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God; An all powerful, benevolent (but jealous) creator OR contrived tool of Gov control?
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HolyHeterodox176 reads

The Uptight Right over there will demand too many verifiable and accredited sources, not allowing for any shoot from the hip responses and opinions.

Way back in the eighties, I took the EST training.  Not to get into the whole deal about whether EST is good or not, but I only mention it to relate one aphorism from it that has always stayed with me.  That was:  "Understanding is the booby prize."

And so it is with religion and the attempts to understand how existence came into being and who is God and on and on.

It doesn't matter, so I guess that makes me the Apatatheist, except that I do care about the role each of us plays viz a viz the rest of mankind.

I wish religion would put a tenth of the resources that it has put into the boring questions that don't matter (transsubstantiation, give me a break!) and instead figure out how we can love one another before mankind anihilates himself.

flying fuck about religion - based on their actions.

But about 62.87% are perfectly willing to use it to threaten other people.

Mark Twain, George Carlin, Bill Maher all have/had routines mocking organized religion.

Someone once pointed out to me that people who disdain religious extremists don't realize that the extremists are the genuine believers.  The Bible [I've never read the Koran but I think it applies here too], does not make exceptions.  You are to follow all the rules.  Period.  There is no loophole for changing historical circumstances or a special class of people who get to pick and choose.

Most people, unknowingly, derive their morality and rationality from the secular worlds of science and democracy.  Anyone who genuinely believed in the Bible would be a dangerous person.  According to Deuterononomy we should execute disobedient children.  Someone please point out to me any sign that this passage is meant ironically or humorously.  Also point out where we are free to disobey this or any other passage.

pious_scrivener1214 reads

27 Why do you say,
     “ My way is hidden from the LORD,
     And my just claim is passed over by my God”?
      28 Have you not known?
     Have you not heard?
     The everlasting God, the LORD,
     The Creator of the ends of the earth,
     Neither faints nor is weary.
     His understanding is unsearchable.
      29 He gives power to the weak,
     And to those who have no might He increases strength.
      30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
     And the young men shall utterly fall,
      31 But those who wait on the LORD
     Shall renew their strength;
     They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
     They shall run and not be weary,
     They shall walk and not faint.

32 Verily I sayeth unto ye, who giveth a shite, nay, even the smallest pellet of a rodent?
33  Showeth him to me, and I shall showeth thee, one who shites the bull.
34  So, fucketh thee off & die.  Shoveth it up thine rosy red ass.

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