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The Original Messages of Religion
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The Original Messages of Religion
Reflection, Sacrifice, Charity, Abstinence! Endurance, Compassion, Courage, Wisdom! All wasted! The message lost, what a tragedy! Misplaced by fools replaced by scum!

Sin, Forgiveness! What wonderful concepts if only implemented correctly!

Recitation of these virtues what the world would have become! Wasted on the veneration of deities when the veneration should be of these virtues!

You know now what religion is, this deformed beast of Baal, but you know not what it hides in its ruin!

This is the treasure more valuable than ivory, more valuable than an earth filled with gold! Yet you would forsake it? I think not!
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
Fuck off.
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
I like to reflect on how sacrificing some poor shmuck will make all the bad things I ever did go away- poof.

(need I continue?)

I'm going to suggest something that may not have crossed your mind. Religion doesn't give us any of that. You gave all of that to religion. If it weren't for people being halfway decent at least some of the time - the world might actually look like the hellscape painted in those "virtuous" texts. Just food for thought.
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
I'm not sure I agree that sin is a wonderful concept, or that abstinence is a virtue.

There was probably more than one goal in early religion, including explaining things that people didn't yet know about. Religion has become a perverted beast, unfortunately.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
(September 18, 2014 at 11:00 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Religion has become a perverted beast, unfortunately.

Quite so, but I believe we can still learn from it.
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
So do I, actually. You know, that would be a good thread, you could approach one "virtue" from multiple religious angles and we'll see how that pans out, eh?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
(September 18, 2014 at 10:43 pm)Celestine Wrote: Sin, Forgiveness What wonderful concepts if only implemented correctly!
How does Sin is a wonderful concept?
Because you do realize that if God wouldn't condemn anyone there would be no need for forgiveness right?
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
Yeah, I gotta say, if we're angling for something like sin as one of the better parts of religion, the greeks did it better. Miasma ftw!
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
(September 18, 2014 at 11:08 pm)Celestine Wrote: Quite so, but I believe we can still learn from it.
Like? Because one does not need to be religious to know reflection, sacrifice, charity, endurance, compassion, courage nor wisdom.
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