Well, screw organized religion, anyways.Lt. Staplic wrote:My take on the whole thing is this:
Spirituality unites people, Religion devides them. so screw it all.
I'd rather not.Tsukiyumi wrote:Well, screw organized religion, anyways.
Lazar wrote:I'd rather not.Tsukiyumi wrote:Well, screw organized religion, anyways.
Nuns are hot though!Lazar wrote: I'd rather not.
Why "to hell with organized religion" based on those examples? You do know that we're not all like that, right?Tsukiyumi wrote:Let me rephrase that... to hell with organized religion. If people want to worship privately, that's their business, but this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTy3wnmARc, and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvU-DislkI, are just stupid.
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Actually, I have never seen a nun IRL at all. I don't think there are even any left in this country.Lt. Staplic wrote:I'll not comment on that...you haven't seen the ones outside the magazines appeareantly.
Yeah but who makes a fuss over people who mind their own business who you couldn't tell go to [insert house of worship] except on sunday/saturday? Minus the wierdo's in the hills stockpiling guns of course.Mikey wrote:Why "to hell with organized religion" based on those examples? You do know that we're not all like that, right?Tsukiyumi wrote:Let me rephrase that... to hell with organized religion. If people want to worship privately, that's their business, but this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTy3wnmARc, and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvU-DislkI, are just stupid.
Believe me, my opinion is not solely based on those two examples. I can also list millions of people praying to a rock, or idiots with little understanding of reality, or people calling for nuclear attack over a cartoon, or all of the violence directly caused by religion. I understand the need for it, but in practice, it does more harm than good.Mikey wrote:Why "to hell with organized religion" based on those examples? You do know that we're not all like that, right?Tsukiyumi wrote:Let me rephrase that... to hell with organized religion. If people want to worship privately, that's their business, but this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTy3wnmARc, and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvU-DislkI, are just stupid.
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Human psychology 101: the power of the group. We seem to stick to each other as much by rejecting outside groups as by consolidating within. Then, conflict intensifies the relations both ways. It's bad enough that people occasionally kill each other in bar fights over sports loyalties, but the idea of a higher God just makes any outsider look like he's disobeying the Ultimate Rules of God. We really can't escape our basic instincts nearly as much as we claim to: we just come up with far cleverer ways of acting on them sometimes.Tsukiyumi wrote:Believe me, my opinion is not solely based on those two examples. I can also list millions of people praying to a rock, or idiots with little understanding of reality, or people calling for nuclear attack over a cartoon, or all of the violence directly caused by religion. I understand the need for it, but in practice, it does more harm than good.
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Oops. Sometimes I forget that we're all just talking semi-aquatic apes. I guess all the flashy technology confused me into thinking we were something more for a moment there.Captain Picard's Hair wrote:Human psychology 101: the power of the group. We seem to stick to each other as much by rejecting outside groups as by consolidating within. Then, conflict intensifies the relations both ways. It's bad enough that people occasionally kill each other in bar fights over sports loyalties, but the idea of a higher God just makes any outsider look like he's disobeying the Ultimate Rules of God. We really can't escape our basic instincts nearly as much as we claim to: we just come up with far cleverer ways of acting on them sometimes.
