Are you too angry about religion?

[AshtonBlack]

Coito ergo sum:
Things that don't exist are not "big."

i know that. duh. i also know things that do exists can be small as well, such as your willy.

I think that could be regarded as a personal attack, Mandelson.

That's no biggie. He/she can go ask his/her mother...she'll tell Mandelson all about the shape, size, color, feel and taste....

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[charlou]

mine is pretty big. but i dont brag about it. its what i do with when its inside them that really counts.

Huh...I thought you were a woman, based on some of your posts. Are you lying again? Tsk tsk.

You reckon he's really a khaki clad feminist with an agenda driven bias?


By the way, Coito, get fucked.

[Trolldor]

naturally irreverent, liberal and suspicious of authority figures.

*cough*

You'd be surprised at how willing most Australians are to follow blindly the man with the prettiest hat.

That would be John Howard. Before him Malcolm Fraser and before him Bob Menzies. Between the three of them they told us what to do the majority of the time during the past 65 years, promoting the stodgiest, obedient, petty-bourgeois suburbanite values under the sun, and we kept voting them back in again and again and again and again and...

Don't fall for that threadbare myth, Pappa. It's just that: a fucking myth.

Damn, and there's me thinking Aussies are born cool!

We are, actually. Like everybody else on earth. Then conditioning sets in.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I've noticed that those most inclined to more (adj.)'liberal' politics tend to be from the middle class. Liberals and Laborites are far too similar that it's hilarious to hear one party disparraging the attempts of another, when they were the ones who originally came up with the scheme.

[Coito ergo sum]

mine is pretty big. but i dont brag about it. its what i do with when its inside them that really counts.

Huh...I thought you were a woman, based on some of your posts. Are you lying again? Tsk tsk.

You reckon he's really a khaki clad feminist with an agenda driven bias?

No, I reckoned it was an agenda driven Muslim woman, which would be not much at all like a feminist. Some of what Mandelson has posted previously led me to believe it was a female who converted to Islam. I am not inclined to search back through the posts, but I have a sense that at first Mandelson presented itself as female. I fully acknowledge I may be wrong.

By the way, Coito, get fucked.

Whatever.

[Coito ergo sum]

Coito ergo sum:
Things that don't exist are not "big."

i know that. duh. i also know things that do exists can be small as well, such as your willy.

I think that could be regarded as a personal attack, Mandelson.

That's no biggie. He/she can go ask his/her mother...she'll tell Mandelson all about the shape, size, color, feel and taste....

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Glad to have been of service!

[statichaos]

Back to the topic for a moment: I don't find anger to be especially constructive. It's like being angry at my neighbor for being an Insane Clown Posse fan. As long as he keeps the music down and doesn't insist that I go to the concerts with him, it doesn't bother me one bit. To quote Jefferson, the beliefs of another "neither break my leg nor pick my pocket". Of course, when legs are broken and pockets are picked, I get annoyed.

[Epictetus]

I'm angry that religion manages to monopolize too much precious time --time that could be spent pursuing other things, things that are infinitely more interesting and, I think, more important too. I think we atheists spend far too much time arguing with religious people who are willfully ignorant. Religion originated at a time when people knew nothing about, say, the existence of the New World, or bacteria, viruses, or protozoans, or plate tectonics, or evolution, or the jaw dropping scale of the universe, and on and on. Religion was born in that benighted era. It seems insane that anyone living in the 21st century, when we've accumulated so much knowledge, would want to subscribe to a belief system that originated in the Iron Age. I'm reminded of the words of the apostle Paul, who said: "When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spoke as a child, and I behaved as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things". I think the time is long overdue to "put away" the childishness of religion and grow the hell up. Of course, this is just my humble opinion.

[statichaos]

I'm curious to know how much time getting angry over religion monopolizes. Or at least how much energy and mental focus it takes up.

[Trolldor]

I'm curious to know how much time getting angry over religion monopolizes. Or at least how much energy and mental focus it takes up.

Not much. Being angry is easy.

[statichaos]

Really? I've noticed that it tends to distract me from doing things that are far more enjoyable and constructive, and eats up energy I'd put to those tasks.

[Trolldor]

Being angry is easy and doesn't waste that much energy or time at all. Being violent or aggressive takes up a lot.

[Epictetus]

Yes, indeed, the apostle Paul was clearly onto something when he wrote: "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain". So true. So true.

"Who has ears to hear, let him hear."

[statichaos]

Paul was a dillweed.

[Epictetus]

Paul was a dillweed.

I wonder if people today actually believe that 2000 years ago a Jewish inhabitant of the Middle East rose from the grave like a fucking zombie? And what of the other supposed resurrections recorded in the "Good Book"? Lazarus, for instance, or Jairus' daughter, or all those OT saints who strolled the streets of Jerusalem during Jesus' crucifixion, or some such thing? Do people living in the 21st century really believe this? Are people so easily duped into believing things that are manifestly absurd? Of course, it's a rhetorical question: the world is full of credulous halfwits, who'll believe the most astonishing things on the basis of no evidence whatsoever. For myself, I'm no more capable of believing in the "resurrection" of Jesus than I'm capable of believing that Balaam's donkey was fluent in Hebrew, or that Samson single-handedly slew a thousand armed Philistine soldiers with the jawbone of an ass (one would have to be an ass oneself to believe such fantastic nonsense).

[leo-rcc]

@the OP: No I'm not.