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That being said I'm completely over religion at this point in my life, including militant atheism which has become its very own little religion as well, in case you hadn't noticed.

Green Bay, Wisconsin (CNN)-- A Green Bay voter confronted Mitt Romney over his religion at a town hall Monday, the day before Wisconsin's primary.

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I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

I got education at a university, astronomy, biology, physical anthropology, started studying religions and people and over a couple years and painful process I am now atheist.

At some point and time through - out history, all religions have been taken over and control by men, not God.

When a religion ceases to have any direct legal authority over its members of society, then isn't it really just a philosophy at the point?

as far as the cross at the twin tower site, just place the religious symbol of all whom died there and we can call it fair, until then it is endorsing one religion over the others.

Making specific exemptions for specific religions is fun at first, but at the end of the day, just cough over the dues for a (somewhat) healthy and (somewhat) civil society like the rest of us.

You know — every time I see religion debated on a public forum, the whole thing is an exercise in mental futility as both the atheists and even some of the Christians make the same type of mistakes over and over again and just yell back and forth at each other.

I think that many of them at one point believed in Jesus alone for eternal life, but over time, have come to accept the lies of religion that they need to have the performance and good works in order to keep or prove their eternal life.

Over at First Things a transcript has appeared of the 2017 Erasmus Lecture given at the end of last year by Bishop Robert Barron on the subject of «reaching the nones», that is those who self - declare as being of «no religion».

There have been plenty of wars fought over a wide range of reasons, not all wars are over religion, when are you athiests going to get off of your high horse and accept the fact that everyone, religious and non religious cause violence at some time.

At the same time, the electorate is split over their comfort level with a specific religion, Mormonism, and the prospect of a Mormon serving as president.

Whichever the case was at a specific time, as with many things besides religion, they were merely considered in light of real objectives — total control over the people.

II, p. 241) At the stage of development represented by such an attitude, the value of religion was measured by the control given the devotee over superhuman powers and, so far as prayer was used, its object was to persuade a god to do the bidding of a man.

In this way Christian theology becomes both the defender of religion over against the onesidedness and superficiality of Marx's critique of religion, and at the same time the ally of this critique against the «alienation» of man.

Of course these laws can be grasped only by intuitive faith — which is why ecology has become a religion, and why the battle over mundane issues like dams or highways is at bottom a holy war.

Also I'm most of the time very good at judging others to some kind of standard that I expect people to live by, meaning I want to put them into religion or at least have some kind of control over them.

His maths skills have been trained by sitting counting his money every day, laughing at the gullible and the desperate who KEEP sending him thier money, and giggling over the fact that, because he hides behind religion, its unlikely he will ever be charged with fraud.

So WHAT IF — the bible is really just a compilation of what ever was equivalent to the NYTimes best sellers at the time and people liked the books so much they read it over and over again and some people even got carried away and treat it as if it was a religion... oh wait... doesn't that notion sound a lot like Scientology?

What can you expect of religions who tout as a holy prophet and the patriarch of their religious faith a man who made a fortune pimping his wife all over the Middle East for years until his god raised hell and threatened a prince who was shacked up with her at the time.

Many of these same people bring children into the world at a high pace, and then would prefer that the rest of society take over and educate their children in their particular brand of religion when they don't plan well and don't want to violate their beliefs.

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

The seventeenth century would surely count as the height of «religious certitude» in Europe: Wars were fought over religion ¯ or at least over the ecclesiastical form religion took in different national contexts.

At present, the rediscovery of culture in the social sciences, at the debate over methods of studying culture empirically, promises to shift studies of religion and politics more in the direction of looking at religious and political culturAt present, the rediscovery of culture in the social sciences, at the debate over methods of studying culture empirically, promises to shift studies of religion and politics more in the direction of looking at religious and political culturat the debate over methods of studying culture empirically, promises to shift studies of religion and politics more in the direction of looking at religious and political culturat religious and political culture.

Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role of religion in public life and discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.

Governor «Ahok» Purnama was charged with blasphemy last year after footage emerged of him at a political rally claiming that some Muslims have misinterpreted a verse in the Quran which suggests Muslims should not be ruled over by people from other religions.

Look at the countless innocent lives that have been lost over religion.

Regardless of the faith, I feel that religion for many people is about personal power over others, and this corrupts the whole reason people go at all.

All religions including Islam, Christianity and Judaism disagree on everything, at least they agree on one thing, that this dude is going to hell... And the funny part is that you can comment all you can and convince all the people you want, but the reality will never change,,, we are all going to die,, I hope that we all agree on that at least,, and all Abrahamic religions over the last 3000 years at least call for unity of God and his Existence...

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

My proof for this is the fact in over 2000 years at least man as taken away bits of the bible from their daily life so by example if the heads of all religions have changed stuff from the old days then clearly they don't fear god so he must be false

George, Christianity took over the world by force, this is no difference (modern weapons maybe), but the idea of spreading religion at the point of a sword is not unique to Muslims.

Moreover, with religions that have been around for more than a few generations and have weathered more than a few schisms, the deeper you get into them the more you find that the way - out - wacky stuff at the beginning is of a piece with the insights that have kept people coming back to them over the years, and that those insights include vital truths not generally available elsewhere.

Now, Frogist... I «know» that you know me well enough by now, from the multi-tude of postings over the last year and a half with you, and... from looking up at what I wrote above, in terms of my cultural melting - pot group of friends, and by taking each person individually, no matter what their religion, etc...

Iraq is a big land and has many bordering countries and a population of many Races, and many Religions and Faiths that were known or unknown beliefs... all of those lived in harmony during S - adam regime and every body was practicing his rights with out fear or with just a little fear But now having messed up the whole setup and the control of this mixed nation that were under a secular umbrella has cleverly for some ended it to be handed to Religious extremes at all sides of borders who are now fighting each other for taking control over the country or having it divided in to pieces.

Many of these same people bring children into the world at a high pace, and then would prefer that the rest of society take over and educate their children in their particular brand of religion when they don't plan well.

The question posed by the title of this book is a simple one, which, on the face of it, fits squarely within the debate over the relation of religion to politics and to conflict that has emerged at the end of the twentieth century.

(CNN)- The U.S. ambassador to Malta has submitted his resignation, just over a week after he was called out in a State Department report for allegedly devoting time to writing about religion at the expense of his official duties.

Susceptible to bouts of despair (at one point even welcoming visions of being run over by a bus), her love for philosophy rescued her: It reopened her interest in religion and questions about ultimate meaning and existence.

Go ahead and practice whatever religion makes you happy, just don't use it as a hammer to beat people over the head, and especially don't commit acts of hatred in the name of religion and don't be a hypocrite, the lowest form of life in the universe, like Hannity, Palin, Beck and the schmucks at FOX News.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

He theorized that religious thinking evolved at some point (ironically, you might say) and that in some cases tribe leaders were able to use this to get people to stop fighting and to form bigger, more powerful political units, which in turn won out over isolated tribes, thereby facilitating the spread of a particular religion.

Almost every war was started over religion, remember how the catholic church burned people at the stake by the tens of thousands.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The problem with religion is the installation of a «God Based Reality» into a young child or adolescent mind which is not challenged over a significant period of time resulting in improbable, or nearly impossible rational judgment at later stages in life with respect to religious claims.

Crucifixes are all over Italy in public places and it will be hard for that person not to notice a crucifix in any public place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you walk by.

Second, I work with people of different religions all over the world — I don't think we in the West know how to speak of faith and treat people with respect at the same time.

I argue with Tom Reese, over this exact issue often at Epiphenom (a blog which reviews science research about religion — to is an atheist).

A professor of history and law at the University of Georgia, Larson begins by relating how the debate over Darwinism unfolded in America in the early part of the century, and developed into the warfare between science and religion that exploded in the trial (and continues to this day).