Hope ? You are nauseating me. The message is "god was mad, and you were punished. But buy into our BS, and god will forgive." Tell me though, now that the media is on to other things, has the travesty been corrected ? Have the leaders of the Evangelical movement who spurted this bile on Haiti come to their senses ?
Goodbye religion, and good riddance! If people want to believe stuff for which there is absolutely no evidence, and which is contradicted by everything we know about the world, that's their right. But the history of religion is an endless list of torture, murder, war, and every sort of atrocity imaginable. There's nothing wrong with faith, other than that it scorns logic and evidence. But religion is the most filthy, disgusting, scurrilous, nefarious activity any person could be involved with. If I was Emperor of the World, people would be free to believe whatever they like, but churches, synagogs, and mosques would be closed, their property confiscated, and believing nonsense woud cease to be an excuse to avoid paying taxes.
Thank you, a more succinct and erudite summary of the French Revolution I doubt we'll ever find. Perhaps a name change is in order? May I suggest "Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre?" Oh pardon me was that in response to cyclopathic's wondrously naive post wherein he stated "Let's discuss this when atheists start burning theists on crosses?" Ahhhh, education through deception and reverse psychology! Atheist are so clever with words. :thumb:
Not me. I'd keep 'em all open and tax them up the wazoo (well, no more or less than any other entertainment).
OK - haven't read the whole discussion My opinion on Religion 1. Causal of almost all wars, hate etc 2. Full of control freaks who want to tell others how they should think 3. Full of perverts who think it is OK to rape little children and cover it up for their mates eg the current Pope 4. Sexist, Racist But if it keeps those who can't figure life out quiet and causes no harm then let them Some people in life are followers - then there is the rest of us...
Show me where I have EVER advocated killing ANYBODY! If you even read the post of mine which you quoted, you'd see that I'd allow everyone to believe whatever nonsense they liked. I just would not allow religious institutions to own property or to have tax exemptions. There is something marvelously perverse about a tax code which says that if your institution requires its members to believe things that are patently false, you get to be exempt from paying taxes! Individuals could still gather to pray. On the other hand, the Christian churches didn't stop burning people to death for believing in "unapproved" dogmas, or rejecting religion entirely, until they lost the political power to impose their will on civil government. Religion is nothing but a mechanism for brutal, egotistical megalomaniacs to impose their will on uneducated people who've never learned how to think. It's spread by torture, murder, and war, and sustained by ignorance and superstition, and is the greatest scourge of this sad world. Goodbye and good riddance!
This is an ignorant comment. My mother and sister are sincere loving people who have a deep belief in god. There are many other good people who believe in god. To paint all religious people with the same brush is ignorant and hateful. Your fantasy of being emperor of the world is psychotic. You are not emperor of the world, you are just a creepy internet troll.
Somehow I doubt that last sentence but with your Highnesses acquiescence I shall still pray for it. :amen:
At least your putting it up as an opinion now. Back in this thread you stated it as fact . . . and when it was pointed out to you or you were called on it in this post, you didn't answer but ran off to this thread to post disingenuous fiction as opinion. Certainly there are bad actors on both sides of this issue but anyone doing the things you've accused them of can hardly be called Christians even though they 1) dress like one . . . 2) act like one 3) talk like one or 4) call themselves one . . . Can't really say that about atheist now can we? Finally do you have anything to back this opinion up other than the opinions of other atheist? You know something like facts? :noidea: Please at least try to response this time it's so unseemly to run off like a to another thread like the rest of the atheist here do when challenged on these points. :yo:
This coming from a poster who does nothing but that? Take his claim on who was an athiest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Religious_views
Oh, I don't know about that, insurance, banking, securities, politics and the military are right there alongside it as long standing instruments of organized systematic human degradation and swindle. But I concur religion alone is the one philosophy that says man is irredeemably wretched and good for nothing until dead, and the demise of a cruel philosophy that despises its own followers can't happen too soon.
Ahhh, the 'guilt by association' accusation which all D's scorned anyone for using when Obama, for 20 years, associated with the Reverend Wright. Good example of hypocrisy dr rosie, thank you. :yo:
All of the examples above are done by atheist and atheism as well and even more so by atheist in the modern world. :glare:
Yes but though religion deems man wretched, it's happy to get 10% of his earning for life... Err, if it wasn't getting 10% of mans earnings during that person's lifetime it wouldn't exist Oldest ponzi scheme going. The forum was nice for a few days without this trollish subject appearing, sure would be a good time to move it to a closed forum.
Completely agreed on this point. Starting to believe a few find it harder to leave this topic alone than a crack addict to do cold turkey - I did for over a week.
Cold turkey got me out of the politics forum. You have to make the break and stick with it. If you're only in rehab for a week at a time, you're just torturing yourself. Pick in or out, and live with it.
