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Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
You should only worry about your own beliefs. Why can't you just be fine with your life without worrying about what everyone else thinks? If someone wants to believe in God, or follow any religion, it does not hurt you one bit.
Originally posted by Char-Lee
Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
You should only worry about your own beliefs. Why can't you just be fine with your life without worrying about what everyone else thinks? If someone wants to believe in God, or follow any religion, it does not hurt you one bit.
Actually it does if their "god" wants them to kill you because he is not YOUR God.
Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
Originally posted by Char-Lee
Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
You should only worry about your own beliefs. Why can't you just be fine with your life without worrying about what everyone else thinks? If someone wants to believe in God, or follow any religion, it does not hurt you one bit.
Actually it does if their "god" wants them to kill you because he is not YOUR God.
So, is it your theory that religious extremists would become peaceful in the absence of religion? I would posit that those who want power and desire war would find another reason to keep on killing those who are different.
Originally posted by Char-Lee
Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
Originally posted by Char-Lee
Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
You should only worry about your own beliefs. Why can't you just be fine with your life without worrying about what everyone else thinks? If someone wants to believe in God, or follow any religion, it does not hurt you one bit.
Actually it does if their "god" wants them to kill you because he is not YOUR God.
So, is it your theory that religious extremists would become peaceful in the absence of religion? I would posit that those who want power and desire war would find another reason to keep on killing those who are different.
There may be another reason(not what this thread is about) but yes without religion their would be NO religious extremists.
Originally posted by Rycas
In the New Testement of the Christian Bible the apostle Paul in his letter to the church at Ephesus said "that our battle is not with flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and aginst the forces of evil in the heavenly realms". He knew almost 2000 years ago about this inter dimensional war and the beings behind it!
Originally posted by sensibleSenseless
In fact, if one were to read Isaiah, the whole argument between him and TPTB, jumps out at you. He is a strong believer in the bible, and the Quran and the Bhagavad Gita - all of which he says are useful in the end-times. As for the seeming opposition of the Bible and Quran - he reasons that they are read differently and that his understanding detracts from the way others interpret the texts. He analogizes the views presented as the theory of relativity of Einstein works. They are different views on the same situation from within different frameworks - and so cannot be directly resolved against each other.
Originally posted by Greatest I am
Should Governments rescind the Noble Lie of religions?
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These lies were and are given to insure social harmony in an uneducated and gullible population. Our Governments lie and allow liars to lie to us of the supernatural, fantasy and magic.
Governments learned a long ago that religions were a good tool to use for social manipulation and control. Governments allowed and encouraged belief in fantasy, miracles and magic, the opium of the masses, and have lived with the drugged up population and religions.
Governments, with this noble lie, have maintained the current idiocy of immoral teachings within religions and have caused much unjust discrimination and denigration of innocent populations of Gays, women and many others, for just doing what we now see as moral.
Do you think we have matured enough as a people that we can now rescind the laws that protect religions and gives them a tax haven and legitimacy?
Are we intelligent enough to not need these lies anymore?
Can the population take our real reality or is the Government just going to let the flim-flam con game of religions to continue to damage the mental capabilities of the citizens in our country?
Flim-flam and con artists are subject to the law of the land. --- except for religions.
Can the population of take the truth?
www.youtube.com...
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Regards
DL
Do you think we have matured enough as a people that we can now rescind the laws that protect religions and gives them a tax haven and legitimacy?
Are we intelligent enough to not need these lies anymore?
Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by Greatest I am
Do you think we have matured enough as a people that we can now rescind the laws that protect religions and gives them a tax haven and legitimacy?
Are we intelligent enough to not need these lies anymore?
Yes, and yes. We as a people are mature enough, and by this time all of us should in fact be able to see through the lies and mythology of religions, and how they tend to control the very thought process of many people, including some who are in charge of government. I have always said that if a preacher says a word about politics or a candidate for president from the pulpit the church should lose their tax free status, and I strongly believe churches should pay property tax, as they own the primmest real estate in town in most cities and towns.