I officially give up on Christianity

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Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:coulda swore it was developed by the military but kashluk knows best.
Everyone knows it was Al Gore who invented the Internet. He's also the creator of cock rings, ball gags, and the first robotic organism (himself).
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The internet was made by the military, but obviously Al Gore was the brains behind the scheme.

The internet is quite Christian though, and there's far more bullshit Christian propaganda (often on the REALLY ridiculous side) than genuine Christian goodwill, sadly. The internet is largely an American invention, so it goes without saying that Christianity's going to be the religion with the most access to it.
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Just referring to the fact that most of Americans are Christians and that even in the military you pray for your country and swear oaths in the name of God.

The western world is built on a Christian world, that's all.
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so? perhaps the power of god gives us special powers over the dark forces to the east.
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So? -> Calling Christianity plain shit is pretty black & white thinking.
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Megatron wrote:so? perhaps the power of god gives us special powers over the dark forces to the east.
perhaps there is no power of god which allows the public to get sodomized by eastern terrorists eh?



there is no way anyone can defend religion as being the only way without using bullshit from a book written by some jizzwailer 2000 years ago or making shit up like "god is like air, you cant see or feel it but its there"
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I don't think there's anything wrong with religeon, just priests and interpreters have fucked it up.
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there is no way anyone can defend religion as being the only way without using bullshit from a book
Well then, please tell me the reason of life? Or how about the birth of the universe, what was *before* the Big Bang? Are thoughts more than electric impulses in your brain? How about souls?

Religion works as a fine enough explainer for these questions for me.
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Kashluk wrote:
there is no way anyone can defend religion as being the only way without using bullshit from a book
Well then, please tell me the reason of life? Or how about the birth of the universe, what was *before* the Big Bang? Are thoughts more than electric impulses in your brain? How about souls?

Religion works as a fine enough explainer for these questions for me.
no? i dislike the whole idea of being put on this planet by some fuck stick and supposedly having a reason to be here.

there is no reason to life. its just a sadistic joke to fuck with you.

the universe has been around forever. if it ceases to exist neither will you so whats it matter?

why would electrical impulses in your brain be anything more than they are? you just interperate them in your own way.
everyones brain works differently just like any mechanical creation and alot of mechanical devices have more personality than most people on this planet.

and as to a soul existing, who the fuck cares? when i die im dead. bury me and piss off.

as Heinlein once put it "religion is a crutch for those too weak to deal with life"
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That may be true to you, but I don't want to live my life in vain. There must be a purpose. The heck everything you do in your everyday life has a purpose, so why not life itself?

According to scientists, universe hasn't been here "forever"... It was all compressed inside a smoll dot, smaller than an atom. Then one day that dot, floating in middle of *nothing*, bursted, expanded and spread out to be the universe we know today.

So if thoughts are nothing more than electric impulses, then tell me: when does a symphony exist? When someone remembers it? When the composer remembers it? When the composer writes it down? When someone memorizes the tune? When the orchestra plays it? Does it exist at all? Or is it beyond existence?

And as I now put it: "Religion is enough of an excuse for not being a total shitbird."
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Kashluk wrote:According to scientists, universe hasn't been here "forever"... It was all compressed inside a smoll dot, smaller than an atom. Then one day that dot, floating in middle of *nothing*, bursted, expanded and spread out to be the universe we know today.

So if thoughts are nothing more than electric impulses, then tell me: when does a symphony exist? When someone remembers it? When the composer remembers it? When the composer writes it down? When someone memorizes the tune? When the orchestra plays it? Does it exist at all? Or is it beyond existence?
can you honestly tell me how the fuck anyone could theorize when the universe was created and what it looked like before it was created. as slave would say "its all cockbarf". you cant tell me some fucker saw the universe as it was created then desided to document what it looked like. no amount of retarded calculus equations could tell you what the universe looked like before it was created and when it was created.

on that note, how do you know there wasnt a universe before this supposed universe was created?
what if there were people in the small dot the universe was supposed to be formed from?
until someone can prove how and when the universe existed i aint going to believe shit a bunch of high payed scientists say. im not that nieve.

on the whole bullshit brain barf you spit out kash, how the hell does your comp remember what sites you've been to on the net and how does it play music, games and videos?
you cant honestly tell me you dont think your brain could work on the same lines?
true its probably 60 times more advanced but your brain is nothing more than a storage and control unit with your life experiences fucking up how you function.
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No reason for this thread to be locked...yet. Just don't get into a fight over your stupid ass opinions :P j/k
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You really love those overwhelming statements don't you, Kashluk?

Much of what we do serves no purpose - not to us, not to society, and certainly not to any 'greater plan' so I just don't see how you can even try to present that as a valid argument.

Religion is a fine explanation for things if you don't want to make full use of your intelligence. Assuming none of us knew what lightning was or where it came from, Religion could just as easily provide us with the answer to what it is - God's wrath!
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Atheism is the way to go, because really... you're not aligning yourself with any bullshit religion that's running a global crusade around the world, you don't have to worry about the legitimacy of your religion, u don't have to defend it, u don't have to fight for it, you do nothing but watch all the mindless fanatical fuckers wipe each other out

Also, here's the good part, you have nothing to lose from being atheist, you might say "OMG LOL SO WEN U DIE UR GOING TO GO TO H3LL CUZ UR NOT ChRISTIAN LIKE ME" if God is a fucking tool who really cares if you believe in him or not then I wouldn't want to be in his/her idea of heaven.

Fuck that shit, if God is real he'll embrace EVERYONE, every serial rapist, ever pedophile, every hitler jungen, since afterall he did create humanity... right? He sort of snapped his fingers and the first molecule was created.

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if i was god, id randomly kill major figures in the movement of people against believing in me to show everyone i exist and i want worshipped like rasputin.
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Don't hate Christians. Much like alcoholics, they have a mental condition holding them back. Although self-afflicted in both cases, one can't blame either in today's world for turning to the solutions they did. The best thing to do is help them work through their problem so that maybe they can eventually remove the affliction from their lives.
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Intelligence and religion don't necessarily need to be opposites. You can always use your reasoning to find new levels both from ordinary life and your faith.

The earlier reply I posted was meant to be an alternative; everyone in the world isn't atheist. In fact, only less than 12% of the world population don't believe in anything.

I'm not saying this is all about "majority's rules, minority's whining". But religions give, at least, a moral basis to live on. The ethics from all religions courage you to do good deeds and have a good life.

The point of my post was not to brainwash anyone of you. I simply tried to give alternative answers to those questions Mandalorian answered... It wasn't me taking my posts as the "ultimate truth", you guys handled that.

Beginning with "according to scientists..." I also tried to proove that science progresses as well and science can be wrong too. All the answers can't be found from numbers and calculations. But I still don't believe a person who has all his faith on science is any better or worse than a person who puts everything to religion.
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It's easy to just say "GOD ICHS DEADTH!" and give the middle finger to anyone who has a certain devine belief that some bearded fellow is watching over him. But realy now, taking that approach makes you just as dumb - While it may seem more rational and logical, the fact is athiests like to supress all that does not fit into their scheme, refusing to even recognize the irrational.

While I'm not saying it's TEH TRUF, I can't very well rule out what I haven't varified, now can I?
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Post by Doyle »

Kashluk wrote:Intelligence and religion don't necessarily need to be opposites.
Indeed. It has long been accepted that you cannot prove or disprove the existance of God through reason. Intelligence won't turn someone atheist, and to assume that all religious people are stupid is narrow-minded and bigoted.

Wait a minute... this means Kash actually got something right!
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