More fun with religion

Have a look on the BBC N. I. site for Iris Robinson's comments re: Government upholding God's Law or her radio tirade against Gay people.

And she is the wife of the first minister. How she got away with her comments last year let alone her recent 30K food expenses is 'Gods own sweet mystery' lol.
 
Just so I understand. Are you suggesting that religion itself is bad news, or just that the misuse and abuse of religion is the issue?
 
Like the pope telling africa not to use contraception. Or is the Pope not the voice of god anymore? Maybe you think he is missusing religion?

I bet he laughed at the fantastic movie 'team america' and the west end show song 'AIDS'. (that movie cracks me up every time:))
 
lAmBoY said:
Like the pope telling africa not to use contraception. Or is the Pope not the voice of god anymore? Maybe you think he is missusing religion?
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Usually I avoid arguments about religion since the parties on both sides tend to be rather dogmatic about their own views, but this time I'll bite (and I bite hard). Was any pope ever "the voice of god"? Are we purposely ignoring the centuries of corruption, violence, oppression, outright murder, greed, hypocrisy, mutilation not to mention the laughable notion of any omnipetent being actually existing. What about the rediculous notion that someone flopping down on their knees to ask for gods' help in winning this football game or some other such silly act is actually going to accomplish something? I may not be a Marxist, but Karl Marx was correct about religion being the opiate of the masses. People tend to look for easy ways out of whatever they have screwed up in the first place, a magic pill to take care of what humans should have taken care of to begin with. Needless to say, I hate all religion. Consider, people of all religions pray to the god of their choice in the belief that this god of theirs listens to only those who profess to adhere to "the one true faith" (whatever the prayer adheres to) thinking "righteously" that everyone else will suffer for eternity for not doing so. The problem with this is that many of these people are actually probably pretty sure that they are right and everyone else is wrong. No matter who you are someone else thinks your religion is untrue and is a tool of "the devil" but you think you are right and righteous. Well, the guy next to you thinks the same thing about himself, and so does the guy next to him, and so on. So who's right? I say none of you. No matter the religion, I can only view it as being the mythology of fools, and have thought this since I was a small child. One thing I can't help but laugh about is the notice that religious tend to be the most frightened of dying. You'd think that they would be more than glad to meet this god of theirs, but they tend to be the ones who want their 97 year old grandma kept alive artificially because they can't face death without fear. Ignorance plays a lrge role in this; the simpleminded tend to be easily swayed by magic pill therapy, regardless of it's origin. Religion plays right into this way of thinking sweeping the foolish off their feet and making them feel superior in their own minds for having done so. Suckers! Hee hee!:D
 
dragonwhip - did you assume I was catholic or something? My comment about the Pope was regarding the AIDS problem in Africa and that his comments on contraception would only make things worse. A real life recent event of religion being a holy (sic) negative force.

or were you just rambling in general - you should look up a few of the atheist discussions on this forum (hint, look for the devils posts).
 
iamboy, you came off as a supporter of catholicism, and by extension, the pope. If you are not, I apoligize. I looked at your post again, and it's actually quite difficult to tell if you are being facetious or you actually think this pope cat is something to be listened to. Notice I refuse to capitolize pope. I loathe religion in principle, and catholicism in particular. What a horrifyingly closed minded religion it has shown itself to be, far worse than even islam. I prefer to think freely and objectively.

P.S. I had to edit this post because I actually managed to misspell islam. What a dork!
 
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nope i am a devout atheist:) although I do appreciate some of the positives that religion brings on the whole I am not a supporter.
 

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