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So many things are not true but still meaningful. For example: Math and language. it's not something that's true or false it's something we invented and accepted to make life easier for ourselves , math might've been totally different if we accepted other ideas. Language was also invented to make life easier so we could communicate with eachother, there's also no truth behind it , we accepted it.
Anyways religion is indeed fake and made up by people, but so what if they feel happier because of it , as long as they don't hurt people because of their religion it's ok. You can't blame people who grow up in religious families , neighbourhoods for accepting what everyone's telling them because most people do that . Even if you say you don't, you already have . That doesn't mean religious people can't be preachers , they don't always take shit from the bible , Koran or whatever to preach , you have smart people amongst them as well who believe in a higher being and still manage to amaze with their words.
The biggest world threat facing the world today is not Islam and its followers , it's America and its religious nuts of which the country seems to have a frightening amount ; the Vice President of this once great country is a religious nut who thinks Evolution is nonsense . Sam Harris said in a lecture that 19 states in America still have corporal punishment in the classroom and these states are all ones which would be deemed mostly believers in the ' good book '
Look at the nut job politicians in America who bring god into everything and then look at the rabid ignorant so called Christians on CD , there are a few stand up decent Christians on CD but they're in the minority .
Corporal punishment was done away with in my country over 40 years ago and most European countries done away with it a long time ago .
Watch the Christians on here tear each other apart over which American version of which of their cults has the right brand of religion , if Jesus came to earth as a CD Christian he would be a gun toting , foul mouthed hypocrite if the nut jobs on CD are anything to go by
Religion is regressive and divisive and poisons everything
Islamic State is still dogmatic and extreme, much more than some unorganised nuts.
Except that, yes, it's latest administration is hilarious. As a joke, it wouldn't even be worth laughing at.
Though India still has corporal punishment, because, they say, the people won't say the truth otherwise. (Not so much a "punishment", though, it seems.)
Yes Islamic State is as you say but are hardly a world threat ,I don't know if you could call the powers that be in the US unorganised nuts as the majority have no problem stating publically their religious views even Trump is claiming the bible is his favourite book , go back to Bushs time when he talked about crusades , religion is scary when it's used to justify wars .
Corporal punishment has no place in society it's basically saying that communication has failed so violence must be used to get the ' message across '
Yes, but religions of US are even less of a world threat.
Even India, the country which mutually likes US the most, won't bow to Christianity as its doctrine. And that's excluding most other countries, because America isn't very well liked by all.
Yes , it's not the religions it's the ones in power who use the religions to justify laws and wars by hiding behind the 'good book '.
America is loved in my country and loved more depending on who's president Americans come in their droves to trace there long lost relatives from the old country .
The only problem being that Trump doesn't seem to have respect, or even acknowledgement (perhaps even knowledge), of international treaties and the reasoning behind them.
Yes Stain hadn't even updated his argument to the Lane Craig variation which he Craig still uses or the Alvin Plantinga currently-popular version of Godel's modal logic argument ; all equally as bad as one another as well you know .
A lot of philosophical thinking seems to have gone on in monasteries and places of prayer possibly because people were to busy fighting off Barbarian the hordes that swept the land , Anselm was probably a bit of a card alright 😀
Yes, they're indeed funny. It is still conceivable for people to believe, or pretend to believe, such things in Dark Ages, it's strange that they're still more than jokes.
They're all equivalent to "God has extended himself out of my imagination and is now eternal and omnipotent!"
Ideally, it'd have been absurd to consider that people can believe it. They took a joke too seriously.
Also, as Hitchens said, the gods humans have created are just the gods you'd expect from a species that is just half a chromosome away from being a chimpanzee.
Correct, religious persons are not real preachers, they are false teachers. Religious persons are tying to convince themselves, through a thinking process or through a lifestyle or the combination of the two, that they are or can earn the right to be exempt from maximum penalty for the wrongs they have done. It is obvious they are deluded as they cannot get themselves out of the maximum penalty which is death. So they are in death, dying forever and trying to get out of it by deluding themselves....and when they claim to know how they are keeping themselves out of the maximum penalty, they are preaching their religion in reality being false teachers and not preachers. A real preacher is one who proclaims truth, and does not mix truth with lies.
Jesus loves you. He really, reeeaaally loves you. He loves it when you whisper sweet nothings in his ear, and he especially love it when you gently cup his balls.
It seems like you are responding to my post...why don't you address your comments to somebody who might care about what you have to say?
And tell them why you are a misfit, explain to them your perversions so they can understand. Funny thing, for a long time I thought you were a girl, I pictured you as something perhaps disfigured by extreme acne, molested by relatives or friends of relatives, causing you to grow up in emotional turmoil and turn into a social reject, a little misfit. I always thought the "Mis" in misfit meant you were a little girl, you sure whined like a little girl when I used to read your comments.
Later I figured out that you must be a sodomite, and probably everything but your gender I was correct in guessing. You see, I've learned not to cast pearls before swine as they will trample the pearls and attack you. To me you're a swine, and the best I can do for you is to day God loves you and you can be saved from Hell but it looks like you won't and you need to wake up for your own sake and look at where you are going...and turn and walk away and leave you behind.
Please post this comment in the debate "Sodomites and children", and tell everybody why you think sodomites should be allowed to get close enough to children where they can brand the kids with their perverted passion by molesting them.
Thank you for reading.
p.s. Also, please tell us about why you are a misfit? Did it have something to do with being branded as a child by sodomites?
oh, I thought this was in another discussion, didn't know it was this debate.....I was going to ask you to continue commenting but I don't care what you do here. I hope you don't explode in a fireball of Hell fire.
Well, ONE of these "religious persons" is a "saint", if you don't believe that, ask him.
I agree, the Islamic State is NOT a world threat. However, I understand that the EU has added Trumps name to the list of "threats" to Europe. (Definitely more dangerous than ISIL! HE has nuclear weapons, they don't, HE has respect for Putin, they don't!)
We need to remember the words of John Adams: "The Government of the United States is NOT, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion." (OR, any other.)
Anyway, Trump would never take the blame for ending mankind, he would blame it on the Bible and "God", for, .... "it is written" Ya'know, Armageddon, the horsemen ...Trump is NEVER to blame for ANYTHING! As long as he can say it's not his fault, what the hell! He probably has a way to take HIS money with him, and a cloud lined in gold to fly him to the golf course. He has a get out of jail free card!
Climate Change? Well he's put in place a man who hates the EPA ... 'nuff said.
It just meant that Trump may like anyone, but he has little support. He can't win over people anywhere else. And he can't threaten or get volatile - most of the nations won't buy into the things he might say.
So, the scientists were too ambitious to think that they could make him see reason?
I would agree with that. He CAN'T win over people anywhere else. Take away his manufactured stand on guns (tell'em what they want to hear), and he wouldn't have won. The rest of the civilized world doesn't want them and wouldn't buy much of anything else he has to say.