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11-10-2009 #61
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While Iam not religious myself, I do go by the socialogical functionalist view of religion that it does provide a good moral code to live by. Love thy neighbour, doing good work, not killing not sleeping with someones wife , so perhaps on one level it's a pity that for many religion is sniffed at because it is provides a good way to control people by pointing to a supernatual being.
I also find these atheists who try to push their view onto others using 'science' and 'logic' just as annoying as the god botherers and bible bashers.
I also don't buy all this about religion causing all the wars because humans being humans if it wasn't god and allah they are fighting over and about it would be something else even if religion didn't exist.
However I do find the fundementalists annoying whether they be Christian or Muslim. It has to be said that the muslim ones are particularly nasty. As we have seen by the Fort Hood massacre. It might come to a stage when fundementalists muslims have to be eradicated or interned in camps for their own and others protection if we had more atrocities. Because lets face it when some bible bashers screams 'praise the lord' at people , people just look on them with annoyance with a hadji yells 'allah akbar' personally Iam going to want a firearm to shoot him or her in the head.
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11-10-2009 #62Originally Posted by arnie666
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/index.html
In many ways, the Old Testament, and parts of the New, are the very antithesis of morality, and only serve to emphasize the superstitious ignorance and cruelty upon which faith is founded.
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11-10-2009 #63Originally Posted by notdrunk
Originally Posted by paulgutierrez
To answer your question, I am not a gg.
Originally Posted by paulgutierrez
I don't know if they have yet had many cases dealing with FtM's to see if things work the same way for them over there.
Originally Posted by arnie666
Thus its the literal interpretations that pose the problem because they, instead of caring about the spirit of the texts, only care about the letter of the texts which include passages that most certainly would be very evil to implement & practice (like various types of slavery, stonings, rape and the like).
Originally Posted by arnie666
I think it's pretty clear that islamic fundamentalists hate the west, not because we're not Islamic, but because our western lifestyle is slowly eating away theirs as their women & children reject it for our culture.
Ever seen the music video for Amerika by Rammstein? American culture has gone global. Coca-cola is the world's most widely known word at the moment. Our music & movies are known all over the world. Women see all this from their part of the world, decide "hey, I don't want to live my life wearing a tent as clothing, I would like to wear jeans, show my hair in public, or drive a car" and suddenly even without us actually playing a role in-person, we pose a threat.
But we're not just strangers exporting our consumerism & popular culture, we do play a tangible, in-person role in the region and that just serves to pour gasoline on the fire.
And maybe its easier to withdraw from life
With all of its misery and wretched lies
If we're dead when tomorrow's gone
The Big Machine will just move on
Still we cling afraid we'll fall
Clinging like the memory which haunts us all
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11-10-2009 #64Originally Posted by Felicia Katt
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11-10-2009 #65
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Originally Posted by JamesHunt
http://www.machall.com/comics/20030924.jpg
Originally Posted by SarahG
ok that was a rubbish sentence what i mean is that the letter of the text only really begins to matter of you postulate that the entire book is the word of god which even the book itself doesnt claim to be
for the most part there are 2 bits in the bible where the bibel itself claims to have a direct written account of what god said which would be the 10 commandments and everything jesus said
if you leave out all the other dreary rubbish which according to the bible is not the direct word of god you end up with something very kant and hard to take issue with
Elvis: I was dreamin'. Dreamin' my dick was out and I was checkin' to see if that infected bump on the head of it had filled with pus again. If it had, I was gonna name it after my ex-wife 'cilla and bust it by jackin' off.
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11-10-2009 #66Originally Posted by muhmuh
And maybe its easier to withdraw from life
With all of its misery and wretched lies
If we're dead when tomorrow's gone
The Big Machine will just move on
Still we cling afraid we'll fall
Clinging like the memory which haunts us all
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11-10-2009 #67
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not sure dose it really matter though considering jesus pretty much simplified the whole ethical code into do to other what you would like them to do to you?
hm i hadnt realise this before but dose the kjv jesus always talk like a pirate?
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Elvis: I was dreamin'. Dreamin' my dick was out and I was checkin' to see if that infected bump on the head of it had filled with pus again. If it had, I was gonna name it after my ex-wife 'cilla and bust it by jackin' off.
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11-10-2009 #68
When i hear "Akbar" i think "It's a Trap!"
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11-10-2009 #69
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Captain Barbosa (in the Pirates of the Caribbean) said something to the effect, "Aarrrgh...it's less of a code and more like ... whatchya might call guidelines."
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.