Originally posted by Jonathan MarkGhandi is not a saint. 😐
This guy misses the fact that [b]we not God bring this shit upon ourselves.However this guy does make a good point about Organized Religion. Mohandas Gandhi said it best...
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-Mohandas Gandhi [/B]
This guy made a good point saying "Biblical man was lucky to live past 30. Modern man has an average death age of 75 thanks to hated science."
Originally posted by lord xyz
Ghandi is not a saint. 😐This guy made a good point saying "Biblical man was lucky to live past 30. Modern man has an average death age of 75 thanks to hated science."
Oh please spare me the "hated science" crap. It's not God's fault that the Catholic church was so obsessed with control they were afraid of science and what it might be able to do. You're associating the Catholic church with all other Christians which drives me nuts. Really I have little good things to say about the Catholic Church...
Originally posted by Jonathan Markyou assume god's a person and intends us for things? 😑
Did I say he was? No and besides WTF does being or not being a saint have anything to do with his quote? He makes a very valid point.Oh please spare me the "hated science" crap. It's not God's fault that the Catholic church was so obsessed with control they were afraid of science and what it might be able to do. You're associating the Catholic church with all other Christians which drives me nuts. Really I have little good things to say about the Catholic Church...
Originally posted by lord xyz
you assume god's a person and intends us for things? 😑
For him being a person... don't where you got that shit from. I believe him to a conscience force that transcends the realm of physics. Whether other Christians agree I have no idea... we never seem to agree on anything.
Oh and you would not spell it god's because that is possessive... it would be simply God is a person.
Originally posted by Jonathan Markgod's = short for god is.
Well if your Christian that's the general idea... duh... although I have not a clue WTF you mean by "intends us for things".For him being a person... don't where you got that shit from. I believe him to a conscience force that transcends the realm of physics. Whether other Christians agree I have no idea... we never seem to agree on anything.
Oh and you would not spell it god's because that is possessive... it would be simply God is a person.
you said "he" being possesive, you also said "It's not God's fault that the Catholic church was so obsessed with control they were afraid of science and what it might be able to do." meaning you believe god has planned us or something and intends us for something, but his intensions are different to the catholic church which you said was good. Which historical evidence has shown us, it was nothing of the sort.
Now we're going off-topic. Back to the decline of religion.
Originally posted by lord xyz
god's = short for god is.you said "he" being possesive, you also said "It's not God's fault that the Catholic church was so obsessed with control they were afraid of science and what it might be able to do." meaning you believe god has planned us or something and intends us for something, but his intensions are different to the catholic church which you said was good. Which historical evidence has shown us, it was nothing of the sort.
Now we're going off-topic. Back to the decline of religion.
Originally posted by Jonathan Mark
I believe the Catholic Church to be full of hypocritical fire and brimstone idiots and ruined and destroyed every Christian's reputation because of their totalitarian jackass policies...
Thats funny but from my personally view most religions have done the same. Though personally I have limited exposure, living in the US.
(We're not very diverse)
Originally posted by Alliance
Thats funny but from my personally view most religions have done the same. Though personally I have limited exposure, living in the US.(We're not very diverse)
I myself do not belong to any actual Christian "sect". I'm just one of those "accept Jesus into your heart and you're done" kinds of person. Hell I don't even read my Bible or go to church on a regular basis.
Religions is DECLINING because it ISNT WORKING.
In South America religion is one of the reasons people there are so miserable.
The Church teaches that poverty is BLESSING in South America, it encourages racism by always portraying a WHITE GOD and it EXCUSES racism and murder by claiming that in order to spread God's word we must wipe out those who would refuse to beleive.
Religion was the motivation behind the SALEM WITCH TRIALS, the CRUSADES, the World Trader Center destruction, the spanish INQUISITION, it justified Slavery (Christians thought darkness to be sinful, black people had dark skin, therefore they beleived them to be SUB HUMAN), and strengthened the logic behind the HOLOCAUST (The jews killed Christ Hitler claimed and many followed)
Organized Religion DOES NOT WORK...it has done more bad than good.
WAKE UP PEOPLE
WAKE UP !!!!
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Religions is DECLINING because it ISNT WORKING.In South America religion is one of the reasons people there are so miserable.
The Church teaches that poverty is BLESSING in South America, it encourages racism by always portraying a WHITE GOD and it EXCUSES racism and murder by claiming that in order to spread God's word we must wipe out those who would refuse to beleive.
Religion was the motivation behind the SALEM WITCH TRIALS, the CRUSADES, the World Trader Center destruction, the spanish INQUISITION, it justified Slavery (Christians thought darkness to be sinful, black people had dark skin, therefore they beleived them to be SUB HUMAN), and strengthened the logic behind the HOLOCAUST (The jews killed Christ Hitler claimed and many followed)
Organized Religion DOES NOT WORK...it has done more bad than good.
WAKE UP PEOPLE
WAKE UP !!!!
Only place I've seen God being portrayed as white is in paintings, no scriptures or anything like that.
Boy you sure are one sided about religion. Religion also is what motivated the end of slavery. And most of the other examples you cited are better examples of religious hypocrisy than actual religion.
Religion itself (at least the post abrahamic variety) has greatly increased the human condition (for the most part, I'm not arguing that people haven't done stupid things in the name of religion). just look at the way things were before it versus after.