@Thor Disciple
Not sure what you’re trying to prove here. You were caught red-handed lying about the story.

@oddball 623A

@oddball 623A
There was a time before forums when people could talk about events without linking.

Obviously a student would use readily available materials. Someone shouldn’t be penalized for working with time.

It doesn’t matter whether the Bible condemns something if Christians believe Jesus will get them into heaven anyway.

I’m sure it’s quite common to mention an event without reading an article. Scrolling summaries are on news channels.

@Thor Disciple
You pitched a case wherein a kid reconstructed a watch in a way that resembled a bomb, and the authorities getting involved, as some sort of Christian oppression of some innocent child ““inventor.””

And, no. You didn’t repeat a source (ad verbatim or otherwise) because you didn’t post a source. You alluded to a news story from 2015 where you admitted that you didn’t actually know the whole story, but felt comfortable twisting it into some sort of narrative to support your rural dark age theocracy thesis.

Is this what internet atheists do these days? Make up persecution where there is none out of some bizarre need to justify their lack of faith? Like, go ahead and not believe as much as you want. Your relationship (or lack thereof) with God is between you and God. But don’t sit there and fabricate fairy tales about evil-doing Christians unleashing Spanish Inquisition 2.0. Because that is a lie.

Lying is a sin. But as atheists are always ready to remind us: You don’t need the bible to be moral. So like, just don’t do it.

@oddball 623A
I repeated my source exactly. The incident was an example of Texas’ mentality for the whole world to see.

@Thor Disciple
You’ve already been caught red-handed lying through your teeth with regards to the clock issue. So while I would normally just give you the benefit of the doubt, I’m gonna go ahead and just regard your outlandish claims of dark age theocracy with about the same level of seriousness as I would anything else that sounds like it’s copy/pasted from r/Atheism.

@oddball 623A
Rural Texas is more like the town from Children of the Corn than that.

@oddball 623A  
I’m just talking about Texas. I lived in rural Louisiana too and the teachers at least stayed away from religion there. I live in rural Massachusetts now and I’m sure there are a few but they wouldn’t be fanatics like the Christians I knew in northern Texas’ schools. Texan Christians outside of big cities do what suits them and because there’s virtually no alternate viewpoint they’re unquestioned. They won’t stop you from not being a Christian, outside your family, but people will look down on you. Although none of this applies to Jews; there tends to be sucking up to Jews in America.
 
I didn’t read the article so I only left out the part where the student was invited to the White House.

@Thor Disciple  
So rural areas of the United States are all reminiscent of medieval Europe? There are no christian children in public schools where you live? Everything outside of major urban centers is a dark age theocracy?
 
Furthermore, upon researching this “boy who made a clock” thing you brought up, you purposely left a lot out. The kid didn’t ‘invent’ a clock. He disassembled a clock, and reassembled it in a messy way that made it look like an ad hoc explosive. He was arrested, and then released shortly thereafter when it was determined that there was no threat.
 
Oh noooooo, the Christians are oppressing meeeeeeeee

@oddball 623A  
Everyone can’t live in a city big enough to ignore the regional culture. And those cities might have mosques too, but that didn’t stop an urban Texan student from being arrested for inventing a clock.
 
There’s no need to make up stories about Christians, only to relate personal experiences. When they’re the dominant religion somewhere, concepts like, “public school,” mean nothing to them.

@Thor Disciple  
According to everyone from Texas I’ve spoken to: Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, all have big D&D scenes. And local game shops which sell the materials aren’t exactly uncommon, either. So, the idea that Christianity is oppressing tabletop gamers doesn’t appear to hold water.
 
People love making things up about Christians.

@oddball 623A  
Where does he live, Houston?

@Thor Disciple  
I just asked my friend from Texas, who plays D&D weekly. He says that there’s no issue.

@Background Pony #A501  
I don’t understand from where that’s coming. In English we tend to stick to the subject.

@Background Pony #A501  
There’s also the difficulty of playing Dungeons and Dragons in states like Texas with all the Christian fanatics.

Spoken by actual Satan.