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Religious Bullshit
Posted by: stile Topic: Religion Thursday, January 31 @ 03:28PM EST [9092 reads] |
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ice writes: The old philosopher Freud, who is said to be one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, came up with this theory on the belief in religion...
"Religion is a process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place would place them in danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless purposeless world."
So what do you guys think?
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Re: Religious Bullshit by tokencracker on Thursday, January 31 @ 04:33PM EST [user info] | children shouldnt be tought religion
let them learn it theirselves when theyre old enough to not need any help
but by then they would understand life in a much better way than religion teaches you
and you'd have an interesting person who would either be truly a mean to do well person or a rotten bastard that lives to kill cops :shrug: |
Re: Religious Bullshit by tokencracker on Thursday, January 31 @ 04:34PM EST [user info] | (yes i know its taught ) | Re: Religious Bullshit by Cari on Friday, February 01 @ 04:46PM EST [user info] | No....they shouldn't be taught religion....they should be taught how to spell...... | Re: Religious Bullshit by Vivianne on Saturday, February 02 @ 03:13PM EST [user info] | Who needs spelling in a world of spellcheckers and assholes? If one doesn't catch your mistake, the other will.. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by reptillikus on Thursday, January 31 @ 04:38PM EST [user info] | Religion only works to fill in the gaps of the ignorant, so yeah, it works fine for little kids, but once you hit that magical age, you realize that theres a scientific reason behind the sky being blue, and lets not get into the whole evolution thing, cause then we'd start a huge argument... |
Re: Religious Bullshit by tokencracker on Thursday, January 31 @ 04:41PM EST [user info] | what? that humans aren't from apes; apes are from mexicans?
well, yah | Re: Religious Bullshit by kobolt on Friday, February 01 @ 08:46PM EST [user info] | but if we evolved from apes how come there are still apes around? | You must be shitting me... by Jamouse on Saturday, February 02 @ 05:05PM EST [user info] | you fucking nitwit. you cant be serious? okay, if you're 8 years old, then i understand.
That's exactly like saying "If the pickup truck evolved from the sedan, how come there are still sedans around?"
god, religious nuts are idiots. | Re: You must be shitting me... by RC on Friday, February 15 @ 06:14AM EST [user info] | First off, your analogy was stupid. Still, evolution doesn't actually state that humans evolved from apes. We evolved from ape-like beings; indeed, we ourselves still are ape-like beings.
Evolutionists still can't provide the missing link in human evolution, though (that is not to say I don't believe in evolution). |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by zonkers on Thursday, January 31 @ 04:39PM EST [user info] | Dead on Freud, my man, you pounded that nail.
Religion is a self medication.
Gotta go get it on with my mother ;-] |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Chomsky on Thursday, January 31 @ 04:51PM EST [user info] | Godless world? Nobody knows what god is, so how could there be a godless world?
Purposeless world? If you take the time away from useless people that waste your time, television, newspapers and magazines which also waste your time, then maybe with a few good friends or even a mentor, you can figure out who and what the fuck YOU are; then religion no longer holds any importance at all! |
Re: Religious Bullshit by Lampshade on Sunday, February 03 @ 07:01AM EST [user info] | dont forget that when religion was first formed not a soul had the fucking shit we have today. They used to plant corn and shit to pass the time, not beat off on the internet like most people do all the time.
And science can explain all the shit that they could not explain back then. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by SultryBrunette on Friday, February 01 @ 06:07AM EST [user info] | children should be taught religion (ALL RELIGIONS) to establish a strong moral center. once they are old enough, they usually find their way and move on to utilize more evoloved moral checks such as fear of prosecutiona nd ostracization....all of which the learned in church as a child.
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Re: Religious Bullshit by tobpcom on Saturday, February 02 @ 04:22AM EST [user info] | I disagree. Children should be taught about religion. There is no reason why parents cannot teach strong morals without resorting to religion. Besides, what morals are you teaching your children by introducing them to a jealous god that kills without good reason? |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by nibiru on Friday, February 01 @ 07:14AM EST [user info] | I've got enough comments on religion that I could fill a website - but for now just a couple of comments.
Robert Heinlein wrote in The Notebooks of Lazarus Long:
"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it."
I agree, and while I consider myself somewhat spiritual (and constantly in search of meaning and purpose) I do not like or agree with the idea of, or ideas proffered by, organized religions of any kind. In my opinion, they are devices used to control and subjugate the masses, and organized religions and churches have been responsible for the most horrible and cruel atrocities perpetrated by men upon their fellow men. But if you need the crutch, who am I to tell you that you can't have it? Whatever works for you, pal, whatever works for you.
People's interpretation of the bible is based on 20th and 21st century ideas, attitutes, and understandings of the world, and fail to account for the vastly different times and places when the individual books of the Bible were composed, and the entire Bible was codified. If you would like to believe what is literally said, fine, but know that things were different then, words had different meanings, and much of what was written was done so after the fact, sometimes by a few decades, sometimes many generations, and therefore it's accuracy as a historical document must be suspect. There was also significant editing and debate as to which books would be included and which would be excluded, thus it's role as a "guide for life" must also be recognized as the specific agenda of the early leaders of the church seeking to win the "hearts and minds" of the population and thus expand their power base. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Bazookanose on Friday, February 01 @ 09:13AM EST [user info] | Foolish rules of ancient date
Designed to make you all feel great
While you fold, spindle and mutilate
Those unbelievers from a neighboring state
Frank Zappa (The Immortal)
from The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing on the album You Are What You Is |
oops by Bazookanose on Friday, February 01 @ 12:46PM EST [user info] | from the song Dumb All Over not The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Although both are excellent songs and on-topic for this thread. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Corval on Friday, February 01 @ 10:52AM EST [user info] | Await the Uprising, for its time will come. |
Re: Religious Bullshit by CasbahBoy on Friday, February 01 @ 10:54AM EST [user info] | "It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
Sigmund Sigismund Freud |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by apocalypse_dude on Friday, February 01 @ 12:54PM EST [user info] | I know Jesus is real , i saw him selling oranges on the corner the other day.
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Re: Religious Bullshit by psychoholic on Friday, February 01 @ 01:29PM EST [user info] | Religion... don't fuckin' get me started.
It seems to me, after ages and ages of human progress and development... That we should as a species, be able to move beyond the need to explain a reason or purpose of our little lives on this ball of dirt we call earth with wishful thinking and speculation... and then bending our own lives to fit a bunch of hogwash written by people who lived ages ago just because some pulpit pounding moron tells you it's right. Maybe It's just me, but it just seems counterproductive to humanity as a whole. We should move on, evolve, and just fucking grow up... unfortunately, stupidity seems to run rampant in much of the genepool... So, enough venting... what do you guys/gals out there think ? |
Re: Religious Bullshit by beartear on Friday, February 01 @ 06:47PM EST [user info] | I was waiting for someone to bring the 'genepool' into this....
Could there be a corilation twixt the number of really dumb people in the world, and religious dogma imposing the " Thou shalt not fuck lest ye have kids." rule? | Re: Religious Bullshit by psychoholic on Sunday, February 03 @ 05:39PM EST [user info] | You just might be on to something there, yes indeed... and dumb begat dumber, and dumber begat dumbest, and so on... |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by gunthorn on Friday, February 01 @ 02:31PM EST [user info] | It's funny how religion NOW believes earth isn't the center of the universe. They change their teaches so they don't look like fucking morons. Even if there is a god what if he doesn't care about humans/earth. If one person could create the universe then he should be able to easily kill Satan who was an angel. Yes, he! 99% of original religions don't think women are equal to men, BUT were rewritten (reformed) to make women equal. Don't you think its fuked up that King Henry the 8th would create a religion just so he could get divorced!? Children are brainwashed by religion they should not be TAUGHT religion untill college. You don't need to teach a kid religion to teach them the difference of right and wrong. If I was a 5 year old and my mother told me that I would get my ass kicked and gang raped in prison I would be more frightened then some place called hell. I think its screwed up how everyone thinks pagan wiccan etc. etc. are fake, but jesus is real. If I said THANK YOU JESUS I would seem normal, but if I were to say THANK YOU ZEUS! I would seem like a fucking nut. If religion makes you feel better about yourself thats great, but don't try to change everyone. If I want to play violent video games then I will! Don't tell me what I can and can't do. The problem is NO ONE WANTS to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING. It's my opinion that god does not care about you, if I take a shotgun point it at your head and pull the trigger, even if your the pope I bet your going to die. If you study jesus you will find out that during that time period there were many other "messiahs" just like him. Think for yourself organized religion is just plain BS. Form your OWN ideas, ethics, religion. In my own experience I have found people who are religious to be close minded and hypocrites.
2,000 years ago if you said you spoke to god they'd call you a prohet, now they call you crazy. |
Re: Religious Bullshit by prelude on Friday, February 01 @ 09:41PM EST [user info] | just on the whole "religion changes their teachings", so does science. remember, alchemy used to be science. | Re: Religious Bullshit by gunthorn on Saturday, February 02 @ 09:11AM EST [user info] | EXACTLY, science grows,changes etc. Einstein had an IQ of 200. If there was some guy who created the universe a super being called GOD he would have an IQ of 99999999999999999999 therefore religion shouldn't change if its the word of god. It does transform thats why its faaakkkkkeee. | Re: Religious Bullshit by prelude on Saturday, February 02 @ 09:45AM EST [user info] | nah...
religion grows and changes just like science does. remember, religion is run by people here on earth, and those people are liable to mess up just like anyone else, no matter what religion says. by the way. you spelled "fake" wrong :P |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Delamorte on Friday, February 01 @ 04:11PM EST [user info] | When someone claims god will stop the sinners of the world, tell them for me.
" Until this god of yours shows up at my doorstep, don't proceed to tell me right from wrong. " |
Re: Religious Bullshit by sean on Friday, February 01 @ 03:09PM EST [user info] | you said it buddy |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Roman on Friday, February 01 @ 04:43PM EST [user info] | Those are my thoughts exactly, if God did not exist (in our minds) we would believe that we are the only ones responsible for our actions, which may lead to potencial madness. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by somabrandmayonaise on Friday, February 01 @ 04:48PM EST [user info] | "faith is only betting on the right horse." what's to say that yeah, your christian god (or any god, for that matter) is right and everyone else is wrong and whoever does not believe shall burn in hell or wherever. if that's the case, aren't we all going to hell (or whatever you may believe in)? come on, people. pick on religion and stick with it... though, the minute you show up at my door at seven in the morning preaching to me about how i'm going to burn for eternity, you better watch out. that bible is going to be up your ass. watch out for me, baby! i'm your anti-christ! |
Re: Religious Bullshit by wmtspeedy69 on Friday, February 01 @ 05:34PM EST [user info] | so much hate. everyone who posted here is probably the product of broken home, abuse, etc. I go to church (and a Baptist one at that) every fucking Sunday, but I don't mind people who say God doesn't exist. I really wish you'd repent, but there's a point when it becomes useless to try, beacuse people are going to think what they want. Religion is a preferance. Also, 99% of the posts here bash my faith. You rely on the small percentage of fundamentalists that preach Hell on you constantly for your Bible info, therefore you think we're all like that. We're not. Not only that, but when you actually sit down and read the Bible (and I have), it really does make sense. Just because the laws are old, that doesn't mean that there obsolete. Plus, you keep talking about the strict law part of the Bible, what about all of Jesus's love? God doesn't control us, it's not his fault we fucking kill each other. I'm not gonna go kill some Hindu of Muslim beacuse of his faith; that would be Hipocracy. Also, there's plenty of scientific evidence to prove it (Noah's Arc remains, Shroud of Turin, the cross, the 500 eyewitnesses you saw Jesus after he arose, the list goes on and on...). You talk about how you wish people wouldn't bash you, so why don't you leave my faith the fuck alone.
Jesus loves me, this I know... | Re: Religious Bullshit by beartear on Friday, February 01 @ 07:07PM EST [user info] | I'm not 'preaching' hate Dude. If you are happy with your choice regarding your system of beliefs, then good for you. Happy for ya.
Yes there is evidence for the authenticity of the occurances in the Bible. However, said evidence IS open to interpretation just as the major text of any religion is. For instance; the carbon dating tests done on the Shroud of Turin and the fragments found on Ararat show that the artifacts are not as old as the pundits of Christianity would have us believe. The markings or stains on the Shroud have been found to be a vegitable based dye.
There are many who will choose to accept the findings of contemporary science , and conversely , those who see holes in the fabric of modern scientifc methodology. It's a personal choice. I've made my choice and I am comfortable with it.
You have made your choice , but do not seem as comfortable. After all you want people to leave your faith alone. Could it be that you can't find it within yourself to defend any holes that may be poked therein?
Then again, it's your faith. You shouldn't need to defend anything. I don't need to defend my hair color , you shouldn't have to defend your faith against all of us heathens. Peace Dude. | Re: Religious Bullshit by prelude on Saturday, February 02 @ 08:05AM EST [user info] | he seems perfectly comfortable with his faith to me. his problem is that everybody on this page is just calling him a weakling, idiot, etc, etc. i'd say that's reason enough for him to say leave it the fuck alone. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by beartear on Friday, February 01 @ 04:53PM EST [user info] | I'm an Atheist, so I'm gonna sound like a hypocrite of sorts.... Religion, in my opinion, is fine. A belief structure based on a fictitious or abstract entity CAN be a source of strength for the weak of spirit/mind/body. Religion , in a way , gave society its first set of laws which in one form or another are still on the books today: Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Those shoes don't go with those pants....
I don't have a problem with people practicing a faith. What I have a problem with is The Institution of Organized Religion. Faiths that are already made and a hierarchy that demands complience, and to an extent subservitude. The Salvation Army does a great deal of good for communities and those in need but asks for 10% of their parishioner's net income. Giving the masses something to believe in ain't a bad thing. Wanting ten per cent? Blowme. The Catholic Church is the richest institution in the world, yet every day they pass that fucking plate around. If I were to drop a buck or two in there , would they tell me something new?
If little Johnny doesn't blow his classmates away today because he believes his God is gonna be pissed, great. Belief in God is ok.
On the flip side , The Taliban tells the followers of the Q'ran that they are at war with the U.S. ... stupid shit happens because of the demands of an institution.
Let little Johnny believe in God or Dog or whatever. Let the lady on the street say a Novena for you when you let rip with that morning-after Tequila fart. Let the individual be the individual and worship whatever God they want, even if it isn't Me.
Don't , however, let the Church of whatever create a society of individuals who have lost all of their ability to think for themselves and follow blindly one interpretation of some ancient work of fiction.
or something like that....
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Re: Religious Bullshit by MaxFish69 on Friday, February 01 @ 05:47PM EST [user info] | Amen Brother Beartear...
My thoughts exactly, but you forgot..."Gee everbody keeps getting sick when they eat pork...I know, we'll tell them that god said not to eat it"
Organized religion is perhaps simultaneously the best and worst thing to develop in our society. It has given us all the basic rules as you have mentioned above, set public health rules (don't eat bad meat, don't sleep with five people a night) that have allowed our species to survive and flourish. But, it has also given us extremist terrorists and abortion bombers (hey I'm pro-life but I'm also a physician and a patient advocate, and being young and mostly males we may not yet realize how intimate that relationship can be. Keep your fucking religion out of my examination room, thanks) .
Ooops, I was originally just going to say amen, but then the rest kind of spilled out. Typical disenfranchized drunk Catholic. | Re: Religious Bullshit by beartear on Friday, February 01 @ 06:23PM EST [user info] | I'm a typical , or not so typical , drunk agnosticly inclined atheist. So I really had no business voicing my opinion. I just like to write.... Perhaps my commentary stems fromthe fact that the Church of Me only has myself in the parish.... | Re: Religious Bullshit by sean on Friday, February 01 @ 03:13PM EST [user info] | you make some interesting points though, and that's what it's all about. people talking to people, the human interaction, all the rest is a learning tool for the foolish. | Re: Religious Bullshit by Malcontent on Friday, February 01 @ 05:50PM EST [user info] | open your mouth again. I want to see more poo fall out. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by nippa on Friday, February 01 @ 05:44PM EST [user info] | I think he is right. But as the mind and body are the tools of the soul and if one is not in tune with there inner self of course they are going to roam around as a fucked up self fulfilling human being. I don't think you have to be a genius to admit the force of life is in and around us everywhere. I think that the path to enlightenment is a journey and not a birth rite as the churches would have people believe. |
Re: Religious Bullshit by prelude on Friday, February 01 @ 06:38PM EST [user info] | ah, if i've seen this argument once, i've seen it a thousand times. well, i'm gonna have to take the "religion isn't really bad" side, because if no one did, then it would just be a religion bashing page, and not a discussion, or even an argument. rats. got off topic.
anyway. first i've noticed there's a belief that religions just tell you what to do, and if you don't do that, then you can go to hell. yes, there are people like that. fundamentalist can be very much like that. but they're really a small but vocal portion of the larger part of "religion". are all lesbians feminazis? of course not. but that's the stereotype. by buying into this "all religions are archaic mind controlling political machines" you espouse the very thing you claim to be above (using stereotypes). that vast majority of religious people are tolerant and all that jazz. but you don't hear from them, because their belief is similar to yours, people must find their own way. so to sum up, you don't see the moderate religious people because they allow you to live your life just like moderate atheists do.
as for it being rediculous to believe in god: there is very little scientific research that mainstream religion does not make room for. the catholic church does not deny the existence of atoms. truly the church even believes that there is a case for evolution, still being entirely within it's belief structure. but you don't hear about that, because those aren't the people that are complaining.
have you ever seen god? no
have you ever seen an atom? no
you accept the atom because you see scientific explanations for it. but i garuntee you that probably none of you understand the explanation that's there for the atom. but you still accept it. so why don't you accept the explanation for god? | Re: Religious Bullshit by sean on Friday, February 01 @ 03:17PM EST [user info] | i know the data, i know why it works, trust me it works don't you tell me it doens't work. damn art and buisness fucking majors.
duh wats an adam?
thermodynamics works.
math works.
physics works.
biochemistry works.
medicine works.
theology does nothing but propagate like a virus through deception and white lies. don't ever compare science and religion. | Re: Religious Bullshit by Corval on Friday, February 01 @ 06:55PM EST [user info] | ...because scientific theories are more plausible; and experiments/evidence to support or refute such theories are replicable.
Where's the hard evidence for the divine? I know it's a tired argument, but seriously, rational people are more inclined to believe/understand things when presented with evidence -- qualitative and or quantitative data of some kind at least. | Re: Religious Bullshit by prelude on Friday, February 01 @ 06:40AM EST [user info] | you only believe that scientific theories are more plausible. there are people out there that believe scientific theories are crap, and totally rediculous. keep in mind that "hard evidence" or not, unless you're a scientist, you're taking these "facts" on faith. you believe it when these people tell you that freon is destroying the ozone layer. but you don't know why it is, that stuff could easily be as made up as you believe religion to be. it's been done before. | Re: Religious Bullshit by sean on Friday, February 01 @ 03:19PM EST [user info] | i'll bet you think they faked the moon landing too. there's a difference between hack science and hard science. for more see previous comment. | Re: Religious Bullshit by Malcontent on Friday, February 01 @ 06:02PM EST [user info] | were you on the moon?
and hey, that shit was kinda hokey.
| Re: Religious Bullshit by sean on Saturday, February 02 @ 12:46PM EST [user info] | spoken like a true jackass art student, have fun working at mcdonald's!
I wasn't trying to be dramatic but there's a difference between fact and opinion. I was trying to get that across |
Why dont I accept the explanation? by Jamouse on Saturday, February 02 @ 05:14PM EST [user info] | That is actually a decent argument, my friend. The reason why we accept it is because theories commonly held as fact within the scientific community are based upon empirical research and experimentation. Religious belief is based solely upon accepting ideas blindly, given to you by someone else who accepted those ideas blindly. Guess how they got them? yup. | Re: Why dont I accept the explanation? by sean on Sunday, February 03 @ 07:33AM EST [user info] | in REAL schools, they teach us exactly how these things were discovered, and one learns to do it one's self in the lab.
example: a biology major will take his chemistry classes on faith but learn how to sequence a given gene with the proper materials present.
the biochemists will learn the basic chemistry and physics behind the minutiae. the mathematician shows us why the chemistry is true and all of us in a room together could do it ourselves.
we only "blindly" accept things in the same way that we "blindly" accept 1+1=2, and if you don't believe that, then i feel sorry for you.
someone initially had these ideas (genes, factors whatever) and the ideas were refined until where they are now.
i guess what i'm trying to say is we can see evidences of science working. it exists and it's also far from where the non-scientific person's conceptions of it lie. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by itsametaphor on Friday, February 01 @ 05:54PM EST [user info] | I'd just like to say.... I have no clue about anything, I've been unemployed for quite some time now and have had that time to think. God came up many times in my thoughts, and i have come to a paradox... if there is no such thing as god where did everything come from... how did the big bang or however the world started start? Where did everything come from? But......... If there is a god and he/she/it created everything in what ever way........ where did he/she/it come from? I don't believe in any God from a specific religion.... but i do think there is one or more. All i know is death scares the shit out of me. I'm going to live my life to the fullest and hopefully find out everything after i die. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by prelude on Friday, February 01 @ 06:46PM EST [user info] | ah, if i've seen this argument once, i've seen it a thousand times. well, i'm gonna have to take the "religion isn't really bad" side, because if no one did, then it would just be a religion bashing page, and not a discussion, or even an argument. rats. got off topic.
anyway. first i've noticed there's a belief that religions just tell you what to do, and if you don't do that, then you can go to hell. yes, there are people like that. fundamentalist can be very much like that. but they're really a small but vocal portion of the larger part of "religion". are all lesbians feminazis? of course not. but that's the stereotype. by buying into this "all religions are archaic mind controlling political machines" you espouse the very thing you claim to be above (using stereotypes). that vast majority of religious people are tolerant and all that jazz. but you don't hear from them, because their belief is similar to yours, people must find their own way. so to sum up, you don't see the moderate religious people because they allow you to live your life just like moderate atheists do.
as for it being rediculous to believe in god: there is very little scientific research that mainstream religion does not make room for. the catholic church does not deny the existence of atoms. truly the church even believes that there is a case for evolution, still being entirely within it's belief structure. but you don't hear about that, because those aren't the people that are complaining.
have you ever seen god? no
have you ever seen an atom? no
you accept the atom because you see scientific explanations for it. but i garuntee you that probably none of you understand the explanation that's there for the atom. but you still accept it. so why don't you accept the explanation for god? |
Re: Religious Bullshit by Corval on Friday, February 01 @ 06:57PM EST [user info] | ...because scientific theories are more plausible; and experiments/evidence to support or refute such theories are replicable.
Where's the hard evidence for the divine? I know it's a tired argument, but seriously, rational people are more inclined to believe/understand things when presented with evidence -- qualitative and or quantitative data of some kind at least.
edit: i know it's double posted. i'm brain-dead. | Re: Religious Bullshit by Haruspex on Saturday, February 02 @ 03:13AM EST [user info] | I have to agree with pretty much everything prelude has said. I myself am a devout Catholic. The church has never forced me to do anything. If I go against their teachings, absolutely nothing happens to me. They choose not to tell people whether or not they're going to hell (unlike some other churches) because they know they don't have the authority. I respect other people's opinions -- you can be an atheist -- that's your choice, but to me Christianity has helped me deal with a lot of problems I used to have. As a matter of fact, I was an atheist throughout all of high school, but something made me change my mind. I won't go into all of that, but there's no way that you can say that the Church controls people. People find their own faith, and the Church only nurtures it.
It's true... there are just as many ways to prove that God exists as there are ways to deny his existence. You can't say religious people are stupid because you can't prove to me that God doesn't exist just like I can't prove to you that he does. It's a conscious descision. I can only tell you that I believe. I've been a very successful student and I've done quite well for myself. But according to some, I'm stupid because I'm a Christian. That makes no sense. | yes it has; the church forced you to be a devout catholic. by Jamouse on Saturday, February 02 @ 05:24PM EST [user info] | his, he, him
why do you use androcentric terms? |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by onobono on Friday, February 01 @ 07:18PM EST [user info] | Hands down the stupidest post by stile, EVER. |
Re: Religious Bullshit by superdude on Saturday, February 02 @ 01:14AM EST [user info] |
i couldn't give a shit
i just want to hump now
will somebody please hump me? |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by fishstyx on Friday, February 01 @ 08:04PM EST [user info] | I'm of the belief that religion is the worst thing man has done to himself. One of the most fevered sources of discrimination is religion. More and bloodier wars have been caused in God's name than by anything else.
This is not to say, mind you, that it's God's fault. He knows we learn by fucking up. |
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truth? by Phoenix on Friday, February 01 @ 08:45PM EST [user info] | Whether you think that god does or doesnt exist makes no difference, because niether of the two sides can prove their point. Personally i think the idea of the christian god is very self centered and immature, the bible was written around the time where the earth was thought to be the center of the universe, and it reflects that in its teachings, but that does not mean that god doesn't exist. The human idea of god is our attempt at trying to understand something that we cant possibly understand. Our brains do not have the mental capacity to fully grasp what a "creator" or god would be, so we give it this human like form and give it human like qualitys and think that it loves only us. In the bible, Jesus said that we are more valuable to god than an entire flock of birds, this is far to concieted for me to believe. Whats the best way to think of this? Well there is no best way, but a belief causes the mind to stop functioning, instead of questioning something like death, we can awnser the question by saying that god exists and heaven is where we will reside after death. Only when we have no beliefs can we truly understand our purpose here on earth, to die. What happens after that, whether it be heaven or what ever else, really doesnt matter untill we die. Live the way you want untill then, and when death comes, thats the time to start thinking about what to do. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Daniel on Friday, February 01 @ 08:59PM EST [user info] | Every one that has commented has just stated their opinion, or belief..which I see as just another religion in itself. Wanna' try to make your brain swell up?.(good party trick)..then cogitate this query,.....If my/your god created all life and the universe, Who created him/her? better still who created the being that created the being who created the universe....and who created Bill Gates?(see,hurts to think about it,huh?).......OUCH! head is hurting..OW!...OW! |
Re: Religious Bullshit by Yorkshirepud on Friday, February 01 @ 09:08PM EST [user info] | Religious people will say, 'God was always there'. But when scientists say about the big bang, religious people say 'Ok, if that's true how did the stuff get there in the first place'. Double standards, I hate 'em.
Freud, now if my memory serves my correctly, he said near the end of his life, 'I made the things I said up, it's all crap'.
I think religion is just a way for people not to have to take responsibility for their own life and actions. So, they can just say 'Well. if God wanted me to be successful, he would make it so.' Bollocks. You just can't be bothered or are just too shit to be successful.
Well, that's my two cents. | Re: Religious Bullshit by Gorflax on Friday, February 01 @ 09:09PM EST [user info] | I agree with that man. It's a total headache to think about what made what and who made who, but I don't think it's fruitless. I also think a lot of people are so anti-religion and are ready to condemn anything with a god or some sort of holy wisdom attached to it. I think religion is a good thing if it is taken as a belief for oneself and not a group that a person to which a person belongs. Whenever something becomes an organization is when it goes sour. As for religion being a way for us not go nuts I don't know....it's a tough call, but I believe in basically being good to one another so that's my own religion if you want to call it that. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Yorkshirepud on Friday, February 01 @ 09:10PM EST [user info] | Religious people will say, 'God was always there'. But when scientists say about the big bang, religious people say 'Ok, if that's true how did the stuff get there in the first place'. Double standards, I hate 'em.
Freud, now if my memory serves my correctly, he said near the end of his life, 'I made the things I said up, it's all crap'.
I think religion is just a way for people not to have to take responsibility for their own life and actions. So, they can just say 'Well. if God wanted me to be successful, he would make it so.' Bollocks. You just can't be bothered or are just too shit to be successful.
Well, that's my two cents. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Daniel on Friday, February 01 @ 09:28PM EST [user info] | Look at the replies to the story Vs. the actual story reads.......Obviously religion Is the opiate of the masses.... |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by sebox on Saturday, February 02 @ 12:15AM EST [user info] | Well, after reading all those comments I?m just wondering why 98% of the Americans still believe in God... anyway, maybe those don?t visit SP or just don?t have the nuts to comment on that post...
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Re: Religious Bullshit by ShVen on Saturday, February 02 @ 12:17AM EST [user info] | no fucking god, no soul.... no life after death.... youl live, shit, die.... thats it, you go through you're life fucking, eating, and shitting and sleeping.... tell me where there a MEANING in that....???
im atheist, and had to find out myself that there is no god, i dont hate people who are religious but i think THEY'RE FUCKIN STUPID!!!!!
all i have to say :D |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by johnnyfiasko on Saturday, February 02 @ 01:50AM EST [user info] | Religion. Bad. Good.
Galileo said, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
My mind is my church. I don't see the point in following rules that have roots dating back thousands of years, made up by people that didn't even have color TV. I live by my own set of rules, morals and ethics, because this is my life.
Nietzsche put out a lot of interesting writings on religion. Grab some books and start reading.
And remember, "In heaven all the interesting people are missing".
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Re: Religious Bullshit by johnnyfiasko on Saturday, February 02 @ 01:52AM EST [user info] | There is no god. If there was one, he'd have made the PHP accept them html -tags I was using. And I did choose "HTML Formated(sic)" from that pulldown menu. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by schroedinbug on Saturday, February 02 @ 03:32AM EST [user info] | We just got through discussing this in my english class oddly enough.
If basically came down to everyone in the class felt that (like said above) religion is for the people that have something missing in their life.
But also, we looked at the negative side of it and found that even though religion has brought good into the world... it has cased more evil than good in the form of wars/religious wars.
More of the documented wars in Earth's history have been because of a religion getting pissed off about another religion.
I've always felt that children should be exposed to religion and allowed to make their mind up when they are ready, opposed to shoving them into a sunday school room with a bunch of jesus stuck up their ass christians shoving a bible down your throat...
This is what caused me to become atheist, the asshole I had for the middle school class asked me to look up a passage in the bible. So I took his(not having one) and started looking. It took me 5 minutes just to find the right book it was in... and he always made me the example for people without god in their life, and you wonder why he has a scar above his eye now.
I'm glad I don't have a god ruling my life, I like it this way. I may have lost my gf because of it... but hey... if God loves her that much... he would have gave her two full legs... Bitch |
Re: Religious Bullshit by prelude on Friday, February 01 @ 06:58AM EST [user info] | it's funny that i always hear that religion is for weak people who are missing something in their lives, because look at what the people who pretty clearly aren't religious have written on the board.
"all we do is eat, sleep, shit, and die"
"life has no meaning except death"
and those same ones are echoed over and over. sounds like these people have such full and meaningful lives.
and on the religious wars part: yes, there have been religious wars. many of them. i'd like to point out that some of them were really just people using religion to start a war for greed, but remember that there have been all these same things in secularism too. there have been many many wars without religion, and science has been used to lead the masses astray also. there are assholes in religious institutions, just like there are assholes out in the rest of the world. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by marcmoore1 on Saturday, February 02 @ 03:16PM EST [user info] | People wouldn't be people without god. I mean, people believe (including myself), that there is something after death (heaven). If there was no beliefe in a god, then people would believe that there is no purpose to this life, because once you die, it's over, there nothing after death. But religion, and belief in god fills in the gaps, and make people believe that there is a purpose to this life, and that is to win the honor of going into heaven, or if you don't hell. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by balefire on Saturday, February 02 @ 07:00PM EST [user info] | The first thing I would like to comment upon is the idea that one must make sure that one recognizes te differance between a belief in God and the structure of organized religion. WHen someone uses the word "religion" it can have to meanings....either belief in God, or the institutions that are in existance that believe in a higher power. I might also note that when "religion" is used (see original post by stile) that also applies to people who have a spiritual belief that DO NOT believe in God. That being the case, I will stick to the God idea, since that is where this whole discussion seems to focus...although I doubt that if we were in India it would be so...keep that in mind.
Let me say that this really is a topic that no one ever changes their mind abot once they have formed an opinion. You are either convinced there is a God, certain there is no God, or unsure (which means 99% of the time that that is the way you will stay at least until you know you are going to die, then you MIGHT change your tune).
Now, the first thing I would like to address is the idea that I have seen on here that people who believe in God are either: 1)stupid 2)weak willed 3)not wanting to accept responsibility for their actions 4)using God to give their lives meaning. OK, honestly all of those are just ridiculous. I think that there is no need to go into all of the historical examples of people that professed a belief in God that NO ONE could really apply any of the four above-mentioned ideas towards...well, unless you are a total anarchist, in which case you have more important things to worry about than this dicsussion...remember that home-made dynamite sweats nitro and that will kill you, ok?
To continue on a personal note, I DO believe in God and I think tat I can say that I do not fit into any of those categories. I will not parade out a list of reasons why that is because, frankly, I know that you don't care. Anyway, I think that if you study ANY religion, you will see that the whole idea behind it is that you should NOT to be stupid, weak willed, or irresponsible.
As for the fourth, I think that you are missing the point. Religion is a precess of self-discovery, as is everything else in life. God is not just something you think, He (ok, don't even start with the whole pronoun game, I am sick of it) is something you FEEL as well. In my experiance, the only other thing that we come across in life that causes such an equal reaction in your being is love. Perhaps that is why you hear God being associated with love all the time. Now, think about that one for a moment...isn't love one of the things that we spend our entire lives seeking? Now, many of us have given up on love because of betryal, deception, abuse, violence, whatever....and that is because we must associate that idea (? i dont know whatelse to call it) of love with another person. However, the search for God and the understanding of your own spiritual connection with him is different because it is focused internally..it involves you, and only you...and the only way that you can be betrayed is if you betray yourself. If this happens, then you are not going to concern yourself with religion anyway....you have other things to worry about...remember not to put the gun to your temple, put it in your mouth (for help see stileproject january vid-clip on Bill Dwyer). God is not something that gives your life meaning, He is something that hopefully you will find along the way.
Now, to go on the offensive for a bit. 1) to classify any group of people with a generalization because of one common denominator is, in itself, stupid. 2) all of the quotes that have been used to criticize religion are also products of their time and are as subject to as much scrutiny and fallability as anything written 2,000 years ago 3)religion, in and of itself, is not corrupt...don't blame God or anything else for how human beings twist and manipulate it to serve their own designs 4) dont attack what you do not know...if you dont bel
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Re: Religious Bullshit by superdude on Saturday, February 02 @ 07:08PM EST [user info] | go blow it out your ass! |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by robertjontiveros on Sunday, February 03 @ 08:01AM EST [user info] | I can't help but iterate Puck when I say "what fools these mortals be." |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Antrax on Sunday, February 03 @ 08:05AM EST [user info] | All I can say about religion is that it offers security to the insecure and hope to the hopeless. I have nothing against god, but each and every one of his religions are what's wrong with this world. Just another reason for discrimination, another motivation for hatred.
Due to a recent incident where I was spouting random extremist comments to my friends, about evolution and survival of the fittest. In which god proved to me his existence by getting pissed off with me and striking me down with a Vulcan Death grip. I now believe in god but don't like him much. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by ThugNetwork on Sunday, February 03 @ 09:33AM EST [user info] | I only read the first comment, but I agree... Somewhat...
I don't really believe in God, or any type of religion for that matter. I believe it's the same use as drugs/alcohol/anything like that...
Only weak people need it, because they can't handle their own problems by themselves, so they have to rely on something/or "someone" else to help them through it... |
Re: Religious Bullshit by wmtspeedy69 on Sunday, February 03 @ 06:06PM EST [user info] | Balefire, you're my new hero. he pretty much summed it up. it's not that im uncomfortable w/ my faith, in fact, its just the opposite. if i were, than i wouldn't have posted my thoughts and been weak. however, i posted what i believe is right. and that's what it is, a belief. we're all entitled to believe whatever the Hell we want, that's why we (or at least most of us) live in Democracys. but this post is doing just the opposite. either directly or indirectly, most of you are making precise attacks at not only organized religion, but the idea of faith itself, something that i happen to believe in. and when some of us try to defend our opinion, you start attacking us. you are the weak ones. you're so weak that you're afraid to admit that there's someonesomething that is all-knowing, and your using God as a scapegoat to make yourselves feel good. or at least, that's my belief. | Re: Religious Bullshit by Spanky_McJohnson on Sunday, April 07 @ 05:25PM EST [user info] | I'd like to point out that most people don't use drugs or alcohol to avoid their lifes problems. They do it for a good time. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by EATME on Tuesday, February 05 @ 11:15AM EST [user info] | Well, I'll tell ya' if life does have a purpose (which it doesn't), I'd love to hear what it is. From the mindless, religious fools that I know, the only response I can get is, "to worship god." Well, if that's why "god" put me on earth, then he can eat me. I refuse to worship anything or anyone. |
Re: Religious Bullshit by wmtspeedy69 on Wednesday, February 06 @ 05:24PM EST [user info] | why not? |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Teft on Thursday, February 07 @ 12:08PM EST [user info] | If there is a God, I guarantee you he's reading these posts and pissing his pants laughing. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by eAlex on Saturday, March 02 @ 01:16PM EST [user info] | I agree. The last time I went to church was more years than my fingers ago. The only reason I like Christmas and shit is because I like getting gifts and spending the time with people. So in a way it is something that unites and socializes people.
Enough said, Stile's momma is a horny bitch again |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by darkcrad on Saturday, March 16 @ 09:27AM EST [user info] | religion is sometimes a way of life.
sometimes an improvement.
i just think all religion believing there is a high power called "god" is bullshit and a pull back to the human society.
we need to unite to improve, not spread out. |
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Re: Religious Bullshit by Dizzy_dvl on Monday, June 24 @ 11:06PM EST [user info] | At some point shouldn't people stop having imaginary friends? |
Re: Religious Bullshit by fetushead on Friday, July 28 @ 03:32PM EST [user info] | Agreed.
And Freud was a fucknut that no one in the psychiatric community takes seriously. He made shit up without having any sort of experimental data, only anecdotes.
He was also fixated on intestinal gas as a cause for the oedipal complex that he also made up. In short, he was an idiot. He recommended cocaine as a cure for depression, BTW. |
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