Dont blindly follow religion

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Scientology ftw!!... hah jokes. Yer i can see where your coming from, the diehard religious people are annoying. Hehe honestly i think the worst religious people come form America, i remember watching a documentary about some lady who painted posters and condemning homosexuals to hell and made her children hold them up on the side of the road, it was rather funny to watch the lady was funny to watch also those fundamental religious tools who deny the existence of dinosaurs because they weren't in the bible i find the hilarious there video of a massive theater and this guy was teaching 5 year olds that dinosaurs don't exist rather amusing to watch.

sorry that was full of typos if you can get the basis of it that's cool

HAVE YOU MET THE LORD YET? YOU NEED TO BE SAVED.

i agree with you, what you've said is basically common sense, but the whole point of faith is that it's unquestioned. most mainstream religions demand unerring belief in their God, so people feel guilty when they do have doubts and feel unable to express them.

I don't.

But oi, you sound like a charming lad. Your head is firm on your shoulders. I'm glad there are still people thinking with their own minds. x

Haha, You Sound Just Like Me. I Hate Organized Religion. And Well, If Your Not Normal, Then, Well, I'm Weird Too. I'm Agnostic, But I Grew Up In A Christian Household. Don't Worry, Your Normal.

I totally agree. :)

I agree!

the problem with us atheist were entirely too tolerant of religious people even though they some of them completely hate us.i dont understand why people think they are such good Christians because they go to church once a month and oppose abortion and gay people. it would seem to me the organized part of the religion kills the actual message of the religion maybe if there was a god he would be against abortion but if he was im sure he would be against pipe bombing a clinic and killing off all the people inside. protect a fetus and send a living child into foster care because you just killed off their single mom working as a nurse at a clinic. praise Jesus for their hypocrisy

scientology was created for the rich to get tax free money it is laundered in the churches, they give almost all there money to the church and then get it bak!

I agree. You sound like a rational-thinker. I applaud you.

Here's why I don't either:

1. People who lack confidence in themselves use religion as a crutch: Something bad happens and they say "God is trying to teach me something" and no lesson is learned. Look at what you did wrong and larn.

2. How many wars are fought over organized RELIGION???

3. Following a religious moral code tends to make a person self righteous and arrogant.

4. Trying to live up to this high moral code creates LOTS of guilt and repressed emotions which makes this person just seem "strange" to others. They tend to lie more to cover things up.

Just some reasons I don't follow religion!

Be free!

I just wanted to say that I have the same problem being tolerant of religion. The damned Jehovah's Witness kept coming to my door every Sunday for 5 months. The Christian group my parents used to take me to till I was about 17 had way too much damnation and hell for me to appreciate it at all (Evangelist and Born Again Christian Bible Study Group). I find however that the Eastern Religions like Bhuddism have never had wars fought in their name and they don't try and shove their religion down peoples throat like many of the western religions today.
P.S. the Jehovahs witness are starting to come back to my neighborhood does anyone know how to get rid of them. Last time I had to perform a faux Satanic Ritual that they could see from my front door to scare them away and then they brought an entire convent to try and exorsize my house at which point I called the police to arrest them. Please post if someone has less of a drastic method of sending them away. Thankyou

Haha, when some Jehovahs witnesses came round our house my bro just saw that they were carrying a magazine with Jesus on the front so he said we were Jewish, that actually got rid of them. The satanic ritual sounds a lot more fun tho. Get a marker and draw 666 on you next time, then try to spread the evil word of satan when they come round again.

My bro goes to this Christian group, but they never do anything religious, they just eat chick fillet and pretend like it has something to do with god. Really it's more of an excuse to eat chick fillet every week.

Yeah Buddhism is my fav religion because of the lack of wars and all that bullshit that made religion the worst thing to happen to this world.

(I am a christian) I thank u 4 writing this in a respectful way.- U are an athiest right. Ur believes are based on what u consider fact correct? What different religions consider to be fact is not nessecarily wat u consider to be fact. Some scientist believe that the big bang has been proven but others dont think that is real proof so when it comes down to it even scientists are relying on faith.

The best thing to do is just take the good out of each religion and ignore the rest!

Turn to the true god Jehovah, while you still have time. This world is about to be wiped clean, just like in the flood of Noah's day. If you have a smile on your face, or think that this is funny, then just stick around for a little while longer. The United nations will soon turn on ALL religion.... this is the beginning of the end when this happens. Live it up, or learn about Jehovah's Witnesses, and what they are trying to share with you. These are the only two options for those of us who know.

Dude, Who cares? Nobody is charging you on your thoughts or forcing you to take part in an organized religion. i take some time to think about organized religion, which i am a part of, but that for me and atheism is for you there is no fighting or arguing over anything, apples and oranges....

as for hating organized religion, its just nobody likes when they are being told that they are wrong, neither you nor me, (so we are both right and wrong,) so maybe thats why you are against it, cause leave it up to the extremist to represent each religion, even the atheist have their extremists. but just know that not every person in every organized/(unorganized?) religion shares the same ideas.

I'm agnostic too schock... I don't believe in god that i was brought up to believe in as a christian when they bottle it into you in school before you're old enough to think about it properly and rationally for yourself as they hope you will be totally christian and brainwashed by then feeding the catholic church money - vatican - rich as the celebrities hello?? Yet money isn't what matter to them - faith is - then get rid of the microphones and speakers in a church - did they have those in the time of jesus? no.. yet "jesus" proclaimed things to all of his followers by shouting aloud without a mic.. and the vatican is rich too and makes sure its shown and uses its wealth when it feels the need.. Anyway i am not sure if i am agnostic/atheist but this is how i class myself: I do not believe in god BUT i believe that there IS something out there that is above us all (the human race entirely) BUT i do not know what he/she/it is! I also do not believe it created the world - I believe the world and all the planets have been there since the universe came into being.. I am not going to say any more as I do not want to offend/provoke reactions apart from this: To religion followers - does your religion not tell you to respect other peoples beliefs even if they do not follow your same religion? I know catholicism does yet you always hear catholics saying you need to find jesus and all this instead of keeping that to themselves and respecting others beliefs - we'll all find out for ourselves what is true at some stage i believe and if catholicism is true - god will appear and everyone will see him not just some people and it will be obvious that he does exist and everything else that goes with it but please do not preach when you are instructed by your religion to respect other people's beliefs and to badmanalive - that is the biggest load of rubbish i have heard and phrases like "while you still have time" sound so patronising and deliberately intimidating.. this world is about to be wiped clean yeah right.. the united nations will turn on all religion yeah right.. they have nothing to do with religion for goodness sake.. "those of us who know" oh yes you people are the enlightened ones and are definitely right .. its actually arrogant in my opinion to just assume you are right because the beliefs of your faith make sense to you - none of us can know if our mere beliefs are factual or correct - factual literally means correct or proven to be correct. I do not mean to offend but like i said please do not preach - respect other people's beliefs and let us decide what we want to believe instead of patronising/intimidating people into believing or joining a faith they would otherwise not intentionally join or believe in - infact i think they wouldnt genuinely believe it - they would just accept it but not genuinely believe for convenience - even if they attended masses or whatever it is called in your faith. Also if faith works please stand infront of a speeding train and have "faith" it won't hit you - thats how faith works..

(To whoever wrote the story :P)
I get where you're coming from, and i can completely relate...well almost. I happen to live in a very, shall i say, "God - faring" community, and because of the way i dress and act i often get rediculed. I dont do anything to disrupt the religious nutjobs' way of life so why do they insist on drawing me into a religion - ANY branch at that. Its rediculous. I personally dont belong to any religion, and proudly. In my experience, religions are far too similar to cults.
Growing up, my father's side of the family was mormon and my mother's christian, they fought constantly. See, i was the f**k up. I was the little girl who questioned everything, and got beatings as an answer.
Once, i was in sunday school where we all had to read aloud a verse in the bible. after hearing all the other kids and realizing that they preached of treating all people nicely and such, but just before the service (as i recall) they had not let a homosexual mother's child join. "ITS WRONG," they said, "HOMOSEXUALS GO AGAINST NATURE"
I was baffled. So when the thought of that morning suddenly sprang into my head, being the type to leap before thinking, i blurted out "Hey why cant that kid come and read with us? i thought we treat EVERYONE nicely."
That little, innocent comment landed me in the closet for the remainder of the school day. I was left in there cold, scared, and alone, all because i raised one simple question.
Now, I realize of course that not all religious people are radical like that, but that is just a good example of what happens if you question religion. People just DONT LIKE IT. thats fact. anyway i need to be leaving now, bye for now everyone. :)

i concur.... i was raised atheist, but i'm now spiritual. i don't expect other people to believe what i do though. i mean, i wouldn't have when i was an atheist, and it pisses me off when people tell me that i need to follow their beliefs.

i totally agree that many religions serve only to keep people from any sort of personal or spiritual (if they chose or believe) growth. it is nothing more than a crutch for people too lazy to think for themselves. there are, of course, some exceptions in every religion.

"Think as I think Or your are Abominably wicked. You are a toad" And after I had thought about it I said "I will then be a toad" - Stephen Crane

Amen to that. I'm religious but I do not think people in my religion would say I am because I have my own beliefs too, I understand other religions and I understand non-religious people. I think its OK to be religious but that doesn't mean everyone who doesn't belong to that religion should be classed as evil or whatever. Religion is such a comples topic I can't be bothered huff

to the person complaining about Jehovah's Witnesses... I am not one, but my husband and his family all are... the only reason they would keep coming back to your house is if you let them know they are welcome there. If you say don't come back, they won't come back. They respect if you don't want them there. If you gave them hope that you would listen to their message, then yes, they will come back... And about the exorcism thing, I have no idea what you are talking about, Jehovah's Witnesses don't do exorcisms, Catholics do exorcisms.

I absolutely agree. Why would "God" give us minds with the ability to question and analyze and form conclusions if he wanted us to blindly follow a book full of illogical, outdated ideas. I really am not trying to offend anybody. Most of my family is very religious and I was brought up Catholic. Everyone has the right to believe what they want to, and I respect that, but seriously, just think about it. So much of that stuff does not hold up to questioning. Oh, and if you are going to tell me that Jesus loves me, one day I will find faith, I'm going to Hell for what I'm saying, or any such nonsense, save it. You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to mine.

My imaginary friends are better than your imaginary friends. Jesus died and then rose again. would you believe that he had an erectile dysfunction??

sweatheart_635 (21452),you are wrong. There are NEVER going to be varying degrees of fact, sweetheart.

How exactly do you go about "meeting the lord"?

I consider myself a Christian, and I totally agree with everything you said. In fact, I have reasoned my way out of any one denomination, and have a somewhat patchwork belief system in place. The most important thing is tolerance and love for fellow man. You can't go wrong treating a person like your friend.

I three quarter believe you, one quarter don't. I am a religious Christian and have a strong set of beliefs. However I could NEVER say that any other Christian person beliefs are wrong. To do so would be to claim to know everything about the Bible, which is impossible.

Regarding other religions i.e. Sikhism, Buddism, Islam etc, I don't believe they have it right but it's up to them what they believe, God gave us free will. The only kid of religious beliefs that I do not agree with are those that cause pain and suffering to others with no happy end result. And all religions have people who believe in things like that, be it Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, atheists, agnostics etc.

religion is just a cover up for when people couldn't explain they way things happened. its all stupid.

this coming from a humanist...Religion is simply blind. I hate when the catholics (born Irish Catholic) tell me that Im going to hell when I die. Does hell exist? Where did the people go before Christianity was placed? Fun Fact: The world has been scientifically PROVEN (fact not a guess) that Earth is 4.5 BILLION (thats 9 zeroes) and the Christian mathematician James Ussher only calculates (according to Genesis) that the Earth is 6000 years old...hmm makes you think dont it?

I fail to see how this post asks if something is 'normal' or not. I myself have had several posts rejected because they did not ask this question, so I must conclude that the creators of this site are either: 1)atheist or 2) agnostic.

Atheism isn't proven either. I'm Christian, but I find agnostics more believable than atheists.