Inselaffen

have you 2 still not got a room yet?

W10

The three major monotheistic religions believe in the same person. If the other person has a problem with it then they aren't following their religion properly...

Norm_uk

There are more than three religions in the world and more than three monotheistic beliefs in the world too...we don't know what that old biddy believed in.

Also, the characteristics and definitions of deity, core doctrine and writings in the three Abrahamaic monotheistic beliefs show three different deities regardless of what some of the followers claim.

N.

shiva

[QUOTE=Norm_uk;7242099]Yikes you're nearly as pedantic as me QUOTE]

phew a narrow escape on my part then!

Eva

to opinionated intolerent people perhaps?

Charismatic

There are a few who may suprise you, but yes...tollerance isn't exactly an attribute of most religious texts.

Eva

Oh don't mind me-I just felt like being controversial today.I know it's not like me but life's dull and my work bores me at the mo.


On topic and in reply, course it ain't ergo the War of Religion

W10

And seemingly neither is it an attribute of athiests either...

So I guess the lesson learned is. We all have to love one another. Twice weekly, wearing protection.

Norm_uk

Maybe but Atheism is a response to the intolerance of religion...and atheists don't have a book telling them to hate theists.

Most theists who are tolerant of others are going against their own beliefs...

N.

Charismatic

At least not one of those that post on interweb forums about religion. Mind you if you wern't that bothered you'd have little reason to post .

Charismatic

Sorry Norm but not so for me. I asked some not so silly questions in life (like where we came from, what plausible evidence could find to support the hypothesis that God had ever directly had any hand in creating anything, how valid or non valid the alternative theories are etc.) and then the conclusion came to suggested strongly that it was very unlikely there was a God.

In my view Atheism shouldn't become a crusade against religions but a means for people to live their lives in happiness, free at last from the shackles of ancient scriptures that ask them to perform immoral acts. Most of all though it should be used as a platform to allow people to explore the beauty of our world free to attempt to cessate our endless human curiosity. To explore the love, happiness and companionship we can bring to each other without religious restraint.

I believe over time people will be drawn more and more to this, that they too will want to live their lives without those shackles. It has to be their choice however as no one can ever truely excercise their own judgement through persuasion. Often the shackles they wish to escape will restrain them from living as they would wish, but, truely the place where we all gain the seed of freedom is our minds.

To look back on all of history's wars, it's massacres as a waste of human life isn't a crime or a weakness. Ultimatly the renewed freedom and independance people will gain should bring peace and prosperity. From experience it seems we are habitually a moral people with much in common including our dreams, aspirations, desires etc. The differences that seperate us are much smaller than the commonalities that bind us .

Anyway I've talked too much for now, another drink please .

W10

You've been reading Nietzsche haven't you

shakh your bootie

Man, anyone still reading Nietzsche beyond the age of 25 and without sporting marijuana-smoke spectacles is suffering from arrested development, IMHO.... Master of the one-liners, though -

There was only ever 1 christian, and he died on a cross......

Eva

Jesus,everyone knows that.....Christian Lacroix

W10

Bison's waiting for the movie...