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Thiests: This how atheists see religion
May 3, 2013 at 10:46 pm
More or less, its how I see Religion anyway.
"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)
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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
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RE: Thiests: This how atheists see religion
May 4, 2013 at 2:29 am
That's how I see religion too. Comrade ;)
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RE: Thiests: This how atheists see religion
May 4, 2013 at 4:22 am
I see religion as a mass brainwashing. I sometimes see religious people as victims of brainwashing too. Indoctrination=mind constipation...its all just shit
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RE: Thiests: This how atheists see religion
May 4, 2013 at 5:35 am
James 1:7 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. / In other words participating in the worldly complicated religious practices of men, will end in coruption, but to independently practice charity towards the less fortunate is simple and pure and therefore honourable.
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RE: Thiests: This how atheists see religion
May 4, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Religion isn't your enemy... the Space Muslims are your enemy. Using every logics slot on a planet for temples of communion? TT__TT
Winning with culture is sickening.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Thiests: This how atheists see religion
May 4, 2013 at 2:42 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2013 at 2:43 pm by L.A.F..)
I do not support your notions on religion.
Religion (ri-'li-jən):
"a personal set or institutionalized system of religious [i.e. relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity] attitudes, beliefs, and practices"
(Merriam-Webster)
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RE: Thiests: This how atheists see religion
May 4, 2013 at 3:21 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2013 at 3:22 pm by L.A.F..)
I assumed that the definition of 'religion' would demonstrate that the notions held by the poster are not justified, i.e. the notions as such do not follow from it.
It was only after your input that I noticed further elaboration was required.