Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[raman]

what

What wharfie said, but it's as simple as this: if you live in a country where religious institutions have tax breaks unavailable to other institutions, you live in a country which forces religion on you.

 

[Portia]

And yet we don't see any of these crimes committed in Australia by Muslim women wearing burqas.

lol ok. how about shoplifting?

 

[Steve Dore]

.... atheism is stupid. .....

 

[Dylan8]

Atheism is stupid.
Religion is stupid.

There's gotta be a god. Surely. He's just not a personal god or anything, I just imagine it's a mystical being playing a colossal sized society building vidya game.

 

[Trewth]

 

[Dylan8]

I bow to your extensive life experience

Right. Cool.

What wharfie said, but it's as simple as this: if you live in a country where religious institutions have tax breaks unavailable to other institutions, you live in a country which forces religion on you.

I think we have different definitions of 'force'.

 

[raman]

If it's just an atheist thing then I guess that's your prerogative, but atheism is stupid.

LOL... glass houses and all that.

Religion doesn't make people evil. Evil people are evil. Good people are good. People twist their scriptures of choice to justify the behavior they were going to engage in anyway.

Um no, most people actually twist their scriptures in order to behave like civilised human beings, not the other way around.

 

[Portia]

Right. Cool.

I think we have different definitions of 'force'.

If you have to pay money to someone on threat of being imprisoned, I think thats force. There's no doubt that government uses force to charge tax.

 

[raman]

Atheism is stupid.
Religion is stupid.

There's gotta be a god. Surely. He's just not a personal god or anything, I just imagine it's a mystical being playing a colossal sized society building vidya game.

That's especially stupid.

 

[Dylan8]

That's especially stupid.

I know. Why have a serious opinion either way? It's a laughable topic.

 

[raman]

I know. Why have a serious opinion either way? It's a laughable topic.

I disagree, it's probably among the greatest of topics.

 

[Jumbo]

Are you saying that MJ is a religion/god and the eating of popcorn is his sacramental bread?

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Jimi Hendrix is God WTF are you morons on about

 

[Dylan8]

I disagree, it's probably among the greatest of topics.

If you like the endless debating and challenge of it, I guess. It seems futile to me for the most part.

Keep all of the agendas from impeding on my life and I'll be happy.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Pictured: raman

 

[Portia]

If you like the endless debating and challenge of it, I guess. It seems futile to me for the most part.

If futile bothers you, you're in the wrong thread.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Um no, most people actually twist their scriptures in order to behave like civilised human beings, not the other way around.

Absolutely, in fact this is my point.

People are not defined by their religion and nobody does anything good or bad because they are religious. The guys who are murdering doctors at abortion clinics in the US are reading the same book as the guys who devote their lives to feeding and sheltering the homeless.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

If you like the endless debating and challenge of it, I guess. It seems futile to me for the most part.

Keep all of the agendas from impeding on my life and I'll be happy.

Does anyone remember those great "meaning of life, religion & aliens" debates in the local park over copious amounts of goon & weed in their teens?

 

[raman]

If you like the endless debating and challenge of it, I guess. It seems futile to me for the most part.

Keep all of the agendas from impeding on my life and I'll be happy.

The fact that it impedes on on your life is one of the reasons it's an important discussion.

 

[Jumbo]

If futile bothers you, you're in the wrong thread.

Futile sounds like fertile, Mary was pretty fertile. I think I'll be going to hell.

 

[raman]

Pictured: raman

Phone God? As an iPhone 6+ owner, I believe in Phone God.

 

[El_Scorcho]

lol ok. how about shoplifting?

I have no doubt it happens but it's a drop in the ocean.

If there was a real problem, the racist f***wits championing the banning of the burqa would be all over it, but it never comes up because it simply isn't an issue in reality in any way.

 

[Trewth]

Does anyone remember those great "meaning of life, religion & aliens" debates in the local park over copious amounts of shrooms & weed in their teens?

Yes and EFA

 

[raman]

Absolutely, in fact this is my point.

People are not defined by their religion and nobody does anything good or bad because they are religious.

Except for all the people who do bad because they are religious, and we know that because they say that they did it because they're religious?

 

[Portia]

I have no doubt it happens but it's a drop in the ocean.

If there was a real problem, the racist f***wits championing the banning of the burqa would be all over it, but it never comes up because it simply isn't an issue in reality in any way.

Except for when it totally is.