metallithrax Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4112568.stm Does this not show how ****** up religion is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4112568.stmDoes this not show how ****** up religion is. 586094109[/snapback] shows how people can contort a religion to fit their twisted, jealous, selfish agendas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Man i hate religion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Man i hate religion 586094178[/snapback] of course you do. :rolleyes: what about when they help families eat and help communities? you never, or wish to, acknowledge the good that comes out of religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted June 20, 2005 Author Share Posted June 20, 2005 Man i hate religion 586094178[/snapback] I agree. Religion seems to get brought into any argument going, but religion is usually the cause of the argument in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 this thread is going to end up just as this one did. https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=334010&st=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lav-chan Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I'm no big fan of religion (i'm completely committed to being agnostic, and i have been since i was little), but i really have to shake my head when people say dumb-ass things like 'i hate religion'. To treat all religious people as though they're the same kind of people who would crucify an innocent person or persecute gays or Blacks or ban Harry Potter books is just as ridiculously ignorant and stupid as when crazy religious people try to classify all atheists as immoral heathens. But go on guys, fight the power. Be a rebel, any way you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramesees Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 That is just sick and twisted, no other way to describe it :angry: Makes me glad that I have left my religious upbringing behind, it only leads to narrow minded, contemptuous behaviour. Grrr so angry right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramesees Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 of course you do. :rolleyes: what about when they help families eat and help communities? you never, or wish to, acknowledge the good that comes out of religion. 586094200[/snapback] And where do you need to have a religious background to wish to do good things for people? Last time I checked Bill Gates was atheist, and look at the amount of good he and others like him do. You think those people organising the Live 8 concerts are doing it because they are all deeply religious? Yeah pull the other one, its got bells on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laptop Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4112568.stmDoes this not show how ****** up religion is. 586094109[/snapback] I blame BadGirls on ITV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted June 20, 2005 Author Share Posted June 20, 2005 I'm no big fan of religion (i'm completely committed to being agnostic, and i have been since i was little), but i really have to shake my head when people say dumb-ass things like 'i hate religion'. To treat all religious people as though they're the same kind of people who would crucify an innocent person or persecute gays or Blacks or ban Harry Potter books is just as ridiculously ignorant and stupid as when crazy religious people try to classify all atheists as immoral heathens.But go on guys, fight the power. Be a rebel, any way you can. But religion is like brain washing. They push it down your throat until you either believe or become like ripgut & me and go against it all. In the world today we have people beheading others in the name of religion, hacking others to death in the name of religion. I do not hear any stories about non religious people massacring(SP) others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollinup Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4112568.stmDoes this not show how ****** up religion is. 586094109[/snapback] Man i hate religion 586094178[/snapback] Maybe you should spend some time rotting in a hole you heartless freaks Mods, if they are allowed to say what they did I should be allowed to call them heartless freaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 And where do you need to have a religious background to wish to do good things for people?Last time I checked Bill Gates was atheist, and look at the amount of good he and others like him do. You think those people organising the Live 8 concerts are doing it because they are all deeply religious? Yeah pull the other one, its got bells on it. 586094285[/snapback] you are going off topic. i never said that atheists couldnt do good deeds. people from all walks of life have made postitive contributions to society. But religion is like brain washing.? They push it down your throat until you either believe or become like ripgut & me and go against it all.? In the world today we have people beheading others in the name of religion, hacking others to death in the name of religion.? I do not hear any stories about non religious people massacring(SP) others. 586094296[/snapback] brainwashing? how so? religion, christianity to speak of, is about your relationship with God. its not about what denomination of christianty you are a member of. your ignorance of religion, and/or stubborness to adhere to acts of people like this who claim to be a part of a religion, makes you believe that nothing good comes out of religion or theres nothing in religion that will benefit you. edit: ripgut, have you seen contact? seeing that you fancy astrology and space, i think you should check out that movie if you havent already seen it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lav-chan Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 But religion is like brain washing. They push it down your throat until you either believe or become like ripgut & me and go against it all. In the world today we have people beheading others in the name of religion, hacking others to death in the name of religion. I do not hear any stories about non religious people massacring(SP) others.586094296[/snapback] Well, depending on your definition of 'religion', there were these people called the NAZIs that you may have heard of. Anyway, what you just said is retarded. Consider the GIGANTIC amount of religious people in the world (if we're only counting only Christianity and Islam and Judaism, it's like 60% of the entire population) and then tell me that they're all violent bloody animals. Please. Ignorant people will use whatever justification they can to commit violence. Religion may be convenient, but if they don't have that, they will surely use something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Douglas Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Maybe you should spend some time rotting in a hole you heartless freaksMods, if they are allowed to say what they did I should be allowed to call them heartless freaks. 586094329[/snapback] Tada! Religion by itself is just a set of beliefs, the problem lies in that it is such as personal belief that it makes an excellent vehicle for hate (as seen in the post I quoted). Killer043 (love in irony in that name btw) was so riled up over people not believing what he believes that he insulted them. Religion in the hands of people like him is an extremely dangerous tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergeantNoob Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 But religion is like brain washing. They push it down your throat until you either believe or become like ripgut & me and go against it all. 586094296[/snapback] Sounds like to me you're the one that is brainwashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Bourricot Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I think despite religion being used as an excuse to start wars, it is still very useful in people's lives and helps them get through stuff better, makes them feel better, for a lack of a more objective explanation. Thus in this way religion is good. If it wasn't there people would find other excuses for war. Such as WWI. Religion is an excuse to cover up the abuse of power and the craving for more power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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