While religion has it's bad points and good points, and most are bad, how exactly are you to retain humanity's ways without having religion? Because
with imagination comes the ability to imagine an afterlife. In other words, you can;t eliminate religion without eliminating imagination. because if
you were to get everyone to say no to religion, there would always be a kid who never grows up and thinks the ghost he saw as a kid was real and will
not admit being wrong. And if you were to create an isolated society of atheists with religion removed, like all nations, there would come a time when
interaction, trade, or other contact would be needed, and like it or not, multiculturalism is a natural result of trade and the likes. And like it or
not, someone in a society will always think something opposite to the accepted way.
So exactly how do you see your religion-less world ever existing?
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Originally posted by robwerden
Oh and guess what, logic tells me I just got a whole bunch of people angry, and they are going to want to debate me on this. So im not going to debate
anyone here, by simply not replying to any comments that show disagreement, because you are exactly the type of person who I do not want to associate
my self with.
So If you don't like what I have to say, then put me on your ignore list, because that is where you are going as well.
The purpose of ATS is to debate issues to get at the truth. Why are you posting here if you are not willing to debate issue's. This is not a Blog???
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Eliminating religion? If that includes eliminating the elite's ancient religions as well, then I'm all for it!
The New World Order, the New Age, the Occult, Freemasonry, OTO, Wicca, Satanism, Theosophy, Scientology, Extreme Zionism, Socialism, Capitalism,
Militant Jihadism, the Illuminati, the Global Banking system, the Mass Media... These are but a few arms of the great beast. The beast is the enemy of
freedom. True freedom should be the ultimate goal of civilised mankind...
Increased governmental regulance, worship of the self, allegiance to the state, greedy fat armchair politicians that make decisions for us, and
religious extremism that threatens other's rights to happiness and equality... ...Should all be discarded if are ever to move forward as a truly free
society of peaceful people. Those things are whats really impeding our progress!
Religion is just another tool used by the elite to control us. Take it away, and they will find another.
[edit on 15-4-2009 by mostlyspoons]
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reply to post by mostlyspoons
How praytell is wicca a tool of control? I am just curious on what you base this assumption on knowing what I know of it.
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And incidently here's an excert from a review of a book that argues with Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion" that sums it up nicely the fallacy
inherent in blaming relgion for mankind's idiocy and calling for its banning because of that.
The seraph begins by politely nailing Dawkins’s first sleight of hand which, as loads of people have now pointed out, dishonestly bundles all
religious belief and practice into one crude bag that supposedly equals fanaticism.
This is rather like suggesting that all science is dangerous because it has brought nuclear weapons; or that all education is mistaken because
children have been whipped by so-called educators.
It is child’s play to denounce a subject by pointing to the myriad ways in which it may be misapplied; misuse and misapplication are rife in all
areas of human understanding: politics, science, education, medicine, religion. But it is faulty logic to conclude that this is necessarily the fault
of the set of ideas being traduced. I attended a primary school where the strap was still applied. Does it follow that I should not have attended
primary school? Is psychiatry a bad thing because schizophrenics were once made to take bromide?
SOURCE: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk...
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Originally posted by darkclaw1256
Not only religion must be abolished, but other type of sinister wrongdoings such as corrupt politics must end. I agree with you that these will help
mankind to become better and have a strong chance of survival, but there are also other things that must change regarding the ways humans express
themselves.
Man should strive to be better and violence has to stop. Everyday, people are dying because of something wrong in the world happening so if violence
was to end, there won't be anything to argue about. With ending religion and also ending corrupt politics, mankind would finally be a beautiful
utopia.
You want to abolish religion, but I notice your avatar is that of a "grey." I suppose you believe the aliens are coming to save us? Do you commune
with them?
And this is not a religion? And you say violence must stop, but you want to force your views on everybody else and how do you propose to stop people
from having their own ideas about God separate from yours unless you just kill them, or torture them, put the fear of the grays, or whatever, into
them that they only believe as you say they should.
Just like in 1984. After you've been tortured long enough you will agree that 2 plus 2 equals 5 and you will get down and kiss the feet of your
oppressor.
Is that how it goes?
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