Athiests - Who cares

kylith · 23-01-2015 03:59PM

johnohanlon wrote: »

In the afterlife all the negative aspects of our soul are diminished hence we will not feel boredom

So, in heaven you get lobotomised?

Grayson · 23-01-2015 04:08PM

Akrasia wrote: »

It really was a particularly low point in a conflict full of low points

There's video of it too. It's a load of little children with their parents, police lining the pathway and nutjobs throwing stuff at them.

Eutow · 23-01-2015 04:14PM

johnohanlon wrote: »

In the afterlife all the negative aspects of our soul are diminished hence we will not feel boredom

I can understand, reciting the leader is good, the leader is great would get a tad boring after a while. Stoping to say you're getting mighty bored of this would lead to a loss of productivity. You would just end up licking your balls and what use is that.

johnohanlon · 23-01-2015 04:28PM

Akrasia wrote: »

Don't forget throwing rocks, blast bombs and urine filled balloons at primary school children for the offence of walking down the wrong road on the way to school. Gotta love that christian attitude

You cannot use the actions of extreme loyalists as an attack against Christians, do you really think those men were men of God?
The UVF used the slogan "For God and Ulster" but really they just meant "For queen and Ulster" as the queen is the God of loyalists.

Some Christians take things too far sometimes I agree, especially the story this week on the north coast when the statue of the Celtic God of the sea was stolen.

seamus · 23-01-2015 04:31PM

johnohanlon wrote: »

You cannot use the actions of extreme loyalists as an attack against Christians, do you really think those men were men of God?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

The things they did, they did in the name of your god.

Grayson · 23-01-2015 04:42PM

seamus wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

The things they did, they did in the name of your god.

Every religion has it's fair share of nutjobs and if they want to they can always find something in their holy book to justify it.

And then they'd use the no true Scotsman to slander the more liberal religious people. After all, they're generally following a more literal "truer" version of the religion. It's why they're called fundamentalists.

Akrasia · 23-01-2015 04:46PM

johnohanlon wrote: »

You cannot use the actions of extreme loyalists as an attack against Christians, do you really think those men were men of God?
The UVF used the slogan "For God and Ulster" but really they just meant "For queen and Ulster" as the queen is the God of loyalists.

Some Christians take things too far sometimes I agree, especially the story this week on the north coast when the statue of the Celtic God of the sea was stolen.

I'm not saying everyone in northern ireland is an extremist or a sectarian. Thankfully 'the troubles' are in the past and people are moving forward together

I wonder how much quicker this would have happened if we didn't have religious attitudes on both sides stoking the fires of hatred.

Religion does not bring people together unless everyone shares the same religion. Where there more than one religion competing for dominance in one region, we often see conflict and war. This is just a fact of life unfortunately.

Secularism has helped to reduce this problem by divorcing political power from religious institutions. And we are all the better for it.

johnohanlon · 23-01-2015 05:49PM

Akrasia wrote: »

I'm not saying everyone in northern ireland is an extremist or a sectarian. Thankfully 'the troubles' are in the past and people are moving forward together

I wonder how much quicker this would have happened if we didn't have religious attitudes on both sides stoking the fires of hatred.

Religion does not bring people together unless everyone shares the same religion. Where there more than one religion competing for dominance in one region, we often see conflict and war. This is just a fact of life unfortunately.

Secularism has helped to reduce this problem by divorcing political power from religious institutions. And we are all the better for it.

The northern ireland problem never was solely about religion, lets just say the unionists had have been catholic, it wouldn't have changed things, the people would still be culturally divided and have different identities, sure i could convert to protestantism tomorrow but i still would be very different to my ulster scot neighbours

Zubeneschamali · 23-01-2015 10:50PM

Akrasia wrote: »

Thankfully 'the troubles' are in the past and people are moving forward together

My family were burnt out of Belfast in the 1920s for being the wrong religion in the wrong street.

Take off and nuke it from orbit.

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