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- PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE TROJANS !!!
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- "Nominate your god to be the one of the true gods."
"My" god? What I believe is not "my" god. It is the god of every faith known to man. I am more open-minded than you think, grasshopper!
Posted by trealistorm at 10:35 PM
Actually, believing that "your god" is the "only god" and all other "gods" are false is very closed minded. But think what you will - whatever makes you feel better. Anyone that needs to rely on supernatural fantasy beings obviously has ego issues to begin with. It doesn''t mean you''re humble, it just means you''re pathetic. - Reply to this comment
- "Praising The Lord ... In A Ford"
Sunday worship services to be accompanied with a complimentary round of pork rinds.
I seriously doubt the stability of many floridans. - Reply to this comment
- "Nominate your god to be the one of the true gods."
"My" god? What I believe is not "my" god. It is the god of every faith known to man. I am more open-minded than you think, grasshopper! - Reply to this comment
- George2221, in America we have the freedom of religion. In theory, this means that anyone can believe whatever they want, including atheism, without fear of government crackdowns, persecution from his neighbor, or discrimination from any institute. In reality, this is often not the case.
Especially in America, it tends to be the Atheists vs. Christians, Science vs. Religion/Church, etc. But can we ever accept each other, instead of condemning each other; work with each other, instead of against each other? Just because you disagree with me, does not mean I hate you or want to slander you, or think you are damned to hell. Don''t label me, and please do not stereotype me. - Reply to this comment
- Pinkneygreen "I don''t have a problem with any religion until it gets involved in politics."
Separation of church and state means (in my opinion) that America is not to be a Godless nation, but that the nation is not to take one specific set of religion beliefs and preach it saying "This the way to live, you must follow this church" or say it is the only or right religion or to operate a State-sponsored church. We have freedom of religion, but there is no way government is going to be secular and devoid of God. We are not to be intolerant, but to be tolerant, because we have God.
We allow freedom of religion because we are an accepting country and let everyone worship as they please; so long as they do not actually and maliciously harm another. We do not endorse one specific religion but we do not abandon God either. There is a fine line of balance.
Separation of church and state is exactly this. We do not promote one religion as the only, best or superior, but at the same time we are not without faith-our pledge of allegiance says under God, and our money says In God We Trust. But which God? God of Christian Muslim Jew Hindu or even the ungod of Atheist? I believe there is only one God, and that not necessarily only one religion must be right. I believe firmly in freedom of religion but that is because America is supposed to be a land of freedom and toleration, and acceptance. Not a land where one group is superior but one where all are accepted and God is not forgotten. - Reply to this comment
- Starsnbars12, in answer to your question "Is it not arrogant and self-centred to think that your faith is the "true" one and all the others are false?" Yes! It is arrogant and self-centered to think that your faith is the true one and all others are false. And yet I am a Christian, agreeing with an atheist! OMG! Hear the world shatter and fall apart.
You are not alone in thinking there are problems with religion today. There are MAJOR problems. Again, Christian agreeing with atheist. Yup, it is true, there is a correlation between the devout and large piles of dead bodies. Is it right? No! Organized religion has deviated in many ways from the original beliefs. - Reply to this comment
- As to the idea that religion and science cannot cope, I believe that is false. The word "science" derives from the Latin word "scientas" which means "knowledge". Without knowledge, there can be no faith, and without faith, there can be no knowledge. Religion and science are inherently tied together. They cannot be reconciled because they have never been separated.
It is only we who have decided they were. Yes, the church has a history of persecuting those who disagree with them. Was that right? Absolutely not! And the science world has long maintained that religion has no place in a modern society.
Most will agree that there is a correlation between intellectuals and atheism. But I stand against that. Here I am, an intellectual, and yet possessing a strong religious belief. I will not kill you or even disrespect you for disagreeing with you. In fact, most of my friends are atheists. The stereotype of the Atheist is no worse than the stereotype of the Christian. One cannot simply assume all members of a religious group believe the exact same thing. I am against war and against violence, and I do not condone "religious wars". - Reply to this comment
- I am a Christian but my opinion is very different from those you attribute to Christians. I do not believe my faith is the one true faith. I believe it reflects an aspect of such a faith. Here''s why:
I am a fundamentalist. What this means, in the truest sense of the word, is that I seek the fundamentals, or foundations, of my faith. I attempt to remove the historical and cultural accumulation, whether that be associations, bias, ceremony, or ''prerequisites'', and try instead to focus on what the founder of my religion taught. In doing so, I have managed to affiliate myself with most major religions:
Christian (I believe in Christ)
Islam (We submit ourselves to God''s will and plan and humble ourselves before him)
Judaism (we are the Chosen people and children of God)
Buddhism (life is suffering and pain caused by longing for things that don''t exist when all that does exist is GOD and our relationships with Him)
Hinduism (the human mind cannot comprehend the awesomeness of God)
Wicca (we are connected to the beauty of nature around us)
Shinto (every life and living thing has a soul because it is God''s creation) - Reply to this comment
- I am a Christian but my opinion is very different from those you attribute to Christians. I do not believe my faith is the one true faith. I believe it reflects an aspect of such a faith. Here''s why:
I am a fundamentalist. What this means, in the truest sense of the word, is that I seek the fundamentals, or foundations, of my faith. I attempt to remove the historical and cultural accumulation, whether that be associations, bias, ceremony, or ''prerequisites'', and try instead to focus on what the founder of my religion taught. In doing so, I have managed to affiliate myself with most major religions:
Christian (I believe in Christ)
Islam (We submit ourselves to God''s will and plan and humble ourselves before him)
Judaism (we are the Chosen people and children of God)
Buddhism (life is suffering and pain caused by longing for things that don''t exist when all that does exist is GOD and our relationships with Him)
Hinduism (the human mind cannot comprehend the awesomeness of God)
Wicca (we are connected to the beauty of nature around us)
Shinto (every life and living thing has a soul because it is God''s creation) - Reply to this comment
- "god knows what could have been accomplished in this World if religion had never existed"... In general I don''t have a problem with any religion until it gets involved in politics.
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- How many combat tours do you have in defense of our flag. I''''ve got 3 ***...and 10 years military service to boot. Now whose the traitor jesus freak?
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Posted by starsnbars12 at 08:05 PM : Aug 22, 2008
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your military service is hearby noted..but it does not make you correct. - Reply to this comment
- Look at societies who have no separation of church and state in the middle east...kind of violent over there isn''''t it?
Religion is the root of ALL evil in the world!!!
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Posted by starsnbars12 at 08:01 PM : Aug 22, 2008
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greed for power is the root of all evil..those greedy men than runs religion is causing all of this..religion in its basic true form is for the benefit of man (if there is such a thing)..but that is just to correct you on your assumption. - Reply to this comment
- Isn''''t it amazing how EVERY time that science proves there is NO god that these religious buttheads succumb to the altered idiocy of the churches that they call their faith?
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Posted by starsnbars12 at 08:07 PM : Aug 22, 2008
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science cannot prove sh*t..what they can provide is a ''theory''..THAT IS WHY in about every so years they ''update'' thier theory i.e. cancer was caused by this instead of that..that this does that and not this..
if everything they say is absolute..then there is no need for anymore research..or tests..or advancement in science.. - Reply to this comment
- jt92202 - We''re not a Marxist Stalin-like country.
In the USA we have freedom of religion.
Get over your psychotic bigotry. Loser. - Reply to this comment
- This is Hilarious!!! LMAO!!! Didn''t really read the story, I just couldn''t get over the concept!!!
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- What do you believe in starsnbars12?
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- starsnbars12-your intolerant hatred of America and our Constitutional rights is traitorous by every definition of the word.
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- People today are so fcking gullable it makes me sick...
posted by starsnbars12
That''s nice, would you like to publicly display anymore of your hateful bigotry tonight or are you done?
You intolerant evil humanists will destroy this country and everything it stands for.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION is in OUR CONSTITUTION jerk.
If you want STALIN, take a time machine back and go get him! - Reply to this comment
- This is a really cool idea....
Question is, how long will it take before the
A.nti
C.hristian
L.ucifer
U.nion
complains about it. - Reply to this comment
