Why not?

From Christianity to Bhuddism to warshiping Rutabagas, it's all here.

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warshiping Rutabagas

Warshiping?

...making a Rutabaga destroyer?  Now that might be worth forming a religion about :)

Rudi Gulliani should form his own church since he's doing a lot to piss-off the Catholics.

Rudi Gulliani should form his own church since he's doing a lot to piss-off the Catholics.


He's not the only one who's pissed off the Catholic Church.  I'd suggest a spin off group for those who can't hack traditional Catholicism.

Religion is a method to keep people from killing, raping, and stealing.  "Your every move is being watched, therefore you must be good."

On the other hand, the world is so complex and amazing, that someone (God) had to have created it.

I believe Da Vinci compared the earth to a clock and God to a clockmaker.  He created the world and has backed off to let it run its course.

On the other hand, the world is so complex and amazing, that someone (God) had to have created it.

The universe is anything but amazing. That's why the term "intelligent design" is so laughable. In our solar system, Earth is the only planet that can support life in some places some of the time. It absurd to think that "someone" created it. But I hear a lot of people who are agnostic or whatever say something a long the line of "the universe must have come from somewhere. There must have been a God in the beginning who created it all. Even if he didn't do it exactly as the Bible said he did". All that's doing is filling to void until a real answer comes along. That's all God has ever been. Just a temporary answer until we could find the real answer that is backed up with sufficient evidence and years of research. Believe it or not, before people knew why it rains, people thought God was crying. People have always attributed things they could've find the answer to, to God. But only until science provides the real answer. So now you may say 'there must have been a God or else how did this universe come into existence?' But when we can actually find out the real answer, you wont be saying it anymore.

the current thinking on that is that our brains are just not capable of understanding the true reality of the universe. that's why we get up somewhere around superstring theory and indeterminacy and then folks seem to just kinda throw up their hands.

The universe is anything but amazing. That's why the term "intelligent design" is so laughable. In our solar system, Earth is the only planet that can support life in some places some of the time. It absurd to think that "someone" created it. But I hear a lot of people who are agnostic or whatever say something a long the line of "the universe must have come from somewhere. There must have been a God in the beginning who created it all. Even if he didn't do it exactly as the Bible said he did". All that's doing is filling to void until a real answer comes along. That's all God has ever been. Just a temporary answer until we could find the real answer that is backed up with sufficient evidence and years of research. Believe it or not, before people knew why it rains, people thought God was crying. People have always attributed things they could've find the answer to, to God. But only until science provides the real answer. So now you may say 'there must have been a God or else how did this universe come into existence?' But when we can actually find out the real answer, you wont be saying it anymore.


There was a debate in a small town about "Intellegent Design".

On the other hand, the world is so complex and amazing, that someone (God) had to have created it.

Not that long ago, lightning and thunder were so amazing that a god had to be responsible.. a god also dragged the Sun across the sky.. sometimes the sea was so rough, it had to be a sea-god getting angry.. now we understand these natural processes, we no longer feel the need for gods to explain them.

Just because there are things about the universe we currently don't have an explanation for, it doesn't make a theistic explanation correct.

We are just microscopic ameobas in the giant universe.  True. We probably do not have the brain-power to comprehend what is out there.

There was a debate in a small town about "Intellegent Design".


Would that small town have been named Dover PA?  Yeah, that was an attempt of a few trying to silence the many in the name of religion.

Would that small town have been named Dover PA?  Yeah, that was an attempt of a few trying to silence the many in the name of religion.


I believe that's the one. I did a report about it in school last year.

That was kind of funny.  The school board was afraid to ask the parents opinion on the matter.  Most of the board was voted out the following election.

That was kind of funny.  The school board was afraid to ask the parents opinion on the matter.  Most of the board was voted out the following election.


At least our opinions are safe here...for now.

Religion is a method to keep people from killing, raping, and stealing. 

And what a stellar track record it has... of doing exactly the opposite.

"Your every move is being watched, therefore you must be good."

At best, that's a very flawed and outdated way of thinking. I'm not saying that's your particular viewpoint, but jeez, that doesn't even work on six year olds anymore.

Religion is the greatest con in the history of mankind. It's a shame there isn't a god, 'cause then she/he/it could show himself and tell everyone they are full of it (even us pesky atheists  ;)). All the crap commited in his name... surely if he existed he wouldn't let the sheer amount of BS go uncontested. I suppose he's just too nice a guy so he lets it all go by (not), DGAF (plausible) or doesn't exist (warmer and bingo!).

Perhaps the greatest hoax in history could undo the damage from the greatest con: I wonder how many  dollars it would take to have a convincing "God" visit Earth. I'm sure it would be worth every penny... I bet David Copperfield could do it with a billion dollar budget.

I can prove my toilet is a more realistic deity than any invisible superfriend in the sky. Try me.

Ant

I can prove my toilet is a more realistic deity than any invisible superfriend in the sky. Try me.

No s**t?

I think Billy Connolly once did a routine where he talked about praying to the spirits of the China Bowl.. maybe he thinks that, too :)

I'm remembering an episode of The Simpsons where Homer becomes smart after they extract a crayon from his brain and he proves that God doesn't exist. He then shows the papers to Flanders, who freaks out and burns them.

Carry on. ;D

I'm remembering an episode of The Simpsons where Homer becomes smart after they extract a crayon from his brain and he proves that God doesn't exist. He then shows the papers to Flanders, who freaks out and burns them.

Carry on. ;D


That Simpsons Episode was where they jumped the shark...in my opinion.

But...my pastor is doing a Summer Sermon called "The Gospel According to the Simpsons". (I'm not joking.)

Here's one...Hagee or Wright?

Here's one...Hagee or Wright?
Wright is the lesser of two evils.

Wright makes a bit of sense once you think about what he really said and meant.  Hagee is just a hate spewing moron who hides behind God.

And what a stellar track record it has... of doing exactly the opposite.

"Your every move is being watched, therefore you must be good."

At best, that's a very flawed and outdated way of thinking.


"Flawed?  Outdated?  Funny, it's working great for us!"
  - Department of Homeland Security / Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (literally, "Committee for State Security")

I guess this is worth a plug in this thread... I've been having an argument on-line recently with a chap who believes that the dinosaurs were wiped out by Noah's flood.  So I wrote

Diluvian Pie

..enjoy :)

This doesn't start out as religious but it ends as a religious statement.

The Mexican Wizard predicted that Hillary Clinton would be President.

Moses has said "In Deuteronomy 18, Moses stated that God told him: "I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account." (Deuteronomy 18: 18-19)

"But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die." (Deuteronomy 18:20)

Professor Antonio Vazquez Alba is a false prophet.