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They can believe in what they want. I won't stop them. I just personally believe in believing in what my ancestors did. I don't want them to push the christianity crap on me though.
I kind of think i know what you mean, Im not religious myself. But i feel a natural bond with my surroundings and the old traditions, And Christianity have always felt like a shallow virus who never really got a proper hold on these parts. i have nothing against Christians. But to me they don't really belong here in Sweden for example.
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I studied religion for a while the first course we took was toghether with the theology class. I meet many great people, both Christians, Jews and Muslims, But also some with a more Hindu or Buddhist approach. I had no trouble with anyone until one of out teachers one day wrote God with huge letters on the whiteboard and told us to speak the first that came to our minds. I said: - Oppressor. And suddenly I made myself enemy's. Some refused to speak to me after that. I try my best to be open minded, but I also treat people the way they treat me.
LOL!!! Way to go!
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Absentee is the first thing that pops into my mind when I think of God. The image is used to opress by religion but the deity itself is not an active opressor. God is a creation of man not the creator of man. That's what I believe I have no issue with those who choose to believe differently. I just ask they not try to force their beliefs upon me. If they do I tend to bite back savagely.

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Interesting.....I would love see someone trying this in Sweden' date=' would only be embarrassing for the one trying.[/quote'] I can't walk around my neighborhood without someone either A) singing or preaching on a street corner, B) trying to hand me a religious pamphlet, or C) trying to start a serious conversation with me about Jesus. The most fucked up and maddening part of it to me is that so many of these people believe their Christianity is under attack and it's their duty to defend it. IT'S NOT UNDER ATTACK, IT'S THE DE FACTO STATE RELIGION OF THE USA. Some of my family lives in the South and it's even more strident down there. I envy you your relative secularism.
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I don't think their fake not real god said that. He couldn't have because he doesn't exist. Haha! Yeah they have been pushing it since Constantine united the eastern Roman Empire with it.
Hahaha xD I used to have to go to church every sunday -_- so glad I got out of that, all that boring bullshit rambling on and on about a book some very proud guy wrote probably would think know: "Wow does everyone still believe this crap?" xD
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Religion is, at it's core, little more then a means of social control and a collection of fairy tales. That billions of people throughout history have been caught in this web of deceit and manipulation speaks to the overwhelming stupidity of the human race. Worse however are the countless wars throughout history over whose imaginary friend is better. Religion has its hands permanently stained with morbid hilarity and mortifying oppression.

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Don't want to offend anyone or anything but personally I think religion is the root of all evil. Look at 9/11 and the recent Buddhist riots on Muslim people. All are caused by religion and people die because of it. I don't mind anyone if they are Christian, Muslim, Jewish ETC but in all honesty religion is one of the factors that's causing problems for our world today.

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Don't want to offend anyone or anything but personally I think religion is the root of all evil. Look at 9/11 and the recent Buddhist riots on Muslim people. All are caused by religion and people die because of it. I don't mind anyone if they are Christian' date=' Muslim, Jewish ETC but in all honesty religion is one of the factors that's causing problems for our world today.[/quote'] If they were rioting, they were not Buddhist.
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Not necessarily true, just because they are not supposed to be violent does not mean they adhere to that rule. We see it in all religions the mere fact that teachings exist does not mean they will be followed. and @core that's an interesting position not shared by many of your counterparts. Each sect of Christianity seems to preach that only those in that sect go to heaven whilst everyone else goes to hell. Mind you that seems to be the stance of most monotheistic religions.

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Hee hee. I wondered if this thread would be fun and it has been pretty good.

Don't want to offend anyone or anything but personally I think religion is the root of all evil.
Not even close. Most of the theologically based insurgent groups around the world are just as angry over land rights and economic or political disenfranchisement as they are over theology. The Talibs happen to be Muslim, but honestly they're just looking to make a killing off heroin. HAMAS want Israel out because they think the land is rightfully theirs. Even al-Qaeda have as their main aim the expulsion of all American troops from the Middle East. And just a side note: your claim would mean that atheists are morally perfect...which seems dubious. Christianity has a missionary side to it. However, the proselytizing is not necessarily for a heavenly reward (as it is in Mormonism) - often it's simply the manifestation of good intentions. Missionaries intend to save people from whatever hell awaits them. The problem is that they are extremely bad at convincing people of anything, and feel persecuted by those who disdain their belief. As a result they become intellectually cantankerous rather than insightful and given to steady reasoning. It's a pity, really, and it doesn't have to be that way. I personally can't be bothered. It's one thing to win an argument, another to convince someone. Even flawless argument can be blithely ignored by someone egotistical enough. I have a hard enough time doing the former, which is what I need to do in order to accomplish the latter.
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