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(4,111 posts)Complete morons
To quote the guy in front of the Fir tree, "I believe in Freedom but. . ."
Clearly they do not understand what the word "freedom" means.
Girard442
(6,085 posts)I do tolerate those who do.
Duncanpup
(12,900 posts)Frightening
Thunderbeast
(3,419 posts)My seventy years of life experience has never revealed to me ANY REASON to use faith in a sky daddy (and his imaginary son) to guide my life.
If faith provides an allegory to do good works (Hello Jimmy Carter), I am happy to recognize someone's freedom to believe. When it is used to divide and concentrate power, I want it to wither and die.
Sadly, human history shows "faith" to be a tool to conquer and steal from those too ignorant to think rationally.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,468 posts)they are really saying. Sad, scary and makes me wonder how the 2 sides will EVER reconcile.
Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)"Taking him (God) away." She is so ignorant and she is a liar. "Accept our beliefs; Not to be mean...." (#2). I don't support those religions. Christianity is the true religion." "False Gods" (#3).
Yep "they" are brainwashed stupid and potentially violent. Not to be mean....
Trust_Reality
(1,723 posts)After nearly 80 years, I have concluded that...
Faith is the art of pretending.
Religion is the practice, mutual reinforcement, and promotion of a specific group of doctrines, stories, and dogma.
Religion is divisive to the point of shunning, resenting, threatening, fighting, and even killing.
Religious people experience a lifetime of fear. Quite sad, actually, often covered up by rituals.
Too bad they make life miserable for the rest of us.
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)It's a feature, not a bug, because what could induce people to join up if the sales pitch doesn't scare 'em to death with the idea of being the "them" that will "miss out" on the supposed enlightenment or entry to a hideous idea of paradise otherwise?
You don't want to be like "them," burning in hell or reincarnated into a lizard or lacking in all morals, do you?
That "argument" works more often than it ought.
Tikki
(14,559 posts)hygopricy loving, trump is god losers are NO Christians.
Tikki
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)They worship the same deity and follow the same book.
They merely adhere to different parts of it than the flockers you approve of.
But that doesn't make them any less of members of the faith than your mother. Or any other flocker.