Which bit exactly?
The stuff about going to hell for not going to church every Sunday or not giving 10% of your salary? That came straight from my 'first holy communion' lessons. I was lucky, the priest didn't try to rape me and I soon learnt the truth.
The stuff about Christian terrorists? Its all true. Enlighten me as to what is "utter fucking nonsense". At the moment you've made no worthwhile point.
Every religion justifies war in the name of their god. Every religion has encouraged people to kill in the name of their god. George Bush consulted with god about Iraq, and god said it was alright.Christian terrorists in Lebanon have called for the absolute destruction of Palestine.
As an evolutionary biologist (BSc), I can confirm that evolution doesn't in any way encourage people to murder in the name of it. For me, that makes it more morally right than any religion will ever be.
Absolutely - and as science effortlessly knocks one shot after another into the goals of these nutjobs, they are forced to balance the highly improbable by making it more and more terrible.
Since most sensible people now accept that there is almost certainly no hell with burning fires and an odd looking chap dressed in red, it's imperative that the nutjobs balance this by making hell seem more and more extreme, and a destination that is becoming ever closer.
In the UK we've even got schools that teach Noah's Ark actually happened and that the earth is 6,000 years old. And these places are funded by the long suffering UK taxpayer. Must make for some pretty zany biology lessons.
There have been lots of stories in the news about Catholic priests kiddy fiddling. Abhorrent though such activities are, it's hard for me to say that the harm inflicted is greater than telling a child they should live their lives aware of the possibility they may burn in hell.
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Lets remember jesus, this being the start of easter.
BTW I think there should be a poll/thread to decide which poster would be most likely to become a suicide bomber.
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In the interests of scientific research, whilst in Lowestoft (population 60,000, Suffolk, England, council run library just like the rest) Library yesterday I went to the religion section. On the top shelf I immediately spotted a Koran and thought, 'oh, so maybe it's true then'...but scanning down there were also Korans on the middle and third shelves, and there were even books on Judaism higher up on the same bookcase (Islam and Judaism would naturally be together due to the alphabet). Bible stuff was here and there. In short, everything was ordered in the way libraries usually do stuff like this, and there was no top shelf only Koran naughtiness going on. We have our own Muslim community here too.
The top shelf by the way is only 5 feet off the ground, so it's all within reach of all but the tiniest of midgets.
Case closed, as far as this being a UK wide order.
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