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[bill cobbett]

A 'fession ...there was a time in more innocent and more liberal-thinking days when would have agreed with some, ... and would have thought ... yeah live and let live ..and that if normally intelligent and rational people are foolish enough (imho) to believe in obvious nonsense and superstition ... well what's it got to do with me? ... but in this near twilight of life and in the face of the harm, the suffering, the millions and millions of deaths in His Name that His Religion, and the religions of Others, have caused over the millenniums, that really must ask...

Can anyone of conscience stay silent and bite their tongue, cos isn't to "show respect" (shall we call it that?), isn't it really to aid and to acquiesce in the intolerance, the tortures, the Inquisitions, the divisive tribalism and the murderous wars that Religions have brought us?

... and if you agree.. then there can be no close season for criticisms of religions.

[repulsewarrior]

...i don't know of religion, but i believe in the power of its Faith.

...the way.

...and others which teach us to be giving and to love demonstrate the same quality in their living.

only Man can plunder, we have the reason to exploit, and profit. God in this consideration may or may not exist, but it is not relevent.

...i live my life as a gnostic or an animist because i believe that where we came from we return to; this is death.

...the words of all world religions are interesting, Principals worth learning, Hope where no Charity lacks. but the acts of the followers has shown not much has changed beyond the failure of our Will to fight real enemies within ourselves. and not each other; Lest We Forget.

Cheers!

[CBBB]

You are not getting me on Zivania and tonic if this is what it does to the two of you!

[quattro]

You are not getting me on Zivania and tonic if this is what it does to the two of you!

KEO never had any side effects as the above i believe

[cyprusgrump]

A 'fession ...there was a time in more innocent and more liberal-thinking days when would have agreed with some, ... and would have thought ... yeah live and let live ..and that if normally intelligent and rational people are foolish enough (imho) to believe in obvious nonsense and superstition ... well what's it got to do with me? ... but in this near twilight of life and in the face of the harm, the suffering, the millions and millions of deaths in His Name that His Religion, and the religions of Others, have caused over the millenniums, that really must ask...

Can anyone of conscience stay silent and bite their tongue, cos isn't to "show respect" (shall we call it that?), isn't it really to aid and to acquiesce in the intolerance, the tortures, the Inquisitions, the divisive tribalism and the murderous wars that Religions have brought us?

... and if you agree.. then there can be no close season for criticisms of religions.

I agree with you...

The sad thing is that we are all born free of any knowledge of religion (and many other things)...

So we are all 'brainwashed' at an early age to believe in whatever god our parents were brainwashed to believe in. Just in the same way that we are taught that fire engines are 'red' and bananas are 'yellow'.

Sadly very few of us ever question what has been taught to us or how it relates to that which science has discovered...

Isn't it a shame that children can't be taught the difference between right and wrong or what constitutes good behaviour without linking it to some 'god' and the punishment that he will bring if we do wrong...?