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If it wasn't for religion
RE: If it wasn't for religion
(February 22, 2019 at 11:31 pm)Agnostico Wrote: Interesting how u decide to replace the law, founded on christianity with nothing... Great forward thinker you are... LoL

And what about laws that existed before Christianity? Or non-Christian societies like China?



Anyway when you watch a video like this one you just have to wonder "How can people be this stupid to pay £20 to some guy to stare at them expecting supernatural things to occur?" and it's hard not to think of all the religious nonsense people are fed to believe when they're kids



teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: If it wasn't for religion
(February 22, 2019 at 11:31 pm)Agnostico Wrote:
(February 22, 2019 at 7:26 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Or, maybe, watching religion dick people over is troubling for anyone with functional empathy?  Replace it?  That's like asking what I would replace cancer with.  Nothing screwball, lol.

Ye but ur just a hypocrite who only disagrees with everything and makes false accusations when ur unable to respond.
Ur beef is with theologians, not me. So unless u start being reasonable im not taking u seriously...

Interesting how u decide to replace the law, founded on christianity with nothing... Great forward thinker you are... LoL
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We've already had this conversation.  Western law has it's origins in med and germanic paganism.  The removal of those traditions didn't make law go poof, or..really, impact the validity of law in any way. What's amusing about this is that law stands or falls on it's own.  We realized some time ago that attaching mythology to law was poor practice. That's what the business of secularism was all about.
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RE: If it wasn't for religion
(January 20, 2019 at 1:50 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: I see quite a lot more people quitting life after seeing the misery of it if it wasn't for religion . Being born in post collapse ex soviet state(Imagine the collapse of UK or US), I think a lot of poor people getting disappointed in life would just quit it if it wasn't for invisible happy land and painful land waiting for them.

I am from East Europe so I would say that this is not the case. It is more like the people are poor and have a poor education, even the education system is shit, and this is known to be correlated with high religousness. And even if they will strive for better education, they will do it for the money considering school just a nuisance in their way out of poverty.
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