christianity

[natas liah]

asks us to believe in a god nailed to a stick.
Why do people fall for this?
Theres much better philosophies to live by.

[chakka35]

potterfan3, there is no historical evidence for the Jesus story. See my post below called Did Jesus really exist? for the facts. All we have are stories (by unknown people in the case of the gospels) without a shred of evidence or eye-witness testimony.

Believe the Jesus story by all means, but you have no reason to call it history.

[jomifl]

So.. you see how relion makes people get angry and make hateful remarks that they will probably regret when they get to the confessional. Nuf sed

[chakka35]

jomifl, I trust you were not referring to my post. I don't get angry, I just give the facts.

[marval]

Since when was God nailed to a stick? if you do want to talk about Christanity please get your facts right

[jomifl]

Hi Chakka ..of course I wasn't referring to you, it was a general observation. Religious people do seem to get angry more easily than those of no religious persuasion. You pre-empted my reply to Potterfan. My reply was to have been a bit shorter though.

[RATTER15]

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

[MarkRae]

Every Christian should read a brief synopsis of Mithraism...

[starone]

Where can I find that Mark, it sounds interesting. Can I google it?

[beso]

CraftyPig commented:
Its both ironic and amusing that people who do not believe in a god or follow a religion feel that they somehow qualify to mock other peoples beliefs.......

Atheists mock the religious precisely because they take themselves so seriously. The faithful believe in the ridiculous entirely on the "evidence" in a book that is not even self consistent let alone corroborated by the slightest shred of contemporary literature or archaeological evidence.

Then they expect to dictate clearly unfair and deeply prejudicial social policies on the basis of their particular interpretation of the stupid book while other can equally find passages that would dictate quite the opposite.

While that is ridiculous they descend to the utterly offensive by upholding the stories of holy genocide as evidence of the power and glory of their miserable deity.

I will no more give respect to that kind of philosophy than I would to that of other fascist beliefs such as Nazism. The stupidity of religion needs to be loudly and extensively mocked to help balance the rubbish promulgated by the believers. The youth of our societies are the future of our societies and they deserve to hear the truth so as to make an informed judgement.

In Western societies the Church is no longer able to murder those they call heretics so get used to being mocked and stop whinging about it.