Well, lot of people still beleive in 9/11 was done by some rich guy hiding in a cave with all the proof of the contrary. It doesnt matter, there is always been a group disconnected from reality, only now the science of mass mind-control is much scarier.
I'm a Born-Again Christian myself, but I'm a big proponent of teaching Comparative Religion in schools (as they used to, at least in the more privileged private schools). Why?(1) Religious literature is important historically. (Think the 'Divine right of kings', the founding of Israel after WWII, or the beliefs of the American founding fathers - and no, I don't believe they were all Christians.)(2) Religious literature is important for fostering the understanding of world literature.(3) Studying religion is important sociologically, for understanding the similarities and differences between different cultures.(4) I think it's important that young people choose their own religion (or 'none of the above') based on their own knowledge and experience. I don't believe indoctrination ever does anyone any good, and it often causes great harm.Obviously, I am confident that Christianity will win out in a free marketplace of ideas. But the important thing is that we first HAVE a free marketplace of ideas.
> Believe what you want to, but if you don't believe in> God, and accept Jesus as your lord and saviour, then> it just means more room in heaven for me. :)When I ask people about jesus they usually start with his ridiculous birth. He was born from a virgin. Right there you need to stop.Your not an idiot. You had the talk about the birds and the bees and a stork didnt bring you. This argument works so well because its presented to you when you are but a child and cant reason about the subject yet and are too embarrassed to question it.Nonetheless... Other species can have virgin births. So lets pretend Mary had some lizard genes or what have you and spontaneously had a kid. (It should be a girl and cloned copy of her... but screw science right... this is jesus!) So she has a boy. Its possible.Then this guy grows up... the whole account of him growing up is detailed in the book of thomas which of course you havent read because the bible has been editted for mass consumption. (Constantine et al.) So we dont know much about him growing up except he probably learned to talk very early, didnt wet his pants or pee on his mom. (LOL) He was a perfect baby and a paragon of virtue.So lets say so far you've accepted all this. We can assume your either crazy or retarded or a strange combination of the two I like to call religious. (Bad joke... hehe just kidding jesus people)Ok so later he does all the crap like turning water to wine and you know its just bull ****. Have you ever seen anyone turn water to wine? For F***s sake people used to think zeus hurled lightning bolts down from on high and now you know their out of their mind, but this jesus guy... he could do it.Now we get to the crux of the situation. (Another bad joke... lol) But the dude dies... and they bury him. Now he comes back to life. no cpr... just days later poof hes back alive. So either david blane has a great great great granddad or you fell for a trick no one ever saw but some guy who claims he knew jesus saw it with his own eyes.Guys people like stories. I know. Dragonlance is awesome. But this Accept jesus or dont goto heaven crap is for the gullible, low iq, ignorant masses. Wake the censored up.Really the book is about mass murder, genocide and bouts of incest started with adam and eve who populated the earth, again with noahs family who dude... no cars or planes and this guy walks the planet and gets all the animals 2 by 2... you believe that too?Its not even fit to read to children. I remember a preacher giving a sermon on the sabbath and how your supposed to take that time to rest and thank god for all you have. So some peeps caught this guy gathering sticks and the village stoned him to death. The kids were all like WTF. And you can even see them turn to their parents for guidance and the parents just blindly look on nodding.You cant even interrupt the guy to ask a question and the seats are horrible. Its propaganda at its absolute best. I mean people eat this **** up and then come knock on my door and ask me if I want to be saved. They truly believe or atleast put on a good act.Anyone who stops and thinks about this stuff will first deny, then disbelieve, then cry and then finally laugh. Disgust comes later with being duped for years.I am seriously saddened and disappointed with people in general. When your kid asks, Dad where did we all come from?Do you answer with... well first god created man and woman and they had sex and had kids. Then all the kids grew up as brothers and sisters and had sex with each other until there was a ton of people. Unfortunately God hated them ALL except for Noah and his family so he killed them all. He made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and even 4 years olds and infants drowned because god only liked noahs family. You remember noah sweety? He got all the animals in the world. The penguins in antartica and the polar bears on the north pole. He missed the unicorns though. After that Noahs family repopulated the whole earth.Oh I see dad just like Lot and his daughters who got him drunk in the cave after the fire hit Sodom and Gommorrah?Right sweety, except those girls were mistaken. God only hated EVERY person in Sodom and Gommorah and not the whole earth this time. Those girls didnt have to sleep with their dad.Ohhhhh.... So people lived after Sodom and Gommorah.Yep.But dad why did gods send angels to Lot in the first place if god is all knowing? Wouldnt he already know they would find anyone worth saving?Well honey... thats because the bible is a complete set of contridictory BS which serves little purpose but to teach people hatred and intolerance of those not of their religion. Its completely useless and largely historically accurate. The whole concept that a god could even exist is so flawwed and immplausible you'd have to be a blathering idiot to believe this stuff.I know dad... just making sure your not an idiot. Good night.
tech42erMay 28, 2007
Stop stereotyping us. Do you honestly believe we're all evangelical, homophobic, islamophobic bible-thumpers?
John DoeMay 28, 2007
@hdtvdust"You fit right in here."I finally realized that.
travis712May 28, 2007
Religion. LOL AMIRIGHT?
xillMay 29, 2007
Well, lot of people still beleive in 9/11 was done by some rich guy hiding in a cave with all the proof of the contrary. It doesnt matter, there is always been a group disconnected from reality, only now the science of mass mind-control is much scarier.
airshipMay 29, 2007
I'm a Born-Again Christian myself, but I'm a big proponent of teaching Comparative Religion in schools (as they used to, at least in the more privileged private schools). Why?(1) Religious literature is important historically. (Think the 'Divine right of kings', the founding of Israel after WWII, or the beliefs of the American founding fathers - and no, I don't believe they were all Christians.)(2) Religious literature is important for fostering the understanding of world literature.(3) Studying religion is important sociologically, for understanding the similarities and differences between different cultures.(4) I think it's important that young people choose their own religion (or 'none of the above') based on their own knowledge and experience. I don't believe indoctrination ever does anyone any good, and it often causes great harm.Obviously, I am confident that Christianity will win out in a free marketplace of ideas. But the important thing is that we first HAVE a free marketplace of ideas.
balancefxstormJun 8, 2007
> Believe what you want to, but if you don't believe in> God, and accept Jesus as your lord and saviour, then> it just means more room in heaven for me. :)When I ask people about jesus they usually start with his ridiculous birth. He was born from a virgin. Right there you need to stop.Your not an idiot. You had the talk about the birds and the bees and a stork didnt bring you. This argument works so well because its presented to you when you are but a child and cant reason about the subject yet and are too embarrassed to question it.Nonetheless... Other species can have virgin births. So lets pretend Mary had some lizard genes or what have you and spontaneously had a kid. (It should be a girl and cloned copy of her... but screw science right... this is jesus!) So she has a boy. Its possible.Then this guy grows up... the whole account of him growing up is detailed in the book of thomas which of course you havent read because the bible has been editted for mass consumption. (Constantine et al.) So we dont know much about him growing up except he probably learned to talk very early, didnt wet his pants or pee on his mom. (LOL) He was a perfect baby and a paragon of virtue.So lets say so far you've accepted all this. We can assume your either crazy or retarded or a strange combination of the two I like to call religious. (Bad joke... hehe just kidding jesus people)Ok so later he does all the crap like turning water to wine and you know its just bull ****. Have you ever seen anyone turn water to wine? For F***s sake people used to think zeus hurled lightning bolts down from on high and now you know their out of their mind, but this jesus guy... he could do it.Now we get to the crux of the situation. (Another bad joke... lol) But the dude dies... and they bury him. Now he comes back to life. no cpr... just days later poof hes back alive. So either david blane has a great great great granddad or you fell for a trick no one ever saw but some guy who claims he knew jesus saw it with his own eyes.Guys people like stories. I know. Dragonlance is awesome. But this Accept jesus or dont goto heaven crap is for the gullible, low iq, ignorant masses. Wake the censored up.Really the book is about mass murder, genocide and bouts of incest started with adam and eve who populated the earth, again with noahs family who dude... no cars or planes and this guy walks the planet and gets all the animals 2 by 2... you believe that too?Its not even fit to read to children. I remember a preacher giving a sermon on the sabbath and how your supposed to take that time to rest and thank god for all you have. So some peeps caught this guy gathering sticks and the village stoned him to death. The kids were all like WTF. And you can even see them turn to their parents for guidance and the parents just blindly look on nodding.You cant even interrupt the guy to ask a question and the seats are horrible. Its propaganda at its absolute best. I mean people eat this **** up and then come knock on my door and ask me if I want to be saved. They truly believe or atleast put on a good act.Anyone who stops and thinks about this stuff will first deny, then disbelieve, then cry and then finally laugh. Disgust comes later with being duped for years.I am seriously saddened and disappointed with people in general. When your kid asks, Dad where did we all come from?Do you answer with... well first god created man and woman and they had sex and had kids. Then all the kids grew up as brothers and sisters and had sex with each other until there was a ton of people. Unfortunately God hated them ALL except for Noah and his family so he killed them all. He made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and even 4 years olds and infants drowned because god only liked noahs family. You remember noah sweety? He got all the animals in the world. The penguins in antartica and the polar bears on the north pole. He missed the unicorns though. After that Noahs family repopulated the whole earth.Oh I see dad just like Lot and his daughters who got him drunk in the cave after the fire hit Sodom and Gommorrah?Right sweety, except those girls were mistaken. God only hated EVERY person in Sodom and Gommorah and not the whole earth this time. Those girls didnt have to sleep with their dad.Ohhhhh.... So people lived after Sodom and Gommorah.Yep.But dad why did gods send angels to Lot in the first place if god is all knowing? Wouldnt he already know they would find anyone worth saving?Well honey... thats because the bible is a complete set of contridictory BS which serves little purpose but to teach people hatred and intolerance of those not of their religion. Its completely useless and largely historically accurate. The whole concept that a god could even exist is so flawwed and immplausible you'd have to be a blathering idiot to believe this stuff.I know dad... just making sure your not an idiot. Good night.
rhoadesbJun 11, 2007
I'm not an atheist, but I thought that was funny.God bless. (Oh, that right.)God bless anyway. (I know, I'm awful.)
simplejoe79Jul 4, 2007
Americans have a lot to learn