Originally posted by Omega_M
Not every religion considers sex as a taboo.
hence why the rest aren't bashed as often :p
Omega_M
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Originally posted by Psy-T
hence why the rest aren't bashed as often :p
Not that the bashing seems to have any effect on its followers :p
Psy-T
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Originally posted by Omega_M
Not that the bashing seems to have any effect on its followers :p
indeed, but who cares about them? the point is it gives some of the bashers quick and easy gratification. :D
MrJiveBoJingles
I bash and criticize religions, too, but at the same time I realize that the evangelist's worse nightmare is for people to simply be indifferent to his message rather than attacking or welcoming it.
Attacking him fuels his wet dreams of "persecution for righteousness."
Psy-T
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I bash and criticize religions, too, but at the same time I realize that the evangelist's worse nightmare is for people to simply be indifferent to his message rather than attacking or welcoming it.
Attacking him fuels his wet dreams of "persecution for righteousness."
that's the usual response they get (around here), but once in a few months or so some people feel like having a bash, this time it was me.
Krypton
Another religion bashing thread...
A belief in anything is a belief in something.
MrJiveBoJingles
Sure.
But a belief in some dude in the sky who bothers himself about where on your body you happen to put your hands is rather silly.
Halcyon+On+On
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Originally posted by Krypton
Another religion bashing thread...
A belief in anything is a belief in something.
There is nothing wrong with religion and beliefs. It's an ugly world - always has been - so it's easy to see why people want to believe in some higher being that will deliver them from this place if they follow arbitrary guidelines(???). However, there is something very wrong when people try to shove their ed up sense of ancient morality down your throat and try to convince you that you are an evil creature because you have violated some senseless law that was, for all you know, re-written into history by a lying politician or priest so that he could control his flock of peasants and has been unquestionably followed by the descended flock ever since.
It's not God that sucks. It's not the religion that sucks. It's the idiot people.
Krypton
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Sure.
But a belief in some dude in the sky who bothers himself about where on your body you happen to put your hands is rather silly.
That is because you are taking it completely out of context. These people are offering what they believe to be the path to well-being from that of someone addicted to pornography who wants to stop.
If it were just a dude in the sky, I don't think there would be a Christianity. You're analogy fails. If it were that simply, why would over 1 billion people claim to be a Christian believer?
All I'm saying is, before you put something that billions of people believe in, into the trash can, know the context of the belief. Because otherwise, you look like a tool trying to bash it.
Ed G
In order to Control simple minded people
Krypton
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
There is nothing wrong with religion and beliefs. It's an ugly world - always has been - so it's easy to see why people want to believe in some higher being that will deliver them from this place if they follow arbitrary guidelines(???). However, there is something very wrong when people try to shove their ed up sense of ancient morality down your throat and try to convince you that you are an evil creature because you have violated some senseless law that was, for all you know, re-written into history by a lying politician or priest so that he could control his flock of peasants and has been unquestionably followed by the descended flock ever since.
It's not God that sucks. It's not the religion that sucks. It's the idiot people.
Perhaps. I don't hold to any one religion, but I certainly believe in a higher divine power, outside of the boundaries of space and time and our own physical laws. We simply cannot ever know what is outside of our universe, because our physical laws cannot explain that which is outside of our universe.
That may not tell me whether there is a god or not, but the supernaturality of it all leads me to include the notion of a universe created by a divine intelligence in my lists of answers to the question, "What is the essence of existence?"
