Religion Has Done More Bad Than Good

CrackerJax

New Member
I think he means that when things get truly desperate it is difficult to resist the myth temptation. The brains defense mechanism for resolving the conflict of being put in harms way by others.
 

hanimmal

Well-Known Member
i think if you guys were in any war your view on religion would change a hell of alot better than it is now
I don't think that having the shit scared out of you is a good way to make you believe in god. I have no problem with the idea of religion. I just take issue with it when it is used to halt education and strip peoples rights away.
 

zorkan

Active Member
I don't think that having the shit scared out of you is a good way to make you believe in god. I have no problem with the idea of religion. I just take issue with it when it is used to halt education and strip peoples rights away.

you must hate the government

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; not an expert but all religion strip peoples rights

but who gave people those rightsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
 

Nocturn3

Well-Known Member
Zorkan, chill out for fucks sake. Try to use coherent sentences so people can understand what you are actually saying.

Shit like your above post just makes you look stupid and/or crazy.
 

hanimmal

Well-Known Member
I think the idea of who gave us rights is silly.

I don't have the right to not be eaten by a bear if I piss it off, or not die of a snake bite, or not starve if I have no food to eat, or to have a mate if I am not desirable.

Rights are a man made idea. Because we can do things to help out our people, we do. The idea of needing a piece of paper to spell out our 'rights' is laughable. More that is a contract between two groups of people that we will do this if you do that. And when things change, we need to add more words in to that document to talk about the new changes. And that contract allows us to work together and acheive new heights and have a better life than we would without that cooperation.

By staying in America I have accepted my part of that contract (even if I do break some rules here and there), and it does a ok job at keeping their side of the bargin.


But seriously are you just trying to bury those posts with huge text that just eats up space in hopes that it is 4 or 5 pages back soon?
 

pinkus

New Member
rights are a concept needed for society...an attempt to make things "fair". as we all know things are NOT equitable from the get go...social status, skin color, location, intelligence, health....all highly variable.
 

Stoney McFried

Well-Known Member
Hey! Your god condoned it, too.Does that mean I am a better person than your god?


(Judges 21:10-24 NLT)
So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the little remnant of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon. Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead who were spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them. The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had left this gap in the tribes of Israel. So the Israelite leaders asked, "How can we find wives for the few who remain, since all the women of the tribe of Benjamin are dead? There must be heirs for the survivors so that an entire tribe of Israel will not be lost forever. But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn oath that anyone who does this will fall under God's curse."

Then they thought of the annual festival of the LORD held in Shiloh, between Lebonah and Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem. They told the men of Benjamin who still needed wives, "Go and hide in the vineyards. When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife! And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, 'Please be understanding. Let them have your daughters, for we didn't find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in marriage to them.'" So the men of Benjamin did as they were told. They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance. Then they rebuilt their towns and lived in them. So the assembly of Israel departed by tribes and families, and they returned to their own homes.




(Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.








(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.





(Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.






(Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.





(2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)
Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." [The child dies seven days later.]






(Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)
"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."



(Judges 5:30 NAB)
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera's spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil.




(Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.





(Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city
some people think its ok to rape, is that clear sense ok with you?

I think its ok to smoke and grow weed does that make it ok?:bigjoint:
 
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PadawanBater

Guest
i think if you guys were in any war your view on religion would change a hell of alot better than it is now

lmao, the old addage "there's no atheists in foxholes" eh?

If I were in the military, even though it's almost exclusively a christian organization, I'd be PROUD AS FUCK about being an atheist, just like I am in every other situation.

Somebody else touched on it also, but if your God has to scare you into belief, then it's not really belief is it. You're a weak minded tool who can't handle reality. Fuck fear tactics, only goes to show more evidence of your bullshit.
 

fish601

Active Member
Hey! Your god condoned it, too.Does that mean I am a better person than your god?
[FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]Romans 13 Read This Chapter[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]13:4 For he (governing authorities) is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]13:5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. [/FONT]
 

Stoney McFried

Well-Known Member
But your god condones rape.Therefore, it isn't wrong in his eyes.Sure, you get thrown in jail by "authorities" but by telling those folks in those scriptures I quoted to take the women and ravish them,your god is condoning rape, and therefore, with the passage you've quoted, has contradicted himself.Do omnipotent beings contradict themselves?
[FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]Romans 13 Read This Chapter[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]13:4 For he (governing authorities) is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]13:5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. [/FONT]
 

fish601

Active Member
But your god condones rape.Therefore, it isn't wrong in his eyes.Sure, you get thrown in jail by "authorities" but by telling those folks in those scriptures I quoted to take the women and ravish them,your god is condoning rape, and therefore, with the passage you've quoted, has contradicted himself.Do omnipotent beings contradict themselves?

If your talking about :::::" Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city::::"


try reading it in context
 

CrackerJax

New Member
U should try reading it..... ravished isn't oogling or fondling.... it's RAPE. It also says half the city is to be slain.

Here's a tip, never use the Bible to try and project G*D as merciful or generous. It's too ez to disprove.....
 

fish601

Active Member
U should try reading it..... ravished isn't oogling or fondling.... it's RAPE. It also says half the city is to be slain.

Here's a tip, never use the Bible to try and project G*D as merciful or generous. It's too ez to disprove.....

yep its rape no doubt about that NOW read it in context

half the city to be slain yep and so? G*D killed millions of people during the flood...

never use the bible to project G*D as merciful or generous LOL he has been merciful and gernerous by sending jesus but just wait till judgement day. the bible says fear the lord!!!! i am afraid you have been mislead :roll:
 

sandmonkey

Well-Known Member
...except Jesus is/was not "The Lord".

Matthews 21:18-19

"18.Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
19.And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away."

What kind of God or creator wouldn't even know the season when his creation (in this case the fig tree) bears fruit?
 

CrackerJax

New Member
Stoney talks about rape....
Fish says read it in context.
I put it in context
Fish says so what....

Uhhhh..... TROLL.
 
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