(October 27, 2018 at 4:02 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(October 26, 2018 at 11:51 am)mlmooney89 Wrote: I do think some people need religion. It gives them structure, guidelines, hope. Not everyone can cope with the idea of their own death and not everyone can live morally without a reward system. My god parents' kid went to prison for 7 years and came out "with religion" he is still unbalanced but now he has a kid and job which we were scared to death of him having a kid. If his religion is keeping him on a good path so be it. I will never tell him he is wrong to believe.
Some people need religion just like some people needs to commit crime. That doesn’t make religion tolerable any more than it makes crime tolerable.
I'm sorry but that comment made no sense, was not relevant, and was childish. Someone doing good for themselves and getting on a better life track is NOT like someone "needing" to commit crime. They don't correlate at all. One is finding a reason to feel and do better while the other is giving into greed/self importance. Not to mention you can't just say it doesn't make it more tolerable without saying -for you- because you don't speak for everyone and what you think is not the official guidelines for what is and isn't tolerable. To me I tolerate religion being around me when it comes to him and I don't speak negatively about his beliefs because it DOES make a difference to me. I don't want all religion to die out if it helps a good majority of the population. All I want is it to be reigned in so it's not hurting or oppressing others.
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
