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My morals aren't based on religion, I can choose to do right because it's the right thing to do, not because I seek reward in heaven or fear eternal torture in hell. I'm not sure I could trust the morals of a creator that plans on torturing me forever for simply being born a failed human. Morals based on fear lead only to bias.
Strabo, the Greek geographer and philosopher, says: "it is impossible to govern women and the gross body of the people, and to keep them pious, holy and virtuous, by the precepts of philosophy. This can only be done by the fear of the gods, which is raised and supported by ancient fictions and modern prodigies." And again he says: "The apparatus of the ancient mythologies was an engine which the legislators employed as bugbears to strike a terror into the childish imagination of the multitude." |
allah will punish you all.:Kaleun_Goofy:
I'm just wondering what ferret hell would be like? :hmm2: http://www.theberkeleydiet.com/wp-co...No-Alcohol.jpg http://newsanvil.files.wordpress.com...pg?w=199&h=300 Oh boy, I love ferrets. http://csumc.wisc.edu/AmericanLangua...girls_half.jpg Dowly's new "mates." http://lh4.ggpht.com/-0n9NDAJ4PNU/Th...5B6%25255D.jpg Naughty ferrets go to Amish paradise. http://examiner-enterprise.com/sites...tacks_Mill.jpg We shall embrace our new friend Dowly. http://blog.bigfatwhale.com/images//...erret_yawn.jpg Yes. http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/20...ret-attack.jpg |
The OP's comments are all the more ironic when one takes into consideration that his supported candidate belongs to a sect that mainstream Christianity labels 'un-Christian'.
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Well, my wife was excommunicated by those retards with the magic underwear, so I applaud all derision aimed their way.
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I think I have worked it out.
Given the time warp in yubbavile I think he may be refering to the events that ended on thursday last. In case you missed it thursday was an event that started with a prayer session(not mass islamic invasion horde variety), it then finished with this bishop fella who does some rememberance thingies about 9/11 victims in his diocese. Obviously as 9/11 was done by the government and the churches are run by the iluminati it means the DNC was run by the reptillians who clearly can't be christian as the bible don't mention lizard men so it must be against god. Have you been drinking toilet duck again yubba? |
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During the 'trial', one of the elders called her a whore, to her face, for living with me. We were both in school, but I was working too. So they accused her of trading sex for rent. |
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I disagree. Spirituality was invented as a form of control. For the same reasons you mentioned, humans want to believe we are superior to animals, even if we share common instincts. We want to believe we are gods chosen species. My belief is best said by agent Smith. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Na9-jV_OJI In other words, we were not created as a mirror image of gods perfection, but another organism in his grand plan. Our greatest weapon, and curse is our intelligence. But people cannot accept, that we are as we are, Just another brutal animal, fighting for survival, they need an explanation. When others disagree, they want to fight over it, how silly. Right Crusaders, and Jihadists? An invisible spook in the sky, would make people forsake thier own species because they refuse to believe as they do. Then again male Alpacas like to try to kick each other in the nuts, same as we like to exterminate those who are not part of our clan, or religion, or gang... Have fun with your indoctrination. My god is no where near as cruel as yours. Not all aimed at you Dark Wraith, I springboarded off your comment, then adressed the OP. Just wanted to clarify. :) |
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First off, spirituality and religion are not one in the same. Spirituality is a belief that there is something that exists that is greater than one's self. Religion on the other hand, uses precepts, rituals and education to indoctornate its followers in a belief system. Spirituality is unique in that it differs in each person. Take a camping trip in early fall and get up for the sunrise and you will completely understand what I am saying.
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Spirituality: to ask for where one comes from, where one goes, and why life and cosmos do exist. Spirituality is a state of an asking mind. - The spiritual mind knows that it does not know.
Religion: an opportunistically hijacked condensate resulting from assuming one knows answers to the above questions, while in fact one knows not. Lacking knowledge gets replaced by acting as if one would have that lacking knowledge nevertheless. The cognitive dissonance resulting from this contradictory situation, as well as the need to defend this behavior against criticism by people not acting by this scheme, both in order to maintain one's own attitude nevertheless, results in an ideology that gets defended the more bitterly the more the contradictions become obvious and get pointed out. The climax is reached when the state of not knowing becomes declared a virtue and thus any need for asking questions becomes denied. Here the journey towards dogmatically founded tyranny is completed. - The religious mind believes it knows, but since believed knowledge is no knowledge, but belief only, the religious mind is stuck with believing exclusively. This is not any different from any person in a mental asylum believing he/she is Napoleon, is a cosmic superman with supernatural abilities, or is monitored and controlled by mysterious powers living in the inner core of the Earth. Religion is a hallucinating state of mind resulting from lacking education and lacking knowledge. Of course, it gets used for political crowd-control as well. In Zen they say: "Small doubts - small enlightenment. Big doubts - big enlightenment. No doubts - no enlightenment. " - Very true! Alexander Pope said: "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." F. A. Lothar Kempter, a Swiss-German componist, director and poet: "Schließe die Augen, dann wirst du schauen. / Brich deine Mauern, dann wirst du bauen. / Lerne harren, dann wirst du gehn, / lasse dich fallen, dann wirst du stehn." The more you believe you know, the less you know for sure. The more spiritual you are, the less religious you can be. The more religous you are, the less spiritual you can be. Lao Tse: "Those who talk much, don't know. Those who know much, don't talk." A bamboo flute without holes is no flute, but a hole without flutes is something totally different. :D |
Now you guys have done it. You've got Skybird going on yet another anti-religion rant.
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"Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent." :hmmm: The Bible is just full of senseless trivialities.:shifty: |
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