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Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 18, 2013 at 11:03 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2013 at 11:04 pm by Rahul.)
I just read a horrible account from a woman that has endured a 40+ year marriage to the most horrible husband in existence. She has been abused by him since around six months after the marriage.
Why has she stayed with him and lived through hell on Earth?
Because she's a "Christian" woman so "marriage is for life".
Wow. Threw away a chance at a happy life over a fairytale.
That's freaking horribly sad.
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 18, 2013 at 11:32 pm
She deserved the miserable life due to her silly religious convictions. I do not feel sorry for her.
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 19, 2013 at 12:12 am
Why is the dumb bitch telling her story like she's whoring for sympathy? Leave the decrepit fucker, dummy! Maybe then the sympathy votes will come in.
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 19, 2013 at 12:15 am
I agree. People create their own hell.
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 19, 2013 at 12:20 am
(September 18, 2013 at 11:03 pm)Rahul Wrote: That's freaking horribly sad.
I do feel sympathy for her as she may have been deeply indoctrinated. I don't believe I'm smarter than the religious. I'm just lucky that I escaped that kind of brain-washing from childhood that might have happened if I'd been born into another family or environment.
Then again, she may be just trying to get sympathy. I don't know her story but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 19, 2013 at 7:22 am
(September 19, 2013 at 12:20 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I do feel sympathy for her as she may have been deeply indoctrinated. I don't believe I'm smarter than the religious. I'm just lucky that I escaped that kind of brain-washing from childhood that might have happened if I'd been born into another family or environment.
Then again, she may be just trying to get sympathy. I don't know her story but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
My parents are deeply religious though they are very intelligent people. Intelligence does not ensure rationality. This is something I have found very disturbing about religious people.
However, this woman mentioned this on a marriage forum. So this wasn't a sympathy plea. She was on topic for the discussion where she posted it.
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 19, 2013 at 9:00 am
The entire motif of the bible is that suffering pain is a virtue. The lead character expects it from you, and his son/him stalks you and commits a fake suicide to show how much pain is good for you.
That book is morally bankrupt.
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 19, 2013 at 9:17 am
There is a strong masochistic element in there if you ever watched the Passion of the Christ but I think it's something people in some way quite enjoy. Like how the Opus Dei wear barbed wire underpants or armbands or whatever. If you're suffering, uncomfortable, denying yourself or starving away you're being Godly/holy. And this fairly universal in most religions.
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 19, 2013 at 10:08 am
(September 19, 2013 at 12:20 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I do feel sympathy for her as she may have been deeply indoctrinated. I don't believe I'm smarter than the religious. I'm just lucky that I escaped that kind of brain-washing from childhood that might have happened if I'd been born into another family or environment.
This puts an ironic twist on the phrase "there but for the grace of god go I."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Another Reason Religion Sucks
September 19, 2013 at 10:15 am
God is testing her faith?
