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Originally Posted by SouLess  How does it not make it retarded? I'm a well known aetheist, but I don't bash on religions ever for the most part. But the fact that it's in Christianity docterine that we are the only beings in existence is one of the most ignorant statements, ever. |
No, it is not in 'Christianity doctrine*' that we are the only existing life in the universe. According to the bible, we are simply the dominant life on earth, and everything on it was created for our use.
However, to rebuke Renzokuken, that's not what makes Christianity retarded. It's the countless contradictions of the bible that make it retarded. Any literature that was created by a council as a simple means to help warm the surge of a growing religion in their nation isn't life altering existentialism, it's idiocy. The only 'intelligent design' was Constantine bringing his nation together.
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Originally Posted by Uncle_Vanya So thats what pisses you off? Really? They also believe that a magical invisible man created us humans, that no matter what we do our path is predetermined by that invisible man and that the first woman actually came out of the first man. Meh, religion had its uses in the past centuries it was a good way to keep the stupids (aka the uneducated masses) from getting any bright ideas about revolting against their tyrannical monarchs and the church, religion is an instrument that for most part of the human history was used as a perfect explanation for why tyrannical hierarchies should exist. Now its...I don't even know, I guess even with the free flow of information and much better education majority of the population are still those same old stupids that crave having an excuse to never use their brain and like to believe that they have no free will. |
What a block of stupid. As to your claim of Christians thinking, 'no matter what we do out path is predetermined,' Hi, welcome to the 70% of Christians that are NOT Calvanists.
The large, large majority of 'tyrannical hierarchies' did not use religion as an excuse, in fact the large majority of them have combated with the religious establishment for complete power over said nation.
The majority of the population are not 'those same old stupids.' If someone is brought up a certain way, told the same things for years read the same book through their entire childhood, it's very natural to want to attain their belief system. I believe there are only three dimensions of space, the traditional three dimensions. If you were to tell me there was a fourth and give me all of your arguments as to why, I still wouldn't want to believe you. If you don't believe there is a God, or that Jesus existed or did the things he did, although the natural laws of physics give you a stronger case against Jesus, you believing he does not exist is based on your personal faith, whereas Christians have faith that he did do the things he supposedly did. We have no concrete evidence as to either.
Religion is good, it gives the large populace an excuse to have stronger morals. I would much rather have other people thinking that killing me would damn them to eternal hellfire, and the only deterrence not simply being, 'it's not good to kill people.'