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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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It's obvious that BWJD is just anti-Christian and is speading his "Hindus are great and peace-loving people" propaganda on this board. 
Truthfully, though... There are moderates and crazy folks in every religion and every "a"-ism. |
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thepeel
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
Intolerant Christians:
http://www.bethuneinstitute.org/documents/killers.html
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KILLERS FOR GOD: THE PHINEAS PRIESTHOOD
David Lethbridge
Their existence was almost unknown until 1991. Unlike most white supremacist organizations, they operate largely in secret. They are devoted to the racist and anti-Semitic religion of Christian Identity. They believe that God, or Yahweh, to use the Old Testament name, created the white people in His own image. They believe that white people are the true Israelites. They believe that people of color were created inferior to white people. They believe that Jews were created by Satan. They believe that the Satanic Jews are taking over the government and are instituting a New World Order. They believe that they have been called by Yahweh to restore God's Law through assassination, bombing, and robbery. They are called the Phineas Priests. They consider themselves God's executioners for race traitors. |
Christians are certainly horrible people. |
Religious belief is a mental disorder. When a kid talks to an imaginary friend, you take him to a shrink. When an adult does it you take it as a sign of "faith" and (if she/he is from a protected minority group) "tolerate" his belief in whichcraft. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
Religious belief is a mental disorder. When a kid talks to an imaginary friend, you take him to a shrink. When an adult does it you take it as a sign of "faith" and (if she/he is from a protected minority group) "tolerate" his belief in whichcraft. |
Good point. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| Well, that is how I honestly see it. We might as well start worshiping the wind (I can actually feel the wind). |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| BJWD wrote: |
Religious belief is a mental disorder. When a kid talks to an imaginary friend, you take him to a shrink. When an adult does it you take it as a sign of "faith" and (if she/he is from a protected minority group) "tolerate" his belief in whichcraft. |
Good point. |
Strawman.
Religious belief does not necessarily imply direct communication with a Supreme Being. In fact, the three great Western faiths address this in one way or another. In Judaism, graven images of Yahweh are forbidden. Islam has a similar prohibition, BJWD, for which you mock it. In Christianity, Christ acts as the mediator between God and man, because there is precisely no other way for man to communicate directly with God, or vice versa.
If you saw a Catholic priest and told him you communicated with God, he would almost certainly set you aright (probably kindly, however). It is important to seperate legitimate theology from superstitions held within established religions. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
| Religious belief is a mental disorder. |
If you were king, would you make religion illegal? |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Religious belief does not necessarily imply direct communication with a Supreme Being. In fact, the three great Western faiths address this in one way or another. In Judaism, graven images of Yahweh are forbidden. Islam has a similar prohibition, BJWD, for which you mock it. In Christianity, Christ acts as the mediator between God and man, because there is precisely no other way for man to communicate directly with God, or vice versa. |
Hold on. Don't Jews, Muslims and Christians pray ... to God? And how is it that man cannot communicate directly with God when the mediator is Christ, ... who is God? |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
| Well, that is how I honestly see it. We might as well start worshiping the wind (I can actually feel the wind). |
So can I; It's hot and coming from your direction. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:36 am Post subject: |
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In honor of the great humanist's passing today:
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
Kurt Vonnegut |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
| BJWD wrote: |
| Religious belief is a mental disorder. |
If you were king, would you make religion illegal? |
No. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:46 am Post subject: |
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It is important to seperate legitimate theology from superstitions held within established religions. |
You might as well try and separate good tasting poop from bad tasting poop. Which poop tastes good and bad is subjective, but it is all still just poop. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| BJWD wrote: |
| Well, that is how I honestly see it. We might as well start worshiping the wind (I can actually feel the wind). |
So can I; It's hot and coming from your direction. |
Har har.
Maybe this dude instead.
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
| huffdaddy wrote: |
| BJWD wrote: |
| Religious belief is a mental disorder. |
If you were king, would you make religion illegal? |
No. |
So just Islam then? |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| No. That is absurd. |
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bigverne
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| The UK has almost as many Hindus as Muslims. One of those groups causes very few problems the other causes many. What Hindus do in India is of no concern to me. |
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