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My thoughts are the same as yours my friend

mmm, I only view religion as a way to help your morals (which if thats why you got into religion, hoo hoo you're screwed). Its all nothing but ways to help one live a good life through the lord. Unfortunately, dicks and fundamentalists decide to one up the mass hypnosis and use their religion to slam it against other ones for more minions and wealth, through millenias of bloodshed and hatred.

Personally, I am technically a catholic, but I dont need religion to tell me whats right or wrong. Im not a wuss who would throw my will away to some bullshit higher power in exchange for physical and mental well-being because I drink too much. the only one I can rely on for such things is myself, and I intend to keep it that way.

Yeah, I know how you feel, I was starting to doubt my own beliefs once too. Then I saw the movie "The Passion" and my belief in God and Jesus was restored. However, I'm not saying that this will restore your faith to what it once was...I mean, it's different for everybody.

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Yeah, I'm not gonna see the Passion. Because in my opinion, I don't think that a movie should be the reason for one to accept religion.

The thing about me is, although I doubt, I accept that in my life. To question what I cannot see or touch and think about whether they truley exist or not. Some people will agree, some people don't. That's fine. As it's my life to chose, and theirs.

I completely agree.

The problem really with religion is that when it becomes a large orgranized "company", it becomes corrupted and seeks only money and power through the ignorance of people. All the money those goes into churches through sermons, the majority goes towards the church, instead into the people they claim to be helping. That's 15% to people who need that money for healthcare and food, and 85% that goes into making another informercial to sell you a bobbing head Jesus toy.

and also when they just go and denounce all others but themselves and what they teach. Saying all the scientific breakthroughs (like evolution) are wrong and a sin. That being homosexual is a sin. That being Atheist it means you are going to hell (but yet preach that God is all knowing and understanding. ....So if God is understanding....then wouldn't god understand why we doubt?). That's really how they work... they try and scare you into believing in what they teach, by threating that you will go to a place of torture and misery for all enternity because you happen to be able to think for yourself, instead of following that "flock of sheep".

By it’s design.. religion at it’s best is a social binding that strengthens communities to achieve a better quality of living the group involved.

This becomes an issue in today’s world however as.. in Australia’s main cities. There is no prominent religion. 28% of Melbournians [my city] are atheists.


Religion is also a great closure for those whoa re terrorifed by the prospect that when they die everything that is them will cease and that’s it. Nothing more. Religion is fantastic at keeping us ignorant of this. Personally I think that is is one of th best things about religion. Because as we contemplate more and more these days. The idea of nothingness is terrifying.


Religion flaws lie in it’s inability of be dynamic in nature and change. EVERYTHING changes. It’s the law of life. Science changes. Climate changes. Life ages and changes and ideas change. But religion keeps hold of values that might for today’s age be redundant and illogical. And when new changes are made it usually ends up in an entirely new type of religion.


My thoughts on religion is this.

“Believe what you want to believe in, and I’ll respect it as long as it’s not ethically retarded.”

Jehovah witnesses suffer this stupidity. No blood transfusion?

Yet another example of an idea now redundant.
This rule probably comes from hundreds of years ago where mixing blood lead to catching plagues and diseases.

Right now.. in America.. not to important.

Anyway. Just my thoughts.

*applaudes* I completely agree.

Especially about what lies after death.... because really we have no idea if there is anything after death or if that truely is the last straw.... Everyone (no matter who they are and how much they deny it) hopes for something after death...and better place were you can be....free. But, nobody knows for sure until they actually die....

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

-Stephen Roberts

Anyways, Bill O'Reilly even agrees that Christianity was intentionally written into the constitution, American rhetoric, and tradition because the founders knew of its effectiveness in keeping people in line.

If any schmuck can have a vision and make his own religion, then why not make your own? I did.