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Subject: It seems that God is dying. Good news?
Recent article at Newsweek.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583?GT1=43002

Personally, I'm excited.

 

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Didnt read it all, but I skimmed through it.

And my question to you is, why are you excited that people are losing their religion?

 

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Rezzinu posted:
And my question to you is, why are you excited that people are losing their religion?


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I've seen this in a few newspapers 'round here, they keep quoting this bit too:

"this pattern has now changed, and the Northeast emerged in 2008 as the new stronghold of the religiously unidentified."

In a local paper here (Boston) they run informal surveys, you text your answer and they print it in the next days paper. The question was just "Are you a religious person? Yes/No" The response was like 46% of people consider themselves non-religious, 56% consider themselves religious. I'm sure its more slanted in other parts of the country, but that makes me pretty happy to live in this town.

 

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Surveys that count on people voluntarily texting or calling in information are invalid. Or unreliable, I forgot which. There is a difference when conducting experiments between invalidity and unreliability.

 

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Which is why I said it was an informal survey. happy

 

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I am a turkey.

 

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My reading comprehension is substandard.

 

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"And my question to you is, why are you excited that people are losing their religion?"

This is a very long conversation, with a lot of debating, and a lot of alternatives that people would have to consider that isn't all roses.

 

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^^^ That's what I was hoping for. As you can see, I'm a within sight of my big fatty star.

 

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OK, I'll start.

I know the Bible is the word of God because the Bible tells me so. And besides I know it is true because that is what I believe and everyone else that doesn't believe exactly like me is going to eternal torment so I don't care what you say anyways. Now prove me wrong!

How was that?

 

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'OK, I'll start.

I know the Bible is the word of God because the Bible tells me so. And besides I know it is true because that is what I believe and everyone else that doesn't believe exactly like me is going to eternal torment so I don't care what you say anyways. Now prove me wrong!

How was that?'

*sigh*

I know that the FSM exists because there is a website about him, and he is the one who is the creator of all. I can also actually talk to the person who wrote the words, know that they had a modern day education, are literate (while a 90% literacy rate in the states makes this fairly common, but I'm pretty sure the literacy rate back in 0 AD was only a couple percent, if that), and can read and write. I know it is true because it's what I believe, and everyone else that doesn't believe exactly like me is going to eternal torment so I don't care what you say anyways. Now prove ME wrong.

http://www.venganza.org/

The bible is written by people who apparently witnessed events 40 years prior, yet remembered every memory vividly enough to recount every single detail of a play by play of multiple peoples lives. I can't even remember where I put my keys 30 seconds after I walked into the door, but these poor, uneducated saps remembered every single detail and wrote it all down 40 years later?

Did I mention that throughout the centuries the church itself (hundreds of years after the death of christ, so none of them were an authority or even around for the events) edited the bible dozens of times to fit their vision of what people should believe and read, so the majority of the text you're reading isn't even the original words of the 'prophets', it's mostly the doctrine of the catholic church of the middle ages and beyond.

See the point I'm trying to make is that I can't prove you wrong, and you can't prove me wrong. The difference is, one of us knows that the thing he believes in is completely BS and made up. The other doesn't. But it really doesn't matter...if it's going to take a book to give you morals, rules, and a generally 'good' way to live life, then use it. I just don't need any of it to be a good person and do right by others.

 

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Guud, Guud, Guud.

I sincerely believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who was his own father, can make me live forever in paradise if I symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically tell him I accept him as my lord and master so he can remove an evil force from my soul that was planted there because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat the fruit of a magical tree. The best part is that he is a thing of pure love who will gladly take you into his fold and let you live forever among the clouds where you sprout wings and can jam on a harp. Unless, of course, you turn away from him, in which case he will torment you in a pit of lava and sulfer where horned red beings will poke you with tridents forever and ever.

I don't understand why others can't see the truth in this.

 

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Bahgoon posted:

I sincerely believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who was his own father, can make me live forever in paradise if I symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically tell him I accept him as my lord and master so he can remove an evil force from my soul that was planted there because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat the fruit of a magical tree. The best part is that he is a thing of pure love who will gladly take you into his fold and let you live forever among the clouds where you sprout wings and can jam on a harp. Unless, of course, you turn away from him, in which case he will torment you in a pit of lava and sulfer where horned red beings will poke you with tridents forever and ever.





 

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I sincerely believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who was his own father, can make me live forever in paradise if I symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically tell him I accept him as my lord and master so he can remove an evil force from my soul that was planted there because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat the fruit of a magical tree. The best part is that he is a thing of pure love who will gladly take you into his fold and let you live forever among the clouds where you sprout wings and can jam on a harp. Unless, of course, you turn away from him, in which case he will torment you in a pit of lava and sulfer where horned red beings will poke you with tridents forever and ever.

I don't understand why others can't see the truth in this.


Pure. Awesome.

 

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More sticks and stones! I like this zombie analogy.

 

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I can't bring myself to care what strangers believe in.

Newsweek is a trash.

 

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"I sincerely believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who was his own father, can make me live forever in paradise if I symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically tell him I accept him as my lord and master so he can remove an evil force from my soul that was planted there because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat the fruit of a magical tree. The best part is that he is a thing of pure love who will gladly take you into his fold and let you live forever among the clouds where you sprout wings and can jam on a harp. Unless, of course, you turn away from him, in which case he will torment you in a pit of lava and sulfer where horned red beings will poke you with tridents forever and ever.

I don't understand why others can't see the truth in this."

If we could get white zombie to put the above into a song, we'd be in business.

 

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Well, in a life imitates art situation, apparently today is the Festival of the Ritual of Zombification or somesuch and my local library was closed even though about 40% of the local population actually worship that black rock in Saudi Arabia. Was really hoping to get a book on CD for the 13 hours of driving I have coming up. sad

Oh well, I solaced myself in the fact that my zombie cult was completely untouched and unadulterated by pagan nonsense as I bought my chocolate bunnies and candy eggs for the Feast of Successful Zombification on Sunday.

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Where do you live that 40% of the population is Muslim?

 

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http://easteriscancelled.ytmnd.com/

 

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Dearborn, Michigan. Probably a bit of an exaggeration, but there are enough here that they close down the schools for a lot of the Muslim holy days.

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