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Post by Sir John on Apr 17, 2014 20:05:42 GMT -5
safer to become an atheist!
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Post by Swampy on Apr 17, 2014 23:29:31 GMT -5
Why?
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Post by dry on Apr 26, 2014 4:04:34 GMT -5
If one does not believe in any crazy religion, then one will enjoy one's entire life, and after physical death (if the life vanishes like a halting computer program) he/she will lose nothing and gain nothing.
If one believes in some silliness such as Fundamentalist Christianity, then one will suffer for Jesus' wounds throughout his entire life, and thereafter, ie. after death, he/she will never have the opportunity to discover that thru his/her entire life he/she was holding an empty THIS TICKET DOES NOT WIN lottery ticket, figuratively speaking.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Apr 26, 2014 7:48:14 GMT -5
What a thoroughly distorted and hysterical view of Christianity!
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Post by Swampy on Apr 26, 2014 9:08:36 GMT -5
Atheism can be a religion, especially if the believer goes on a crusade against theists.
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Post by dry on Apr 26, 2014 14:42:17 GMT -5
What a thoroughly distorted and hysterical view of Christianity! is something about which innumerable library shelf book MILES have been written. I only referred to the Fundamentalist variant, about which individuals I do have highly bad personal experiences. Mentioning hysteria is interesting, and I won't claim that it were wrong: I mean, dontom our intel person and anti-religionist anti-dogmatist anti-bravosierrist may have made me somewhat exceedingly enthusiastic about dogma bashing. |
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Apr 26, 2014 15:28:59 GMT -5
If you are aware of so many books about Christianity, maybe it would be a good idea if you read one before going off the deep end. "Suffer for Jesus wounds" indeed???
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Post by dry on Apr 26, 2014 18:14:24 GMT -5
If you are aware of so many books about Christianity, maybe it would be a good idea if you read one before going off the deep end. "Suffer for Jesus wounds" indeed??? At school I had to study Religion for 12 years, it was a mandatory subject. Right now I have in my bookshelf a university textbook about religious science, waiting for to be read. (Admittedly, I have not read it yet.) In Christian meditation they indeed intensively think about Christ's suffering on the Cross of Calvary. Some individuals even get medically sick from that meditation. They indeed do suffer from Jesus' wounds -- which expression was a metaphor for agony caused by religion, in general. |
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Post by hornet32 on Apr 26, 2014 19:35:56 GMT -5
No pain no Gain .
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Post by dry on Apr 27, 2014 15:37:32 GMT -5
That is merely a play on some words. Per aspera ad astra was a bad idea -- in one of my short stories I had it changed to Ad astra, To the Stars. Indeed, à propos, one of the US aircraft carriers was named the USS Constellation.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constellation_(CV-64)AJY |
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