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Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:30 AM
THEHAPPYTRADER
Quote:Catholicism in particular allows you to repent on your deathbed and God will absolve you of everything; to me that concept is horrific.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:43 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:I have freedom to choose how I act. It is an awesome and terrible freedom, but I've hammered out my morals and do not fear the accounting as long as I don't lose sight of my moral north star.
Quote:I have no fear of losing my way in the moral wilderness as long as I don't follow another man's path blindly.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:52 AM
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:09 AM
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:21 AM
FREMDFIRMA
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:01 PM
MOCKROMANCER
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:12 PM
HARDWARE
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Well Hardware, you gotta understand, mocking religion is in a sense PART of my religion. I am Shadow Vajrayana, Path of Diamond Shield, and this comes with a morality damn near incomprehensible to most westerners - breaking the rules *IS* the rules, what is held most dear is mocked and that which is insignificant is regarded with grave seriousness tho it might be. Everytime I even TRY to explain it everyone but maybe Anthony and HKCav wind up with this befuddled expression and somewhere between vague unease and total confusion. So I generally go with trope-shorthand. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMorality http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScaryAmoralReligion -Frem I do not serve the Blind God.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:08 PM
RIONAEIRE
Beir bua agus beannacht
Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:55 AM
DREAMTROVE
Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:40 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by Hardware: But mocking something and making fun of it can be questioning the basis of it, or the practice of it. That distinction marks if you are deriding the institution or the people propagating it.
Friday, March 25, 2011 5:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: don't get your panties in a wad about it.
Friday, March 25, 2011 6:30 AM
BYTEMITE
Friday, March 25, 2011 12:34 PM
Friday, March 25, 2011 12:43 PM
Quote:There's somewhat of a commitment to do right and help others on your way.
Friday, March 25, 2011 12:49 PM
PHOENIXROSE
You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.
Friday, March 25, 2011 1:26 PM
Quote:...to a degree anyway? In other words, those who would do so aren't "true" Christians, but my 62 years tell me there are an awful lot of "those" around... Same with deathbed confessions...it's happened often enough that I've heard it mentioned--usually as a joke, admittedly, or a snark. So let's put it in other terms; the person who does whatever they want then goes to confession and "repents", gets a couple of Hail Mary's and hey, ho, you get a clean slate. Same concept. My point is that a lot of so-called "religious" people do things the DO know (subconsciously if not consciously) are wrong, figuring they can get out of it. And a whole lot more do things they SHOULD know are wrong, but somehow human interpretation of whatever god there is in their religion tells them it's okay with said god--in fact it's RIGHT--to condemn Muslims, kill abortion doctors, kill homosexuals, etc., etc...
Quote:Religion is used as an excuse, whether the person is a true believer or consciously using it as an excuse, for quite possibly the most horrific and numerous violence in the world.
Quote:I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
Friday, March 25, 2011 3:41 PM
Friday, March 25, 2011 5:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:There's somewhat of a commitment to do right and help others on your way. Wow. So that's your whole reason for having a religion? No wonder I don't get it - I thought that was just part of being a freaking human being!!
Friday, March 25, 2011 6:12 PM
Friday, March 25, 2011 8:08 PM
Friday, March 25, 2011 8:30 PM
Saturday, March 26, 2011 1:42 AM
Quote:Originally posted by TheHappyTrader: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:There's somewhat of a commitment to do right and help others on your way. Wow. So that's your whole reason for having a religion? No wonder I don't get it - I thought that was just part of being a freaking human being!! Oh kwickie, lol, you psychic you How could you know know if that was my whole reason?
Quote: Or maybe you are just being observant, like selectively. I could arrogantly demand you reread my posts like some posters... but if you mean to intentionally misinterpret me it's not worth the effort.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 1:53 AM
Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:47 AM
Quote:Originally posted by dreamtrove: Not jealousy. Fear. They don't know how to defeat Jesus in an argument.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 6:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: BTW: Nails defeat Jesus in every argument. Nails have scoreboard.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:22 AM
Monday, April 5, 2021 12:57 PM
JAYNEZTOWN
Monday, April 5, 2021 3:49 PM
REAVERFAN
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 6:14 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: You don't like certain religions if they stray outside if your range of acceptable.
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