Reaching peak cynicism in a black - and - white picture, Burr covers political correctness, violence, and letting
go of religion... like a curling stone.
I used to be religious, and I am a better person now than I was before letting
go of religion.
It took letting
go of religion, of the god I'd been taught was wrathful and vengeful to find it.
I foolishly deleted your response because of very wrongheaded thinking on my part about letting
go of religion.
Not exact matches
Last year, the HBO documentary
Going Clear drew in millions
of viewers as it
went in - depth into controversial claims from former members and people associated with the church, while also investigating the
religion's tax - exempt status.
«We're now
going to be writing our own story like no other
religion in history,» Miscavige told a crowd
of Scientologists at the late - May opening
of the complex.
Wynne
went on to say that the Province has changed and that «I do not believe the people
of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis
of race, sexual orientation, colour or
religion.
Social groups like Kiwanis are shrinking, which
goes hand in hand with the overall decline in advanced countries
of religion.
In 2008, a Scientology - produced video
went viral on YouTube
of the actor explaining what the
religion means to him.
That is, if his fans are willing to forgive HBO's explosive new Scientology documentary, «
Going Clear,» in which Cruise is criticized for remaining the face
of the controversial
religion.
The Alberta government's showpiece bill this fall explicitly prohibits schools from telling parents their children have joined a peer support club for LGBT students, and clarifies that existing notification policies about discussions
of sexuality and
religion don't
go beyond class lessons.
Crawford's testimony echoed that
of Russell's mother, Judith, who remarked on the extent Tamerlan would
go to convince her
of his
religion's merits.
So when you're scared
of Muslim or Islam, just
go upto your Muslim neighbor, your Muslim coworker or just walk into a mosque and speak with Americans who speak the same language, drinks the same coffee and watches the same Simpson and tell them «Hey, I'm scared
of you / your
religion, and I don't want to be, so tell me about your
religion and why I should NOT be scared
of you just because you're a Muslim.»
It's just hair - splitting on mainline Christianity whether to criticize traditional black - American denominations, or just
go after the god
of the
religion in general.
I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions
of people who are indifferent to
religion and who only
go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.
Should we
go with the whole Europeans are always right mumbo jumbo and assume that Christianity is right or can one
of the Eastern
religions out
of Asia even be the right one?
Re the christian and
religion bashing, when are we
going to realize that anyone can do about anything in the name
of religion, from extreme evil to extreme charity.
Atheists in the modern age really don't
go for this kind
of violence — they for the most part just ignore
religion and
go do something better.
Bill, it's not so much that anyone would be «forced» to
go to the concert, it's tax dollars being spent in support
of one
religion's recruitment drive.
(1) Churches on base
of all
religions are funded by the government... yes, your tax dollars are paying for me to be able to enjoy whichever religious service
of the 10 denominations that my small base has (not Fort Bragg)... and if I want to be Christian one day, switch to Muslim another, or Jewish another then your tax dollars are still
going to pay for me to have freedom
of choosing my
religion on base.
As a Catholic woman told me about her thinking when she
went off to college, «To limit yourself to only people
of your own
religion seemed bigoted....
this really
goes to the core
of how any tolerance between
religions is a veneer and a sham, and we see the results every day.
Really you believe this crap that if u believe in Jesus you will
go straight to heaven so in This case Hitler, Jeffery Dahmer or Moussolini are
going to heaven, no judgment or hell form and only cause they believe in Jesus.I don't want to be part
of this
religion.
Just Google ISLAM
RELIGION OF PEACE and then see what is really
going on in the world.
So how do you
go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on
religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record
of him saying anything, just records
of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».
This is a
religion based on an angry god who's
going to put most
of the people on this Earth in Hell for eternity.
Man
religion is out
of control, this pansy obviously wants a «woman» who's gonna be barefoot and pregnant, good luck with your life.
This is all about control with
religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full
of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way
of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote
going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock
of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.
Must really tick you off that people can now think for themselves,
go against your grain, and break the yoke
of religion from around their throats.
Funny thing is that many things Christians do (deny civil rights to women, ga • ys and minorities, preach intolerance towards other
religions, etc) would seem like something Satan would be in favor
of...
go figure, a bit ironic.
I do not believe in god, but I also
go a step further to say that I would not want there to be a god, at least not in the context
of modern day
religion.
3) bouncing from one to the next physically and emotionally abusive christian home 4) being bullied due to lack
of interest in sports and small stature 5)
going to war and watching friends get hurt and / or die in combat 6) growing up being called a «devil worshipper» for not buying into
religion.
All my White Power buddies, this pastor is
gone past our norms
of just burning the crosses in the black neighbourhoods, I have never seen muslims burn any
religions holy books or call any other
religion derogatory names.
Bazan
went to Northwest College and Assemblies
of God College in Washington State, where he studied philosophy and
religion for two years.
a Cold War civil
religion,
of which John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson's crusade in Vietnam was the chief expression and which, contradicting John Quincy Adams, «positively required the United States to
go abroad in search
of monsters to destroy»;
For someone who doesn't believe in God, he (Silverman) seems to be
going way out
of his way to eradicate
religion in this country.
And even if you got them to convert, you still have how many thousands
of religions to
go?
In this world today, I don't care who you are, you need to use a little common sense... and considering what happened on 9/11, in the name
of a
religion, people are
going to be hyper - sensitive.
The Godless Nazi party then
went on to exterminate 6,000,000 innocent fellow citizens
of Germany because
of their jewish
religion.
Jefferson said some critical things about
religion and human nature - that were spot on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group
of people to the point that he wanted them
gone.
But until we come to the end
of ourselves then we are
going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired
of being sick and tired
of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war
going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word
of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man
of sin within: For out
of the abundance
of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words
of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead
of Christ, one has become a teacher
of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man
of sin: Many who have come out
of religion has done this, as they
went from one mountain top «from the extreme right»
of self exaltation (
Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left»
of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down
of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man
of sin (Adam) through theses valleys
of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word
of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
Islam is on the rise and
going through 3rd world country pains like the christians did when they killed in the name
of god and ruled with
religion.
To put one's
religion a head
of another and belittled beliefs that doesn't
go with Christianity is just plain wrong.
The commissioners involved, a third
of whom were Christians,
went across the UK canvassing opinions on how to adequately include different
religions, and people with no
religion, in modern Britain.
Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set
of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from
religion (plenty
of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights
go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).
There you
go «science» you have left the circle
of science and entered the worship
of satanic
religion.
This media trap pits us against each other for the sake
of race,
religion, and beliefs as a distraction from whats really
going on.
The stories written about him decades later are inconsistent with each other on important details,
went through an editing process hundreds
of years later, and incorporate a number
of myths
of other
religions popular at the time.
A majority
of the Justices
went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to
religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»
Money wasted as the «Dollar nut case» simply hasten the decline
of all
religions as they finally
go extinct from their own absurdity..