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2013-08-18 Olde Tyme Religion

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-18 04:33|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Maybe, instead of 'waiting' for your rewards and sitting on the sidelines, actually showing up and voting for the least odious candidate might have made a difference, rather than surrendering this world to the despoilers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-18 11:31|| 2013-08-18 11:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Something maybe along the lines

Posted by newc 2013-08-18 11:51|| 2013-08-18 11:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Christianity is as much a sham as Islam, BOTH started Killing the Apostates, BOTH want you to believe "There's only one god (And mine is the one god, not yours)Both preach the essential same.

Why should I listen to either?
Neither have fulfilled the teachings, and BOTH are SUPREME.
(Odd each claim they're toe ONLY ONE and the other is fake, there have been thousands like them, all faded away to the same nothing these will.

Thee's no god, there's no devil either, just people acting as jerks.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-08-18 13:32|| 2013-08-18 13:32|| Front Page Top

#4 just people acting as jerks.

hokay.....

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-18 13:38|| 2013-08-18 13:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Thee's no god, there's no devil either, just people acting as jerks.

Well as you say RJ, jerks for damn sure. I'll take the 'pick three' and go with it. Sometimes I get tired of talking to myself, but that's must me. :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-18 14:37|| 2013-08-18 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Dogma for dogma's sake is programming, whether the so called followers of Mo, or the Church doing things in the name of Christ.

All Jesus offered was a way of life and salvation that would include everyone, Romans, Jews, just plain Joes. Then over the years, people went apesh*t with power and things got lost in translation. Fundamental problems in human nature......I would say.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-08-18 15:04|| 2013-08-18 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 they're all "equally bad" as RJ says. You remember the rampaging Episcopalian mobs, don't you?

RJ? You may be an atheist. I'm not. Call me a jerk? F*ck you. You're welcome to your little desperate world and I don't/won't begrudge you that. Have a nice atheist afterlife.

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-18 15:06|| 2013-08-18 15:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Thee's no god, there's no devil either, just people acting as jerks.

You're a bitter old man.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-18 15:07|| 2013-08-18 15:07|| Front Page Top

#9 uh huh

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-18 15:17|| 2013-08-18 15:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The history of Christianity has its dark sides, no doubt.
But we need to look at it as it is today.

Nobody forces you to believe in whatever the Bible says.
Islam however...

Posted by European Conservative 2013-08-18 16:24|| 2013-08-18 16:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Well said AP. At the end of the day I want to believe, therefore I do. Its a little thing called faith and hope. It helps me get through this so called life. We have all seen enough and suffered enough to doubt or not believe, even though, I still get back to it and believe, because I want to. I never tie the church to my beliefs, the church is run by men, they fall victim to greed and all other human frailties, after all they are human. As for the non believers- I find it interesting as to where they go for solace when there is true darkness and evil presents itself. Maybe I'm just weak...

Posted by 49 Pan 2013-08-18 21:07|| 2013-08-18 21:07|| Front Page Top

#12 as a practicing Christian, I have NEVER been taught/ felt the impulse/ understood that my way to an afterlife was extinguishing mine along with whatever "different" believers were unfortunately beside me at the time.

Jim - you have stepped past the stoopid line to ...

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-18 21:35|| 2013-08-18 21:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Ar*s level. Enjoy

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-18 21:37|| 2013-08-18 21:37|| Front Page Top

#14 RJ, I grew up in a culture of Haughty Atheism, and have to bring up a few points.

Anthropologically, religion serves very important services in regard to the nature of humanity. It is why one cannot discuss the history of a region without also considering the impact of religion.

It is a way of social interaction. People come together for events. It gives a language for people to describe what exactly is, for example, the work of the devil, doing good.

Without a clear cut goal of what human achievement should be, it is impossible to describe good or evil.

As far as the superstitious aspect, if other people do believe in God(s), if they do believe in afterlife consequences for behavior in the physical world, then their actions indirectly and directly involve your presence in this world.

Consider the construction prowess necessary for the construction of a cathedral, or the Athenian acropolis, Stonehenge, Mayan temples, Pyramids, Anghor Wat. Those were all made for the glory of each religion, why ever they were built. Those skills and resources came from years of those particular religions ability to bring people together.

Now I'm not bagging, but it has been my experience that individual Atheists can be interesting people, but in groups they bag on everyone else, like jerks. That is when I learned that the anti-theologians have their own little Liturgy.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-08-18 22:16|| 2013-08-18 22:16|| Front Page Top

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