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737Chris
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Posted: 02 Aug 2009 at 9:50am |
Religion . . . . pft, what a load of
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8180116.stm The amount the bible contradicts itself is unbeleivable. . . . . Aethism for the win! |
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Minty
First Officer Joined: 06 May 2009 Location: North Wales Points: 293 |
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So after she stopped breathing and they - Then called an ambulance, surely his faith would have allowed him to beleive that she would be resurected from the dead.
Its akin to another religion, that I think originated in the states, am not entirely sure, but I think it was the Mormons, where they do not allow blood transfusions.
Nuts if you ask me.
I have no problem with religion and faith of any kind, but it should surely be tempered with a bit of realism, and dare I say it common sense.
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Edward Longe
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What a needless waste of life. As an Agnostic (still undecided) I
respect others religions and how devoted they are to their respective
religions. Althogh my grandperants are devoted catholics (and my dad
was when he was growing up) I have had no desire to join the faith.
Although the man in question obviously contributed to hid daughters
demise.
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VulcanB2
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Religion is power/control thing. Makes everyone inferior by telling them to worship a greater more powerful being, and that you will be condemned to hell if you don't obey.
I think the sooner religion is given a lesser status, we'd have a happier world. All the islamic terrorism is religion-based. The nutters really believe they will go to heaven if they kill all the infidels. Best regards, Vulcan. |
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Dambuster
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"A mystic is a man who surrendered his mind at its first encounter with the minds of others. Somewhere in the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of independence that he renounced his rational faculty. At the crossroads of the choice between 'I know' and 'They say,' he chose the authority of others, he chose to submit rather than to understand, to believe rather than to think. Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others. His surrender took the form of the feeling that he must hide his lack of understanding, that others possess some mysterious knowledge of which he alone is deprived, that reality is whatever they want it to be, through some means forever denied to him."
"From then on, afraid to think, he is left at the mercy of unidentified feelings. His feelings become his only guide, his only remnant of personal identity, he clings to them with ferocious possessiveness - and whatever thinking he does is devoted to the struggle of hiding from himself that the nature of his feelings is terror." Ayn Rand |
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MartinW
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Do you know dustbuster... I Keep meaning to pick up a copy of 'The fountain Head'.
I keep meaning to give Rand's work a read. It must be still in print.
For Christmas perhaps.
Quite a lady wasn't she?
Nice post!
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Dambuster
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Of course they're still in print. Yeah the Fountainhead is like vol. 1 and Atlas Shrugged like vol. 2. She's faced a lot of criticism because of what they claim is a very individualistic philosophy, she did say "Selfishness is a virtue" but if you fully read Atlas Shrugged you'll understand what selfishness she meant, certainly not the one toward your friends. Her philosophy is entirely compatible with my way of living and I don't ask anyone to judge nor do I try and convince anyone to adopt it.
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