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Religion has done some good things for the world
September 21, 2007
from joaquin2  joaquin2
Albany
Religion has occasionally done good things for the world. Humans need meaning in this decrepit, horrific existence.Religion has filled that vacuum of meaninglessness at times. Judaism and its monotheistic predecessors damaged the sordid, violent and rapacious paganism of the time. Christianity finished off the Abomination that was Roman dominion. Islam, gave hope and dignity (initially) to a people neglected and abused by the remnants of Rome.
 
RE: Religion has done some good things for the world
December 24, 2007
from MysticalPoet  MysticalPoet
Sydney
Is paganism necessarily a bad thing? Various Christian traditions such as baptism, Christmas trees to name a couple have pagan origins. Paganism according to what i've read is basically about worshipping divinity through nature which sounds okay to me. Christianity was adopted as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century I think it was. I'm not sure what part Christianity played in bringing down the Roman Empire. That's a new idea to me but i'll look into it.
 
RE: Religion has done some good things for the world
January 12, 2008
from XKBO  XKBO
Tampa
Mystical Poet, Christianity did not bring down the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire adopted and merged and reappears AS Christianity. Paganism has been labled "bad" by Christians and no one else. The evergreen tree is a symbol of everlasting life. All those "pagan" symbols have meaning. Not that they "worship" plants ro anything else. They also had great respect for women contrary to other religions.
The God is a coward that never has to live or die 1a
September 14, 2007
from joaquin2  joaquin2
Albany
God is a coward that never has to live or die. Life is a lie that the world tells in the form of miserable flesh. God's cowardice and brutality is imprinted on a human nature that is corrupt to the core. There is no goodness. We are expected to grovel for forgiveness for a human nature that is inflicted upon us. God is a coward.
 
RE: The God is a coward that never has to live or die 1a
December 24, 2007
from MysticalPoet  MysticalPoet
Sydney
I think I can see where you're coming from with some of what you are saying. I don't relate to the idea of a supreme invidual myself. If there is a supreme being how could they comprehend courage when no challenge is sufficient to test them? There's too many psycopaths in this world. The God you despise is not the God I believe in. I think that concept of God is one that was invented to control people through organised religion. Not that i'm cynical of all religious leaders motives.
The deepest worship
September 14, 2007
from SinglebabeinNigeria  SinglebabeinNigeria
Lagos
The deepest level of worship is praising God in spite of pain,thanking God during a trial,trusting Him when tempted,surrendering while suffering and loving Him when He seems distance.
To Roman Virtue
September 13, 2007
from joaquin2  joaquin2
Albany
Yeah I get it. The slaughtered lamb. Jesus called for an end to mundane sacrifices under the legalistic jewish laws. Yet your rejoinder doesn't ring true to me: God rapes a virgin, she births the Christ; G-d metaphorically commits suicide on a cross. We are supposed to rejoice in that meta-physically staged event? Be well Roman Virtue, keep the faith. I sure have none.
 
RE: To Roman Virtue
December 24, 2007
from MysticalPoet  MysticalPoet
Sydney
I don't believe in the Virgin birth either but I don't think it's meant to be about god actually having his way with Mary. I think what supposedly happened if one agrees with the Catholic doctrine is sort of Star trek like. In other words the embryo was meant to have been beamed there by God. Something more like that. I don't go along with the whole crucifixion ideaology either. If you wake up from it that makes it a coma not death doesn't it, whether it's three days or three months late?
Love, justics and terrorism
September 02, 2007
from Nattyus  
Nicosia
Those who make unjust and discriminatory economic,social and political decisions that make the life of some people miserable in other to protect their own interests are more deadly silent terrorists than those who explode themselves in defence of injustics.Till policies of true love and justic is in the decision,there will be no peace for mankind.It costs less to propagate love and justics than to fight war against terror
 
RE: Love, justics and terrorism
December 24, 2007
from MysticalPoet  MysticalPoet
Sydney
As surprising as it may be to some you're absolutely right. There are third world countries who can't feed their people because they're exporting so much food to pay their debts to rich nations etc. Also we get told endless lies by various governments who order their military to carry out state terrorism. Some government leaders who say they're about fighting terror don't care if civilians die as long as they can protect the wealth of billionaires like them. That's their real priority for some.


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