The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
No, I would rather pound you than sand with my smart *** answersI never called HIM an atheist and take your smart *** answers and pound sand with them.
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No, I would rather pound you than sand with my smart *** answersI never called HIM an atheist and take your smart *** answers and pound sand with them.
IMO Given the harm they do, given all the trouble caused in the world by them they should be banned, but how? People have the right to believe what they will and worship as they see fit. These are human rights, but they turn people against people, spawn extremism and give their followers a false and divisive view of the world.
How could they be banned? How can these divisive, misleading, tribal, anachronistic dogmatic and destructive forces be done away with without the obvious cries of outrage.
We would have to tread very carefully. How could it be done? What would the first steps be.
I would suggest a piecemeal ban of various passages as a start. For example everything that stirs up hatred of another religion or violence towards another should be edited out.
Is it the case that we are powerless even to take the first step in this direction because of human rights and the good (far outweighed by the bad IMO) these religions sometimes do.
Can we really not sort this nonsense out?
My solution would be to ban all the holy books and just allow Genesis up to 9:19 (everything after that is just tribal self-interest but that is unrealistic and dictatorial.
What else could be done? Just keep in mind the thousands of lives that have been lost / ruined because of these divisive forces.
That just reminded me of one of my favorite passages that I keep running across lately...It is disobedience to religion which causes people to stoop lower than the animal. Religion only teaches good and for the betterment of mankind.
I wasn’t sure that you were serious, but I decided to treat it seriously anyway. Now I’m disappointed. Did you read my posts?Given the force of what I have proposed here, I admit complete and utter defeat
yes Jim I did. I am well aware of your faith and it is a peaceful loving one IMO a true path to God...BUT the danger we face now, with islamic extremism on one hand and the rise of christian fundamentalism on the other together with general intolerance, increasing antisemitism and Islamophobia, makes me very worried. I am also extremely, extremely upset that all this violence and hatred is being committed in the name of God, who only ever blessed us all to be fruitful and multiply. I am upset for those that are hurt and for God. I am also upset for those whose lives have been ruined by hateful doctrine that spreads fear and guiltI wasn’t sure that you were serious, but I decided to treat it seriously anyway. Now I’m disappointed. Did you read my posts?
1. The OP does, and expresses anguish over how to solve the horrible 'problem!' of Christianity. Islam is tacked on for appearances.Girl please. Not everyone cares about Christianity. But most seem to accept the idea of religious freedom regardless. Oh yes the world is so anti Christian. Oh poor Christians.
Please. This ain’t China where you literally can claim persecution.
What is that?revisionist history
What does that mean?a disneyesque view of humanity
You might have missed my point in those posts. My point was not about my faith. My point was that the first step that you proposed has already been taken.I am well aware of your faith and it is a peaceful loving one IMO a true path to God ...
That book, exactly precisely as you described it in that post, has already been written, and endorsed by hundreds, possibly thousands of religious leaders of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.Ok so how about forcing the three religions to come up with a new religious book that everyone could use, with all the hatred and violence and indeed any type of prescribed harm being removed. Could that near-impossible step be the first?
Me too. Of all prejudices, those are the ones that I see causing the most grief, and threatening the most to blow up the world.BUT the danger we face now, with islamic extremism on one hand and the rise of christian fundamentalism on the other together with general intolerance, increasing antisemitism and Islamophobia, makes me very worried.
Do it the way atheists Stalin and Mao did it.IMO Given the harm they do, given all the trouble caused in the world by them they should be banned, but how? People have the right to believe what they will and worship as they see fit. These are human rights, but they turn people against people, spawn extremism and give their followers a false and divisive view of the world.
How could they be banned? How can these divisive, misleading, tribal, anachronistic dogmatic and destructive forces be done away with without the obvious cries of outrage.
We would have to tread very carefully. How could it be done? What would the first steps be.
I would suggest a piecemeal ban of various passages as a start. For example everything that stirs up hatred of another religion or violence towards another should be edited out.
Is it the case that we are powerless even to take the first step in this direction because of human rights and the good (far outweighed by the bad IMO) these religions sometimes do.
Can we really not sort this nonsense out?
My solution would be to ban all the holy books and just allow Genesis up to 9:19 (everything after that is just tribal self-interest but that is unrealistic and dictatorial.
What else could be done? Just keep in mind the thousands of lives that have been lost / ruined because of these divisive forces.
IMO Given the harm they do, given all the trouble caused in the world by them they should be banned, but how? People have the right to believe what they will and worship as they see fit. These are human rights, but they turn people against people, spawn extremism and give their followers a false and divisive view of the world.
How could they be banned? How can these divisive, misleading, tribal, anachronistic dogmatic and destructive forces be done away with without the obvious cries of outrage.
We would have to tread very carefully. How could it be done? What would the first steps be.
I would suggest a piecemeal ban of various passages as a start. For example everything that stirs up hatred of another religion or violence towards another should be edited out.
Is it the case that we are powerless even to take the first step in this direction because of human rights and the good (far outweighed by the bad IMO) these religions sometimes do.
Can we really not sort this nonsense out?
My solution would be to ban all the holy books and just allow Genesis up to 9:19 (everything after that is just tribal self-interest but that is unrealistic and dictatorial.
What else could be done? Just keep in mind the thousands of lives that have been lost / ruined because of these divisive forces.
the rise of christian fundamentalism on the other together with general intolerance, increasing antisemitism and Islamophobia, makes me very worried. I am also extremely, extremely upset that all this violence and hatred is being committed in the name of God
Huh?Who?
Why?
Okay1. The OP does, and expresses anguish over how to solve the horrible 'problem!' of Christianity. Islam is tacked on for appearances.
2. What did Abraham teach, do, or model to deserve blame for all the evil in the world?
3. The trend now is not 'religious freedom', but homogeneity of belief.. as illustrated by the OP. ..Thanks to constant propaganda from anti-christian institutions.
4. Christianity and Christians HAVE been the target of persecution, since the movement began. Mocking them, based on the current reprieve in western countries, does not diminish the suffering they have endured. In China & other regions, as you alluded to, persecution for Christianity is common.
5. If nobody cares about Christianity, why is it CONSTANTLY the target of hostile bigotry?
You might have missed my point in those posts. My point was not about my faith. My point was that the first step that you proposed has already been taken.
That book, exactly precisely as you described it in that post, has already been written, and endorsed by hundreds, possibly thousands of religious leaders of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Me too. Of all prejudices, those are the ones that I see causing the most grief, and threatening the most to blow up the world.
IMO Given the harm they do, given all the trouble caused in the world by them they should be banned, but how? People have the right to believe what they will and worship as they see fit. These are human rights, but they turn people against people, spawn extremism and give their followers a false and divisive view of the world.
How could they be banned? How can these divisive, misleading, tribal, anachronistic dogmatic and destructive forces be done away with without the obvious cries of outrage.
We would have to tread very carefully. How could it be done? What would the first steps be.
I would suggest a piecemeal ban of various passages as a start. For example everything that stirs up hatred of another religion or violence towards another should be edited out.
Is it the case that we are powerless even to take the first step in this direction because of human rights and the good (far outweighed by the bad IMO) these religions sometimes do.
Can we really not sort this nonsense out?
My solution would be to ban all the holy books and just allow Genesis up to 9:19 (everything after that is just tribal self-interest but that is unrealistic and dictatorial.
What else could be done? Just keep in mind the thousands of lives that have been lost / ruined because of these divisive forces.
Right.. so as i suspected, this is about the 'evil of Christianity!', and not 'abrahamic religions', whatever that means..
The target of your fear and loathing is Christianity, with its inherent 'Islamophobia!', and 'antisemitism!'
'All this violence and hatred!!'.. by 'Christian fundamentalists!' Really?
And something must be done. Christianity is responsible for all the death, oppression, and evil in the entire universe, and should be eradicated.
..progressive indoctrinees..
it would be funny, if you weren't serious..
LOL ! Another keyboard tough guyNo, I would rather pound you than sand with my smart *** answers