Religion

[Kalium]

Well. I've avoided this thread long enough.

I'm not a Christian. Never was, and certainly wasn't raised in any sort of Christian tradition. I was raised in a household best described as vaguely Reform Jewish. I went through a lot of the motions, including Bar Mitzvah and confirmation. Somewhere in high school, I realized that I simply didn't have the sort of belief that everyone else seemed. Coupled with the fact that most of the self-proclaimed Christians I ran into seemed to know fairly little about their own religion as well as my own increasing political awareness (of the role of religion in American politics in particular)... Well. I got quite cynical quite fast.

Then I went to college, and ran into street preachers. This, coupled with my own awareness that there were thousands of people who thought this sort of crazy shit to be entirely sensible made me even more cynical. There were a few bright spots now and again, but the fact that I never saw anyone else bother to challenge these people and their supposedly warped interpretations didn't exactly give me hope.

So, when you get right down to it, I'm a nontheist (as distinct from a antitheist) with a Jewish upbringing.

A nontheist lacks the god-belief. An antitheist has an affirmative belief in the lack of a god or gods. The distinction is important.

[guy07]

Now THOSE were the kinds of posts I was looking for. I made this thread for people to post and express their opinions, so don't hold back. Feel free to argue a point but please, don't fly off the handle and lets try to keep a certain amount of respect.

stuff

Why does that sort of remind me of getting drunk, doing stupid stuff, then in the morning being all "Forgive me, I was drunk, I didn't know what I was doing! I won't do it again!" Then doing it again next weekend ..sort like you can do what you want so long as you apologize after. That really doesn't sound like good morals to build a faith upon >.> lol

[Fall_Child42]

Well. I've avoided this thread long enough.

I'm not a Christian. Never was, and certainly wasn't raised in any sort of Christian tradition. I was raised in a household best described as vaguely Reform Jewish. I went through a lot of the motions, including Bar Mitzvah and confirmation. Somewhere in high school, I realized that I simply didn't have the sort of belief that everyone else seemed. Coupled with the fact that most of the self-proclaimed Christians I ran into seemed to know fairly little about their own religion as well as my own increasing political awareness (of the role of religion in American politics in particular)... Well. I got quite cynical quite fast.

Then I went to college, and ran into street preachers. This, coupled with my own awareness that there were thousands of people who thought this sort of crazy shit to be entirely sensible made me even more cynical. There were a few bright spots now and again, but the fact that I never saw anyone else bother to challenge these people and their supposedly warped interpretations didn't exactly give me hope.

So, when you get right down to it, I'm a nontheist (as distinct from a antitheist) with a Jewish upbringing.

A nontheist lacks the god-belief. An antitheist has an affirmative belief in the lack of a god or gods. The distinction is important.

Dude Why'd you stop being a Jew?!?

Jews have Samson as a hero, and as far as biblical heros go Samson was a

BAD ASS MOTHERFUCKER

Dude fuckin' flipped out and slaughtered whole villages!

Dude killed 1000 guys with the, get this, JAWBONE OF A DONKEY

I woulda stuck with it, I mean hey whole thing gives you complete immunity for Raping and murdering Philistines!

And Samson was just so BAD ASS.

Heres a Conceptual illustration of Samson ripping a FUCKING LION APART with his BARE HANDS



there were no cars back then, so when a Lion was walking down the path you were fucked. There was no getting in the car there was no nothing. You'd end up as lion poop and possibly go to heaven.

But Samson saw the lion and he wasn't scared.

He was all C'MERE BITCH I'LL TARE YOUR FUCKIN HEAD OFF AND BEES WILL MAKE HONEY IN YOUR CORPSE.

keep in mind redbull did not exist in these times.

Samson = the first ?

I think so.

In Conclusion,


GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY

[Prodigi]

I give Todd's post the Prod stamp of approval.

[Yok/0]

Church of Cybertrology?

[guy07]

Thanks yoko, your bad joke killed the thread ... usually that's my role. lol

[8bit_samurai]

On a different side note, the history of Religion has always amused me. The Holy Wars, Crusades, Inquisitions, etc. seems to make a few good hits at the box office. Though they seem to make it less horrible than it actually was. You'd think that kinda stuff only happened hundreds of years ago, but actually some stuff has happened less than a hundred. The religious settlers that came to Alaska basically told us what they told other "savages" they encounter when they discovered new land. They told us that if we don't believe in God and continue believing the "demons" we believe in we'd go to hell. Then the rest of the settlers came in, taught us English and showed us the way they lived. Of course that's leaving out some details, but that could be left out. Though this seems to have happened to a lot of people who had inferior technology throughout the history (and prehistory, assuming history repeats itself) of man. Funny how this kinda stuff stopped happening after WWII.

[NS]

Guy: If anything Yoko's pic is the highlight of this topic... So I'd be thanking :O

[Yok/0]

Thanks yoko, your bad joke killed the thread ... usually that's my role. lol

This coming from the guy who misspelled religion. Go back to charging your thetans, or w/e it is you christians do. |:

[guy07]

I'm not christian o-o;