Why disturb them?
#46
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Re: Why disturb them?
Remind me never to go for a drink with you!
(I have been a practising Christian for over thirty years, having come to faith at the age of 30 from being an atheist).
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#47
Re: Why disturb them?
Every country in Europe has a lower teenage pregnancy rate than the UK!
Spain also has very liberal laws on these things. The age of consent is 12, prostitution is legal (but pimping is not) and so is smoking cannibis.
And they have very low teenage pregnancy rates, but along with the UK, they are the highest drug takers in Europe!
Spain also has very liberal laws on these things. The age of consent is 12, prostitution is legal (but pimping is not) and so is smoking cannibis.
And they have very low teenage pregnancy rates, but along with the UK, they are the highest drug takers in Europe!
The age of consent in Spain is 13.
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Re: Why disturb them?
Fascinating. So lets's see. There's a group of people each one from a different sect or religion, and each one says 'My god is the only true god, and all the rest of you are going to hell!'
At the very, very best odds, only one could be right, if any.
So what makes you so certain that your christian sect is the one that will get you a free backstage pass to heaven, and will you like it when you get there?
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Re: Why disturb them?
In the same way that I hope one day to meet a socially balanced, worldly and considerate American
One can only dream!
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Re: Why disturb them?
It always makes me laugh when someone has the courage to stand up and say they are religious in nature and straight away non religious people jump on them and feel that they should justify their faith. Its the same thing that religious fanatics do when they hear that someone else is of another faith or even worse... without faith.
I've never understood the need for people to impose their views on others, regardless of what they are, they are your own... keep them that way and the world will be a happier place.
I've never understood the need for people to impose their views on others, regardless of what they are, they are your own... keep them that way and the world will be a happier place.
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Re: Why disturb them?
It always makes me laugh when someone has the courage to stand up and say they are religious in nature and straight away non religious people jump on them and feel that they should justify their faith. Its the same thing that religious fanatics do when they hear that someone else is of another faith or even worse... without faith.
I've never understood the need for people to impose their views on others, regardless of what they are, they are your own... keep them that way and the world will be a happier place.
I've never understood the need for people to impose their views on others, regardless of what they are, they are your own... keep them that way and the world will be a happier place.
#53
Re: Why disturb them?
It always makes me laugh when someone has the courage to stand up and say they are religious in nature and straight away non religious people jump on them and feel that they should justify their faith. Its the same thing that religious fanatics do when they hear that someone else is of another faith or even worse... without faith.
I've never understood the need for people to impose their views on others, regardless of what they are, they are your own... keep them that way and the world will be a happier place.
I've never understood the need for people to impose their views on others, regardless of what they are, they are your own... keep them that way and the world will be a happier place.
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Re: Why disturb them?
It always makes me laugh when someone has the courage to stand up and say they are religious in nature and straight away non religious people jump on them and feel that they should justify their faith. Its the same thing that religious fanatics do when they hear that someone else is of another faith or even worse... without faith.
I've never understood the need for people to impose their views on others, regardless of what they are, they are your own... keep them that way and the world will be a happier place.
I've never understood the need for people to impose their views on others, regardless of what they are, they are your own... keep them that way and the world will be a happier place.
I'm not jumping, I'm enquiring.
I don't feel the need to force my views onto anyone else, and like you, I can't understand the need for people to go out and force their views onto others. Whether you worship Hitler, Jesus or SpongeBob Squarepants, that's your business.
However, since most of these sects, especially the christian ones have charitable status and receive state money besides being allowed to indoctrinate children, I actually feel they DO have to justify their beliefs.
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Re: Why disturb them?
You really are a crazed fantasist, did you know that?
#57
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Re: Why disturb them?
Well, I just don't get how all these folk can stand up and proudly boast they believe all the cr#p that's being preached, I mean you have to admit there's some pretty weird stories about from most if not all religions.
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Re: Why disturb them?
I love it when people say this... Power. Power is what drives man to kill man. Power over other men, power to rule and control another peoples resources... by saying things like "religion is the source of evil yada yada yada..." it implies that without religion we would all be better off... thats not the case, we would still kill each other, still wage war, still want power and control.
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Re: Why disturb them?
I love it when people say this... Power. Power is what drives man to kill man. Power over other men, power to rule and control another peoples resources... by saying things like "religion is the source of evil yada yada yada..." it implies that without religion we would all be better off... thats not the case, r, we would still kill each other, still wage wastill want power and control.
Fact is IMO, most troubles around the world are religious based
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Re: Why disturb them?
I know what you are saying mate I really do, but children are fed the views and opinions of everyone they are taught by. For example, lets take the recent student riots, much of the trouble has been whipped up by their tutors, many of whom are worried about their jobs, many of whom have never done a days work in their lives, so their view of the world is warped, it is governed by the crap they in turn were taught by their tutors. Many of them go from one institution to the next, never experiencing the real world, never knowing what it actually takes to earn a wage, to do a days work to put food on their table... and yet we allow these people to not only teach children but also inevitably influence their thought. I have won money, several times, from making bets with people, generally in pubs, about the myth taught, up to Uni level, about water going down the plug hole differently depending on the hemisphere, one particular night in a Sussex pub I actually had to argue the point with a teacher FFS! This is what is being taught to "our" children mate....