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How very true.
#1
How very true.
My brother sent me this image.
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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#2
RE: How very true.
(June 4, 2012 at 11:15 am)Gooders1002 Wrote: My brother sent me this image.
[Image: 380313_461780287166198_1501916663_n.jpg]

Well, how do you define "respect for religion".
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#3
RE: How very true.
(June 4, 2012 at 12:07 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
(June 4, 2012 at 11:15 am)Gooders1002 Wrote: My brother sent me this image.
[Image: 380313_461780287166198_1501916663_n.jpg]

Well, how do you define "respect for religion".

I define "respect for religion" as it: what respect. until it does more good then harm it will not have my respect.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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#4
RE: How very true.
Respect is earnt.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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#5
RE: How very true.
(June 4, 2012 at 12:33 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote:
(June 4, 2012 at 12:07 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Well, how do you define "respect for religion".

I define "respect for religion" as it: what respect. until it does more good then harm it will not have my respect.
And when I say that, I'm called names.
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#6
RE: How very true.
So religion=country=nation=race?
Trying to update my sig ...
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#7
RE: How very true.
Okay so since Buddhism doesn't have a hell, do you respect that?
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#8
RE: How very true.
(June 4, 2012 at 1:40 pm)SophiaGrace Wrote: Okay so since Buddhism doesn't have a hell, do you respect that?

Well Buddhism are not in your face telling your going to a pit of fire or turned into something lesser and are peaceful (for the most part) is and would say to some degree, yes.

(June 4, 2012 at 1:32 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
(June 4, 2012 at 12:33 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: I define "respect for religion" as it: what respect. until it does more good then harm it will not have my respect.
And when I say that, I'm called names.

Well you do go on and have strange superiority complex saying (or almost saying) Turkey is the best country in the world. There is patriotism, then there taking the piss.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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#9
RE: How very true.



"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

— H.L. Mencken


'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights.
It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.
"I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?'

— Stephen Fry


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RE: How very true.
(June 4, 2012 at 1:36 pm)Epimethean Wrote: So religion=country=nation=race?

Think harder.
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