Posted on 01/19/2009 4:40:38 PM PST by gpk9
Religion is the problem, just like government is the problem.
In both cases people have beliefs that don't fit reality.
In both cases people try to push their beliefs on other people.
In both cases people believe in fairytales that just aren't true. They have no factual support.
In both cases people believe "faith" should substitute for facts, like with Obama for instance, and Bush for that matter, and "going to heaven" for instance, and an "ever-burning hell" for that matter.
In both cases you can't say what you think.
In both cases you have to be "politically correct."
In both cases people are generally of poor character.
In both cases people have little or no integrity.
In both cases people have little or no honesty.
In both cases people have very thin skin, and can't take criticism.
In both cases people think they're better than everyone else.
Wow. Bad day much?
PEOPLE are the problem. You can blame everything under the sun on ideas and institution but nothing can excuse a person for his choices.
gpk9 is the problem, just like government is the problem.
In both cases people have beliefs that don’t fit reality.
In both cases people try to push their beliefs on other people.
In both cases people believe in fairytales that just aren’t true. They have no factual support.
In both cases people believe “faith” should substitute for facts
In both cases you can’t say what you think.
In both cases you have to be “politically correct.”
In both cases people are generally of poor character.
In both cases people have little or no integrity.
In both cases people have little or no honesty.
In both cases people have very thin skin, and can’t take criticism.
In both cases people think they’re better than everyone else.
Now now, atheist supremacists don’t think they are better than everyone else. They KNOW it. < /sarc >
Whats your address? I will send you a rope.
I’ll consider your analysis valid when my pastor shows up at my front door threatening to lock me up in the Fireside Room unless I relinquish 50% of my earnings.
Define reality.
Like you're doing?
In both cases people think they're better than everyone else.
Like you do?
LOL!!!
Define “reality,” atheist. And, while you’re at it, please explain why you feel so compelled to push your godless religion upon others.
Islam is the problem. And, after tomorrow, it will have an ally in the White House.
Do you have the “in both” program in your personal computer?
Interesting analysis . I’d have to say that most of the responses tend to support your arguments.
I agree religion is bad. Religion is man’s attempt to please God or become one. A Relationship with the Creator of the universe is what you need.
Religion doesn’t have a monopoly on violence to force you do what they want you to do. No religion runs a jail that uses rape as a control tool. You lack the ability to make even the simplest distinctions.
Let me guess, you’ve grown bored with FR and you’re committing blogicide by moderator?
literally your bottom line dude.
so...what religion was Hitler, Pol Pot, and Stalin???
John Lenin, is that you?
“Thinkers” that try to identify “The Problem” in simple terms are idiots indulging in mental masturbation.
See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2167216/posts?page=97#97 to see the author of this odd vanity at work.
Imagine all the people,
Living for the collective.
He’s one of these, “the church age has ended” folks. All organized religion is the work of the devil today. I’ve talked to these guys before.
Never blame “God” for the acts of man.
And never, ever start a thread that is potentially volatile without the appropriate safety armor.
What’s your “solution”?
“Interesting analysis . I’d have to say that most of the responses tend to support your arguments.”
It would appear that way.
And, of course, you are better than all of them.
Religion drools. Jesus rules.
You're quite welcome.
Is this a vanity or is there a source?
It appears to be vanity based on immature resentment.
Is this your original thinking or did you cut and paste this alert from www.flatlinebrainwaves.com ?
IBTZ
Or maybe it will just natter on ... we have to post our kittehs somewhere!
ROFL! IBTZ
Shhh!! I did not realize this was the religion forum.
At a retreat for priests, one of the clerics complained loudly and publicly about the Church's wealth. He insisted the Church sell off its artworks, cash in its investments, and give the proceeds to the poor. After the session the priest came up to Sheen and repeated his remonstrances.
Sheen eyed him and asked, "How much did you steal?" "What?" said the priest, indignant. "How much did you steal?" repeated Sheen. The priest protested. Sheen asked again, "How much did you steal?" At length the priest admitted he had been taking money from the collection basket, his rationale being that, since the Church wasn't a good steward of its wealth, he could put the money to better use than the hierarchy could.
Just so! Your self-righteous protestations sound to me as if they come from eerily similar motivations. Come home! God loves you!
In the meantime, though, remember that this is the Religion Forum. Your drive-by potshots are perceived around here as incendiary. And rightly so. Do not be surprised, then, that you are being pilloried with indignant scorn on this thread. Neither should you be surprised if you continue in this vein and are simply dismissed in the future as an Internet variant of the Village Atheist: a perpetually angry crackpot fit to simply be ignored. If you won't "come home" to God, you might want to consider at least taking your verbal Molotov Cocktails and throwing them elsewhere. Nothing good can come of this sort of self-important nonsense.
Oops. Too late :) It will all disappear behind a cloud of smoke anyway.
Grow up.
>> Religion is the problem, just like government is the problem.
As the saying goes, if you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem.
I know where I stand. “As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord”.
What’s *your* solution, FRiend?
Well, for the “most part” that is true. There is only one exception. Christianity is true, 100%. Otherwise, everything else is okay...
:-)
Was your reality check canceled?
Eyewitnesses of events that happened often before multitudes of people
Stone markers and other memorials where events took place, which the people then living could go and see for themselves, some of which still remain today,
Events and places traceable on a map
Prophecies consistently repeated, elaborated over centuries and even millennia, concretely fulfilled.
The one thing it is not is a collection of fairy tales
“Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes.”
Herr Marx apparently never considered the potential of atheism.
The perfect world does not exist nor will it ever. There are evil people in this world and so long as there are there will be no peace. Religions try to control evil for the most part but they too have different definitions of evil and usually the competing religion is an evil one. Religion in itself is not a problem, the people that practice it, that have different ideas as to what is right and what is wrong, create a problem when they can’t meet on common ground. Why do we believe? Maybe because we fear death or we are not at the development stage where we are capable of knowing why we exist? I was brought up to believe that God loves everyone, he forgives us for being bad and he is the creator of all things (a simplistic answer for what can not be explained). If God loves everyone and is forgiving why does he need hell? He should forgive all those evil people sent there and pardon them. If the Devil is so evil, God should just evaporate him. Remove the Devil, provide food, shelter and good climate and there would be no problems. God could go on an extended vacation. Man has worshiped Gods since the beginning. The Sun was God. Early man may have been on the right track with that one. Think about it, if you take away the Sun, there would be no mankind and no religions.
Don’t move.
Place the Hegel on the table and slowly back away from the dialectic.
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