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Post by
crovax3000
RELIGION IS THE PROBLEM
Clear enough?
Post by
DSitC
Tank god I live in europe... ;-P
*see what I did there* ^^
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389776
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Post by
Blitzfire
Only read page one, has anyone seen THIS post?
http://christwire.org/2009/08/mcdonalds-tries-to-make-blacks-not-look-dangerous/
Edit:
"Studies also show that 56% of kids who experiment smoking Magic Mint did so because of World of Warcraft and of that number 34% became addicted and gateway to hard drug methamphetamine. Over 50% of these kids are now morbidly obese drug users with veneral diseases, and it’s all because of orgies with what’s known as WoW guilds."
Fell out of my chair laughing
^Source:
http://christwire.org/2009/05/swine-flu-looks-like-world-of-warcraft/
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235494
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Post by
Ayline
People read scriptures and take things as literal. If people understood them as they should be understood, as myth, then they would understand the message that they are trying to convey. The stories of the bible are metaphors, not things that actually happened. If they were, then some of the gospels wouldn't have been written by people who never met Jesus or lived to see the events they write about. This goes for all religious scripture, the Koran, Torah, and other scripture from other religions.
Post by
Starkie
How did they possibly get a .org!
I think my favorite thing is that they talk about propaganda 24/7, and it doesn't even cross their minds that what they are posting is such propaganda, ugh, makes me sick.
Edit: On second look, there is *no way* in hell this website is real, this is just way to absurd, even for religious nut standards.
Post by
Ayline
Yea, this site is completly fake. it's purpose is to make fun of religious extremists. Some who actually believe some of this stuff.
Post by
xaratherus
I'm saying no no no. I'm guessing you're one of the people who believes that the majority of Muslims hate non-musilim. That is so far from true, not only with them, but with pretty much every other religion (minus the few cults that are in to that sort of thing).
People
hate. And some of those people belong to religions. That in no way makes the religion a hate religion.
But who gets to determine the interpretation of the religion? I have a number of friends and acquaintances that prescribe to Christianity, and they are great people - fallible, like the rest of us, but still considerate and polite. They interpret the Bible to mean that that is the way that they should live.
Then I turn around and find myself the indirect target of intolerance and hatred because of my sexuality - and
that
comes from the intolerants' interpretation of the same book.
Having read the Bible from cover to cover, it seems to me that it's such a conflicting mass of parables and "proofs" that one could likely excuse
any
action they take as moral, or at least forgivable. Yes, there's the mercy of the Messiah and the compassionate acts he took, but then you've also got passages like 2nd Kings Chapter 2, verses 23 and 24, where God supposedly sends two bears to maul a group of children who were poking fun at Elisha, or in Genesis 19, during the famous "Lot and the pillar of salt" passage, prior to which Lot takes in two angels in disguise, and then offers his two virgin daughters to the men of Sodom so that the mob will not disturb (and possibly molest) his guests.
I don't think that religion is hateful or evil; however, I do feel that the vagueness of many religions, and the fact that they are open to much interpretation, leads to mischief and upset. As Chris Rock says in "Dogma", "I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier."
Post by
Ayline
Xara, that is why I feel like current religion needs an overhaul. The culture and circumstance has changed in the thousands of years since those books were written. They don't apply to how culture is today. Something that is up-to-date and relates modern humans to their religion instead of trying to relate them to the culture that was thousands of years ago.
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xaratherus
Xara, that is why I feel like current religion needs an overhaul. The culture and circumstance has changed in the thousands of years since those books were written. They don't apply to how culture is today. Something that is up-to-date and relates modern humans to their religion instead of trying to relate them to the culture that was thousands of years ago.
I'm not sure that even this is a solution. As I re-read my post, I realized that it's in actuality a problem of definition.
Who gets to define a Christian/Muslim/Buddhist/whatever?
I'll go with Christianity, because that's the one with which I'm most familiar: When I mention that I'm gay in certain forums, I get the typically "God hates your kind, repent sinner!" response - and then I'll get the follow up, "I'm a Christian, and that guy who said God hates you is an idiot."
But the fact is that they're
both
Christians in my eyes - because there is no standard definition of a Christian. They've both based their arguments on the
same
mass of conflicting proverbs. We've come to a point in society where we define who is a Christian based on whether or not we agree with their interpretation of the Bible - if they wish us harm through their interpretation, then we label them deviant from true Christianity.
The problem is that until there's a universally-accepted definition of "Christian", then the label applies to anyone who places it on himself, and then any act that person takes, with enough justification from the source material - even feeding kids to bears - is "Christian" behavior.
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Post by
TheZephyron
They will addict your child and then lead them to a lifestyle of violence, depression and then death.
Sounds like most religions at one point or another in their time line of existence, don't you think? LOL
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Post by
awarewolf
Don't know if this was posted, but here's a blurb on the site about the author:
Stephenson Billings is an Investigative Journalist, Motivational Children's Party Entertainer and Antique Soda Bottle Collector all in one special, blessed package!
I wouldn't let that guy anywhere near my kids with his "children's party entertainment" package.
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