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19 Aug 2008, 1:04 pm

SpaceCase wrote:

What is your religion? I'm a Buddhist.

Does anyone ever give you hell for following your religion,especially if you're a teen?

People here think that Buddhists worship the Buddha(we don't),and the people--especially people my age--say that I'm so weird and crazy to follow Buddhism.

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Kudos. Buddhists are much more tolerant and peaceful than xians, muslims and jooz.

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19 Aug 2008, 3:24 pm

history_of_psychiatry wrote:

SpaceCase wrote:

Kudos. Buddhists are much more tolerant and peaceful than xians, muslims and jooz.

I like your deliberate mispellings. Very rebellious.

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19 Aug 2008, 3:32 pm

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So, by your logic Atheism is indeed a religion.

It lacks a cultus. It has some but not all of the necessary aspects of a religion.

I'd say it has all of them, included Richard Dawkins as its Pope. :wink:

i guess i'm of the protestant sect because greg graffin is my pope.

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19 Aug 2008, 3:35 pm

skafather84 wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Dogbrain wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

So, by your logic Atheism is indeed a religion.

It lacks a cultus. It has some but not all of the necessary aspects of a religion.

I'd say it has all of them, included Richard Dawkins as its Pope. :wink:

i guess i'm of the protestant sect because greg graffin is my pope.

:roll:

And George Carlin was an Archbishop, soon to be sainted now that he's dead.

Would Nietzche be the Messiah? Or just a regular prophet?

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19 Aug 2008, 4:01 pm

history_of_psychiatry wrote:

SpaceCase wrote:

Kudos. Buddhists are much more tolerant and peaceful than xians, muslims and jooz.

That's inaccurate and a generalization of both Buddhism and the Abrahamic religions. Are you familiar with the issue between the Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden or zen writings on mindful killing from during, I think it was WWII?

The fact alone that Buddhism proselytizes and Judaism doesn't says a lot about tolerance.

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20 Aug 2008, 8:49 am

slowmutant wrote:

beef_bourito wrote:

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So, by your logic Atheism is indeed a religion.

it's a belief system. simply because you believe in something, doesn't mean you're following a religion.

You just called it a belief-system! This is some deep denial you've got going.

a few definitions for you:
from the Webster's dictionary on my lap
Religion: 1) belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be obeyed and worshipped... etc
2) expression of this belief in conduct and ritual

Atheism: the belief that there is no god

Atheist: a person who believes that there is no god

SYN- an atheist rejects all religious beliefs and denies the existence of god.

by those definitions, i'm not religious. i don't have any religious beliefs, principles, or practises.

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20 Aug 2008, 12:08 pm

Atheism deifies science, make science its higher power as opposed to anything supernatural. Atheism is equal-but-opposite to religiion. The harder you fight us, the more you define yourselves as us. Total irony.

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20 Aug 2008, 12:52 pm

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I think there are people that are believers (believe in God) without being religious.
Some atheists seem to be religious, I'll give you that, but not all are.

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20 Aug 2008, 1:12 pm

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and yet despite everything, your god is still an impotent fictional character.

/i've set the pyres, science has lit mine already...god's a little late to burning the sacrificial offering

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20 Aug 2008, 3:34 pm

God is too big to see with the naked eye or any mechanical extension of the naked eye. He is also too small to see with any microscope. God transcends this kind of Aspie-literal experience. You can't see God for the same reason you can't see a galaxy.

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20 Aug 2008, 3:39 pm

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God is too big to see with the naked eye or any mechanical extension of the naked eye. He is also too small to see with any microscope.

The particle of God, interesting theory

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God transcends this kind of Aspie-literal experience.

Would this be why few aspies don't get religion?

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20 Aug 2008, 3:43 pm

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excuses excuses.

no results = no god. that's the way they did it in the bible and i see no reason for it to be different today.

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20 Aug 2008, 3:54 pm

greenblue wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

God is too big to see with the naked eye or any mechanical extension of the naked eye. He is also too small to see with any microscope.

The particle of God, interesting theory

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God transcends this kind of Aspie-literal experience.

Would this be why few aspies don't get religion?

It is exactly why few Aspies "get" religion. Indeed, this is so.

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20 Aug 2008, 4:03 pm

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It is exactly why few Aspies "get" religion. Indeed, this is so.

or, you know, it's simply because most of us have gone beyond the need of a religion.

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20 Aug 2008, 4:27 pm

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It is exactly why few Aspies "get" religion. Indeed, this is so.

If you're saying 'get' as in understand and comprehend religion, I don't know how many Aspies do necessarily but from my experience most non-religious people (or Atheists) do which is why they aren't religious.

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20 Aug 2008, 4:32 pm

skafather84 wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

It is exactly why few Aspies "get" religion. Indeed, this is so.

or, you know, it's simply because most of us have gone beyond the need of a religion.

Please, tell us what this supposed "need" is? I don't feel a "need", I just accept what I view as correct. Are you so blind as to think that people would actually believe something if they thought it was false?

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