Quote Originally Posted by StagLefty View Post
Kind of a double edged sword ???
Quote Originally Posted by Ranger View Post
Wow, that sounds like some serious contempt for religion. I refuse to get into a debate about religion, but I'll tell you that I once felt the same way and changed my mind. Everyone can have their opinions, and I love that about America, but it does sound like a battle when you put forth such a statement. For folks with no religious belief, and I was one of them, it may sound like a load of crap but it's a load of crap that 4/5ths of the world believes in (all religions).
Quote Originally Posted by Elhuero View Post
atheists.

a group of people who have a certain common set of beliefs regarding the nature of the universe, and think that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong.

yeah. that's not like a religion at all.
weak spin.

I have my beliefs, Nowhere close to Atheist, they don't have a label.
My Beliefs also dont call for me to go out and Murder people that believe differently than I do, or oppress them into giving up their belief systems for mine.

But that was a nice assumption, however ill-founded, shallow-minded and incorrect it might be.

I Couldn't give a shit less what you believe or what name you give your god, that's your business. If you want to worship the flying spaghetti monster, that's your Business. If you come after others and want to Murder them, rape their women and bury their children in mass graves because some guy scribbles it down in a book and says its the word of (Insert Deity), THEN it becomes everyone's business.

My point is that all of these "religions" that profess violence against anyone that doesn't believe "exactly as They do then you need to be killed" are wrong. This is further twisted by Clerics, Popes, Immans to their own gain using the ignorant unwashed masses to do their bidding with promises of rewards in the afterlife and I have a problem with that. I Also have a problem with one group thinking its all the other guys fault because "we never do such thing, THEY are the Barbarians, not us!" when in truth, no one is without fault. No Church is without its Crimes and no Nation is without its Genocides and crimes.

It's Fear Mongering, Plain and Simple.