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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Because it is entirely a product of your own subjectivity. It's merely an extension of your ego. It's also as empty as some of the heads around here. It's your own private domain having no public significance and completely devoid of moral content.
    Why do you do that? Most of the time you make some really good points that make excellent sense. Then you add a comment that seems to be a shadowed attack and it makes your whole comment suspect.

    Maybe I'm misreading your intent and you're just a very direct person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    Why do you do that? Most of the time you make some really good points that make excellent sense. Then you add a comment that seems to be a shadowed attack and it makes your whole comment suspect.

    Maybe I'm misreading your intent and you're just a very direct person.
    I'm sorry but this self-centered and shallow "spirituality" deserves no respect. Secondly, I did not respond to your earlier comment because I had nothing good to say and I knew you would cry foul. So I'm trying to be a little less direct...help me out here.
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    And I "do that" because you people deserve it. You make incredibly ignorant and obnoxious comments but you think nothing of it.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I'm sorry but this self-centered and shallow "spirituality" deserves no respect. Secondly, I did not respond to your earlier comment because I had nothing good to say and I knew you would cry foul. So I'm trying to be a little less direct...help me out here.
    Got it

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    Isn't the entire premise that a force powerful enough to create the universe has any personal interest in the thoughts and doings of one animal among billions, on one obscure rock in the vastness of space, rather more ego-driven than not?
    Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    And I "do that" because you people deserve it. You make incredibly ignorant and obnoxious comments but you think nothing of it.
    I'll have you know that I think hard and long about all of my ignorant and obnoxious comments. lol

    I stand by my comment that you're thinly veiled attacks cheapen the rest of your comment. But I appreciate you being honest and I'll avoid any direct communicating going forward.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Isn't the entire premise that a force powerful enough to create the universe has any personal interest in the thoughts and doings of one animal among billions, on one obscure rock in the vastness of space, rather more ego-driven than not?
    If you want to cut off our nose to spite your face, OK. Sure, you could claim the entire religious impulse stems from a certain egotism but you would have to make a better case for that than you have here. The case against Walmart religion is complete. The reason you went on the offensive is that I simply used your own pretension to privacy to demonstrate the emptiness of what you call "spirituality". You can't say I'm wrong without undermining your own position on religious faith.

    Wolf, the fact is that you value the idea of religion and on some level you realize that human life is impossible without it but, in an age of narcissism, you value your autonomy more than anything else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    I'll have you know that I think hard and long about all of my ignorant and obnoxious comments. lol

    I stand by my comment that you're thinly veiled attacks cheapen the rest of your comment. But I appreciate you being honest and I'll avoid any direct communicating going forward.
    I'm sure you do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    Respectfully, I consider all religion to be cults formed by the hierarchy to manipulate and control large masses of people. Even so, it can have a positive role. For instance, the recent hurricanes and need for assistance is one example of how these mass cults can contribute. They have a massive network of members that can be mobilized and tapped at any time and in any region. They also provide peace of mind to the elderly as well as a social platform for the lonely.

    The cons of religion is that they manipulate people into pushing an agenda to force more people to follow certain rules that will help religion maintain control such as birth control, serving men no matter how abusive they are, woman remaining second class citizens behind men. They promote less government so that more people will give money to the churches for them to control and decide who is worthy to help.
    Purely by definition all religions are cults, but I sense that's not the context in which you're using the word "cult." I suspect you're using it in the inherently negative context, which is faulty. The actions you have described are not unique to religions, they exist in virtually every system of belief, whether it be religious, philosophical, social, political, economic, etc. I don't think it's fair to pretend religion is somehow unique in this, nor do I think it's very fair to ignore the positive sides of religion.
    "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."
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    Quote Originally Posted by pjohns View Post
    My former pastor (and please do not read anything into this; we are just attending a much closer church now) once said that he does not believe in any religion.

    By this, I assume that he means that he does not consider Christianity to be a religion, but an objective truth.

    On this, I am with him.

    (My favorite apostle has always been Thomas--"Doubting" Thomas--as I will simply not take anything on blind faith. No exceptions.)

    Comments?
    Religion is philosophy on life and most of us are agnostic at heart wishing to know the greater power.

    I am a Christian not because I accept Christ, but more. I choose to accept and try to live the philosophies taught by Christ, His example is one to follow.
    Last edited by Archer0915; 09-19-2017 at 12:17 PM.

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