But it once again boils down to accepting more risk to placate your personal discomfort with the current practices of modern medicine. Tell me how this is different than vaccine rejection.

Now you are just moving the goalposts when someone brought a gun to a knifefight, in the form of data.

Nope. You don't get to add arbitrary qualifications to still try to stay on top when you have data that directly flies in the face of your claim.

BUT THE EFFECTS OF THAT ARE STILL BEING FELT YOU DOLT.

Garden variety bigotry and prejudice gets thrown out by people as "Religion" by ingrates too moronic to even know their own scripture.

Political issues that have no relation to one's own religious practice are preached from the pulpit to the masses of retarded…

Because in one of the situations, she gets autonomy without the say of a male.

From what money, dude?

No. I actually love dogs. I'm not feel-good inconsistent, though. Breeding an animal who lives just to keep me from being lonely is arrogant as fuck, and the price of that arrogance come home in the shelters. They aren't a wild animal you can just return to their habitat, and no one can afford to just keep feeding…

We are literally talking about an animal, born with out purpose, being put down, because it has no purpose. If you breed animals that serve no purposebut to satisfy a whim of a person, you are going to end up with animals that get put down. Again, the very fact that the dog has to be destroyed because no one wants to…

Who said I'm an atheist? You just need to recognize you are the Scientology of Christianity.

You are also politically tone deaf if you think the radicalization of the GOP wasn't a direct result of getting in bed with the evangelicals in the 80's.

Mostly, I'm amused, since only working dogs (predominantly supplied by breeders ) actually have a purpose.

Most of the rest of these animals are being brought into the world just to serve someone's vanity. They aren't even a real wild animal anymore, but a human construct. I guess, I had ribs last night. That pig was…

Did you somehow life under a rock and miss the far right merging to give religious seasoning to boring old white bigotry? Have you completely miss politics for the last 20 years?

You don't spend a lot of time worrying about the thing that, if subscribed to, is supposed to be a core aspect of you community, personal, and daily life?

Just, "Whatever man, I guess this religion things pretty alright."

Ok. Cool.

He he has the symptoms of significant senile dementia.

The drawing makes it look a bit like a vagina.

..and not pet abandonment, not spaying and neutering, and random people cranking out puppies in their backyard? Interesting.

I know, those egyptians and greeks totally watched too much porn!

That doesn't make it NOT a religion. You can strip the metaphysics out of most religions and boil it down into "don't be a dick", hipsters just like the exoticism of non western religions for that purpose.

I don't see anyone inviting me to study their religion just for funsies.
Implicit in that is if you are going to continue to study it and find value in it, you fit the definition as one of it's adherents; unless you read it for pure entertainment value. If you are seriously reading a religious text and beliving it, …