I don't agree
Religion as a whole is illogical and irrational, yet it affects our society, both in this coutry and worldwide. I think it deserves all the kicking it gets.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 19:06, 2 replies)

Ditto
I'm just giving it the respect it deserves...

Chicken, Fluffles: Allow me to cement myself firmly in the pigeon-hole you've so lovingly prepared.

Religion isn't sweet little old ladies baking cakes to raffle for charity. It's 'owning' your wife, and beating her whenever you please. It's 1000 Africans a day dying of aids, and some little bloke who lives in a palace objecting to them doing something that would save a lot of their lives, because the little house of cards he's built to hide from reality in is too fragile. It's millions of deaths brought about squabbling over whose imaginary friend is better, and which bit of land he said you could live on. It's beating your 4 year old daughter to death when she has an epileptic fit because you think she has an evil spirit inside her.

Well, pardon me for being utterly sickened by it. Pardon me for refusing to just watch something sickening happening without speaking out. Pardon me for thinking that beliefs which can be checked by anyone should outweigh beliefs you just found lying around in an old book. Pardon me for not wallowing in intellectual cowardice when faced with difficult questions. Pardon me for thinking "I don't know, yet" is a perfectly valid answer to any question.

Fuck religion, fuck defending it as nothing more than a different opinion, and fuck people being indignant at having any of this pointed out to them.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 22:59, closed)

Thanks for proving my point
You know it's getting bad when an atheist is telling another atheist why religion is bad... uhhh... *facepalm*

Today I have learnt a lesson. Never talk about religion on the internet. Ever.
(TheChicken Five hundred thousand points from Gryffindor, Tue 24 Mar 2009, 0:02, closed)

Did I, or did I not...
...tell you right at the start that I was going to fit neatly into your pigeonhole?

I must know though - did you miss my point entirely? 'Cause it would appear so given the lack of a specific response, and if that's the case I just don't know how I'm going to keep the whelming of irony within reasonable bounds.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Tue 24 Mar 2009, 1:36, closed)

hmmph
All religions have their flaws, but I believe it is the people that ruin religions, not religions themselves.

There are plenty of people who are perfectly able to take away positive messages from the Bible.

I am personally against people who twist the words of the Bible to suit their own agendas, because that shouldn't be what Christianity is about.

I guess I'm just annoyed at mean atheists because some good friends of mine and my own boyfriend and his family are Christian. They are mild-mannered, church-going people who have a genuine desire to help others through their faith. One of my mates wants to be a youth counsellor, my boyfriend's dad does amazing humanitarian work overseas... you get the picture. Hell, some of them are vocal about gay rights. They're not the scary preacher, "You're all going to hell!" types at all.

So I get a bit upset when they happen to mention their belief in God and some smart arse atheist starts picking a fight with them over it, purely based on the negative Christian stereotype when they don't actually know the person at all!

I suppose this post stems from sticking up for my friends, above anything. I don't believe in the same things as they do, but that shouldn't stop me from recognising a decent person or being able to respect their views as they respect mine.
(TheChicken Five hundred thousand points from Gryffindor, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 23:02, closed)