I'm not religious but the concept isn't a divine being having a specific interest in you personally, it's an interest in his creation at large. This is bigger than you, than me, this is bigger than us. What religion is supposed to teach, what it does fundamentally teach is, "Do good and pass good on." The commandments in each religion are a result of defining what things are bad; they are bad because they hurt people, hurting people always comes full circle. I think that modern religious are definitely easily defined in the way that Bill Maher sees them; but I think his directed anger is aimed in the wrong place. I don't really think it's the leaders, because I've known some really cool guys that are full in on their religious convictions and beliefs and refuse to preach to me because they know that I actually give a fuck about the people around me and will be the kind of person to take the actions they know in themselves to be right. I think that religion on it's own is a great foundation for a moral code, it's something that should be taught with a grain of salt and not in terms of punishment and reward in any kind of after life but in terms of how your actions directly effect everyone around you, even the people you don't notice watching. I think where this goes wrong is that people take to heart the reward system and throw away the moral foundations believing that the moral foundations are literal word of god direction... These are the people that miss the point, they are the ones that the high intellectuals of any society would hate regardless of the believer's faith. These people preach and attempt to convert as if there's some cosmic scoreboard for saving souls, when you really should be just enjoying the company of your neighbor and enjoying the positivity that their beliefs bring to the table. As I've stated before, I don't believe there is relevance in questioning the existence of a god; however I do believe that religion serves a significant purpose in governing those that would ultimately wage war on a neighboring town because a football game got canceled on a Sunday or some stupid shit like that. No, I don't have hope that there will be a time in history where this kind of person does not exist, ergo we need religion to control them. I have extremely high IQ friends, people that put my numbers to shame that are religious and apatheist alike; I can have very interesting conversations with them about their beliefs and nobody ends up offended.
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Many women on here are zealots, so this might become a popular question. I was surprised when I saw via observation that there are many religious female zealots here, and the males have the 'live and let live' attitude. It seems too backwards to be true, I thought it was going to be the other way around.
Depends on the religion, but most of the really big ones or most of the cultist religions - completely agree.
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I agree with him. Who the fuck gave him right to watch over all of us and mess with our lives? Who the fuck is he to decide whether we go to hell or heaven?
Yes and this coming from a liberal New York fat cat -rolls eyes-
Actually, wouldn't it do the opposite. I mean, when you look up at the heavens and see all those stars and everything, doesn't it make you feel kind of small?
lol, biggest load of shit.
doesn't make u look good, ranting about something u dont understand.
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