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sundubuman
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 Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:54 am Post subject: If the World HAD to be predominantly...... |
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Christian, Jewish, Islam (alphabetical)
Which SHOULD it be???
Consider which religion has benefited mankind the most.....without oppressing others.... |
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sundubuman
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:05 am Post subject: |
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maybe one way to think of it....
Imagine if you had to move to Planet A,B, or C.... each one overwhelmingly Christian, Islamic or Jewish....
Where would you choose to live? oh....and why? |
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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:15 am Post subject: |
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You left out us athiests!  |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| sundubuman wrote: |
maybe one way to think of it....
Imagine if you had to move to Planet A,B, or C.... each one overwhelmingly Christian, Islamic or Jewish....
Where would you choose to live? oh....and why? |
Which planet would you be on? Not that one. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| You left out us athiests! |
But the atheist planet doesn't exist! 
Apparently there is an agnostic planet, but no one's sure.
Ken:> |
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atlhockey
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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None of the above. There is no "benefitted mankind most" without "oppressing others". They've all contributed to unrest and misogyny and continue to do so, among other bigotries, and they've all done their share of oppressing.
I just hope for the day when people begin to realize there is no afterlife and focus their attention on the real world. |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Buddhism. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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The question is based on a false assumption: that we can predict what a religion would be like in some hypothetical world where it is reigning supreme, based on how it behaves in the real world. It's like saying I wish Wally The Bartender down at my favorite pub were running Microsoft, because he isn't a power-drunk corporate tyrant like Bill Gates. Of course, it's pretty hard for your power-drunk, corporate tendencies to come to the fore when your job consists of pouring drinks and you never see more than a few hundred dollars in one day.
Given the parameters of the exercise, I would say I would prefer Judaism to predominate. They haven't done much slaughtering in the past couple of thousand years, and would probably have a spotless record right now if Israel stopped wailing on the Palestinians. But this just illustrates the absurdity of the exercise. Because if Jews did suddenly become the majority religion, with billions of adherent worldwide, then they would be a very different people than they were as a ghettoized and later assimilated minority. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: If the World HAD to be predominantly...... |
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| sundubuman wrote: |
Christian, Jewish, Islam (alphabetical)
Which SHOULD it be???
Consider which religion has benefited mankind the most.....without oppressing others.... |
Jagoff, why don't you just come out and say you're Jewish and that you think you folks are the best? Quit pussyfooting around, you arrogant *beep*. |
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Mitch Comestein
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Buddhism. |
That would be the best, without a doubt. |
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dbee
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Given the parameters of the exercise, I would say I would prefer Judaism to predominate. They haven't done much slaughtering in the past couple of thousand years, and would probably have a spotless record right now
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I'm assuming then that you haven't read the old testamont ... ? |
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On the other hand
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Given the parameters of the exercise, I would say I would prefer Judaism to predominate. They haven't done much slaughtering in the past couple of thousand years, and would probably have a spotless record right now
I'm assuming then that you haven't read the old testamont ... ? |
I phrased that awkwardly. I meant that their record for the last couple of thousand years up until the founding of Israel has been spotless, at least in comparison to Islam or Christianity. |
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Summer Wine
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: |
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happeningthang wrote:
Buddhism.
That would be the best, without a doubt.
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I read a book written in the 1800's by a person who had lived and moved in the area's of nepal and tibet and the one point I got from his written experiences was that buddists have commited just as much death when they are in power as others have.
So buddhists would not be the best unless you like being sewen into a wet yaks stomach and then pierced with red hot pokers as it dried slowly around you and as it crushed your bones. Oh, but if you liked it then "yes " they are the best. |
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happeningthang
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happeningthang wrote:
Buddhism.
That would be the best, without a doubt.
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I read a book written in the 1800's by a person who had lived and moved in the area's of nepal and tibet and the one point I got from his written experiences was that buddists have commited just as much death when they are in power as others have.
So buddhists would not be the best unless you like being sewen into a wet yaks stomach and then pierced with red hot pokers as it dried slowly around you and as it crushed your bones. Oh, but if you liked it then "yes " they are the best. |
Sure, but I get the impression these are single instances, rather than examples of large scale, institutionalised violence.
How does it compare to the inquisitions and crusades of christianity as an example? |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Buddhism. |
me bad, should have made a Buddhist planet.....guessing that would have won here. |
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