Religion. Discuss ( or should that be argue )

Has he gone yet..... btw, did you know that there are TWO Popemobiles.... both with the same number plate.... just in case.... saw 'em both on the back of a covered truck with Italian plates y'day outside the FCO.

Cloned plates! More reasons to arrest him!

Listen to his fucking terrifying theme tune when he visited Westminster Abbey:

its amazing.....probably evil, right?

24:50 in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tvyqw/The_Popes_Visit_2010_Papal_Mass_from_Westminster_Cathedral/

suicide is a sin

do it!

Listen to his fucking terrifying theme tune when he visited Westminster Abbey:

its amazing.....probably evil, right?

24:50 in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tvyqw/The_Popes_Visit_2010_Papal_Mass_from_Westminster_Cathedral/

"holy" fucking shit!
that's terrifying!

that's the kind of music I imagine plays on a loop in hell, if I believed in such a place.

It's like an Adam and Joe piss-take.

Still going and getting better and better..

lols at the tags on this thread btw - particularly the efforts from GA2G and Velo Libre :)

I loved the Pope saying how sorry he was for the years of Catholic priest noncing that had been going on, and then he goes and gets a photo of himself on the front of every paper in the land kissing a baby.

Honestly, you'd think he'd practice what he preached being a man in his position.

I mistook the Popemobile for an ice cream van today.

I only realised my mistake when I read "wouldn't mind that child" written on the back

Says the guy with the pedobear avatar ;)

I loved the Pope saying how sorry he was for the years of Catholic priest noncing that had been going on, and then he goes and gets a photo of himself on the front of every paper in the land kissing a baby.

Honestly, you'd think he'd practice what he preached being a man in his position.

well after a sucessful visit and lots of apologies
i have decided to forgive the catholic church for the millions of deaths they cased and all the kiddy fiddling
yes sir sorry is more than enough to make up for all the issues that have been caused over the last 2,000 years by the cathies

i love how there's suddenly a lot of fuss about the pope playing hyde park. i saw him back in the day playing in a tiny room above a pub...

...it was a 1939 meeting of the hitler youth.

Was anyone else annoyed by the BBC's coverage tonight? Apparently London welcomed the pope with open arms. There was some coverage of protesting women vicars, but of the millions of people who don't give a flying fuck about the leader of some weird Italian cult visiting and just want their wasted tax monies back, no mention.

Saturday and Sunday morning telly was revolting. Massive circle-jerk to this fool. Thought I was watching The GOD Channel.

FFS BBC!

better than endless repeats of " how fat is my teenaged pregnant daughter " .... just

I mistook the Popemobile for an ice cream van today.

I only realised my mistake when I read "wouldn't mind that child" written on the back

http://www.b3tards.com/u/eeabacdfbe9b2d3d4819/popeices.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o

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To the religious folk on this thread, which part of that video do you disagree with?

the part where he says religion is bullshit.

lols at the tags on this thread btw - particularly the efforts from GA2G and Velo Libre :)

i forgot about this thread. i enjoy (and sincerely hope it's intentional) the irony of being called a coward anonymously.

the part where he says religion is bullshit.

That was more his conclusion, i'm asking people which of his arguments do you not think are valid?

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Tell me this,

Why do the righteous need to fit lightning conductors on their churches?

Could it be that God is an invisible friend for adults - sorry, idiots?

Paul Dirac on Religion.

I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way. What I do see is that this assumption leads to such unproductive questions as why God allows so much misery and injustice, the exploitation of the poor by the rich and all the other horrors He might have prevented. If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly God rewards—in heaven if not on earth—all those who have not risen up against injustice, who have done their duty quietly and uncomplainingly. That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins.

Religion can never be proven, short of the actual second-coming.

It can be dis-proven once and for all by science though, and it will be, sooner rather than later.

Smoke and mirrors/hocus-pocus/mumbo-jumbo/comfortable delusion.

Simple as that.