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Offline funkedup

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« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2002, 03:33:05 PM »
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 You don't like it don't post. [/B]


Now you're trying to regulate my freedom of speech.
I knew it, all atheists are godless commies.

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« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2002, 03:36:42 PM »
LoL I hope your not Serious

I am not trying to do anything to you. Feel free to post as much as you want to this thread or anything but if all your going to do is post saying why you do not like something, why bother?


I am not an atheist or a commie, I really hope your trying to be funny.
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« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2002, 03:42:59 PM »
Don't you all know by now that your "gods" came in a space ship and took a lot of us thru a stargate and... hey, don't look at me that way, I saw it on TV! :D

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« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2002, 03:47:56 PM »
I have no problem with what anyone believes... some of my best friends are born again :)


I was just responding to a falsehood. I always will. Best way to catch the Tahgutfish is to post something that ain't true.

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« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2002, 03:53:12 PM »
MT:  Dinger (who is not religious in any sense) is a historian and he detailed once how the Church has been a great sponsor of scientific inquiry over the last 500 years or so.  Ask him about some time when he gets back from Portugal or wherever the hell he is.

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« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2002, 03:57:55 PM »
What Rude said, to a T.

All religions should be banned world wide. Some of the largest mass murders were done under the name of one religion or another.


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« Reply #21 on: August 28, 2002, 04:01:11 PM »
Why do you hate religion, what has it ever done to you?  

Now I bet you will I assume that I'm a religion church type right? :rolleyes:

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« Reply #22 on: August 28, 2002, 04:06:17 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2002, 04:06:21 PM »
Grun
 You asking me why I hate them?

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« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2002, 04:37:50 PM »
Organized religion is a means to control the masses, plain and simple.  The deities of each religion are born out of a need for humans to explain the unexplainable.  As knowledge increases, the need for such deities decreases.

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« Reply #25 on: August 28, 2002, 04:45:52 PM »
It might be more accurate to say that true Christianity has been kidnapped by the Church.  

The reputation of Christianity has been tainted by the numerous scoundrels who have used it to hide their crimes.  If you want to know what Christ really taught and stood for, read the New Testament.  He never shed the blood of another man, taught that people should love and respect one another, and refrain from passing judgement on the soul of anyone else.  That statement may be an oversimplification of his teachings, but contain their essence.  

If more members of humanity patterned their lives around the teachings of Jesus Christ the world would be a better, more peaceful place.  He never preached jihad.


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« Reply #26 on: August 28, 2002, 04:47:39 PM »
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MT:  Dinger (who is not religious in any sense) is a historian and he detailed once how the Church has been a great sponsor of scientific inquiry over the last 500 years or so.  Ask him about some time when he gets back from Portugal or wherever the hell he is.


Would love to see it.

There have been many Men-of-God who have made brilliant contributions to our knowledge base. Keppler, Mendel, Linnaius, Darwin (Erasmis not Charles), Bacon, the list goes on.

What I found offensively false was this: "monotheistic religion was the basis of human scientific curiosity. Before monothesism, people believed in multiple gods, or in animal spirits, which controlled the world. In such an environment man did not attempt to make sense of the world around him, as he believed that all things were subject to the whims of whatever the gods or spirits decided to do. With monotheism, man became curious to find out how the one god had designed the universe. This lead eventually to scientific thought. "

That is BS. Sorry I mean mistaken. The Greeks were not monotheistic, neither were the Babylonians nor the Egyptians (except for a brief period of Ra worship). And scientific thought certainly predates Christianity.

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« Reply #27 on: August 28, 2002, 05:01:35 PM »
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Rude,
 What does your relationship with God do for you?


It has changed who I was....it has enabled me to be the father that my children deserve and the husband to my wife that I need to be.

In addition, and most importantly, my soul has been bought by the blood of God's son, Jesus Christ.

This decision in my life has made an incredible difference for me personally and at the same time, brought some very tough circumstances which I've had to bear.

To sum it up, I try and be a Monday morning christian rather than a Sunday morning christian, if you catch my drift:)

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« Reply #28 on: August 28, 2002, 05:18:13 PM »
Rude
 Thanks for the reply.
 
 I think I am a good person now, for me, Christian school and Church just brought pain and anguish..

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« Reply #29 on: August 28, 2002, 05:29:11 PM »
Grunz....

My parents are Roman Catholic. I was baptised, was an alter boy went to services evry Sunday or i could not live in my parent house. So i moved out when i was 15 got a job and have never entered a church since.

To say i was brought up in a strict religous upbringing would be an under statement. Both my brother and myself have had the crap beat out of us since we could start walking. I assumed that was how my Dad was brought up as well. Do something wrong in there eyes, beat the crap outa the kid. I have memories of walking to school in grade one wondering how i could cover the black & blue bruises on my legs.

I dont care how strick any religion is, beating a child till they are black & blue in the name of God is fediddlein BS.

When i was old enough to read, and saw how many people were being killed in the name of God ( based on there man made religion) i turned Agnostic.

To this day mass murders are being commited in the name of religion. This has been happening since the day man created religion and it will keep happening till religion destroys man.

Dog out.......