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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:38 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:13 pm
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Violent Posture AmberElric Violent Posture I feel religion has had its day. If you need that security of a high being in your lives then have it your way. And in reality that IS mostly why they are faithful, through fear of an afterlife. Mainly hell. And I'm talking about christianity here but I could go into all the other...just...strange ones.
While in theory their 'do gooder' attitude sounds great but my word...the amount of people who have died for religion is unbeleivable. While i am greatful for their art, because lets face it, its amazing. I visited the vatican recently and it is so beautiful! That is about the only thing I am pleased with.
The rest is corrupt, hypocritical beyond words,desperate and power hungry.
But thats how I see it. It's fine that you don't find religion useful but you are stereotyping way too much. There is corruption in many other things in society and people do a lot of things out of fear but that is not good argument to say something is useless. That is how I see it. That statement itself is useless since it doesnt even relate. I did not say there wasnt corruption outside of religion ... And tell me how doing things out of fear is useful because that is how you've worded it? So I'm slightly baffled by this response.
Haha It doesn't relate to this? You have to be joking. You just said religion was useless because it can be corrupt and sometimes people follow it just out of fear. So I am sorry that you can't comprehend. But I did plan on explaining further is you insist, which you obviously do. People follow laws out of fear, government can be corrupt, businesses can be corrupt, etc. Yet these things do have use, obviously. Religion also has use. Without faith sometimes it seems like life would be meaningless to some, it can also help build character(if the person isn't just doing it to get to "paradise"), can help people get out of a troublesome life, and so on. It is seriously not unbelievable that a greater being created everything. I think it is fine to believe that. Sometimes there are things that can't be fully explained about this world we live in. No need to be baffled or so outraged by a mere post. It obviously pertained to your previous response. I never said that you thought there wasn't corruption out of religion but your statement seems to suggest that anything with a little corruption would be useless. Don't get too offended now, because I really don't care too much if you are religious or not. You just seem to be one of those people that hates religion because it would be judgemental yet you seem to be pretty closeminded yourself. But you will most likely say otherwise.
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:01 am
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:09 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:46 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:57 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:31 am
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:33 am
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:17 pm
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I beileive that religeon was created by man to explain things that couldn't be expalined when people first made religeon.
Now, today, things like rainfall and eartquakes have been explained to not the work of people in the sky but of nature.
But really, i also beleive that humans do not deserve what they have. They take advantage of their world, crush it, make it into things it shouldn't be, and alter it to suit their needs, regardless of the needs of other life forms on the planet. To man, everything is enferior.
But of course, that's just my opinion, and there is nothing i can do to change it wether it's true or not, so i'm content to wait out the days until something, however miraculous, changes the world.
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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:20 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:54 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:23 pm
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I'm Catholic-Christian and I'm damn proud. But I am open to most religions such as: Buddhism, Islam, Wicca, Pagan, etc.
Throughout my life, sometimes I would question the existence of a God. I hadn't seen anything that had changed my life yet. But, I knew with no doubt that God was alive when something miraculous happened to me. A few months ago or so, my grandmother had a stroke. I was so afraid that I was going to lose her, after all the time that she had battled diabetes and heart attacks. But, she recovered. It was progressively, but miraculous at the same time. The doctor even said it was a miracle. If that's not convincing, I don't know what is. However, I will not judge anyone's religion. I do believe in karma, spirits and ESP, and the earth being a power on its own. Atheism and Satanism does tend to bother me though. Atheists I just don't understand. I don't want to sound rude, but how can you not believe that something is bigger than you? Bigger than us? Yes, our world has tragedies, but seeing is only sometimes believing. If God(or whoever you worship)fixed every little mistake me made, we would never learn from them. We would keep having Civil Wars, or there would be countless more World Wars, instead of two. And Satanism. Like I said, I don't want to sound rude, but how can you believe in evil? The world is supposed to have a balance of good and evil, and they keep each other in check. Maybe it's just my Christian instincts, but worshipping the man who opposes God in all ways and creates chaos in this world just doesn't click in my head. And yes, Christian-Catholic is a real religion. And it's the most amazing thing about my life.
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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:11 pm
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 6:49 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:52 pm
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