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crayola
Posts: 122 - Karma: 14
In my opinion religion, God, and any belief system that is "the only belief system" is absolute bullshit, with only a few of exeptions. Literally hundreds of millions of people have been killed because someone else didn't like their religion. God does not exist with natural selection and evolution as my proof.
Aug 15 2006 11:36PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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word i sort of agree
Aug 15 2006 11:38PM
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Elijah.
Posts: 9322 - Karma: 76
Just one quick question. Is your name like the crayons?
Aug 15 2006 11:40PM
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Mr_Bojangles
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Word, 'Jesus' love' gets to a lot of peoples heads these days.
Aug 15 2006 11:41PM
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MitchPee
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Oh really, so what created earth? What was there to form the big bang theory?

Aug 15 2006 11:42PM
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KillerMonkey
Posts: 6436 - Karma: 109
theres already been a thread about this u stupid atheist
Aug 15 2006 11:43PM
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Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 424
Please don't make any more God threads, they are incredibly counter-productive. I don't think the minds of NS will solve any of the problems associated with religion, so I wouldn't recommend touching that subject with any length pole.
Aug 15 2006 11:46PM
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Elife
Posts: 2829 - Karma: 44
belief systems suck mad balls..
...the guy two posts above me with all the fuckin parentheses in his name loves the cock and is formed from the same mold as the people who call evolution simply a theory and not a fact...
...and sometimes i believe in god because my girlfriend is way out of my league
Aug 15 2006 11:50PM
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Kendo
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athiest
Aug 15 2006 11:50PM
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crayola
Posts: 122 - Karma: 14
no offense but, not god.
Aug 16 2006 12:05AM
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fukeneh
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and i'm going to trust someone with the name of a brand of crayons to lead me in a crusade believing god doesn't exist..
good one
Aug 16 2006 12:06AM
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aaron.ebner
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people can believe in higher beings. ex. god buddah nature what ever. but religion is just something to keep people busy.
Aug 16 2006 12:07AM
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Aenigma
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Yes. People really need to be able to distinguish God from religion before they start flapping their lips.
Aug 16 2006 12:09AM
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MitchPee
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Ok then what did?

Can I ask you a question...do you know the difference between God and god? "god" can have nothing to do with religion.
Aug 16 2006 12:10AM
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fukeneh
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exactly...

(i.e.)oh my god, you should believe in God
Aug 16 2006 12:12AM
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Anathema
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nnyyyyyy i don't get it..
Aug 16 2006 12:23AM
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[~_~]
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Now I'm not saying Im right or anything, but I've always thought of the whole God and Heaven thing something that people make up because they are so freaked out that they're just going to rot in the ground when they die, that they make up some crazyness.
Aug 16 2006 12:28AM
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KillerMonkey
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ye buts what the point if there is nothing to look foward to. Like who doesnt want 40 virgins waiting for them when they die
Aug 16 2006 12:38AM
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sampsihoyos
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No, honestly, i don't know the difference between the two. What i do know is that people are scared that this life is all you get. Every bit of evidence for this side of the angument is there.
Aug 16 2006 12:52AM
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[~_~]
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there is no point. How do we even know life exists. If everything we think, feel, smell, taste, hear, see, is just a bunch of electro-brain activity, how do you know the real world isn't just a big empty space of mushy brains sitting around with activity?

and heaven might have come from the revived. Dont hold me to this, this is off the top of my head, but I heard theres like 30 minutes of brain activity after you die. If you dream thousands of dreams in just 1 night, imagine how many things you dream while you are in this dead(ish) state. Then some person could have become revived after dying, just minutes later (its happened) and say "they saw heaven" or something. And even when this 30 minutes of brain activity ends after death, you aren't gonna care. You aren't gonna be scared. You won't exist, because your brain and everything that is you is gone.
Aug 16 2006 12:58AM
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[~_~]
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by the way I want to emphisize that I'm not saying that this is THE TRUTH but its just my personal view on things. To say its right would be as ignorant as most religion freaks who look down upon those who don't believe. I don't have a problem with religious people, just those who give non religious people shit for not believing the same thing.
Aug 16 2006 1:00AM
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sampsihoyos
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besides jah roots that is
Aug 16 2006 1:00AM
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acoustikrage
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so how exactly does natural selection and evolution prove there is no god? please explain your reasoning.
Aug 16 2006 1:04AM
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and I don't truly believe that, Im just saying: think about it.  I honestly don't know the "point" of life or anything or if there even is a point.

Aug 16 2006 1:05AM
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forfun
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most people think, great god will come from the sky, take away everything, and make everybody try, but If you know what life is worth, YOU WOULD LOOK FOR YOURS ON EARTH
Aug 16 2006 1:31AM
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crayola
Posts: 122 - Karma: 14
if the only belief is christianity then it has to be all true or all fake, nothing in between. Natural selection has every piece of evidence behind it while going against christianity. Muslim: Die for your religion and get a few virgins when you die: just triggering a man's hormones, so for him crashing a plane into a building=sex. I think those are two concrete examples. What's your argument?
Aug 16 2006 1:55AM
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[~_~]
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TRU

Aug 16 2006 1:57AM
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FuckThePolice
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religion is for suckers who are so afraid of death they will blindly devote thier life so that maybe they can get to a made up place in the sky. fuck it. fuck jesus. jesus christ can come down to earth and suck my cock. hail satan
Aug 16 2006 1:57AM
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[~_~]
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 HAIL SATAN!

I believe in gawd
Aug 16 2006 2:05AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Living in eternity would get boring. Besides, if we all act like theres something beyond, we really dont concentrate on making what we have now better. I like the idea of this life being all I get.
Aug 16 2006 3:41AM
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freestyle_kyle
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yeah i think that religion is a bunch of BS. people are so brainwashed by churches and stuff. people didnt know the answers to how we got here (and niether do we) but they just made up a bunch of stories

the only idea of God that i would accept is Deism.

just read this, and it makes sense

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism
Aug 16 2006 2:03PM
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KillerMonkey
Posts: 6436 - Karma: 109
THIS IS BLASPHEMY. I curse you ALL
MWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
Aug 16 2006 2:09PM
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RockandRollTroll
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how old are you?
Aug 16 2006 2:12PM
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RockandRollTroll
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AND, untill you experience some sort of adversity to overcome in your life, as in someone close to you dieing, or you becoming severly injured, you will not realize the importance religon has in the world.
Aug 16 2006 2:13PM
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Holte
Posts: 10742 - Karma: 7,818
It is impossible to prove that God exists and it is impossible to prove that God does not exist.
Aug 16 2006 2:14PM
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FuckThePolice
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that is complete bullshit
Aug 16 2006 2:18PM
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GhostfaceKillah
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religion has done a lot of good for a lot of people, so to condone it is really stupid in my opinion. regligion gives billions of people something to believe in and something to LIVE for. heck not to mention the laws we abide by and the social standards we follow originate from the cornerstone of many of the more prominant religions... (the bible for you dullards). please someone tell me they would enjoying living in a world where murder and rape goes unpunished?

dont bash religion, its done nothing wrong

i would like one person to tell me that a legitimate religion has done more bad than good... and actually back it up.
Aug 16 2006 2:24PM
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[~_~]
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I almost positive you can live in a world where theres no religion and rap and murder stil goes punished.

and religion has made some people do stupid things. They hate gays, pre-marital sex, abortion, etc. (Now Im not saying abortion is a good thing, Im just saying its stupid for religious people to try to ban it because not everyone feels that way. If they dissaprove, then they could just not get abortions, its that easy.) Terrorists kill people as part of their religion, and thats one that has done more bad than good. The problem with religion is that it creates a conflict that make people oppress their religions on others, or saying that theirs is right.
Aug 16 2006 2:36PM
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GhostfaceKillah
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i agree with what you're trying to say.

but the "terrorists" kill people because their religion makes it acceptible for them to kill to acomplish its goal (which in most cases) is assimilation. i dont really consider a religion who's main goal is assimilation to be legitimate (i know im being very vague here because i dont know much about many middle-eastern religions).

its important not to confuse assimilation and unity
Aug 16 2006 2:47PM
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oakjewlery
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some of the ignorance in this thread is just hilarious
Aug 16 2006 2:57PM
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Petey.
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so exolain to me how evolution created this earth and started everything in it....thats right, you cant....SO FUCK OFF CRAYOLA
Aug 16 2006 3:23PM
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T.Spliff
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thats crazy you said that, cause that is exactly how i think it got started.
Aug 16 2006 3:23PM
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[~_~]
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word.
Aug 16 2006 3:24PM
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zepscratch
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even if it is all fake, just having a strong belief has helped many people. but also started many wars.
Aug 16 2006 3:25PM
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RockandRollTroll
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you should be happy you are alive today. If there is anybody on newschoolers that I hate, it is you. Every thread, every post you make is critizing the goverment or different organizations for their suposed wrongdoings. You take shit for granted. You should be happy you have a goverment that protects you. How about we ship you to Darfur? How would you like to be in a refugee camp, and have planes fly over and spray bulletts into a crowd at random times of the day? I have no problem that you dont believe in god, because the country we both live in allows that. You however take things for granted. You do not know how it feels like to be an american soldier captured and about to be killed in a war, and the only thing you have left is your faith. My grandpa fought in world war two. He came over to europe late in the war. He spent 5 years cleaning up the areas destroyed by war. But most of all, he came into concentration camps. What I learned from him is that you should never take anything for granted, because you may loose it all in an instant. So instead of being cocky, thickheaded, and complain about how god does not exist and how everything sucks because of religon, and how the world we live in is so horrible for you, WHY DONT YOU GO OUT AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Why don't you go build a house for habitat for humanity for a person who does not have the ablility to have a computer to complain on? I did this summer, and I even met the lady whose house I was building. Why don't YOU Donate money to relief funds, and come up with an idea for all these FAULTS that you claim. Why dont you serve, rather than sit and judge others?
Aug 16 2006 3:25PM
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Aenigma
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It depends. Some people may turn to religion in an effort to save themselves, and that seems to usually turn out for the better. Other people--myself included--turn to themselves and the people around them in a time of need.


It's not religion as a whole that causes problems, it's the very vocal extremists that give it a bad image.
Aug 16 2006 3:57PM
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ThaLetterM.
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Aug 16 2006 4:01PM
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GhostfaceKillah
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think about it though. just using what was previously stated as an example: if you were in a concentration camp (one of the reallllly bad ones), you're on your own in a dark room, with nobody to confide in but yourself. when you're in a situation like that you NEED something to believe in in order to go on. sometimes in every day life we come accross a situation when we have noone to turn to, it could be a life or death situation, and generally a religion of any kind will help someone get through the situation.
Aug 16 2006 4:06PM
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Aenigma
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As I stated before, some people will turn to God given the right circumstances. Others, instead of relying on God to save them, will find a solution to the problem themselves. Not everybody is open to the concept of being saved by a divine being.
Aug 16 2006 4:11PM
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Holte
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How do you get bored of living? I've never heard of anybody commiting suicide because they were bored. Plenty of people throughout history have been stuck in one place their entire lives and they managed to get through life without killing themselves out of boredom. You could easily argue that living for 80 years would get boring. And the decision the seize the moment is exactly that. A decision. It's not a predetermined "betterment factor" for life.
Aug 16 2006 4:53PM
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ThaLetterM.
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