Religion

[Blazer06]

So some guy in the dessert along time ago thinks to himself "How can I get these people to fight for me and give me their money?"

He thinks and thinks and comes up with a revolutionary idea. He would convince a few of his friends (by cutting them a share) that their is a ... "God" and that this "God" wants them to teach people how to act, what to do.

So here you have this small group of people walking around going "Follow us. Or you will die. Becuase you must do what this God has told us. You must fight with us, or you are against the God and will suffer"

The first farmer that declined, randomly got his farm burned to the ground, and his sheed slaughtered.

Well now people are afriad not to follow this "God" and start doing what the first man tells them to. They fight other nations because they belive in this "God" and give him all their money, because that is "God's" will.

The rest is history.


Blaze

[The Real Bingo]

All I know is religion is a bunch of crap. Obviously people here think differently, but that's why people have choices.

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Religion is more or less a government telling you what to do and how to do it. For example: how Catholics cant eat meat on Friday and how they have to give something up [forgive me, I dont follow religion, so I dont know what this holiday is called]. Your "religion" is telling you not to eat meat on Fridays. Some religion that is. Then they tell you if you dont want to go to hell you gotta go to church and worship some inanimant object that we have no proof exists. Does this prevent you from dying? Does this promise a heavenly afterlife? Does this promise anything? If it did, Id be the first one in line at church on Sundays. Religion is almost a cult-like society where people gather and are forced to believe what a book from who knows where tells them to believe.

If you ask me, religion has no grounds, no proof of any of its claims, and limits someones thoughts, beliefs and freedom.

That was a comment by me from a previous thread.

[Blazer06]

I agree. Religion is bu****** IMHO.

but then again, I belive the US government to be a modern day mafia.

so hey. *shrug*

(i didnt say i didnt like the government, i just said what it is.)


Blaze

[chipbgt]

ahh to be young again.

[izaic3]

Tell me where in the Bible it says not to eat meat on Friday, and that we should worship idols (or an inanimant object). The old law given to the Jews said not to eat certain meat, mostly for sanitary cautions (?). Now-adays though, most Christians do not follow that (or many of the other laws originally given), and eat many different kinds of meat. I myself like to eat bacon, and if I'm not mistaken, that was one of the meats. And also, explain this evolution to me. It is impossible for the bacterial flaggellum to have evolved. If something that simple can't be evolved, then what about the many other complex organelles, tissues, and organs. If evolution didn't happen, then the big bang couldn't have happened. And even if it did happen, what caused it? Where did it all come from? In my opinion, there might have been a sort of big bang, created by God that is though, when he created the universe.

[washe]

I expect a river of flames on this thread!!

[vass0922]

While I don't believe in 'religion' as a whole, please do respect the others that do.. I've seen some of the comments that come up in these threads and it gets kinda ugly at times. (note: for the religious folk to respect those that don't believe in it as well)

Honestly I really think its a moot point discussing something like this because extremely few people will ever hop the fence. Usually it takes somethign traumatic to push somebody one way or the other in a topic like this and a thread in a forum isn't exactly 'traumatic'.
To each their own

[chipbgt]

I blame the weather

[ShawnD1]

Maybe we should keep all flaming to 1 thread only
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t111043.html

[ArcticFox]

Nope, flame on people. Sorry I'm late to the party. The more threads, the better.

*shrug*