Comments on: On Scepticism

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:25:09 +0000

The thing about religion is that they are all full of sects – Christianity has multiple branches, as do both Judaism and Islam. In fact, Judaism is the root and Islam and Christianity are both technically cults of that root. And they all argue that their invisible friend beats anyone else’s invisible friend….

By: CL

CL — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:28:46 +0000

A theocracy is a totally different subject. I do recognize that a lot of atheism is directed against organized state religion as well as cultish religious following.

I agree on that score. But my only wish is that atheists wouldn’t lump all religious belief in one banner and paint all religious believers as cult followers. Often in a heated discussion, this assumption is made far too easily. Religious belief != cult following.

By: ray

ray — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:42:15 +0000

It matters not. I am a filthy sinner who must be punished – preferably by a high class dominatrix.

By: drew

drew — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:21:34 +0000

I think I saw you working on the Sabbath Ray, how would you like your stoning to death: head, body, both or it just don’t matter?

By: ray

ray — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:05:31 +0000

Amen

By: drew

drew — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:34:59 +0000

And that's why one should not take such religion seriously. If you only pick and choose what you want to believe and how to live your life out of a book you claim will give you eternal salvation, to me, you either have to take the whole thing or none of it at all.

By: ray

ray — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:01:28 +0000

Joe-Bos can also be removed by turning up to the door naked. Religion should never need to be mentioned unless you are asked or you are in a place of worship. And, unfortunately, most Christians do not know much about the bible beyond the bare bones of the front of the New Testament.

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:14:29 +0000

I've actually got a sign on the door that prevents Jehovahs's from even knocking. If someone asks me what I believe I will state the fact but I do not preach. I'm not that conversant and would probably do more harm than good.

By: ray

ray — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:18:46 +0000

People who claim to take the bible literally do not do this. There are a great many insane rules in that book and if you followed them all you would end up in jail real quick.http://godisimaginary.com/video2.htm to give you an idea.

By: drew

drew — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:06:19 +0000

I couldn't agree more.

As an atheist myself, I'm not going around trying to tell people what to believe in, but what I will do if dragged into the subject of the bible is point out all of it's contradictions with everything else in it that is actually bad according to my own moral judgments. The sad part about the bible is and a lot of people who follow it don't even really understand it themselves, they'll take a preachers word for it each Sunday.

If you take the bible literally (which you should if you're going to follow it as your belief but that's a totally different topic), there is something definitely wrong with you, no pun intended to those that take everything in the bible literally.