Should religion be banned

As I said right at the begining of this thread its the extremists and those that take things too far that are to blame for religions bad press!

I have my own personal beliefs that are based on my own personal experiences. I dont preach them, if people want to know I'll talk about them. If they then wish to take those beliefs on board then thats up to them. IMO thats how religions ought to be - an individuals own choice.

Originally posted by G.P
Excuse me ???? 😱

er ... no
they needed an ennemy to blaim the bad economics too,
there were plenty of jews in germany to blaim it too and they were rich, so after (how to put this gentle...) ...losing them, they could take their money too

... of course, everyone should know THIS 🙄

I tend to believe that WWII got started because of the aftermath of WWI. Germany got penalized severely by the allies and so the German regime persecuted the Jewish Business people.

Some point I would like to make.

a-) I belive in God, I have no doubt whatsoever of his existance
b-) YOU ARE ALL GOING TO HELL.
c-) Not all war are bad, we have stand up agaisnt evil.
d-) Communism DID banned relgion in Russia and look at the mess they are now, they burned Churches and Synagoges and that led to an entire people being slaved to a totalitarian state.

well, at the rate it's freezing here, I'll be happy to go to hell, while being underway it should feel great

Originally posted by yerssot
er ... no
they needed an ennemy to blaim the bad economics too,
there were plenty of jews in germany to blaim it too and they were rich, so after (how to put this gentle...) ...losing them, they could take their money too

... of course, everyone should know THIS 🙄

because they killed jews?
djee, search some from time to time 🙄

Originally posted by Vader
YOU ARE ALL GOING TO HELL

Originally posted by Vader
Some point I would like to make.

YOU ARE ALL GOING TO HELL.

See you there 😈

Originally posted by Vader
Some point I would like to make.

a-) I belive in God, I have no doubt whatsoever of his existance -> nice to have such faith I am sure
b-) YOU ARE ALL GOING TO HELL. -> I don't believe in hell so I doubt I will end up there
c-) Not all war are bad, we have stand up agaisnt evil. -> only very few wars so far have been worth fighting, namely WWII, the american civil war and maybe WWI
d-) Communism DID banned relgion in Russia and look at the mess they are now, they burned Churches and Synagoges and that led to an entire people being slaved to a totalitarian state.

well Marx does indeed ban Religion. But to say that all communism leads to a totalitarian state is wrong, because noone has ever practiced the pure Marxistic communism, also known as Marxism, what ppl referre to as communsim is Leninism or Stalinism

First of all, and not to get offtopic, but I think some have confused predicting the future with knowing the future. Anyone can predict the future all they want, predicting is just saying what you think is likely to happen. I could predict that tomorrow I will wake up and have a third arm. This isn't actually based on anything, is meaningless, and will most likely not come true, but that doesn't mean I can't predict it. However there are a lot of things that scientists predict that is based on quite a but of actual evidence and is therefore very useful in determining what to expect in the years to come. What science can't do, however, is tell you what WILL happen. Noone can do that.

Secondly, banning is not the answer. Religion is not the problem, it's the fanaticism, fundamentalism, and plain ignorance that cause the hatred and fear that lead to all the wars and pain. Always has been. And as long as we as humans feel the need to explain our existence and our purpose for existing religion will exist. As someone pointed out earlier, science cannot give us a purpose, and it cannot disprove religion. Therefore I think religion will be around for a long long time. (That is a prediction, btw)

Finally, no we cannot truly "know" anything, because our senses could be deceiving us and we could be living in a matrix-like world, but, so what? What is the good in believing that everything is a lie when you can't possibly prove it? There really is no more reason to think that than not. A certain amount of doubt an uncertainty concerning the universe and the claims of others and yourself is definitely good, but one has to draw the line somewhere.

maybe particle but it's philosophy, it doesn't always have to make sence in real life, it just counts on paper

like this one dude that proved you can never cross the finish line when you have a race, he had a very good idea about that, dunoo exactly what it was will look it up some day

the idea is that when you run i.e. 100 meters, you first have to get in the half of that distance: 50 meters
than you still have 50 to go, so, you have to run half of it again which is 25
so, 25 to go, ... etc.
you'll eventually get extremely close to the finish line but will never go over it

he had the same idea with a runner never being able to pass a turtle

and he = Zeno, from the Eleatic School located in Eleatic (South-Italy), his master was Parmenides

okie that's what I ment

I've heard of that argument before. It obviously doesn't hold true in real life, it just shows that logical arguments can be valid but false. That argument basically states that motion is impossible because for anything to move it must first travel half the distance, then half that distance, etc. and it can therefore never get to where it's going.

indeed, but in theory it is a very hard to thing to tear down

Well it is hard to argue with the logic, but that's all. It's certainly not hard to argue that motion is possible.

they did proved it was wrong a few centuries later

true, but they had some difficulty with it