Readings for the sane

[guno]

Christianity is an insult to the wisdom of the nineteenth century. To place before its progress and development a leader, ruler, king, savior, god, whose knowledge was less than a modern five-year-old school girl, is an outrage upon humanity.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

 

[guno]

"Children should be taught that no amount of so-called religion will compensate for rheumatism; that Christianity has nothing to do with morality; that vicarious atonement is a fraud and a lie; that to be born well and strong is the highest birth; that the Bible is no more inspired than The Philistine; that sin is a transgression of the laws of life; and that the blood of all the bulls and goats and lambs of ancient times, and the blood of Jesus or any other man never had nor can have the least effect in making a life what it would have been had it obeyed the laws of life.
If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses and in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to accept another's mind in place of your own, and generally contrary to your own. When religious belief comes in brains go out."

"Man has asked for the truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time."

"A great many things are protected and praised that should be exposed and denounced. One of them is religion. A religious person is a dangerous person. He may not become a thief or a murderer, but he is liable to become a nuisance. He carries with him many foolish and harmful superstitions, and he is possessed with the notion that it is his duty to give these superstitions to others. That is what makes trouble. Nothing is so worthless as superstition."

Annie Besant

 

[the_human_being]

Christianity is an insult to the wisdom of the nineteenth century. To place before its progress and development a leader, ruler, king, savior, god, whose knowledge was less than a modern five-year-old school girl, is an outrage upon humanity.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Hold onto that thought. You'll be able to tell it all to Him one day. You'll have the floor to preach directly to Him without anyone interrupting your zeal.

 

[Dajjal]

Christianity changed the world. It presented the cruel Roman empire with a great new vision of life.

 

[Dajjal]

"Children should be taught that no amount of so-called religion will compensate for rheumatism; that Christianity has nothing to do with morality; that vicarious atonement is a fraud and a lie; that to be born well and strong is the highest birth; that the Bible is no more inspired than The Philistine; that sin is a transgression of the laws of life; and that the blood of all the bulls and goats and lambs of ancient times, and the blood of Jesus or any other man never had nor can have the least effect in making a life what it would have been had it obeyed the laws of life.
If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses and in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to accept another's mind in place of your own, and generally contrary to your own. When religious belief comes in brains go out."

"Man has asked for the truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time."

"A great many things are protected and praised that should be exposed and denounced. One of them is religion. A religious person is a dangerous person. He may not become a thief or a murderer, but he is liable to become a nuisance. He carries with him many foolish and harmful superstitions, and he is possessed with the notion that it is his duty to give these superstitions to others. That is what makes trouble. Nothing is so worthless as superstition."

Annie Besant

Is that the same Annie Besant, the theosophist? because she believed in the occult.

 

[Mr. H.]

guno- you forgot that American-Africans are NOT free from slavery.

You're slipping, dude.

 

[the_human_being]

Christianity changed the world. It presented the cruel Roman empire with a great new vision of life.

I think he's into voodoo. From Haiti maybe.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Christianity changed the world. It presented the cruel Roman empire with a great new vision of life.

Which was used to justify the cruel and capricious kingdoms and empires of Europe that followed the end of Rome.

Religion is the bane of humankind.

 

[guno]

 

[guno]

 

[guno]

ok lets talk about" intelligent" stuff

 

[Harry Dresden]

Christianity changed the world. It presented the cruel Roman empire with a great new vision of life.

Which was used to justify the cruel and capricious kingdoms and empires of Europe that followed the end of Rome.

Religion is the bane of humankind.

Jones dont do questions.....

 

[guno]

 

[Blackrook]

House ended up killing himself in a burning building. I don't think the show's writers intended us to emulate him, or his ideas.

 

[Avatar4321]

ok lets talk about" intelligent" stuff

feel free to start whenever.

 

[Avatar4321]

House ended up killing himself in a burning building. I don't think the show's writers intended us to emulate him, or his ideas.

apparently quoting fictional characters is more intelligent to him than studying the words of all knowing God

 

[Blackrook]

House ended up killing himself in a burning building. I don't think the show's writers intended us to emulate him, or his ideas.

apparently quoting fictional characters is more intelligent to him than studying the words of all knowing God

House is a fictional character who was hated by everyone who knew him and hated everyone he knew. Then he killed himself. House is not supposed to be a role model.

 

[Abishai100]

Storytelling Jungle

We could try coordinating religion with folklore. This could help people understand why Eastern religions are so well-integrated into mainstream culture.

The famous German folk tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin tells the story of a strange man who was employed by the town of Hamelin, Germany to use his special animal flute calling skills to draw out all the rats and lead them towards a river which he did happily until they refused him his full payment, compelling him to make a terrible and bizarre act of wrath --- he used his flute to draw out all the children of Hamelin and he disappeared with them.

This eerie tale reveals a Western paranoia about community governance and social values as well as contract anxieties and could be used to understand Western religious doctrines about friendship and betrayal (i.e., writings of St. Paul).

It seems that a lack of explicit connection in the West between religion and culture makes controversial Hollywood (USA) movies such as "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (1982) feel myopic.

 

[Muslim75]

I speak as a Muslim.

The minute one denies the existence of a unique Almighty God, he becomes like one whose boat is breeched. His condition is most critical.

 

[Agit8r]

"Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled, and the bloody persecutions and tortures unto death, and religious wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes --whence rose they but from this impious thing called revealed religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man? The lies of the Bible have been the cause of the one, and the lies of the Testament of the other."
-- Thomas Paine; from 'The Age of Reason, Part Second'