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The first written record of laws WERE predominantly about religion. Rule of Law, and the concept of there being a higher authority than the local warlord came from religion. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I never said every single people who is religious is weak minded. I said that the people I have been exposed to are mostly weak minded. I'm just commenting on my personal experiences......I'm not making a blanket statement regarding every religious person. Big difference. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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It's maybe also worth remembering that just for example, some of the earliest settlers in America were extremely religious and they sailed across the ocean and made a new life. But yeah, totally a bunch of weak willed pussies. Big difference. |
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I know a guy who is very senior in Corporate of a large multi national I work for. I meet occasionally with him as he tours plants and drops in once in a while. Anyhow I went out to lunch with him last year, hes a fantastically smart guy. I was like hey what is your real background figuring it would be Engineering or some other Operational type skillset.. he said he had a Doctorate in Astro Physics. We had a great discussion about the universe and what not, this guy is top notch. The ironic bit was in the middle of the conversation he says to me that he is a very devout believer. I wouldve never guessed it with his heavy science background and asked him to equate how this came to be. People who believe in religion come in all shapes and forms, from the stupid to some of the brightest and best in their field. I think one cannot generalize by a persons background whether they are a believer or not. For some to say only the weak and stupid are religious..well this guy sure wasnt and is at the top of his field. Not everything fits neatly into a box. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Quoted: In Japan people are pretty nice to each other. Perhaps the lowest homicide rate in the world for any large country, we're talking 4 times less than the UK and around 16 times less than the US. Yet, so few of them believe in Christianity and they have a huge non-religious population. That blows that argument out of the water. View Quote |
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I always got a chuckle from the "I defer to God" on everything types. @imq707s believe me I know the type. A few examples: My friend's dad talking about his 16 year old daughter having just run away from home: Me: What are you doing about it? Have you checked with all of her friends or the school to see who she was hanging out with? Missing persons report? Friends dad: I'm praying on it. It is in the Lord's hands now, if he means for me to see her again someday I will. Me: I bump into a guy I used to work for 8 years ago, heard his next job was a bit of a failure and had been divorced, basically was on hard times. Me: Hey man, long time. I heard you've been in a tight spot. Anything I can do to help, need a lead on a job, etc? Dude: Yeah, it has been tough. Been unemployed for 3 years, when the money ran out my wife ran out, turns out that last kid wasn't even mine. I've been living with my parents since the divorce. Me: Wow, that fucking sucks. That bitch is a piece of shit. Dude: No, it isn't her fault. It is God's will. Me: Uhh....ok how about the job situation? Dude: I've been going to church, doing a lot of bible study. At some point when I'm ready, God will provide for me again if I'm worthy. Me: O.....K.....but who have you talked to specifically, gone on any interviews. I mentioned some of our mutual contacts I knew he was tight with. Dude: No, no. It is all in God's hands now. Thanks but I don't want to talk to anyone, I'm not going on any interviews. When the time is right, God will show me his plan. Me: Uhh....nice catching up I guess see you later. I've had more than a few encounters like this in life. It is sad. I know what the OP is talking about. To defer to a higher power is like being a liberal blaming "the man" for everything. Life is what you make of it; you are the master of your own destiny. I get along with Christians for the most part, our views are mostly aligned. The young earthers, anti-evolutionists, and "everything is up to God" types though obviously are not compatible with my personal responsibility belief system. View Quote |
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I'msimilar to you ecept I'm pretty religious. I don't understand why you think strong willed, confident, etc. people can't be religious
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Ur-Nammu laws (from Sumeria) talks about assault, rape, murder etc- many of those things that are commonly attributed to Christianity. I'm just saying those were fairly commonly accepted as "not okay" well before Christianity was a thing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Quoted: Exactly. I don't fully understand it. I guess I don't need to. It works for a lot very successful, happy, and well adjusted people. View Quote About a decade or more ago I had a chat with Old Painless in a religious thread. As many of you know..he is quite devout. That said I realized after speaking to him that although I agreed with nothing he said, he was a good guy who generally wanted to do well and meant well. Since then I realized that its better to judge the persons character or how they act, not what they believe in or where they go on Sundays. I read alot about Christianity because I find the history very interesting on how it helped shape our society in many ways. What I have tried to learn over the years is to be more respectful to people who take religion seriously because for them its important so why not afford them some respect if they are otherwise decent people? Being tolerant and kind to religious people doesnt invalidate ones own beliefs..if anything it can strengthen them. People need to be more secure in what they believe in..whatever it is. Its your beliefs so why waffle... |
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I know this is a sensitive topic, and I'm not trying to insult anyone....but I just want to ask the question. My wife is not super religious, but likes to go to church once a month or so. She says it makes her feel better…I’m ok with that. Every now and then she asks me to go with her…..I don’t want to, but it’s my wife…and a marriage is a compromise. I’m a very strong willed, confident, emotionally strong person. Everything good or bad that happens to me is because of my own hard work, my good choices, my bad choices, or good/bad luck….that’s it. I don’t know how people can sit for an hour and listen to some preacher get up there ramble on and on about how they need to look for a higher power to believe in when things get them down, when things don’t go right, or when they are having a rough time with life. I can listen to it for about 5 min, and my eyes glaze over and I’m thinking about riding dirt bikes, fishing, or a multitude of other things. I guess I just can’t wrap my mind around how people can be so emotionally fragile, so weak minded, so out of touch with reality that they can’t realize that everything that happens to them is of their own doing….nothing more, nothing less. What am I missing here? View Quote |
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I get really pissed when people say that without religion there would be no morality, and you need to believe that stuff in order to be a good person. I disagree. The end result is you, subjugating your immediate self-interest, for a better pay off later and wanting other people to subscribe to something largely similar, because it is in your self-interest that they do. The religious plead with gods and the non-religious plead to their concept of existence. Both square the unknown with what comforts them, if they didn't, they wouldn't do it. |
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I know this is a sensitive topic, and I'm not trying to insult anyone....but I just want to ask the question. My wife is not super religious, but likes to go to church once a month or so. She says it makes her feel better…I’m ok with that. Every now and then she asks me to go with her…..I don’t want to, but it’s my wife…and a marriage is a compromise. I’m a very strong willed, confident, emotionally strong person. Everything good or bad that happens to me is because of my own hard work, my good choices, my bad choices, or good/bad luck….that’s it. I don’t know how people can sit for an hour and listen to some preacher get up there ramble on and on about how they need to look for a higher power to believe in when things get them down, when things don’t go right, or when they are having a rough time with life. I can listen to it for about 5 min, and my eyes glaze over and I’m thinking about riding dirt bikes, fishing, or a multitude of other things. I guess I just can’t wrap my mind around how people can be so emotionally fragile, so weak minded, so out of touch with reality that they can’t realize that everything that happens to them is of their own doing….nothing more, nothing less. What am I missing here? View Quote |
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In Japan people are pretty nice to each other. Perhaps the lowest homicide rate in the world for any large country, we're talking 4 times less than the UK and around 16 times less than the US. Yet, so few of them believe in Christianity and they have a huge non-religious population. That blows that argument out of the water. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So, OP felt compelled to bash religion and people of faith by trying to disguise it as an honest quest for knowledge.
Please note, the last time I stepped into a church was for my younger brother's wedding many years ago. Most people of faith I know don't feel the need to s**t on atheists. As far as the "what am I missing here?", it would seem any sense of humility. |
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Right, understood. I'm simply saying that there were laws covering these things well before Christianity or Judaism (which also laid down rules about heresy, faith, and putting railings on your porches) View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What are you referring to? The Code of Ur-Nammu? Both that and Hammurabi's code existed before the Ten Commandments. Code of Ur-Nammu existed on or before circa 2100BC, Hammurabi's code was created circa 1700BC, Ten Commandments and Mosaic law were created somewhere around 1500BC at the earliest. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Well, not everything is due to our own efforts. Good people get killed for no good reason, and loved ones try to understand why this happened. Some people find solace in church. It is surely a better choice than drugs or alcohol abuse.
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I quit going not because of the preaching, but because of the hypocrisy of the others there.
Nowhere else would people shun me for being divorced, yet the ones doing the uppity dance were the same ones whose spouses had stepped out or who were guilty of having affairs, kids out of wedlock or some other sin. Something about the “log in your eye” comes to mind. I absolutely cannot stand a hypocrite. I’ll have to explain this to the big guy myself but I’m not putting up with that shit. |
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I know this is a sensitive topic, and I'm not trying to insult anyone....but I just want to ask the question. My wife is not super religious, but likes to go to church once a month or so. She says it makes her feel better…I’m ok with that. Every now and then she asks me to go with her…..I don’t want to, but it’s my wife…and a marriage is a compromise. I’m a very strong willed, confident, emotionally strong person. Everything good or bad that happens to me is because of my own hard work, my good choices, my bad choices, or good/bad luck….that’s it. I don’t know how people can sit for an hour and listen to some preacher get up there ramble on and on about how they need to look for a higher power to believe in when things get them down, when things don’t go right, or when they are having a rough time with life. I can listen to it for about 5 min, and my eyes glaze over and I’m thinking about riding dirt bikes, fishing, or a multitude of other things. I guess I just can’t wrap my mind around how people can be so emotionally fragile, so weak minded, so out of touch with reality that they can’t realize that everything that happens to them is of their own doing….nothing more, nothing less. What am I missing here? View Quote Your belief in your own infallibility of intellect I guess. Seems kind of conceited, but what do I know. |
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I quit going not because of the preaching, but because of the hypocrisy of the others there. Nowhere else would people shun me for being divorced, yet the ones doing the uppity dance were the same ones whose spouses had stepped out or who were guilty of having affairs, kids out of wedlock or some other sin. Something about the “log in your eye” comes to mind. I absolutely cannot stand a hypocrite. I’ll have to explain this to the big guy myself but I’m not putting up with that shit. View Quote Fyi not all churches are like that. |
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i play phones on my game and ignore everyone else that isn't a misbehaving son
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I just ignore it. I'm at that stage where I don't give my precious fucks to anyone or anything but myself and what I care about.
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I don't go to church. I'm not very religious at all. I figured god made me this way for a reason.
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Quoted: I cannot stand hypocrites either. Fyi not all churches are like that. Quick story about one reason I lost all interest in organized religion- I got my GF pregnant in HS, and I went to a private Christian school. I had two options according to the principal- say I wasn't the father (that my GF was sleeping around) or get expelled. I got expelled. So at a time I could have used some "Christianness" from my so-called Christian school, I was kicked out. Whatever, not the end of the world. Come to find out later the principal was having an affair. Yeah, everyone falls short- you're right. But that means you should probably show some understanding towards others right? Also something something plank from your own eye... |
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What we are able to sense is less than one billionth of a billionth of the electromagnetic spectrum. Its effected by the sensitivities of the organs our bodies use to detect it, and the narrow range for which we wander.
Despite the richness and beauty of the things we can perceive, we remain profoundly impoverished by the limitations of our genetically constrained bodies, and the space through which they move. What we see of the world is our own manufactured carnival -- the mysterious unknown within which that carnival resides beckons through mirages, silences, and misunderstood truths FOREVER beyond our grasp. Nature is 100% in charge, and on its own clock too. In our great ignorance & arrogance humans like to think we are in control, when it couldn't be farther from the truth. Homo Sapiens are the greatest of apes, and we have mastered the art of survival. Our eyes evolved to scan the savanna for predators, our hands to make stone tools and field-butcher carrion. Our language helped us learn from our mistakes, to tell complicated stories by firelight. We developed our minds and leaped from an agricultural revolution to an industrial one. We’ve made amazing discoveries and invented complex systems, such as capitalism, to organize millions of people under tribal ideologies. But somewhere along the way, we became the agents of our own undoing. For all our smarts, we are still dumb animals, unable to properly imagine the threats of the future, unable to act. The last great lesson we must learn, then, is how to outsmart ourselves. |
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I get what you mean, and you're right. However, quite a few of us have been treated like absolute dogshit by people who do the same kind of thing they treat others like shit over. Quick story about one reason I lost all interest in organized religion- I got my GF pregnant in HS, and I went to a private Christian school. I had two options according to the principal- say I wasn't the father (that my GF was sleeping around) or get expelled. I got expelled. So at a time I could have used some "Christianness" from my so-called Christian school, I was kicked out. Whatever, not the end of the world. Come to find out later the principal was having an affair. Yeah, everyone falls short- you're right. But that means you should probably show some understanding towards others right? Also something something plank from your own eye... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I’m confident, self-reliant (to a point) and strong minded. I am also a pastor. If you’d like to have an honest conversation pm me.
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I'm the head deacon of my church.
It's been a while since I've been able to sit through a sermon...too much work to do. Have to lock classrooms, monitor some security stuff, get a headcount to report to our parent church, make sure potluck tables are setup, get offering to the treasurers, etc.. I'd like to say I'm self-reliant, but I can't save myself. Thankfully Jesus already did that. |
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I don't deal with it. I remove it from my life. I made it clear to my wife that if she ever turned religious I would divorce her, as I would no longer respect her. We removed my father in law from our house for prattling on about religion and do not humor it. Religious people should be treated the same as every other crazy person talking to their imaginary friend. View Quote Damn |
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I don't deal with it. I remove it from my life. I made it clear to my wife that if she ever turned religious I would divorce her, as I would no longer respect her. We removed my father in law from our house for prattling on about religion and do not humor it. Religious people should be treated the same as every other crazy person talking to their imaginary friend. View Quote |
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