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Jitro
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06 Sep 2012, 10:36 pm

I mean surely if Jesus died for us he would have just committed suicide. No, he was executed.

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06 Sep 2012, 11:10 pm

Most of recorded history before A/V is speculative.

And no, nonsense is nonsense; religions in general simply happen to embrace a lot of it.

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06 Sep 2012, 11:15 pm

Yes.

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06 Sep 2012, 11:27 pm

All religion is nonsense.

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07 Sep 2012, 3:48 am

All religions are nonsense, and some of them are bats**t crazy. Mohammed rode a flying horse. Earth is the center of the universe. The book of Mormon was copied from golden plates. Genocide in the name of god is fine. Need I go on?

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07 Sep 2012, 3:53 am

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ALL religion is nonesense.

If god made the world why didn't he tell his flock that it was round?

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07 Sep 2012, 4:11 am

Most kinds of Buddhism aren't so bad...

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07 Sep 2012, 6:08 am

Space zombies?

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07 Sep 2012, 7:39 am

Shau wrote:

Most kinds of Buddhism aren't so bad...

And the Amish are a peaceful lot.

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07 Sep 2012, 11:47 am

Devil's advocate.

Jitro wrote:

I mean surely if Jesus died for us he would have just committed suicide. No, he was executed.

This is Aspie literalism...

Crucifixion is the most painful death, and makes Jesus' sacrifice bigger. Also, it is important that Jesus forgave his executioners.

Jesus dying for our sins in the first place is the weird part though. I mean, how does that even work?

piroflip wrote:

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ALL religion is nonesense.

If god made the world why didn't he tell his flock that it was round?

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Why would he say something like that anyway? What use would it be for the first fifty million years of our existence to know that the world was spherical, not flat?

It's only when we've began to explore space that that has become useful.

We have science to help us with simple empirical facts. God would probably have been more concerned with teaching us about morality and other such things, as rationalism is much less precise.

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07 Sep 2012, 11:58 am

The_Walrus wrote:

Why would he say something like that anyway? What use would it be for the first fifty million years of our existence to know that the world was spherical, not flat?

A better question is "why did he not tell this"? Why not give the whole story? 50 million years is also a stupid figure to use, human history is not nearly that long

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It's only when we've began to explore space that that has become useful.

Seriously? Do you have any idea how important for navigation this knowledge was? Or for understanding that the Earth is the same as that which exists in space, and not some magical flat expanse surrounded by stars and the sun?

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We have science to help us with simple empirical facts. God would probably have been more concerned with teaching us about morality and other such things, as rationalism is much less precise.

Actually, rationalism is a better foundation for morality than what some "deity" (aka high priests high on something) would say. Furthermore Abraham's God being considered a source of moral teaching is extremely hilarious. Frankly this "god" taught nothing of value, and is actually profoundly evil

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07 Sep 2012, 11:59 am

Jesus is love. All you need is love.

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07 Sep 2012, 12:04 pm

unduki wrote:

Christianity is not nonsense to Christians. Nonsense would be this question.

or the above utterance

its ture that nonsense can be subjective but there is also an objective reality, in that reality some things can easily be deemed nonsense, religions havent so far but anyone with half a brain should at least realize that any literal reading is ridicoulous beyond belief(not really though since people believe it)

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07 Sep 2012, 12:04 pm

piroflip wrote:

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ALL religion is nonesense.

If god made the world why didn't he tell his flock that it was round?

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He did. Isaiah 40:22 tells us the Earth is a sphere. The reason people thought the Earth was flat was because no one but the priests were allowed to read the Bible until King James, and even then people generally couldn't read. For whatever reasons, the priests of the time chose to keep the Earth's shape a secret from the general population. Columbus didn't discover anything. He knew before he left that the Earth was a sphere.

Have you read the Bible?

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07 Sep 2012, 12:05 pm

unduki wrote:

Christianity is not nonsense to Christians. Nonsense would be this question.

So then, were you put on the cross last Friday, died and magically come back to life this last Sunday? Strange how this happens to so few people, and there is no documentary evidence.

I think it was someone's idea of a good story that was taken too far.

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07 Sep 2012, 12:08 pm

Jesus is love. All you need is love.

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