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I think that whenever a person starts making up his/her own special rules about Heaven and Hell that aren't found in any sort of religious text, he/she is applying his/her own morals.
I think that if Heaven and Hell existed, and you got to control who would go in and who wouldn't, you'd send Satan Worsihpers and 'those who know he exists but reject him' to hell while letting people like Paul or other atheists into Heaven (Or at least keeping them out of Hell). Maybe because you're friends with Paul, or some other atheists?
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Eww, I refuse to read **** like that. Taints your mind, even if you're not a believer, that kind of **** is just weird.
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You're free to stay closed-minded if you want.
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I simply dont care anymore really... Even if it turns out I am correct, why the hell should I care more about that person if they dont want to be cared about. I help those who SEEK it, I wont hand it on a silver platter to someone who would chuck it aside... Just not worth my time. People whine about Christians being too active with their faiths, so maybe you would be happier if we all took a pecimistic attitude towards it and just stopped caring. Maybe people would whine less... or wait no they would call us hypocrits for not following our own faith... Double ended sword of hypocrisy
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So far, I haven't really heard anyone call Christians hypocrites for not preaching.
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Christianity is the the older brother that gets despised by his younger siblings for being too authoritative when his motive was to keep em outta trouble (dont care if it sounds condesending.. most arguements do). I hate it when people blame deaths on Christianity when it is the individual's selfish motive that MANIPULATES others to do his bidding using Christianity as the excuse. If I go around pinning every murder commited by an athiest or agnostic TO their belief you would all whine saying that is a logical fallicy.
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Religion manipulates people, people manipulate religion. It can work both ways. I'm pretty sure there were many ancient Aztecs who sacrificed humans because they really believed in their religion.
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IF a faith tells you to love your brother, love your enemy, turn the other cheek, feed the hungry, cloth the poor, take care of the widows....
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kill 'witches', 'homosexuals', promote prejudice, kill people working on Sabbath, teach how to manage slaves, leave your family, kill people because you think God told you to...
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Yet some dum sh1t claims he accepts that very same faith and KILLs people so that they accept it... Am I the only person with half the amount of logic neccesary to get that it was the INDIVIDUAL and not the faith to blame? Or are we seriously just digging ammo against Christians... I dont care if the magority (which it wasn't) did this, it still is contrary to the faith they claim to have thus cannot their actions cannot be directly affiliated with the faith.
If a buddhist goes around killing all that doesnt accept his faith, his actions would NOT be tied to his faith, because we all know buddhism is a fairly peaceful religion. However if there was one point where thousands of buddhist went on a crazy kong fu killing spree kiling hundreds of thousands of non buddhists, we wouldn't hear the end of how buddhism caused soo many deaths, and the small insignificant detail of Buddhism NOT supporting these actions would be totally ignored.
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Here's a question.
"If religion did not exist, would this have happened?"
There's a lot of conflicts that probably wouldn't of occured if people weren't so religious. But people will probably find some other reason to kill each other.
06-13-2008, 04:08 PM
Re: The story of religion 
