BigCracker
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chilledandy said:How anyone can seriously believe in reigion these days is beyond me. You only have to look at from a slightly subjective view point to realise it is just plain dumb.
Religions came about hundreds of years ago when we didn't have any idea of science, and everyone believed that the earth was flat and the sun was magic and if a woman had a brain she was clearly a witch. Then some guy who obviously had a lot of charisma offered up answers as to why we exist and what happens after we die and fair enough, people started to believe in what he was saying (this is true of pretty much all religions). It gave people peace of mind about death (which lets face, mortality is a pretty scary thought) and gave them the other answers to all of lifes great mysteries. It was understandable that back then people would believe these people. But not now. The only reason any of us believe in religion is because it has been passed down from one generation to the next and it grips people with fear that if they do not believe, they will go to hell. But when you stop and question the logic of it all, it becomes just plain dumb and nothing else. We have science now, we know that we are nothing more than organic matter, the same as bacteria. We know that the answers given by religion are clearly wrong. Why believe in a book of stories written by people who thought the sun was magic?
If you did truely believe in religion, and follow every single scripture literally, then everyone on the planet is living in sin, bar none, because its completely inescapable and the scriptures are all so contridicatory that you can't possibly win.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-Napoleon Bonaparte