[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by icespeed

and Christianity rocks. don't knock it.

I don't want to start a religion debate... but that's hilarious, in my mind anyway. I literally read that sentence and fell off my chair laughing.

Context I suppose.

[Kazan]

christianity rocks no more than any other religion

and that's not at all

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Kazan
christianity rocks no more than any other religion

and that's not at all

I wouldn't say that. There've been some pretty cool religions over the last few thousand years.

"Hi. I'm Zeus. If you mess with me, I'm going to blow the **** out of you with a lightning bolt. Now stay here while I go have sex with whoever I want."

Alternately...

"Hi. I'm Thor. I might not be particularly clever, but I can kick the **** out of you. If you die in battle, you come to heaven with me, even if you were an arsehole. Thus, everybody wins, since those who regularly engage in battle rarely get to die of old age."

Or, if you're talking about modern religions...

"Hey there. I'm Shiva. I destroy ****."

Philisophically, Hinduism kicks arse IMO. And because there's no central book or anything, it rarely intrudes into government.

[Kazan]

i despise all religion equally -- they're all fountains of concentraited irrationality

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Kazan
i despise all religion equally -- they're all fountains of concentraited irrationality

Perhaps. But if you're going to submit to one God above all others, might it as well be a womanizing powermonger who could kick your arse?

[Kazan]

lol

[Flipside]

I'm spiritual but not religious. Religion is not a terrible thing if kept on a personal level, but the minute two people get together who believe even slightly different things, as Kazan says, irrationality leaps into the fray.

[Kazan]

being spiritual is being religious -- it doesn't require two people either -- one person can be irrational on their own --- a single irrational person is not dangerous though, droves of them are (and we have BILLIONS of them)

[Flipside]

For me, religion means believing in a power greater than your own free will, which I don't

Anyway...nice picture again

[Kazan]

religion, spirituality, supernaturalism - all permutations of the same fundamental irrationality of emotionalism of logic

[Flipside]

Well, I'm sure when I hit Ponn-Far, I'll feel differently

[Kazan]

rotfl

[jdjtcagle]

Wow, what happened to my thread

Oh well, like anyone cares, continue I guess...

BTW, thanks Flipside

[Falcon]

still good image

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle
Wow, what happened to my thread

It went OT. At HLP. How... normal