Yeah, I know it’s satire. I’m an atheist, and I hate stupid, narrow-minded fundies as much as anyone. But honestly, this joke has run its course. People’s lives can actually get ripped apart by Pastafarianism, though I know you don’t really believe it. Not as many as by organized religion, but organized religion can’t really be stopped except by massive revolution, whereas Pastafarianism can be. It was funny for a while, but you don’t seem to realize (actually, some of you probably do) that no one cares anymore, that all the hate mail is faked. Stop laughing at the rest of the world, and realize that you’re not better than the people who post your hatemail; it’s a /joke/. And your religion has lost its humor. So shut up when talking to people you think are stupid. That was the /real /meaning of the “atheists are so arrogant” post. He was pointing out that /you/ were so arrogant in believing that there were really that many stupid people in the world. Some of you, I am now sure, know that all this hatemail is faked. Tell the others, and get everyone to stop acting such a fool.
RAmen,
bbctol
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Neanderthal know Homo erectus. It has smaller brain :)
But not know Homo sexual.
God apiens maybe let Neanderthal play because Neanderthal have bigger brain than god Homo sapiens. Modern sapien god people not like play with bigger Neanderthal brain! :(
Maybe pretend.. :)
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http://www.godandscience.org/evolution/descent.html
And is not true! God people make big twisting slithering LIE!
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Family picture. #4 is Neanderthal :) :)
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/n/neaderthal.asp
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Is bad :( Neanderthal still learning new talking :)
“maybe let Neanderthal play” mean maybe “not” let Neanderthal play! Neanderthal pretend nice to funny god botherers…yes? :)
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@everyone
Sorry if I don’t reply often, or very quickly. Being on the bottom rung of UMass Physics, I’m using a pentium II (until I can afford to buy my own computer), and I am a TA for 4 lab sections, which means 80 lab reports to grade every 2 weeks.
@DPG
so what sort of CM research do you do, if you don’t mind me being nosy?
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http://www.inthepursuitofgod.com/forum/showthread.php?p=52915#post52915
Do I sound convincing?
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@Physics Wench.
:) Oh yeah! Good one – I love the reference to the famous course :)
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@alchemist
http://www.bible.com is great for finding stuff like that, you can do keyword searches :)
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@ Physics Wench – I thought you were quite convincing! :) You mentioned that you are stuck with a pentium II…I was entertained because Wednesday my computer programmer/network admin husband had an endoscopy and even through the Demerol/Versed haze noticed that the endoscope was run with a PII! He also noticed that the nurse who finished us up had a nice butt! Cracks me up… :)
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@Rowdy Wench
Hope the endoscopy went well, despite the PII running it. And I’m glad he enjoyed the nurse’s nice butt :)
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@ Physics Wench – Thanks!! Actually, we found out he most likely won’t need surgery on the hiatal hernia he’s had for 14 years…so that was great!
He likes to tell people that it’s one of his goals in life to be a dirty old man, and that at this point he has the “dirty” and the “man”. Now all he has to do is wait! :)
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@Physics wench
I’m doing DFT calculations on FeCr alloys. Click on my homepage for a more detailed description.
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@DutchPastaGuy
sounds like some interesting stuff :)
@Rowdy Wench
Glad to hear he doesn’t need the operation. Surgery’s never fun.
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if someone could answer this question really quickly:
did the kansas school board recant their decision? or do they still teach ID in their schools?
-Jesus
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Jesus Mar 2nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
if someone could answer this question really quickly:
did the kansas school board recant their decision? or do they still teach ID in their schools?
-Jesus”
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Nah, it sucks jesus.
Seem’s they’re STILL teaching it!
We lost this round :(
But! We’re still fighting!!!
Ramen
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Wait! I just found this on Wikipedia! Somebody confirm this please!
“On the 13th of February, 2007, the Kansas State Board of Education approved a new curriculum which removed any reference to Intelligent Design as part of science. In the words of Dr Bill Wagnon, the board chairman, “Today the Kansas Board of Education returned its curriculum standards to mainstream science”. The new curriculum, as well as a document outlining the differences with the previous curriculum, has been posted on the Kansas State Department of Education’s website.[1]”
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_public_education#Movements_to_teach_creationism_in_schools
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@ Jesus – This may help: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2013263,00.html
My Dad sent me this a while back…
@ everyone – I’m out for the weekend, dang it! Going to visit the parents. Maybe some interesting posts after that – I’ll be crazy for 3 days! :)
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@ Rowdy:
Thanks! I actually looked further into the matter and found the actual report by the Kansas School Board (why did i put that in caps?), where it said that they no longer teach creationism…HOWEVER, they are VERY critical of science, the scientific method, and its conclusions in their curriculum plan laid out in their standard. Read it for yourself (or just skim it to the good parts, especially p. x to xiii.
http://www.ksde.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=pcVGQGvijGA%3d&tabid=144
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Hi Jesus!
Wow – you could sure clear some stuff up for us ;)
The general consensus seems to be that we have won this round, but it is the first of many – a lot of the schools are coming up with similar things – and the rest of europe is getting dragged in too – this is no time to be complacent! The IDiots are everywhere!
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I see your point, and it is a good one. maybe we shouldn’t make fun of fundamentalists. After all, they have their own (sometimes “stupid”) beliefs and we should respect that. But i resent the fact that you think FSM can rip lives apart. If you are stupid enough to believe in a flying spaghetti monster (which i obviously am, being a pastafarian COUGH COUGH) then either you deserve whats coming to you, or you will already believe in a “more plausible” (i use this term advisedly…) religion. And the reason I personnaly am pastafarian is becuase i believe that I am doing my part to show that religion is fake and that it hurts lives. FSM does not hurt lives.
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Anyone here, don’t worry. The people here are either Atheists who want to ridicule religion, or just people who want have a funny religion to laugh about. The truth is no one here actually believes that a flying spaghetti monster is real. The reason they have your childish like drawing is because it is showing this is a joke. The creator most likely is an atheist. I didn’t waste my time looking if he was or not. So no one actually believes in this anyways. However, for you atheists and people who pretend to believe in this person, if you’re going believe in religion, try Christianity. You atheists are logical, right? You believe that when you die, you simply die. However, even though their is some proof of intelligent design, why not try Christianity. You might as well cover all the bases, or get the most chances by covering them all. Not on something that has no chance. And I’m not going to bother reading replies, so this is all I had to say.
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FSM have just reached Denmark. So it has not run it time yet! And people who have had enough, and leave FSM.. Well… No beer for them!
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@reputo
whaddaya mean no1 believes in the FSM he created life midgits and so much more-
i believe you exist of holiest of noodley appendaged lifeform!
RAmen!
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Reputo takes the old cowardly route all the way:
“their[sic] is some proof of intelligent design” but don’t cite it
“why not try Christianity. You might as well cover all the bases, or get the most chances by covering them all.” If that’s the case, why not try Hinduism, Islam, etc., too? I’m sure the deities of all those religions, if they existed, would be delighted to know you joined up to “cover all the bases” rather than from genuine belief.
“And I’m not going to bother reading replies,” probably because you’re afraid to consider alternative to your own arrogance.
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@reputo- I really don’t care if you’re not coming back, I’ll reply anyway. HA!
Excuse me, but what semblance of provable proof does ID offer? Give it to me, come on. I’ll knock your dogma on it’s ass with my superior logic.
And not bothering to read replies to something you wrote is just plain rude.
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@reputo
Hi, My names Leah and I’m a exchristian, So I gave your religion a try for most of my young life, until I was 17 old (clean for 4 years, go me) and I have a few points to share with you. Christainity, in its many forms is based on a book of nonsense, and this most likely goes for other religions too, but I’m going to stick the one I know, the main reason I gave up on religion and the whole god thing is because it makes no reasonable sense, A God who is Just and Merciful? Who is kind and good but is responisble for satan and the state of sin we are in?(apparently, I don’t feel all to sinful, but hey thats just me) Who is perfect but jealous? that just a start both testaments are full of morally deplorable behavior both from god and jesus and their spokespeople, bigotry, us and them thinking, slavery, sexism, rape and child abuse is all ok in the bibles point of view, yes I know that many religous people don’t think that these things are really all that acceptable, but they claim to worship a God that does! All this site really aims to do is mirror the hilarity of religous beliefs, but while talking about another religion that doesn’t cause believers brains to shut down as soon as they see it. I think that helping people understand that while believing in a God is not a bad thing is and of its self the kind of unreasoning belief that gives rise to things like creationism is, is a good thing.
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@Reputo Mar 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
“So no one actually believes in this anyways. However, for you atheists and people who pretend to believe in this person, if you’re going believe in religion, try Christianity. You atheists are logical, right? You believe that when you die, you simply die.”
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So Reputo, what qualifications do have to decide whether someone genuinely believes in that the FSM is the one and only creator? Perhaps I could say the same for your religious beliefs. I mean you couldn’t possible believe in something so ludicrous as Christianity could you? Surely your belief is feigned! One could only be paying lip service to something so obviously metaphorical and fictional as the xtian holy BooK.
No sane being would take such an illogical and contradictory series of tales to be fact.
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“You believe that when you die, you simply die.”
Indeed not! The righteous followers of the FSM are lifted by His Noodley Appendages to spend eternity in His wondrous Beer Volcano and Stripper Heaven :)
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“And I’m not going to bother reading replies”
Is OK Reputo, your attendance is not required. We can make a complete fool of you (which your post warrants) in your absence :)
May you be touched by His Noodley Appendage and see the truth.
RAmen
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@Reputo Mar 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
“However, even though their is some proof of intelligent design……. And I’m not going to bother reading replies, so this is all I had to say.”
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By the way, Reputo, the sky is purple with orange spots and I have some proof! However I’m not going to bother reading any replies to this post.
RAmen
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@Reputo Mar 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
“And I’m not going to bother reading replies, so this is all I had to sayâ€.
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Third post in response to Reputo….I’m in a good mood from reading some other god bothering BS today Reputo, so think yourself lucky :)
Are you familiar with the term “mental masturbation†at all?
You see, my experience on these threads with previous “mental masturbatorsâ€, such as yourself, is that they can never resist coming back to read any replies to their self flagellating wanks. Your intention to indeed come back and read responses is evidenced by your attempt, in your statement, to cover yourself against any.
Again…May you be touched by rational thought.
RAmen
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Ah Reputo,
“…You might as well cover all the bases, or get the most chances by covering them all. Not on something that has no chance. And I’m not going to bother reading replies, so this is all I had to say…”
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Firstly to echo Nikkiee (a fine wench if ever there was) i bet you read this, and now you can’t prove me wrong without confirming you have and confirming me right! ah the exquisite paradox of being hoisted by your own petard. In case you do read this i would like to taunt you first as a close minded, irrational, IDiotic, repressed loon. I bet you secretly admire us and wish you were worthy of a pirate patch don’t you?..
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secondly, cover all the bases? so you should believe because it’s playing the odds? the old theological insurance scam. i thought god could see your intentions? in which case who’s going to burn the hottest? a pastafarian who is upright, sincere and honest, does no harm and uses his brain to best effect. or a liar of a Christian who “believes” and goes through the motions for effect and because they’re scared to make a decision? bet your baths hotter than mine pal, pass the brimstone, i need to scratch my back…
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@Navigator Spider Mar 10th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Aww…thanks Navigation Spider (*grinning and blushing*)
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“I bet you secretly admire us and wish you were worthy of a pirate patch don’t you?”
Hehehehe….I think you’ve hit the nail squarely on it’s head again Spider :)
RAmen
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@Reputo Mar 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
‘Anyone here, don’t worry. The people here are either Atheists who want to ridicule religion, or just people who want have a funny religion to laugh about.’
Well I don’t know about others here, but speaking for myself, I came for the beer and strippers. :p
RAmen
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@Princess Leah- congrats on being church free! Woohoo you!
@Spider- well put. I bet he’s squirming in agony trying to resits replying^_^
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@Navigator Spider
It’s good to be reading your posts again! They almost always make me laugh… and then think, usually. =)
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I don’t know where you posted it, but I didn’t get a chance to reply earlier. I am very sorry about your friend. (Sending you a big mental hug right now) I hope all the good times and happy memories stay with you always… that’s what immortality is really about. =) Much love to you.
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@Reputo
“The creator most likely is an atheist.”
The creator doesn’t believe in himself?
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Im a Christian, a Freemason and a Pastafarian. (wow waits for thunderbolts flames and all sorts from above below and beside) Just cos I believe in God, dont mean I belive in creationism or “Inteligent design” just means I believe that theres something out there, and that that jesus guy had some good ideas before his followers fucked him over.
Do I follow the modern church? no Id rather eat pasta drink rum and sing yo ho ho. and thats what I do when I can. oh and attend masonic meetings in secret.
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@Pastafreemason
Welcome to the Church of the FSM. Glad to hear you’re not into ID, creationsim etc and see Jesus as just someone with good ideas (heck, even Dawkins applauded Jesus for that). That just leaves me with the “believe that theres something out there” bit. Many here won’t go along with that. But please hang around anyway.
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@Pastafreemason
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Wow, a Freemason! Is it true that the Illuminated Brethren are simply infiltration agents for their Lizard Overmasters from the Pleiades system :)
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Welcome and RAmen
So mote it be!
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Ok .. i didn’t read all of the posts but at a guess i would say they go in about the same general direction.
To some people FSM might not be a real religion but to some it may be. What does it matter, can’t we all just believe how we want to? I’ve liked the religion part of FSM because of its originality. I like to write and therefore can find a good story in everything .
I’m an atheist but i still like the ideas of religion, its been a convenient way of controlling the masses for the past couple thousand years, and i personally think that all of the other religions have become corrupted in their roots. For one they quite often bring things to extremes (i know not everyone does) and (i think) misunderstand some of their own things.
Secondly if you look at all of the churches and stuff (especially catholic) then you can tell that quite a lot of that money their collecting from people doesn’t go towards the important stuff. If the pope is the ambassador of heaven or w/e then i don’t think he needs all of Vatican city to live in, he should have spiritual comfort in a shoe box right? This money could have been put to a better use, like say, hmm i don’t know, eradicating hunger problems and say, i dunno, maybe providing education to third world countries and such, and i mean educate not brain wash or convert. The third major problem with most religions is that they refuse to conform to the new world. And the final problem i got with most organized religions is that more blood has been shed in the name of some divine being then any other reason.
All of the reasons i dislike most religions are the same reasons i like Pastafarianism, it’s fresh and conforms to the new world, your not spending money so some fat priest can live in comfort, there’s nothing really extreme about this religion, and last i checked we’re not planning any wars or inquisitions, or any such things.
Pastafarianism is a fun and current religion that sticks it to the older religions’ monopolies on human thoughts and emotions. If you think it’s just a joke then think that, i personally see it as a slightly more interesting answer to the question “what do you believe in?” then “no.” I believe in free expression, and i also believe that you can express your selves without being mean about it.
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Welcome jonathan M, you’ll fit in here perfectly. Hang around.
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Whoot thanks for the welcome. I think what I might believe in is what I think Albert E called the prime force the cause of Big Bang or whatever, be it sentient or not, dont matter, dont care, it works for me heck it could have been the FSM as far as we know ( I wasnt there at the time so cant comment)
Yes I am a lizzard creature thing that you talked about, I know the secret of the grail,(it was a tommy tippy sipper cup for baby jesus) and we have weird rituals that make goths look sunny and bright (OK the last one is true)
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@Pastafreemason
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But with a sense of humour so that’s ok :)
I was once invited to a local lodge by an ex-colleague, we’d been talking about it for ages. I’ll admit I found it very interesting but felt I might burst into a fit of the giggles at any time – most likely during the initiation (didn’t fancy the hoodwink and noose either) so I didn’t pursue it.
Horses for courses as they say around here.
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Good to see you back!
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So was this hate mail faked as well then, or is it really a concerned athiest? If i respond does that mean im talking to myself? Is anyone listening? Hello..FSM..are your there?
Nevermind…all is good… there really are that many stupid people in the world.
Ramen
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Obviously this guy is a heretic. May the FSM have mercy on his soul and let him partake of the beer volcanoes and strippers anyway.
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Again people are confusing arrogance with ridicule. I am reminded (by Dr. Dawkins) of the quote by Thomas Jefferson:
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.”
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Cooper 1814.
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It is both arrogant and funny, but its passing out of the arrogant stage and into the proper stage of moderation where the joke is absolutely winning out and it was a very good joke to begin with. It is much safer to take culture out of politics, on the left as much as the right, as people who are not in your culture will respect you more for it. But at the same time culture builds sympathy and cohesian. There probably was too much arrogance in 2004 which is why there seemed to be no particular effort for the Democrats and their allies to launch a coherant campaign, at least from the top down. Many of them seemed as anti-Kerry as anti-Bush, which doesn’t give much credence to them complaining about how they lost the election. The students and professionals who did volunteer their time were absolutely fantastic.
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I rather like having Howard Dean (head of the DNC) and Pelosi in charge. They’re really awesome leaders. And whether or not Barack Obama wins, or is the best man for the job, he is an excellent spokesman and able to get past people’s categories. After the culture wars die down a bit, a lot of the moderates will find their way in on the joke. It’s hard to stay annoyed forever.
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I also agree this particular joke was not about arrogance but ridicule. It was the best argument possible against fundies taking themselves too seriously. And as it was another ID argument they couldn’t site their arguments that science is religious, as you guys don’t take yourselves seriously at all.
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Vote for Peter Popoff for Prez!
In 2008!
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Peter Popoff
Future Prez an’ Stuff
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bah, you would be surprised. say anything philosophical to anyone, and the resulting comment is almost inadvertently going to be “lol whut?”
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ummmm….
so is this fake hate mail
or real hate mail
or really fake hate mail
or fake real mail
or……
don’t know how to respond to such an inane argument….
head….
hurting….
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I don’t think that this is just a joke. A healthy crticism of all religions, not just christianity is essential. People nowadays have become so wrapped in religion (or being against religion) that no one pays attention to what we’re actually saying or believing or the affect of our belief on others. The implications of Christianity or Islam or Atheism (the anti-religion) are far-reaching and affect everybody whether we are aware of it or not. Because we live in a materialistic culture, it’s difficult to find an uncorrupted version of religion. For example holy texts have been used as political tools and that abuse has been success because they’re above “Earthly” criticism (but not Earthly gain.)
It’s important to have reminders that religion is an instution and is prone to the same stagnation and corruption as any other aspect of our society. The greatest danger is that we fail to criticize because of our fear of holy retribution. The other extreme is the persecution and ostracism of people who maintain a spiritual lifestyle. We should be able to have a healthy religion without being afraid of criticism. Criticism means people are not necessarily doubting it, but they’re thinking actively and contribute to that religion’s social evolution. We shouldn’t be so insecure about our own beliefs that we need to convert or isolate others on behalf of our god.
I find the fact that this page draws so much attention is a good sign. Just remember when we fail to criticize religion we start burning witches.
PS. Why does every hate letter on this site conclude the only way to find God is to go fuck one’s self? I know the Bible frowns on *that*!
Remember: every time you masturbate God kills a kitten.
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