Religion. Discuss ( or should that be argue )

Satan will be thrilled about his grand finale being soundtracked by insipid college radio rock

Wait, I'm having an epiphany...

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And Wednesday.

You're presuming I don't have a concubine who I employ to post my thoughts some days after 'it' has parsed my more profound musings.

This is a really nice conversation between atheists, throwing around some really excellent ideas.

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worthwhile alone just to watch Chris Hitchens smoking and drinking whiskey as lazily as you'd like.

worthwhile alone just to watch Chris Hitchens smoking and drinking whiskey as lazily as you'd like.

Hope Hitchens makes it through his cancer, he's looking pretty bad at the moment.

All four are brilliant, Harris and Dennett especially.

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Religious extremism is bad, unless it's your own, then it's just people who are over enthusiastic.

Hope Hitchens makes it through his cancer, he's looking pretty bad at the moment.

All four are brilliant, Harris and Dennett especially.

It's a really nice discussion, ain't it?

I like their section on offending religious morals, a well displayed arguement that.

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Link dead (Youtube account closed) - but here it is (mirrored elsewhere) . . .

It's incredible what religion has done to us - perhaps most fascinating is that she will undoubtedly believe she is voicing a benign world view, impervious to the idea that what separates her from someone who celebrates the drowning of a child is that the person holding a child's head under water does not presume a reward for their crime.

She is no less aroused and excited by loss of life than any other psychopath, but we label her crime 'faith'.

Awful stuff, religion laid naked.

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Nicely written Tynan.

Now stop flouncing and get back to your original account.

Religious extremism is bad, unless it's your own, then it's just people who are over enthusiastic.

Religious extremism is not the problem with religion, the problem with religion is religion, the extremists are the periphery, a distraction.

Nicely written Tynan.

Now stop flouncing and get back to your original account.

That is typically racist of you Ed, trying to make me use my slave name.

Religious extremism is not the problem with religion, the problem with religion is religion, the extremists are the periphery, a distraction.

I was refereeing to government view and attitudes, excepting some times of extremism far more than an other form of extremism, because it's an extreme view of their faith.

That persons illogical thoughts taken to an extreme is bad but a second persons illogical thoughts taken to an extremes are more expectable. This is because I am a member of that persons group, or I know many people who are part of that group. I hold the same illogical idea but don't take them to the extreme, I can see the cut off point of my illogical ideas, I know where the limit lies, this person doesn't. We have to be realistic, for example you see obviously when God says we should kill Gays that's unrealistic, it's a metaphor, it's taking it too far, we should just discourage it as it's unnatural. but they have a point.

obviously when God says we should kill Gays that's unrealistic, it's a metaphor

sorry, what?

satire

He said it's unrealistic. Logistics. There's too many of them. Breed like flies those gays do. And if they're not breeding they're adopting.

I saw some fairies at the bottom of my garden once.....

good for scaring cats away

He said it's unrealistic. Logistics. There's too many of them. Breed like flies those gays do. And if they're not breeding they're adopting.

Yes adopting.

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I was refereeing to government view and attitudes, excepting some times of extremism far more than an other form of extremism, because it's an extreme view of their faith.

That persons illogical thoughts taken to an extreme is bad but a second persons illogical thoughts taken to an extremes are more expectable. This is because I am a member of that persons group, or I know many people who are part of that group. I hold the same illogical idea but don't take them to the extreme, I can see the cut off point of my illogical ideas, I know where the limit lies, this person doesn't. We have to be realistic, for example you see obviously when God says we should kill Gays that's unrealistic, it's a metaphor, it's taking it too far, we should just discourage it as it's unnatural. but they have a point.

It's hard to work out quite what you are saying here, it's not entirely clear.

As for the idea that Biblical and Koranic edicts, based on their respective religious texts, to 'kill gays' is 'unrealistic' and a metaphor - I think that is entirely wrong - it's not a metaphor, it's a command to kill homosexuals.

I agree that killing gays is 'taking it too far' (!) and it should be 'discouraged' - all excellent ideas.

He said it's unrealistic. Logistics. There's too many of them. Breed like flies those gays do. And if they're not breeding they're adopting.

Or going on about so called "civil partnerships" or dresses or perfume or handbags, it's no wonder Jesus and God* got pissed off with them and called for, what I consider, a perfectly reasonable cull.

I agree that killing gays is 'taking it too far' (!) and it should be 'discouraged' - all excellent ideas.

don't you just wish you could turn them all into salt?

#billORLYquote

don't you just wish you could turn them all into salt?

#billORLYquote

Their wickedness shall be condimentized.

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He said it's unrealistic. Logistics. There's too many of them. Breed like flies those gays do. And if they're not breeding they're adopting.

I heard that if you cut one in half it turns into TWO gays. That's not natural, that. No wonder everybody's so worried.

I agree that killing gays is 'taking it too far' (!) and it should be 'discouraged' - all excellent ideas.

Zealot!