Hahahaha
I like Richard Dawkins - "YOU SHOULD NOT THINK HOW THEY TELL YOU! YOU SHOULD THINK HOW I TELL YOU!"

As long as you don't hurt anyone, I don't really care.

It's the people who think they have superior thinks and that you should think like them/follow them that are the issue, I reckon.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 17:47, 2 replies)

FOLLOW MY FAITH,
DRINK THAT ANTI-FREEZE AND YOU SHALL NEVER FEEL THE COLD OF THE AFTERLIFE

Faith is a damn dangerous thing, and having it slapped into the masses is very dangerous.

Although tbh Christians can't do fuck all nowdays, oops kicked over a cross, "Oh, I'm sure you didn't mean it. Here's a shortbread."
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 17:50, closed)

But it does hurt people
The biggest hurt comes when they realise that it is all a load of shit, and that all the decisions made based on what you were dumb enough to believe, as told by those who are either delirius or manipulative, are going to fuck up the rest of your life.
I was stupid enough to believe these scum when I was younger, ended up with a wife I didn't like (but god said it was right) and kids raised as morons (I havent been allowed to see them for years because I'm now evil). I lost most of my wages for the better part of my working life because I've had to pay to watch my kids be raised as fuckwits. My god bothering ex-wife lives in a church owned building.
If religion had anything going for it, we wouldn't have to convert kids at a young age (raise them to believe) we could wait til they're eighteen (because religion is an important life altering decision)then of course they would just flock to it because it just makes so much sense.
Religion is harmful, it fucks up the whole way you think, quite like paedophilia, they take a young mind and condition it to think in a way which benefits them.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 22:55, closed)

Amen to that!

( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 9 Feb 2010, 23:31, closed)

^^this
My personal opinion is that it was originally a control mechanism for the masses, psychologically forcing their members to follow one line of thinking that would benefit that church.

What do we do with this village full of mis-guided savages? We give them an option of heaven and hell, and as long as you do these things for us, you'll be just fine.

"But God wants you to burn that rival village down that is full of non-believers..."

And that's my big gripe about it; it may have been some kind of solution to control the populous back in the dark ages, but nowadays we have a society, and while ignoring the non-voted in twat G. Brown, we have some form of democracy, no matter how much we abuse our politicians. If the churches won, we would be in shit creek from the moment we're born.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 9:13, closed)

Speak as as ex-member of the Evangelical Church...

They're fucking loopy.

I've met, and have close personal friends who possess a strong faith and are loving sincere people. I'm glad I have them in my life.

However, one of these people, who struglled for years, knowing he was Gay, but couldn't express it due to the homophobic attitude of the Church very nearly killed himself due to the unnecessary guilt he felt for the fact of his being.

Thankfully he didn't and is a highly sucessful, happy, Gay man.
Fuck them ALL in the bin for doing that to my friend!
(caescarna Hell's Roomba, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 13:34, closed)