Rave This If A Person's Color, Nationality Or Religion Doesn't Bother You...
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666_Maggots~PassionForGlory... 2012/06/10 00:04:09
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A true hippy doesn't necessarily understand any concepts of how to reach a better world, they just say "world peace" and do another hit of LSD. They have no true ideas necessarily. So just because you see someone with a level of thinking that could bring about a better world, it doesn't mean they are a hippy... for a real hippy has no ideas, they just want to get high and listen to crappy music.
Does this man really look like someone you could have an intelligent conversation with? XD
Time for you to split.
Religion hasn't made anyone do anything bad to anybody. I'm tired of the tired old myth that says otherwise.
Just because people claim to be killing in the name of God, doesn't mean they're really killing in the name of God. Anything can be hijacked for a bad end. That doesn't mean it's that thing's fault.
This is sort of like blaming Lee Harvey Oswald's gun, rather than blaming Lee Harvey Oswald, for assassinating President Kennedy.
Like what, for example?
You're not going to bring up the tired old argument about eating shellfish, are you?
The Old Testament says not to eat shellfish -- but the New Testament says we can eat anything. There's no "cherry picking" there.
Not so for homosexuality, by the way. It's condemned by BOTH the Old AND the New Testaments. Unlike eating shellfish, which is condemned by the Old but gets the green light from the New.
All of this is fact, by the way -- not opinion.
If the old testament is no longer relevant, then why is that? Is it not literal, not the word of God? Did god change his mind on many issues over time? I thought he was timeless. Knew everything before it happened, immortal, all knowing.... I'd get into more depth about how ridiculous those concepts are.. but I'm not going to change your mind. Leviticus is pointless because it's a guide for how Jewish priests should behave.
As for killing in the name of God supposedly not being about God, that's far fetched. The very notion that someone can kill in the name of something who's basic existence can not be established tells you there is something wrong. God is not mysterious, not irreducibly complex, he is a human construct and therefore that construct CAN be blamed when someone does something in it's name.
Using the word Fact, makes you sound cute, but using your religion to deny others their rights is the only time you have to go into defense mode. If you want your beliefs to dictate public policy, then of COURSE we can question the validity of those beliefs. Especially when it's the rambling discourse of bronze age...
If the old testament is no longer relevant, then why is that? Is it not literal, not the word of God? Did god change his mind on many issues over time? I thought he was timeless. Knew everything before it happened, immortal, all knowing.... I'd get into more depth about how ridiculous those concepts are.. but I'm not going to change your mind. Leviticus is pointless because it's a guide for how Jewish priests should behave.
As for killing in the name of God supposedly not being about God, that's far fetched. The very notion that someone can kill in the name of something who's basic existence can not be established tells you there is something wrong. God is not mysterious, not irreducibly complex, he is a human construct and therefore that construct CAN be blamed when someone does something in it's name.
Using the word Fact, makes you sound cute, but using your religion to deny others their rights is the only time you have to go into defense mode. If you want your beliefs to dictate public policy, then of COURSE we can question the validity of those beliefs. Especially when it's the rambling discourse of bronze age people still having an effect on 21st century politics. People kill for what they believe in, so it's time that we erode away the institutions that give people reason to think that belief is sacred. Religion is the big one here.
If not for those moral teachings, it probably wouldn't bother you at all. But since those moral teachings are so personally objectionable to you, you have a pyschological need to discredit religion. (Especially, again, any form of Christianity.)
And that, my friend, is probably why you came up with your "what it has done to people" and "what it makes people do to others" arguments. Both of which are bogus, no offense.
None of us have to love evil acts, but God does say, we have to love the individual because he/ she is his child.
It isn't easy to love an individual that may hate you because you're of another race or color and many of them just want to spit in your face... One day God will take care of all of this. But, too, we do have a right to defend ourselves. Even God tells us that [ Proverbs 25:26 ], but, we had better be sure, we or our family or friend is in danger, otherwise it could turn on us [ with God ]. Some times you'll have maybe seconds to decide, so we have to decide wisely and quick.