What is religion to you?

Because what your god, pastor, minister, guru, organized religion makes you believe to be "intelligence", is actually an insult on your own intelligence.

 

now your saying i'm relgious? i'm sorry have you ever spoken to me before? how wud you no? and you just keep backin up what people say about you but mayb you dont know any better.

 

There again, you're thinking in stereotypes. Oklahoma is generally conservative, right wing, so I must be, too. But I'm not. Watch out for those assumptions. How are regional stereotypes any better than racist or sexist ones? Boston, eh. Obviously full of beans, which would explain your brain farts. And you must be a Romney supporter, but he's such a plastic phoney. Is that what you are? Or just an aging high holy from the sixties?

 

Well said

 

It is said, that Okies mean dumb and stupid.
Probably why, god gave you hillbillies a dust bowl instead.

Thank you for proving yourself a perfect example.

 

Whatever :jester:
Come back to the discussion when you have calmed down.

I'm just sayin' you, Moon_Beam, Okiefreak, ya' all sound like some religious nutcases with nothing to back your beliefs.


Here are my beliefs:

god is made up by crooks in organized religion to take your money and worse, your mind.

Proof: you see/read it all in the news, everywhere.​

religion is a drug used as a means to gain power and control on others, religion is also the biggest scam.

Proof: Christianity, Islam, etc.​

Show me your beliefs and prove it. Then we'll talk.

 

Sound like religious nutcases for allowing people basic human rights?! Yeah ok!
But then again from what you have been saying, it sounds like human rights mean nothing to you because everyone should just believe what you are saying!


You can't use a generalisation of a whole religion to prove anything, if you had personally spoken to every religious person then fair enough, but I'm guessing you haven't, so how about you stop being so bloody prejudice against people you don't even know.

 

Is religion a human right??

Then, drugs certainly are a human right too.
Since time immemorial, humans have sought drugs to heal illnessess and seek cures.


If drugs are a human right, how come they ban certain drugs, but not certain religions?

 

Maybe you should have a look at the Human Rights Act!!!

 

Just who exactly was/were the authors of the Human Rights Act, anyway?

They're just a bunch of fallible, humans, warts and all, just like you and me.

Since the authors are imperfect humans, the Human Rights Act don't mean shit.

Is it in fact, even followed in everywhere in the world, not to mention even here in good ole' U.S. of A???

Think again.

 

Oh right, so you realise you are wrong and try and get out of it by saying that human rights is something that is stupid, shouldn't exist and isn't followed! You are seriously messed up! I really don't want to carry on talking to someone who is such a twat!

 

I had a different message here earlier, really about Steve90, but I thought you might think I meant it for you, so I withdrew it. You're a normal participant in the conversation, but he has a tendency to make everything personal by bigoted stereotyping, gratuitous insults, and broken record repetition of the same slogans, sometimes in different fonts and colors.

 

So most of this thread seems to have been about responding to insults. Does anybody have anything to say about what religion is to us--besides the opiate of the people?

Here's a question I never did get an answer to:

than what? let's analyze that claim. What role did religion play in: the Greco-Persian wars, the Peloponnisian war, the Punic wars, the War of the Roses, the Hundred Years War,the Seven Years War, the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War,the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War? By any measure (number of battles, numbers of combatants, lives lost, scale, property damaged) these were among the worst, bloodiest wars in history. But it's hard to see how religion played a significant role in any of them. Was somebody overgeneralizing?

 

I left out:The Northern Wars, the Wars of Spanish Succession and Polish Succession, the Napoleonic Wars, the Mexican-American War, the Austro-Prussian War, the Falklands War, and the Balkan Wars.

 

True, I just don't like it when people try and tell others what to think, feel, say and believe - people should be able to do want they like, as long as they don't hurt anyone. No one is better than anyone else.

I don't think he actually has anything substantial to add so this is the only way he can get a response!

 

THE DRUG WAR.... a war on religion..

 

The Pubic wars

The Phoenicians who worshipped their god Baal, El, the Ruler of the Universe, Son of Dagan, Rider of the Clouds, Almighty, Lord of the Earth fought the Greeks who worshipped Zeus, or Roman Jupiter, to decide which god had the longest unshaved pubic hair.

Did that answer your question, OkieDokie, nookie-nookie! :jester:

Next stupid question straight outta da Dustbowl, please. :drool:

 

Yes!
Human right alone is stoopid!
Human right alone shouldn't exist!
Human right alone shoudn't be followed!




What about the human left?!! :jester:

 

Absolutely, nothing!

Why?

Because the pagan Greeks, the pagan Phoenicians, the Protestant English, the Spanish Catholics, the Christian Americans, the Shinto Japanese, the Buddhist Koreans, the Muslim Iraqi, etc. all went out and started killing one another, other fellow human beings.

Somehow, the idea that "thou shall not kill" or "seeing the divine" in another human being, was completely forgotten, or for some reason, their God commanded them to kill another human being.


For the combatants of these stupid wars, their stupid religion meant nothing to them, unless their stupid religion somehow fed their bloodlust.


Obviously, stupid religions with their stupid gods didn't make the world a better place, but merely produced more stupid followers who waged wars, and killings, all in the name of their stupid God, or dog, for that matter, a bloodthirsty dog, indeed.

 

So you're backing down from your original statement that "religion CAUSES more wars". You were just blowing more Boston bean gas out your ass!