Is researching into religion a waste of time?

[Minimalist]

I think it's good to know when you also want to study the opposite (to be an Anti Theist), this is still one of my favorite quotes and comments I found.

''Noah would have had 99% more animals on his ark than exists today. So the largest zoo on earth is 130 acres and only holds 1% of species alive today. 12,000 animals with almost 1000 different species. So just a little rough math, that would mean Noah would need an ark with roughly 750 thousand acre capacity. I have to say 1) that is on the low side of the scale. 2) Do you want to believe a story like this so terribly bad you are willing to destroy your logic, reason, and integrity to uphold an ancient myth?''

I don't know the whole Bible (New & Old Testament) yet, or any of the other versions. However I would like to know them to do some serious research and find all the fallacy's and logic in them. Christopher Hitchens knew ALLOT about religion, the man did his serious studies. And that's very handy when you want to be an Anti Theist and/or Atheist in my opinion

Start here.

http://individual.utoronto.ca/mfkolarcik...erzog.html

Scroll down to "
from Ha'aretz Magazine, Friday, October 29, 1999)"

and find out how much bullshit is in the so-called OT.

[Neo-Scholastic]

And in each religion, there is many sects.

Comparative theology is interesting. I'm not convinced that a believer must pick the right religion, just that they pick one and mine its depths. As long as the goal is love, I think god will be merciful.

[Anomalocaris]

Yes. A complete waste of time.

No it's not. Reserach into religion is as vital for public enlightenment as research into crime is vital for public security.

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And in each religion, there is many sects.

Comparative theology is interesting. I'm not convinced that a believer must pick the right religion, just that they pick one and mine its depths. As long as the goal is love, I think god will be merciful.

That's like saying the criminal shouldn't be too picky about what crime he commits, so long as he commits some crime and does so in depth.

That's true if your are more interested in being criminal than to benefit from any crime. You want to be bad for badness' sake, and not as a means to some other end. Somehow that is not surprising coming from Wooters.

Some religious idiots like GC and Drich iseems to be after the comfort of some specific dilusion. Wooters is just enemored with the general idea of being diluded.

[Arellius]

I think it's good to know when you also want to study the opposite (to be an Anti Theist), this is still one of my favorite quotes and comments I found.

''Noah would have had 99% more animals on his ark than exists today. So the largest zoo on earth is 130 acres and only holds 1% of species alive today. 12,000 animals with almost 1000 different species. So just a little rough math, that would mean Noah would need an ark with roughly 750 thousand acre capacity. I have to say 1) that is on the low side of the scale. 2) Do you want to believe a story like this so terribly bad you are willing to destroy your logic, reason, and integrity to uphold an ancient myth?''

I don't know the whole Bible (New & Old Testament) yet, or any of the other versions. However I would like to know them to do some serious research and find all the fallacy's and logic in them. Christopher Hitchens knew ALLOT about religion, the man did his serious studies. And that's very handy when you want to be an Anti Theist and/or Atheist in my opinion

Start here.

http://individual.utoronto.ca/mfkolarcik...erzog.html

Scroll down to "
from Ha'aretz Magazine, Friday, October 29, 1999)"

and find out how much bullshit is in the so-called OT.

Good piece, I thought this was the best bit !

Biblical scholars suggested a quarter of a century ago that the conquest stories be viewed as etiological legends and no more. But as more and more sites were uncovered and it emerged that the places in question died out or were simply abandoned at different times, the conclusion that there is no factual basis for the biblical story about the conquest by Israelite tribes in a military campaign led by Joshua was bolstered.

Thanks for the link, and my first most informative bit of info I got since I joined.

[Norfolk And Chance]

Pure religion and undefiled before God {Jesus} and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27 This verse explaines their are but two criterion which God commands of religion, the first being to suport ones fellow man in their needs, and the second, to keep oneself from sin, End of. It is man who has invented systems of belief, full of un-scriptual doctrins and preached them with swelling words filled with vanity from lofty pulpit's in lavish temples. To judge God, haveing not personally read His testament and then blame Him for the foolishness of men is guilefully naive.

Shut the fuck up, man.

[Ryantology]

I'm not convinced that a believer must pick the right religion, just that they pick one and mine its depths. As long as the goal is love, I think god will be merciful.

I'm not convinced, either, but my reasons are obvious. What's your reason for flirting with the idea of discarding the very tenet of your entire faith, as well as the first Commandment?

[ebg]

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Another woefully unoriginal generalization from good news. I've read the entire bible, numbnuts. Your god is a selfish, jealous, vengeful, hypocritical, murderous, sexist, fuckwit if he do exist. Which he don't, so feel elation in that. I know I do.
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I doubt very seriously you have actually read the bible from beginning to end. Probable, your education is based on a couple of years in community college, and wekpedia.

[Esquilax]

I doubt very seriously you have actually read the bible from beginning to end. Probable, your education is based on a couple of years in community college, and wekpedia.

Hi, luckie's fiancee here; she actually really has read the bible cover to cover. She was very religious at one point in her life, church going, faith healing, god following... you name it. So, hey, I dunno, maybe actually know what you're talking about before you make broad statements, ebg.

Comparative theology is interesting. I'm not convinced that a believer must pick the right religion, just that they pick one and mine its depths. As long as the goal is love, I think god will be merciful.

Is this a specifically religious love, Chad? Or can my secular goal of love incite god's mercy too?

[Psykhronic]

Another woefully unoriginal generalization from good news. I've read the entire bible, numbnuts. Your god is a selfish, jealous, vengeful, hypocritical, murderous, sexist, fuckwit if he do exist. Which he don't, so feel elation in that. I know I do.

I doubt very seriously you have actually read the bible from beginning to end. Probable, your education is based on a couple of years in community college, and wekpedia.

Yeah, reading a whole book is just UNBELIEVABLE. None of us here can do that.

[Ryantology]

I doubt very seriously you have actually read the bible from beginning to end. Probable, your education is based on a couple of years in community college, and wekpedia.

Every time I see a Christian talk about a kind, loving personal God, or a God who is good and righteous, I have the same doubts.