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Very well done indeed.

Very well done indeed.

On the other hand, I welcome your nutty scientific beliefs with open arms and look forward to giving them the snark test of science, instead of the usual shit test of religious belief.

Religious shit test : Fuck your God, your Messiah and you so called book.

Pass or fail?

What I see you arguing against seems to be Calvinistic dogma, which unfortunately is making a return, buoyed by conservative party politics that hasn’t left much room for the loving of your neighbor, when instead it pushes love of sin because it gives them sinners to hate, judge and persecute.

What you are noticing is the very distasteful belief system that Paul introduced into the early Church, a politically useful line of reasoning, because it could be used for control in a way that Jesus’ love of the neighbor could not.

Can God exist without religion?

Can religion exist without God?

Why do we feel the need to connect the two?

It’s as if God told us to follow man’s word blindly and deemed it sacred.

Does anyone of that persuasion ask, “why is it necessary?”, given the complexities of heredity and instinct. It seems a written book of morals is unnecessary when we could reasonably be encoded with morals.

Skepticism and faith cannot coexist, which is precisely why science is rejected by creationists.

It seems, given our present knowledge of physics, our creator could be very distant yet very close simultaneously, being nowhere to be seen yet evidenced everywhere.

Religious sheeple find it necessary to have a personal relationship with God, which seems pretty arrogant. The entire premise of religion now is self-fulfillment, and contentment.

Maybe, if more of the strong-minded Christians would advocate a philosophy of understanding and action, instead of guilt and undying patience, then the world could prosper inspite of “Satan.”

But no, they are taught to tolerate the corruption because TWJWD.

Believing the bible literally is akin to accepting the fantastic things Tolkein wrote of to be fact, only Tolkein stood on seemingly a much broader knowledge base when he authored his classic works of fantasy than the authors of the bible, and, more importantly, the editors.

But, no, you don’t see many rational individuals who accept Tolkein’s words as gospel. Instead we see them as entertaining works of fiction based very loosely on some actual historical events, much in the mold of our Holy Bible.

Nothing bad can be taken from studying the teachings of Jesus, but to believe in absolution seems to be a pagan philosophy. To think you will be rewarded in the “afterlife” for being a scumbag who’s willing to admit it in prayer is sickening.

Even worse is the concept of eternal damnation. So, just because an individual is unwilling to follow blindly the word of man, he is doomed to a life of torture. Great! So, if I follow contemporary Christian teachings, am I supposed to repond “how high” when ordered by a PR representative to jump?

I don’t buy it.

Man is too easily corrupted by greed for me to follow any teaching whole-heartedly, unless it can be proven. Yet, to this day, there is not one account, other than those mentioned in the bible, of any sort of “miracle” that can’t be explained by science.

I believe the many being fed by the few is symbolic of our mass dumbening by ancient superstition and modern-day subconscious conditioning. We have been spoonfed by those in control for so long, we no longer can differentiate between reality and illusion unless labeled non-fiction or fiction.

Why people find it necessary to regurgitate famous

Maybe I rant, but I have attempted to convey a point while excluding textbook snarkiness.

Nothing in the Bible contradicts with Established Science, which means that the two don’t have have to be enemies. The shape of the earth and the basic workings of the water cycle were written in the Bible long before scientists were able to find those things out for themselves.

Doesn’t it take the same level of “faith” to beleive in an intelligent designer that it does to beleive that everything we see around us came about by accident, or as a result of a process of spontaneous generation that has yet to be replicated by extremely determined scientists. Beautiful, well-stocked, well-designed houses don’t just pop up in wildernesses by accident, and neither do planets. One doesn’t have to be a scientist or theologian to grasp the logic in that one.