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Posted on 02/19/2005 11:58:48 AM PST by chaco canyon
Religuous people are good people that are being led astray. They are systematically being manipulated to remove the power that they have to use their potent brains. It is easy to believe someone who says he has an alluring answer, an answer that cannot be logically disputed. The fundamental mechanics of religion are the same as a virus. It attacks those that are mentally weakened, and when they are young and suscepable to the concept of magic.
Understanding of the beautiful complexity of the world is opening up to individuals that grasp the complex concepts. The universe seems to be alive and intelligent to those that do not have a closed mind. Religious dogma's do not approach this level of understanding. We live in a remarkable time, where so much is being learned so quickly, we do not yet have time to take it all in, to synthesize this. The vast majority of human problems are caused by human thinking. The religous order hamper human exploration, becuase they believe that they have answers. The intelligent universe seems to be telling us to live sustainably and to grow mentally to become more like what we seek. This is counter to most religous organizations.
WE must recognize that ancient knowledge is incomplete and often incorrect. The world is dynamic and these variations must be taken to account to adapt our moral code to survive and grow. We cannot afford to revel in ignorance forever. The limits of ancient knowledge are met at Armaggedon.
Evil MEN praise God to gain power. Hitler was a friend of the Pope and a good catholic. He called on God often for help. Terrorism is viable in a religous context, because people believe in what will happen when they die. Religion has always been used to manipulate the masses, the dark ages can return and get even DARKER.
Faith eventually destroys good will between men, because faith give all men the idea that they have their private truth. But there is only one truth in the world. When there are differences between religions, they should be resolved. People working together to find THE truth, not advocating their private truth. Fighting over differences means that the understanding of truth is limited. Fighting will not find truth. Only an open mind can find truth. The most savage places on earth are the most religous. Puritanism kills. We are not becoming a kinder nation.
There is a Mathematical principle call Godels theorem. It says that all systems, no matter how perfect are incomplete. These create paradoxes (religious differences). Paradoxes, are not something to fight over. They are GATEWAYS to a greater system, to a more complete truth. I call this the Mathematics of Peace. There are many advances that we are not utilizing for the social good. We are rehashing ancient failures, each time they are becoming more deadly and heinous as we become more powerful. The religous system creates good and evil and conflict. Signicantly different paradigms are available to people willing to think. Good and evil, heaven and hell are primitive that are keeping us in a prison. We are reaching the time when there are too many people in the world to survive with this type of thinking. Free your mind. Do kind compassionate things without the need for a reward for heaven. Try to understand the how the universe works, and work in sync with it. It is understandable and useful for peace and growth.
God doesn't play. This guy better wise up or..............
Does understanding and discrediting enter into your calculations?
An interesting thesis. Your arguments, however, are specious.
You have also failed to consider religion as a socially stabilizing force.
Wow, you're a gangbanger or a secret agent as well as a purveyor of thought! Hullygee!
Well, we won't go that far just to shut you up.
WOW 138 posts later he makes an intelligent comment. Praise God ! There is HOPE .
you've guessed wrong again
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A: Hitler despised Pope Pius XII.
B: You spelled "religious" wrong.
Writing a cohesive, comprehensible sentence would greatly help your cause.
Not acting like your $shit don't stink wouldn't hurt either.
As far as death threats go, I can't think of any FReeper that would waste their time.
I know! Go over to that FR place I registered at a couple of years ago and give 'em the spiel Professor Whatshisname was giving us the other day in Comparitive Religion.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
"OPINIONS are primitve."
Look who's talking. Your spelling is pretty "primitive". R U n Collage?
LOL!
Every time you get ready to cross the finish line, they MOVE it!
"OPINIONS are primitve."
Funny, this thread of yours is primitive then by your own definition.
Sure Voltaire.
Okers.
];-)
Without realizing the meaning of your statements, many are indeed true. BTW, God doesn't promote religion. He promotes and provides a way for every man to have a relationship with Him.
The only 'good' recognized by Him is through faith in Him.
You have spent some time phiosophizing on good, evil, and existentialism.
Give a little study time to Scripture. Study some Greek and Hebrew purely from the point of view that God exists and what Christ provided and taught during His first incarnation as both human and divine in one person.
Also consider that exisitentialism begs the question, presuming nothing exists for each person after the bodily death. That presupposition is false as is any assumption it has more acceptance in truth that God's creation prior to any of our knowledge of such things.
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