Religion
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Religion
Was thinking about why all civilizations need an "ALL POWERFUL" god? When did this start? Why did they come from above? As an agnostic before a football game & when some azzhole was shooting at me---I prayed even though a semi-none believer--no harm getting something on your side. Did perhaps aliens come down from the sky and so impressed the troops that it continued forever? Was asking a watered-down version of this question at a Christmas party with intelligent people until the looks received made me refill my Johnny Walker Black and talk about the Formula 1 track being built in Austin. Why do we need religion?
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Minimalist
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Re: Religion
Consider the words of Thomas Jefferson, Gunny.
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
-- George Carlin
Re: Religion
Certainly something to the idea that relegion is self serving...
Perhaps early man just had a desire to understand the forces of nature around him, like lighting, and the cycle of the moon and sun. Stuff we MOSTLY understand now.
Perhaps early man just had a desire to understand the forces of nature around him, like lighting, and the cycle of the moon and sun. Stuff we MOSTLY understand now.
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MichelleH
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Re: Religion
Well, if you would just listen to these folks, it will be all right......(Really? Seriously? Again?)
End of Days in May? Christian group spreads word
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_ ... lypse_soon
End of Days in May? Christian group spreads word
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_ ... lypse_soon
We've Got Fossils - We win ~ Lewis Black
Red meat, cheese, tobacco, and liquor...it works for me ~ Anthony Bourdain
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Red meat, cheese, tobacco, and liquor...it works for me ~ Anthony Bourdain
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Re: Religion
One or two of the comments sound like Min.
Roy.
Roy.
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt
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MichelleH
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It probably is...under many aliases....Digit wrote:One or two of the comments sound like Min.
Roy.
We've Got Fossils - We win ~ Lewis Black
Red meat, cheese, tobacco, and liquor...it works for me ~ Anthony Bourdain
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Red meat, cheese, tobacco, and liquor...it works for me ~ Anthony Bourdain
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Re: Religion
Wait for it, wait for it!
Roy.
Roy.
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt
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Rokcet Scientist
Re: Religion
Not again!MichelleH wrote:Well, if you would just listen to these folks, it will be all right......(Really? Seriously? Again?)
End of Days in May? Christian group spreads word
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_ ... lypse_soon
Can't they just wait for December 21st, 2012, and then jump off a cliff?
Instead of letting the world end every 3 months?
Pfffff.
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Minimalist
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Re: Religion
They couldn't post what I'd write.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
-- George Carlin
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MichelleH
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There it is!Minimalist wrote:They couldn't post what I'd write.
We've Got Fossils - We win ~ Lewis Black
Red meat, cheese, tobacco, and liquor...it works for me ~ Anthony Bourdain
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Red meat, cheese, tobacco, and liquor...it works for me ~ Anthony Bourdain
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
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Minimalist
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Re: Religion
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
-- George Carlin