Bye Bye Organized Religion

[kevcj]

It sounds pretty good to me.

Nobody standing over you telling you what and how to believe. nobody telling you that this or that is a sin.

To be honest, I lost respect for organized religion a long time ago.

[iogames]

well... I think is 'build-in' inside us, we need to make to sense of this world...

p.s. and of course, wait for a horrid punishment for those who harm us through our lives

[tldagent]

Originally Posted by RedeemedWarrior

To stop Christians spreading the gospel you're quite frankly have to kill all Christians with any sort of integrity and loyalty to Christs teachings. our Last command was to spread the gospel and that is what we do.

LOL. This made me laugh because most of these so-called Christians don't understand the message that Christ was. TalkJesus.com is a prime example of this and we have a discussion about this on our forums.

So to have to:

Originally Posted by RedeemedWarrior

kill all Christians with any sort of integrity and loyalty to Christs teachings.

That is not characteristic of Jesus Christ at all and furthermore Jesus didn't order the killing of Muslims, radical Christian leaders did. Jesus didn't kill but many Christians do. How naive can we possibly be to think that Christianity has anything to do with the message given by Jesus Christ.... Not to mention, there is no real evidence or proof that Jesus Christ was ever even here. My oh my how the blind lead the blind. Not to mention, Paul created Christianity not Jesus and Paul never met Jesus. Geesh, I think in order to call oneself a Christian one should understand their history and the Crusades along with all the other havoc that radical religions reaped and the state of our world today is living proof of it.

I have to agree with the original poster. Get rid of these silly religions. They've divided and conquered man for long enough. The problem is mankind seeks his answers in other men so we have the blind leading the blind. I was talking to someone last night who said, "I'm not in control of anything"... Until we realize the exact opposite, we'll keep spiraling downward and keep fighting and keep creating more religions that take the burden of responsibility of the Genius humankind and place it on the shoulders of mythology.

I'm sorry Redeemed Warrior but Jesus was a way shower not a warrior. Jesus also did not require or request his followers to be warriors. Isn't it funny that the word Christianity and War are so often found mingling with each other.

Peace not war. Peace!

ADDED: I do not want to make broad, sweeping generalizations about ANY religion and I also realize there are good folks in all religions including Christianity. It's just too bad humanity roams the earth with a blindfold with their arms outstretched to the shoulder of the person they are following.

[iogames]

Oh no religious debate and the old game: 'I'm right you're wrong'

p.s. I hear the swooosh of closing coming

ok, Josh, you are right, i admit it...

can we start a war now?... it's boring today...

[BSMedia]

Originally Posted by GSeybold

I wonder what the world would be like if the entire planet did away with organized religion. People would only be allowed to pray and worship at home, no religious based organizations were allowed. No churches, no synagogues, no mosques, no public religious halls, monuments anywhere. We all just worshiped in our homes, when we wanted and how we wanted. Oh and preaching in public banned as well.

I wonder what our world would be like then?....

It'd be a lot better than it is now. Religion is nothing more than a means of massive social control. A separate set of laws so to say that help weak minded people try to explain things, and coup with loses or whatever. Religion stops people from thinking, and breeds nothing but a crazy culture.

Lets take Christianity for example. These people are complete and utter nut jobs, they beleive that a 'virgin' gave birth to a child. Happens all the time right. These peoples world would fall apart if you tried to convince them that Jesus probably wasn't white considering the geography of where he was born. Or that their story matches the same story religions before them used hundreds of years before. To me the bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs :up:

Lets take extremist Islamics/Muslims for another example. Flying planes into buildings was partly religiously motivated. There is some solid thinking... :erm:

Just think of all the nut jobs who make decisions based on the "lords word", 'I'm willing Lord, I'll do whatever you want me to do.' Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas.

As Bill Maher once said “Religion to me is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.”

[tldagent]

Originally Posted by BSMedia

Lets take extremist Islamics/Muslims for another example. Flying planes into buildings was partly religiously motivated. There is some solid thinking... :erm:

Yeah well we wouldn't have extremist Muslims flying into our building if it wasn't for the extremist Christians who slaughtered them and continue to slaughter them. It's a snowball that gains in size and destructibility. One feeds off the other until we're all destroyed. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it wasn't a Christian who orchestrated the 911 attacks and muslims were just blamed and set up. This sort of fits right in with the Christian warrior thing and the political agendas behind it.

Now I'm rambling... Anyway, peace to all. Hopefully we can come to know world peace someday and set our swords and shields down.

[iogames]

No, no, no... 'adoctrination' happens even here at vB.org!

Don't you feel sometimes that ppl take decisions without base?

without base is not better than wrong or false bases...

[iogames]

So what you call 'religion' outside is the indoctrination of the masses, call it Christian, Muslim, Buddhist...
even a healthy, young, smart man and no problems, can feel the urge to make think everybody around him like him... he needs synchronization from his inside to the outside...

p.s. where is Wayne Luke?