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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 5:19 am
Simple and effective.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 7:16 am
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Would it work, I wonder? If we all just told them their God was the greatest and that they have won?
I suppose they'd still kill each other over the best way to worship it.
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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 7:18 am
(October 24, 2016 at 7:16 am)robvalue Wrote: Would it work, I wonder? If we all just told them their God was the greatest and that they have won?
I suppose they'd still kill each other over the best way to worship it.
So, nothing really changes.
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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 7:37 am
I guess even if we say allah is the greatest, they'll want to know what flavour we are picking. We can't please them all; not even all the Muslims.
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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 10:30 am
.... So if we concede "Allah's the man" then we are ready to subject ourselves to sharia law?
I pity this guy and people like him/Thinks as he does.
He has a 1st graders understanding of what he is saying yet feels like he is the progressive in the room when he says it.
The problem this moron is crowing about is evil. Evil is not just a religious term. Evil has been with man since the beginning Even if you don't believe in the garden. Evil perminates everything Including religion.
This simple minded person thinks you get rid of the institution that identifies evil, that it ceases to exist... How child like is that? that is like putting your hands over your face and thinking you just became invisible because YOU can't see you.
In truth, evil perminates EVERYTHING Even Religion. Take religion away like they did in communist russia or china (because again this idiot's idea is not a new one, we have almost 100 years of what society looks like with no religion we can draw from) and has the problem of evil gone away? Has the state been able to up state religion with kindness and mercy? Again look at the last 100 years or so with russia and the last 70 or so with china.
The brutality in those two countries is without parallel. It's just now you can't call what those countries did "wrong."
But this wrestling coach or whatever is claim to fame is, seems to be blissfully unaware.
Here's the thing this moron doesn't get. Even in religion there is always a ying to evil's yang. A check to the balance, albeit it can some times be slow. To every dark age church there is a Reformation, to every ISIS there are freedom fighters because the definition of evil remains a constant even though some try to blur the lines.
Take the good out of religion, and you only have evil left. You can't argue this as history bears out the truth. History has shown this over and over again.
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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 11:02 am
quoted from the video.
"There's been nothing that has caused more war, more murder, more genocide, more homicide, more persecution, more strife and misery and pain in human history, than this irrational belief in any religion."
Well communism has the death toll on lock at over 149 million deaths, Stalin (an atheist) alone is credited with 20 million. I challenge anyone to find a where any religion has caused more deaths.
Obviously getting rid of religion isn't the answer.
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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 11:10 am
Getting rid of magical thinking is the answer. Good and evil will still exist but magical fantasy thinking will no longer be an excuse.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 11:28 am
Except the regimes that did exactly that were worse off...
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RE: Jim Cornette on religion
October 24, 2016 at 11:44 am
The idea, Huggy, is to engage people so that they see for themselves how religion is nothing but words. When people realize that, religion dies.
No imposition, no one needs to die for that.
That is why sites such as this forum exist. To get the word out that the religious mindset is not necessarily representative of reality. You don't have to believe in god A or B or C. "None" is a possibility and many people are already on board with it.
Certainly, many people will resist, like you and Drich here. Many more out there will resist... some may resist in violent ways... some will trudge along with their indoctrination... but some will see reason.
It will be a multi-generational issue.... it can't be forced.
