OT: The News Thread
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zeke
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1) not sure any of us are atheists.
2) you've never met a more bitter, intolerant group than the one you meet with every sunday.
1) not sure any of us are atheists.
2) you've never met a more bitter, intolerant group than the one you meet with every sunday.
Re: OT - The News Thread
Religion is all about social control. It's all a farce, and there is no benevolent deity waiting for us once we finally shuffle lose of this mortal coil. We just return to the state in which we existed prior to being born. Nothingness.
The only thing that worries is is the ****ed up shit that probably goes on in your brain as it goes hypoxic and dies.
Religion is all about social control. It's all a farce, and there is no benevolent deity waiting for us once we finally shuffle lose of this mortal coil. We just return to the state in which we existed prior to being born. Nothingness.
The only thing that worries is is the ****ed up shit that probably goes on in your brain as it goes hypoxic and dies.
Volcanologist
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Okay...and that makes them "bitter" and "intolerant" how, exactly?
Okay...and that makes them "bitter" and "intolerant" how, exactly?
zeke
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Artnes
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A deity doesn't have to be what those religions claim it to be.
There is a great world outside of it
A deity doesn't have to be what those religions claim it to be.
There is a great world outside of it
theREALkoreaboy
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call them atheists, call them "secular humanists"- it doesnt matter. corky's point is pretty bang on. there are few groups as intolerant on the planet. because religion ISN'T about "social control"- first it was about trying to come up with explanations for the many things prehistoric peoples couldnt explain, and then it was about humanity's historical search for purpose and meaning in our lives so we wouldn't see ourselves as mere instintive animals on this planet eating and fornicating and then dying.
you remove what religion gives to people and you turn into what the "secular humanists" have become- intensely selfish, narcissistic, arrogant individuals who feel that everything is about them. and that breeds the most intolerant individuals you can get. because when it becomes all about YOU and nothing else, you lose the empathy and respect for others that allows us to live as civilized human beings and not just eating, fornicating animals.
call them atheists, call them "secular humanists"- it doesnt matter. corky's point is pretty bang on. there are few groups as intolerant on the planet. because religion ISN'T about "social control"- first it was about trying to come up with explanations for the many things prehistoric peoples couldnt explain, and then it was about humanity's historical search for purpose and meaning in our lives so we wouldn't see ourselves as mere instintive animals on this planet eating and fornicating and then dying.
you remove what religion gives to people and you turn into what the "secular humanists" have become- intensely selfish, narcissistic, arrogant individuals who feel that everything is about them. and that breeds the most intolerant individuals you can get. because when it becomes all about YOU and nothing else, you lose the empathy and respect for others that allows us to live as civilized human beings and not just eating, fornicating animals.
Bleedsblue&white
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When the human race does not need a reward/punishment system in order to treat each other with respect, maybe then we'll be able to think about this species long term.
Religion may very well have been an evolutional necessity, but it's time to let it go. Just the idea that you need some kind of guiding force to help you be a better human being is kind of sad.
When the human race does not need a reward/punishment system in order to treat each other with respect, maybe then we'll be able to think about this species long term.
Religion may very well have been an evolutional necessity, but it's time to let it go. Just the idea that you need some kind of guiding force to help you be a better human being is kind of sad.
corksens
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The vast majority of Christians do practice the teachings of Jesus and the bible.
The only time Christianity makes the news is when someone falters.
See, that's ignorance.
The vast majority of Christians do practice the teachings of Jesus and the bible.
The only time Christianity makes the news is when someone falters.
zeke
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no they don't.
look at yourself.
Jesus told you to sell everything you own, give the money to the poor, and follow him.
and what do you do? you preach about the importance of making money.
no they don't.
look at yourself.
Jesus told you to sell everything you own, give the money to the poor, and follow him.
and what do you do? you preach about the importance of making money.
corksens
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It means if you remove the radicals religion is fine. Which is what I've said from the get-go.
And? What does that mean?
It means if you remove the radicals religion is fine. Which is what I've said from the get-go.
corksens
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Of course literal teachings of the bible are rarely followed. But modern translations often are.
Why do you think I tithe?
You're so transparent.
Of course literal teachings of the bible are rarely followed. But modern translations often are.
Why do you think I tithe?
corksens
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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/study-abroad/100326/south-africa-rape-axe
Goodness...
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/study-abroad/100326/south-africa-rape-axe
Goodness...