It's words like "reli-goons" that really aggravate me. And hey. I'm not saying your opinion matters more than mine, it's just that people seem to listen to the people who are most volatile.

You're taking this totally the wrong way. You're telling me to wake up? Why don't you start treating this with a bit more respect, huh? I'm not talking about stopping religion either. I'm talking about your blatant bigotry and how it makes the rest of us look bad. It does. When people like Richard Dawkins go on TV and preach anti-religious zeal, it doesn't help anyone. You'd be smart to roll your eyes at him because all he's doing is making an ass of himself and making reasons for people to start calling us names.

My point is this: When you start name calling and acting like this is some sort of game about who's got a bigger penis or who can hurl more insults or who's more 'right' than the other, it really doesn't get anyone anywhere. You're literally taking everything I say the wrong way. Try to read the text before you pass judgment.

You don't get it. When you start talking like that, you start making everyone else who doesn't care look bad. It's sort of like televangelists and pro-religious zealots. You start talking about how dumb the others are, and exclusively how dumb they are, they tend to project that image onto every other person that holds a similar belief. So yes, you're making us look like jackasses. Stop it.

How'd this one slip under my radar?

Oh, no matter.

I didn't realize I was debating with a bunch of anti-religious zealots. You know, you make the rest of us people who don't care to practice a religion look like jackasses right?

Just sayin'.

Damn straight I would. Hell, I know I wouldn't get very far, but it's the message that's more important. Once we let people start controlling more and more of our lives, we begin to submit ourselves into a sort of slavery. Worse than it is now. Every man has their breaking point, and if they take away my weapons, they've pushed past that point.

Of course, I wouldn't do it so openly. I'd have methods behind the madness and I'd probably organize as best I could, but yes. I'd violently defend my rights. I don't see the rape of the constitution as a good thing, and honestly, I don't really like how it's holding up at current(Patriot Act), so I'm already about to snap.

(Hint: The PS3 also plays the current generation's games, unlike the PS2.)

Just sayin'.

Ain't the same business.

It helps, but you can't just have large wads of cash and expect to feel too good about it. Unless that's what you were after. But that's a whole different category. The pursuit and accomplishment of life goals is what makes people happy I think. I'm not saying have uniform and completely set out goals, but know what you want and get it. If money is what you want, then get it. If it isn't, then don't worry about it too much and love what you have.

You sound like a preacher. You honestly do. I'm not saying religion is right for all of the damned stupid things that it's caused and the pain it's made, but people are forgetting something: No matter how much you want to know or how much you believe in your convictions, you will never know the truth. It's that simple. Really, it is.

Weighing up the World-wide situation, a substantial proportion of Humanity are unable to let go of their forebears' primitive belief in a creator that demands a daily dose of supplication. In essence, a person's specific belief is dictated by that part of the globe from where they originated; a simple inheritance of the parents' unreal ancestral teachings, largely unquestioned. No need to be a Religious Scholar (what a fatuous preoccupation) in order to comprehend why all of this utter humbug survives.

To be fair, culture is a very important part of us, because it helps us better understand ourselves and it provides something for us to look back on and question. It is true that whatever part of the globe you come from seems to dictate your religion, but I don't know exactly why that matters. As for why people never question these things, well. They do. They change. Christianity didn't just appear out of nowhere, someone had to think about it. They organized and started about this. I'm not saying it's right that they did, but to say that nobody ever questions their father's religions is nonsense. I don't think I need to remind anyone of the two religious revivals that occurred in North America, and the vast impact it had.(Ironically, the heritage of the cults seem predominant. Namely the Mormons, who managed to get an entire state sewn into their legacy.)

Persistent indoctrination over millennia leave the susceptible with feelings of unease when they attempt to ditch the ingrained silly beliefs inherited from similarly programmed forebears. Most take an apathetic route & run with these various childish beliefs, passed down thro the generations via pious, shallow-thinking naivety - preferring illusion to reality - fantasy to truth.

But you can break away, and people do. The smarter patrons of these religions even understand that not everything is to be taken so literally, and they understand the threats that are posed by religions. It's also pretty dumb to assume that without religion people wouldn't be finding excuses to be lazy and ignore facts anyways. They would. You know they would. It's not some sort of phenomena that's spawned by meta magical thinking. It's spawned by pure greed and laziness.

Relgious leaders live in the past, with mystical rites that are still prevalent, complete with modern trappings. They are an absurdity! Their endeavours to exalt religiosity by the erection of ever more imposing ‘Places of Worship’ merely highlights – Monumentally - the benighted phases of Man's past. Hell's Bells - What a shambles!

Yeah I usually don't tend to listen to anyone who's so dedicated to something they start ignoring reality. We ignore those people in turn.

As with everything, ethics evolve quite naturally. The need to consult Biblical, Koranic, or any other crap-laden fairy tales in order to pursue a decent & considerate existence beggars belief!

You honestly can't say that there's absolutely nothing you can learn from the Bible. Some of it's trash, but really the Ten Commandments aren't that bad of guidelines to live by.

It would appear that it’ll take a very long time for society to rid itself totally of the falsity of religious humbug, Using it’s bogus validity for an easy living, it’s predacious practitioners use their dominant & deceitful acumen to sublimely charm the naive to wander in an unreal ‘Spiritual Wonderland’ that is totally unworthy of any honest contemplation.

Well, I'm sure some religions might certainly express that life with their religion is easier, but I don't think the newer Christian religions really stress that so much. The only thing I've really picked up from the bible and from what I remember of churches,(when I was 7~10) it wasn't at all about the now, but rather the afterlife. That's a pretty dumb thing to hinge on, but at lest Christianity helps dumb people who just don't really see a reason to be humble or nice get a reason.

These Impostors just can’t be all that thick to believe in their own silly preachings; much more likely, they realise that they’re on a nice little earner & conscience goes out of the window!

Some do. It's not a sick assumption to think that someone is exploiting religion to fill their pockets. They are. But some people really do believe. Delusional or not, if you try to force them to quit, it'll only make their convictions that much stronger.

You can't fight religion. You'll only make them angrier and more against you.

I don't agree with some of those points, but yeah it's getting to the point where congress is really fucking up. I think the problem is, in order to get a good position, even in congress, you have to be rich off of your ass. Yeah. I'm hating on the rich people. They don't represent me, and they don't represent the rest of America. They represent themselves, and that's what bugs me.

I honestly don't think congress is working the average American's interest.

You dick. It's mentality like that that really makes it hard to root for the Palestinians. Though, I have to say that Israel is doing a GREAT JOB at showing its ass, there's a lack of cooperation on both parts. And YES both Palestine and Israel need to stop. This isn't a game or the story of some tyrants. Both countries are contributing to the madness, and for what? Bitterness that spans thousands of years ago? Why the hell are you guys fighting your ancestors wars in the first place?

The simple solution to all of this is to just stop.

That won't happen though.

Whatever.

It's probably one of the only things I do believe in. I've seen it work. Maybe that's just me with my voodoo mind powers projecting myself onto someone else or a bitter taste of irony in cases of bad karma on my part. Whatever it is, there's one universal truth: "What comes around goes around."