Religions
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2 Nov 2009, 02:33
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I'm Church of England even tho my Mutha is from Culgower in Scotland...sandy white beaches and fuck all else......
What religions are you?? Go to church?
I'm asking cuz some dood on a party last night couldn't work out what C of E is in German...Protestant he said!! I said OK!
We need more churchy guys, don't let our christian religions die "sayeth he in party"
What religions are u ?
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What religions are you?? Go to church?
I'm asking cuz some dood on a party last night couldn't work out what C of E is in German...Protestant he said!! I said OK!
We need more churchy guys, don't let our christian religions die "sayeth he in party"
What religions are u ?
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one day its gonna fall u know this right?
(e) and all Chesterfield will suffer :(
There is folklore about Devils and virgins but Chesterfield folk aren't really into that sort of thing.. I think the most likely explanation is the combination of the heavy lead cladding, unseasoned timbers inside and joiners who were probably most certainly over-seasoned in the many hostelries which surround the church!
It really is mysterious....
just be a good man is that hard..?
Do u define it according the norms or the laws in the system u live in?
religion is bullshit
u can be a good man without followin conditions.
but tehy are too stupid and they need to follow a book
Smoke signals only b'rah!
Now think about it, are religions violent or is it the people that try to follow one of them and fail then kill people and do random shit in the name of it that are violent.
Edit: Just look at unique's comment.
poor u...
The universe doesn't want us to fight each other, imo, we´re all here for a certain reason.
Everyone has the choice to believe in whatever he wants.
xoxoxo
LONG LIVE THE COLONEL.
But isn't feeling like you HAVE to go to the church the core of blasphemy afterall? What happens with the whole "Not adorating any relic/idol" (bad translation from french, sorry) when you bow down in front of a cross? If god is a loving god, would he punish you for believing in him inside your heart/mind and not feeling the need to prove people you're a good christian/muslim/jew ?
And what about the Doxa of all religions? A real religion shouldn't it let their followers believe what they wish and not a premade version of the story?
For me, reading the bible is worthless unless you wish to read it for intellectual values. Let's not forget the actual story of the bible has gone through dark ages of witch-hunting, political control and so much more (Buying your way to redemption, anyone?) and the original texts have been altered in so many ways...
About the war subject - Religion doesn't start wars, people who have control over fanatics start wars.
what's the point? why do you believe in it?
if i got 40000 people to believe that you couldnt paint anything red or you would burn in hell forever, would you believe it, too?
and the most funny thing is that many people who do believe in a religion are making fun of scientist, when religious people are claiming that there was a snake that could talk...
People need to make a difference between religion, religious people, retards who make stupid claims in the name of religion (and in all honesty it could be in name of anything) and to understand religion isn't about blindly following everything a self-proclaimed religious leader claims.
when the vatican makes new anouncements i think to myself, what the fuck are we back to the 15 ac? They are racist they are... (over 9000 more bad things) and all what vatican says is applied to the church from your town.
lets see how long it takes to them to get a black pope to rome.
they are not respectable in any way.
and about their beliefs. those beliefs can not be believed because they havent been proved in any way (wheres the fossil of a snake with vocal cords..?) all they do is keep talking (and mostly bullshit, ex vatican) and prove nothing? we are on the 2009 things need to be proved, ppl is smarter than the first caveman who had an iq of 30.
my opinion is not unducated, the way i express it is. but who cares i dont have to be educated to them since they fucked up many things in the past, and they are still unaducated to evry single man who doesnt belive in their beliefs(im not talking about the guy who posted this journal, but yes to its church)
sry for mah english
wat? do you even know what you're fucking taling about?
check some stuff from when he was younger
oh and his scary
his father was even opposing nazism, troll.
i live in a small town in mallorca, in this town there are 2 churchs, the main one and some other smaller one where some nuns are living at, early, ppl from the town found a secret passage which was between the main church and the nuns place, so they could meet each other (sex pruposes) in the pasage they found dead baby bodys many of them, and many of the bodys werent that old (not older than 10, dunno how the fuck because the monks arent anymore at the main church, but the nuns are still living there..)
so well vatican says that using condoms is a bad thing, so instead of using condoms, lets have a fuck and then lets kill the baby with fire? (they didnt kill em with fire, but drowned them...)
and those nuns and monks are following the same religion as those christians here.
Hope? dude those hopes are bullshit, which cant be proved in any kind of way therefore they are false, im not a caveman, i need some solid things to believe at.
and when religious laughs at smart ppl trying to prove stuff id hit their faces.
what about u guys trying to prove that there was a snake that could talk and that theres a man whos capable of make the earth within 7 days
Those hopes were created long time ago when people had a fucked up live, and they needed something good to believ in, thats why nowadays poor ppl who has no acces to education belives much more than a guy who studied
anyway isnt a fact that religion was created because of that? because people used to die for a cold, or because they had a very hard lives which werent worth to live so they needed to believe in something good?
and it isnt a fact either that poorest people do believe more in god?
or that people without a decent education believes more in it?
but hey an answer is not needed, cuz it looks like im not intelligent enough to believe in a man with superpowers.
btw religion fucked up enought things in my family, my grand parents are jehova testimonials (or whatever is spelled) and they didnt let my dad study (hes has a very high IQ) and the excusse they gave to my dad was that in 2000 the world was going to end and that they were going to a heaven, and there evrybody was going to be intelligent (see the retardness in their arguments). nice for them helping to keep the world a bit more ignorant so theres more guys who can believe in their religion.
btw my dad is furtonately succesfull but because of the no education he had many problems.
but anyway, you're talking about religion and mentioning facts? seriously...I am pretty well educated yet I believe in existence of a higher power, will you consider that in your "facts"? true that people that need help might show a higher tendency to be religious but that's no fact, you'll find a lot of rich fucks that are equally religious
and religion didn't fuck up anything in your family, stupid people have
those rich fucks are religious because of tradition, or becase they are from rights if we talk about politics ( i dont know hows called in english, u know conservative people) but those are even more stupid than me!!
why should i worship anybody besides myself?
still, I don't WORSHIP anything or anyone, I just believe, worshiping sounds so pagan
Religion Kills and it scares the shit out of me. The bible is straight fiction. Thats my opinion.
Real killers are people who lead fanatics into accessing their own political goals or personnal goals. Fanatics aren't religious people, they're people with problems, if they weren't obsessed with religion they'd be obsessed with their country. Or shoes for all it matters. Man always found a name to kill for.
fyi, the God hypothesis is false
me
me
Woaw beleive in me, i'm god :d
(ps : atheist )
The best analogy that I can point to is the image of a man pointing his finger at the moon. The moon represents God, and the finger is merely pointing the way to get there. Different religions point their finger differently, and they all have different looking fingers, but in the end they are all pointing to the same thing (the moon).
Organized religions, in my opinion, are merely an introduction to spirituality. When you are young you might be introduced to religion through Christianity, or Islam, but I think that in order to fully experience the transcendent, at least for me, I kind of have to move beyond that at some point. This quote by the Buddha really describes this for me:
I was raised Christian, but just because Christianity tells me that I should feel happy for doing good doesn't necessarily make me feel happy. I think that at some point people need to move beyond what organized religions say and find out for themselves what helps them experience God the most. If you go to church every Sunday, but hate it because it is boring, then you need to look deeper in order to find God.
Organized religions were built to appeal to common uneducated people as a way of simplifying God so that the average person could understand it. They did this through metaphors and representations, like for example the Bible. Almost everything in there is not meant to be taken literally, but it conveys a truth if you look at the deeper meaning. Many people reject religion and say they are an atheist simply because they think the bible is supposed to be literal, and they (justifiably so) realize that many things in the Bible simply cannot be true. The danger comes when fundamental Christians try to take the Bible literally. From fundamentalism is what came all of the wars and violence through religion. Someone who was truly a Christian would have never let anything like that happen.
To me atheism is just as ignorant as fundamentalism though, because instead of searching for God in a different way, they just reject it completely. If you consider yourself an atheist, I would encourage you to take a different look at religion, and try to find God through yourself. Ignore christianity, ignore everything you were taught in sunday school, and instead try to understand God in a different way.
I believe that you can't really fully know yourself without understanding the God inside of you and how, through that, you are connected to other people and the rest of the world. That is one way to look at God, is the transcendent connection that you share with other people and the world.
I know you said that you are an atheist. Is there a reason for this? If you were raised Christian why did you become an atheist? What thoughts was this based on?
"Believe in the power of one" One Person cant change the world, but believe one person - not a god, but a normal person can. Believe in yourself :D
From The God Delusion
1 Strong theist. 100 per cent probability of God. In the words of
C. G. Jung, 'I do not believe, I know.'
2 Very high probability but short of 100 per cent. De facto
theist. 'I cannot know for certain, but I strongly believe
in God and live my life on the assumption that he is
there.'
3 Higher than 50 per cent but not very high. Technically agnostic
but leaning towards theism. 'I am very uncertain, but I am
inclined to believe in God.'
4 Exactly 50 per cent. Completely impartial agnostic. 'God's
existence and non-existence are exactly equiprobable.'
5 Lower than 50 per cent but not very low. Technically agnostic
but leaning towards atheism. 'I don't know whether God exists
but I'm inclined to be sceptical.'
6 Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. 'I
cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable,
and I live my life on the assumption that he is not
there.'
7 Strong atheist. 'I know there is no God, with the same
conviction as Jung "knows" there is one.'
I'd be surprised to meet many people in category 7, but I include
it for symmetry with category 1, which is well populated. It is in the
nature of faith that one is capable, like Jung, of holding a belief
without adequate reason to do so (Jung also believed that particular
books on his shelf spontaneously exploded with a loud bang).
Atheists do not have faith; and reason alone could not propel one
to total conviction that anything definitely does not exist. Hence
category 7 is in practice rather emptier than its opposite number,
category 1, which has many devoted inhabitants. I count
myself in category 6, but leaning towards 7 - 1 am agnostic only to
the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the
garden.
I'd love to chat about it (I'm an atheist and I don't believe in the God hypothesis) but I have to get this finished and get to college in less than two hours :(
Also, check out this guy - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=neil+degrasse+tyson&search_type=&aq=0&oq=neil+de
He's one of the most interesting and passionate scientists I can think of.
This is also a really great lecture from physicist/cosmologist Lawrence Krauss - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&fmt=22
Just asked my grandma(77):
-Do you really think God exist, 100%?
-Yes.
-Why I dont believe in it?
-Because you are stupid.
Also she said:
"Your soul is empty"
ah by the way, question for the atheists. Do you believe the devil exists?
Yay let me worship someone who isnt real for the whole of my life
losers.
And wtf @ the amount of replies in this journal?
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if you're agnostic, you simply neither know if there is some kind of deity nor you know there isn't
an agnostic atheist is someone not believing in any deity, neither does he know if there is actually some kind of deity or not
wikipedia is wrong too
its like that nickelback wiki, full of shit
church of scotland (protestant/christian)
(but only when it suits me)
which automatically makes me the most sane person here
any religion is a big summary of lies & tales...
so what does ur religion say bout gambling?
and our turkish mate doesnt play with us while Rammadan (and i read bout ur tournament in Amsterdam) - thats why i am asking
Nah, am agnostic really. I like the idea of religion as I'm not a fan of the whole being dead and that's it thing, but I can't really say I'm convinced.
Im happy to believe there is someone above me watching me every time and allows me to have a good time!
The only thing I never believed in was the fact about Adam & Eva:
Adam and Eva were the first people on earth.. they gave birth to two babies (as written down 2 boys!) the thing is... when more people should get born, one of the two sons should have had sex with his mum Eva ;) otherwise there would never be any human being on this earth anymore ;) the other thing I dont understand is that they write down that Adam and Eva were two human beings made of "mud" but in the evolution theory they say we are naturally evolved from the apes..
Still there are so many other things I never really understood, about the world, the animals and humans.. The only thing I can say now is Im glad Im a modern Catholic person :)
No war Make peace on this earth, such a tiny globe and so many ppl digging their own grave already ;)
grtz
But as for true 'religion' - I'm more to the paganism side. Christianity is not Latvian native/true religion. But just as with communism - we were forced to change it with blood spilling.
Funnies
religious guys can say that:
1/ god lets violence on purpose, because there is a great plan behind it which people dont understand
2/ god doesnt want to interrupt people's lifes, cause ok - that would prevent them from violence but at the same time that would prevent them from a freedom, which (lack of) is worse than violence.
all in all it all comes to one question - do you believe or not? some people will say yes, some will say no. who is right? we'll get to know when we die, each person on his own :)
that somehow confutes your ideas
I don't care what people believe in as long as they keep it to themselves and don't interfere in my life.
hail flying spaghetti monster
officially I'm Lutheran tho, most of the protestant christians here in Germany belong to it, you can say we started that thing! :P
almost never visiting church, only on xmas or family events
but I'd always support Christianity against Islam
didnt know you're religious btw :D
It was about finding out what religion is closest to mine in Germany...
i feel shame for u
fucking sects!