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What do you like about Religion?

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What do you like about Religion?
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#31
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 6, 2012 at 6:54 am
Religion helped my drug-addicted friend get help... that's about it.

And she still believes in evolution, the big bang and science first.
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#32
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 6, 2012 at 7:15 am
(March 3, 2012 at 5:06 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote:
(March 3, 2012 at 4:57 pm)Rokcet Scientist Wrote:
(March 3, 2012 at 4:28 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: We all think religion is silly

No, we think religion is BAD! The scourge of humanity.

I now that I was being polite, I hate Religion, I was trying to have something positive.
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Quote:but is there anything you like about about Religion?
for me:
Christianity:
1. It has created some of the beautiful architecture in the western world.

But it destroyed much more beautiful architecture than it created.
Agreed as well.
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Quote:2. It has help some of the neediest people in the world.

Some? Perhaps. But it has certainly killed millions of totally innocent people. And is still killing millions: today with e.g. HIV/AIDS in Africa. And Xtianity stymied humanity's intellectual and scientific progress for a thousand years.
And agreed again but This whole thread is what positives religion was if if it is making us see how bat-shit crazy people can get. If you want to completely gut religion please do it in another thread.
No need to be ''Nice'' or ''tolerant'' comrade.
Just speak your damn mind!
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#33
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 6, 2012 at 12:36 pm
(March 6, 2012 at 6:54 am)Xcentric Wrote: Religion helped my drug-addicted friend get help... that's about it.

And she still believes in evolution, the big bang and science first.


Then she needs more help.

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#34
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 6, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Some of the various myths across different cultures are very interesting stories.
I especially enjoy the myths of the Vikings and Greco Romans.
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#35
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 6, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Religion gives me something to talk about on the internet.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.




 








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#36
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 6, 2012 at 3:20 pm
I went to a monastery and there were loads of kittens they were sooooooo cute. I liked them.
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#37
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 7, 2012 at 11:32 pm (This post was last modified: March 7, 2012 at 11:34 pm by AthiestAtheist.)
What do I like about religion?




Lol, sorry, but I couldn't resist! I guess this is true in an ironic sort of way, it is the only thing I like about religion.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."

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#38
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 8, 2012 at 12:06 am
I love the contention generated, the controversy.
I love to be in the middle of things, but will ever remain a slave to my rationality.
Thankfully, there is an abundance of stupid people and ideas to nestle between and make a bigger deal out of than it is worth.
But definitely the contention.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
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RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 9, 2012 at 8:20 pm (This post was last modified: March 9, 2012 at 8:25 pm by jason56.)
"What do you like about Religion?"

I like the ability to excuse evil.

I like getting a wafer for free.

I like feeling self-important.

And I like dreaming.

I should be the next pope/
"What do you like about Religion?"

I like the ability to excuse evil.

I like getting a wafer for free.

I like feeling self-important.

And I like dreaming.

I should be the next pope/
Sorry, I don't know how I quoted myself and I can't remove it. I don't know how my God allowed this to happen.

bastard.
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#40
RE: What do you like about Religion?
March 9, 2012 at 11:59 pm
I like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer. Does that count?
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