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RE: Religion is overly serious
November 5, 2017 at 2:33 pm
Yeah I know , I just know two a friend and my ex. But we both know that many Romanians don't really care about religion.
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RE: Religion is overly serious
November 5, 2017 at 2:47 pm
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(November 5, 2017 at 2:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: The best of humanity, it is a serious evil to be against them, and its the definition of goodness to be with them and on their side. Be with the truthful and free yourself from all other than the source of visions you rely, the visions of love by which you know every soul has a value and that actions cling to people and people cannot escape their actions.
And being with them means you see the good they command and see the evil they forbid and help them commanding to good and forbidding evil. It means to fear no one but God, and that fear of anyone or humans should be derived only from your fear of God's cause, not fear of losing a perishing world that is bound to perish and death is not something anyone can escape.
It is to prefer the name of God and leader of time over oneself, although, all salvation and good lies in loving such a leader and preferring him over yourself so it's not like you lose truly anything by doing so.
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RE: Religion is overly serious
November 5, 2017 at 5:08 pm
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(November 5, 2017 at 2:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: The best of humanity, it is a serious evil to be against them, and its the definition of goodness to be with them and on their side. Be with the truthful and free yourself from all other than the source of visions you rely, the visions of love by which you know every soul has a value and that actions cling to people and people cannot escape their actions.
And being with them means you see the good they command and see the evil they forbid and help them commanding to good and forbidding evil. It means to fear no one but God, and that fear of anyone or humans should be derived only from your fear of God's cause, not fear of losing a perishing world that is bound to perish and death is not something anyone can escape.
It is to prefer the name of God and leader of time over oneself, although, all salvation and good lies in loving such a leader and preferring him over yourself so it's not like you lose truly anything by doing so.
Fear? didn't you say it's all about "loooove"?
Looks like I convinced you that it's mainly about fear in Islam !
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RE: Religion is overly serious
November 5, 2017 at 5:32 pm
Once people realize there's no real reason to give religion the undue respect it's gotten, perhaps then things will start to change.
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RE: Religion is overly serious
November 6, 2017 at 5:16 pm
(November 5, 2017 at 2:33 pm)notimportant1234 Wrote: Yeah I know , I just know two a friend and my ex. But we both know that many Romanians don't really care about religion.
Most of the romanians are christians for social status and/or emotional comfort. There are some very religious, especially in the poorer villages.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none"
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RE: Religion is overly serious
November 6, 2017 at 9:55 pm
(November 4, 2017 at 2:05 pm)Die Atheistin Wrote: Religious people dislike jokes about religion (their religion at the very least). I know some moderates that may accept jokes about priests that care only about money and stuff like that, but they would dislike any joke about saints and gods (Maybe not all moderates are like that, but the ones I know surely are). Some won't accept even that, years ago I've told my dad some jokes about corrupted priests, and he said that religion shouldn't be made fun of.
Why? Joking about something doesn't automatically mean putting it in a negative light. In fact, the Chuck Norris jokes portray him as awesome. If God were real, shouldn't He be flattered and amused to be praised in a comedic way? If you're a believer and you think that your god doesn't want this kind of praise, it means that he doesn't have a sense of humour, so he isn't all knowing. If you follow a religion because it makes you feel happy, and you rather imagine a god than believe in him then why imagine such a serious one?
Also, there are many serious things that are joked about. There are jokes about scientific discoveries, scientists aren't offended by them, some of them will even make jokes like that. There are parodies of smart famous people, they don't feel offended as long as they aren't put in a bad light. There are parodies of good movies, they don't necessarily claim that these movies are bad.
I think that religion presents itself as serious because it's teachings are mostly shit. Most of them are laughable no matter how you present them. If they were taught in a comedic way, most of the populatin would see them as nothing more than jokes. It would be harder to manipulate the masses.
As an atheist I don't feel offended by jokes about atheism. In fact, I adore jokes like that as long as they are good. If a joke is unfunny, but has a good message (if it has a message), I'm just unimpressed. If a joke has a bad message, I know that the one who made it doesn't know any better, so I'm not mad about it. You are more likely to meet an atheis joking about atheism than a religious joking about religion.
All that plus the religious keep insisting on telling me what I can and can't do with my uterus and vagina. That's a major buzzkill too.
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RE: Religion is overly serious
November 6, 2017 at 10:02 pm
(November 5, 2017 at 2:33 pm)notimportant1234 Wrote: Yeah I know , I just know two a friend and my ex. But we both know that many Romanians don't really care about religion.
Good for Romania.
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RE: Religion is overly serious
November 8, 2017 at 4:27 pm
(November 5, 2017 at 9:57 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Valuing thing with proper value is true love. That is the definition of justice as well. Justice is giving everything it's proper due.
If you take the most valued being and the richest in value being, to be something to joke about, and his guidance towards himself, to be something to joke about, you become the joke and scorn of Iblis and his forces, the dark enemies of humans and Jinn.
How is it possible that you can use the beautifully expressive English language and express absolutely nothing? If this is an example of how your thought processes work the how in the blue frozen hell do you read a book? What would you make of Lord Of The Rings or Dune?
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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