injustice/suffering can be overseen by any being that apparently loves us. It's pretty sick if you really think about it.

I do however see the power of 'faith'. People have achieved truely great things though the power of faith. Whether that is faith in a God, themselves or something else. It's why I would never belittle someones religion - if it helps them be the best they can be then more power to that person.

I will put this here though.



I see a lot of people criticise Atheists for not living life to the full or having a somewhat shallower existence for not having a deeper belief in something. I couldn't agree with that more. If you look at the science you realise your existence is a statistical miracle - you existing is rarer than winning the lottery 10 times in a row! That makes me happy everyday.
 
#124 ·
I'm very much an atheist, simply because I can't see how a world with so much injustice/suffering can be overseen by any being that apparently loves us. It's pretty sick if you really think about it.
There's absolutely no problem being an atheist, as long you don't become as obsessed getting your pov across as much of most religious fanatics.

I understand most people are atheists because they lack more information about what could be out there and I say this because I have lived this. However, since I was very unsettling and thirsty for more information, I went on the field gathering as much of pieces that could be connected to form a reasonable explanation for things like the very doubt you wrote up there.

From everything I've researched, I've found out that the Spiritism would provide the best set of explanations for the reasons we are here and our purpose in this physical dimension and also found out that it is common to former atheists to, at least reckon there's something else after giving a chance to check about those studies, rather than just accepting other religions dogmas.

Actually, atheism is not a religion and Spiritism isn't one either.

If there's one thing I can tell is many tough ups atheists don't mind playing tougher and proudly bragging about being atheists while they are young and healthy, but when confronted with severe ilness, or on the verge of death or seeing someone they love about to expire, they become soft and the fear they have been hiding for so long surfaces and they wish they could believe something if they don't straight start asking for a second chance to the God they lived a life saying they didn't believe.

No worries, though. No matter how many fanatics will say otherwise, God won't punish you for not believing in him or watever is out there.
People should believe what they want and keep being good, most of anything, that's it.

Anyway, for those people who are really curious about all the possibilities, I suggest an alternate path from the regular religion dogmas and a look into the Allan Kardec studies and the Spirit's Book.

http://www.allankardec.com/Allan_Kardec/Le_livre_des_esprits/lesp_us.pdf
 
#119 ·
I dunno about you sucrets but ive never met and atheist that pretended to know the workings of the universe, just those that simply dont believe its the creation of some omnipotent being.

Just because i dont believe in a god doesnt mean i have a scientific understanding of everything that encompasses our universe and worship nature.

I have no idea what this life we have is. Im absolutely fine with that! I have no need to come up with a story for why im here just happy to marvel at the fact i am here!
That may seem intellectually bankrupt to you but to me its just logical.
 
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