Religious People

Rb wrote: »

I would never live with a muslim or scientologist though, regardless of the strength of their faith.

Ah come on, Scientologists aren't all bad: I'd love to live with Catherine Bell (Not very SFW). She could practice her Scientology sorcery in front of me all day as long as I could **** in her room when she went out. Do Scientologist girls put out on the first date, I wonder?

Myxomatosis wrote: »

I had to let a maintenance guy into our apartment today and into a roommates room.

The room mate has stuff moved into the room for a few months but hasn't even spent a night here yet I don't think.

Anyway, first time I've seen inside the room and he has all these religious pictures set up on the desk, like a little shrine, or praying spot.

I honestly feel slightly uneasy about the prospect of living with this guy and him being so religious delusional.

How could you place any trust in a person who obviously has such little intelligence that he actually prays to "God"?

BTW this is not a thread about Religion, it's about a fundamental mistrust I have in religious people.

Buy loads of FSM merch and just leave it around the house

Your lack of religion probably bothers him

but

he probably keeps his opinions to himself cos your lack of religion is none of his business

Myxomatosis wrote: »

I had to let a maintenance guy into our apartment today and into a roommates room.

The room mate has stuff moved into the room for a few months but hasn't even spent a night here yet I don't think.

Anyway, first time I've seen inside the room and he has all these religious pictures set up on the desk, like a little shrine, or praying spot.

I honestly feel slightly uneasy about the prospect of living with this guy and him being so religious delusional.

How could you place any trust in a person who obviously has such little intelligence that he actually prays to "God"?

BTW this is not a thread about Religion, it's about a fundamental mistrust I have in religious people.

Anything in your bedroom that might lead people to judge you, Myxamatosis?

Yes, but they all lived before we disproved god!

I'm not overly religious but I do believe in God but I don't preach about it. I go out for drinks, swear a bit and live a normal life. What I find more objectionable is gimpish people who love to pretend they hold strong opinions in a vain attempt to appear interesting and hip. People who express these "cool" athiest views are rather tiresome. They will all have been to religious services for weddings and funerals etc and when the day comes that they lie on their death bed the mast majority will change their tune. I'm right and subsequent posts to the contrary are irrelevant.

Why would you ever give a fúck about it?

I don't care about my friends and relatives religious beliefs (or lack thereof) I really don't. I suppose I'm an agnostic if I think about it, but I don't really think about it. It's not that big a deal. Recently though, I've noticed that the only people who do seem to care are fundamentalist atheists. A few of my mates are what I would call practicing atheists, and it's amongst the most pretentious and tedious belief systems I've ever come across.

It's none of your business, you clearly didn't know until you saw their room, so obviously they're not trying to convert you.

Myxomatosis wrote: »

How could you place any trust in a person who obviously has such little intelligence that he actually prays to "God"?

BTW this is not a thread about Religion, it's about a fundamental mistrust I have in religious people.

I'm an atheist and I find this pretty insulting. It clearly suggests that you have a pretty low opinion of most people in the world for that matter, because a huge percentage are religious, I don't know whether you realise this.

I think that belief in religion generally is not a great idea, its an opinion I hold for many reasons. Mainly the basis for belief that most people have anyway. It's not thought out, you receive it at childhood and the negative basis for non-belief is very powerful (you may end up in purgatory, hell etc.). When I was growing up it was quite powerful on me so I can understand how people come around to believe, but it definitely doesn't suggest low intelligence. It's just one thing this person doesn't think about and there are thousands of things we should all think about.

For example, how many of us engage ourselves in serious ways to decrease carbon emissions (a massive threat to our survival, confirmed, not debatable anymore). A very few people concern themselves seriously with this issue, and most of us don't think about it too much at all (we might just about recycle). Does that make most of us seriously unintelligent, because the clever thing to do would be to work in serious ways to halt the threat. Possibly, the original poster of this thread doesn't even really care (I don't know of course) and if this is the case who's really intelligent? The answer is, of course it doesn't suggest that most of us are incredibly stupid, there's just lots of things in the world that we should concern ourselves with but don't have time because of the way things are set up for us.

I think what the original poster is suggesting is that the religious flatmate hasn't thought about evolution and the creation of the earth etc. I'm a marxist and I wish everyone I come up to would think about the development of societies from a marxist perspective, but they don't. Our society is constructed in such a way as to push religious ideas, and even from the societal perspective to train everyone to think that everyone is out for themselves, that competitive spirit everywhere is praiseworthy, co-operation is useless etc. Think of our Christian Brother schools. When I was there, I didn't hear the word evolution once. We had religious classes and science classes in biology, chemistry and physics and in none of these classes did we ever discuss evolution or the actual proven development of out planet. And when we grow up we don't really have massive debates about it, we're more concerned about Coronation St. and Dancing On Ice or not disrespecting the Lord or something, so its not thought about. None of this for one second suggests lack of intelligence, just something else we haven't thought about yet.

ScumLord wrote: »

David Copperfield walked through the great wall of China but you wouldn't call him a scientists would you?

Take that religious heads.

johnmacward wrote: »

I'm an atheist and I find this pretty insulting. It clearly suggests that you have a pretty low opinion of most people in the world for that matter, because a huge percentage are religious, I don't know whether you realise this.

I'm an Atheist, and I have a low opinion of most of the world.

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The Roman Catholic Church is a sham based on the beliefs of 'Saviours' dating back thousands of years before the supposed birth of Christ.
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