What Do You Think God Should Have Done With These People?

[ding]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

Those words were written by other men. Jesus didn’t have a secretary.

Given your intellectual prowess on religion, I'm actually surprised you didn't think he did.

 

[ding]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Only dumb people follow a religion.

Darwin says otherwise, dummy.

As usual, no quote = total fartsmoke. Now go sniff another hairy nutsack.

You are cute when you act dumb.

Throughout history every society has overwhelmingly held the belief that man is more than just matter and that there is a higher power than man. When we look at the data today we see that more and more people are rejecting organized religion but have not abandoned their belief that they are more than just matter or that there is a force which connects or binds us all. From the atheist's vantage point these beliefs exist because of evolutionary forces. But the reality is that even that argument confirms that spirituality offers a functional advantage over materialism. According to natural selection there are two main components; functional advantage and transfer of functional advantage to the next generation. So even natural selection confirms that spirituality is a behavior which leads to success. Otherwise, according to natural selection, it would have been abandoned long ago. As mankind has gained more and more knowledge of his natural surroundings his desire for spirituality has not diminished. In fact, the more materialistic we became the less satisfied we became.

It's taking a while, but religion is slowly being abandoned. Especially by smart people.

true, but if you have no belief in
god and greater powers...you admit you are lost in a maze of your own madness

Actually no, your mind would be free from thinking that kind of nonsense that they teach you to scare you into following them.

Actually you have a hole in your life because you don't have a relationship with God. My relationship with God is not based upon fear. My relationship with God is based upon love. My reward is peace and joy through the storms of life. The best you can hope for is to suffer without complaint which isn't likely as you seem like a big complainer.

I have a relationship with what I believe the universe is all about, and am totally at peace with it. But no, it doesn't involve an invisible dude who rules over us and expects me to follow a bunch of arbitrary stuff from 2000 years ago.

Neither does mine, dummy.

Your perception of God is so devoid of thought and logic it is not a surprise you don't believe in God. I wouldn't believe in God either if I thought the way you did. The problem is the way you think is flawed.

So why doesn't god correct me and all the others? Why let us hang onto something god knows is wrong?

Because it's your life to live, Taz. Where would you draw the line?

Like, before god threw Adam and Eve out of Eden and made us all live in sin.

Or something like that.

Not even close.

Before that?

You've never tried to understand it. What are the odds today would be the day you started?

I understand that you think that an invisible magician poofed everything into being and now cares what we do. Doesn’t that sound stupid?

Yes, what you believe I believe is stupid.

That is what you believe in a nutshell.

Not even close.

 

[The Irish Ram]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

Those words were written by other men. Jesus didn’t have a secretary.

He had several. One being Nicodemus, the most accomplished and revered men of his time. Read what he had to write. Nevertheless:
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.

Who were these other men you think wrote the book? How is it that we have not uncovered the true identity of these masters of deceit, that wrote the book that has sold more than none other over the centuries? How did those guys know that the Jews would revert to their original language after becoming a nation in one day? No other displaced nation has ever done so... Who are these luminaries you speak of?

 

[Blackrook]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Only dumb people follow a religion.

I follow a religion. Are you saying I'm dumb?

 

[Taz]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

Those words were written by other men. Jesus didn’t have a secretary.

Given your intellectual prowess on religion, I'm actually surprised you didn't think he did.

You’re just jealous because you feel compelled to worship an invisible magician like the intellectual midget that you are.

 

[Taz]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Only dumb people follow a religion.

Darwin says otherwise, dummy.

As usual, no quote = total fartsmoke. Now go sniff another hairy nutsack.

You are cute when you act dumb.

Throughout history every society has overwhelmingly held the belief that man is more than just matter and that there is a higher power than man. When we look at the data today we see that more and more people are rejecting organized religion but have not abandoned their belief that they are more than just matter or that there is a force which connects or binds us all. From the atheist's vantage point these beliefs exist because of evolutionary forces. But the reality is that even that argument confirms that spirituality offers a functional advantage over materialism. According to natural selection there are two main components; functional advantage and transfer of functional advantage to the next generation. So even natural selection confirms that spirituality is a behavior which leads to success. Otherwise, according to natural selection, it would have been abandoned long ago. As mankind has gained more and more knowledge of his natural surroundings his desire for spirituality has not diminished. In fact, the more materialistic we became the less satisfied we became.

It's taking a while, but religion is slowly being abandoned. Especially by smart people.

true, but if you have no belief in
god and greater powers...you admit you are lost in a maze of your own madness

Actually no, your mind would be free from thinking that kind of nonsense that they teach you to scare you into following them.

Actually you have a hole in your life because you don't have a relationship with God. My relationship with God is not based upon fear. My relationship with God is based upon love. My reward is peace and joy through the storms of life. The best you can hope for is to suffer without complaint which isn't likely as you seem like a big complainer.

I have a relationship with what I believe the universe is all about, and am totally at peace with it. But no, it doesn't involve an invisible dude who rules over us and expects me to follow a bunch of arbitrary stuff from 2000 years ago.

Neither does mine, dummy.

Your perception of God is so devoid of thought and logic it is not a surprise you don't believe in God. I wouldn't believe in God either if I thought the way you did. The problem is the way you think is flawed.

So why doesn't god correct me and all the others? Why let us hang onto something god knows is wrong?

Because it's your life to live, Taz. Where would you draw the line?

Like, before god threw Adam and Eve out of Eden and made us all live in sin.

Or something like that.

Not even close.

Before that?

You've never tried to understand it. What are the odds today would be the day you started?

I understand that you think that an invisible magician poofed everything into being and now cares what we do. Doesn’t that sound stupid?

Yes, what you believe I believe is stupid.

That is what you believe in a nutshell.

Not even close.

God poofed everything into being. If not, then what?

 

[Taz]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

Those words were written by other men. Jesus didn’t have a secretary.

He had several. One being Nicodemus, the most accomplished and revered men of his time. Read what he had to write. Nevertheless:
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.

Who were these other men you think wrote the book? How is it that we have not uncovered the true identity of these masters of deceit, that wrote the book that has sold more than none other over the centuries? How did those guys know that the Jews would revert to their original language after becoming a nation in one day? No other displaced nation has ever done so... Who are these luminaries you speak of?

Bog, if you want to believe fairy tales are true, go ahead and live in a fantasy world where an invisible dude will punish me if I don’t follow a book.

 

[Taz]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Only dumb people follow a religion.

I follow a religion. Are you saying I'm dumb?

You’re likely not the sharpest shoe in the closet. You need to believe fairy tales for life to make any sense to you. Does that sound like someone who has a clue?

 

[Blackrook]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Only dumb people follow a religion.

I follow a religion. Are you saying I'm dumb?

You’re likely not the sharpest shoe in the closet. You need to believe fairy tales for life to make any sense to you. Does that sound like someone who has a clue?

I have 19 years of formal education, a doctorate degree, and an IQ that puts me in the top 1% of the top 1%.

What is your level of education and intelligence, since you claim to be smarter than me?

 

[LittleNipper]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

Those words were written by other men. Jesus didn’t have a secretary.

He had several. One being Nicodemus, the most accomplished and revered men of his time. Read what he had to write. Nevertheless:
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.

Who were these other men you think wrote the book? How is it that we have not uncovered the true identity of these masters of deceit, that wrote the book that has sold more than none other over the centuries? How did those guys know that the Jews would revert to their original language after becoming a nation in one day? No other displaced nation has ever done so... Who are these luminaries you speak of?

Bog, if you want to believe fairy tales are true, go ahead and live in a fantasy world where an invisible dude will punish me if I don’t follow a book.

My guess is that you don't believe American history books either.

 

[ding]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

Those words were written by other men. Jesus didn’t have a secretary.

Given your intellectual prowess on religion, I'm actually surprised you didn't think he did.

You’re just jealous because you feel compelled to worship an invisible magician like the intellectual midget that you are.

Compelled? No. Blessed. My cup runneth over with an abundance of riches.

 

[ding]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Only dumb people follow a religion.

Darwin says otherwise, dummy.

As usual, no quote = total fartsmoke. Now go sniff another hairy nutsack.

You are cute when you act dumb.

Throughout history every society has overwhelmingly held the belief that man is more than just matter and that there is a higher power than man. When we look at the data today we see that more and more people are rejecting organized religion but have not abandoned their belief that they are more than just matter or that there is a force which connects or binds us all. From the atheist's vantage point these beliefs exist because of evolutionary forces. But the reality is that even that argument confirms that spirituality offers a functional advantage over materialism. According to natural selection there are two main components; functional advantage and transfer of functional advantage to the next generation. So even natural selection confirms that spirituality is a behavior which leads to success. Otherwise, according to natural selection, it would have been abandoned long ago. As mankind has gained more and more knowledge of his natural surroundings his desire for spirituality has not diminished. In fact, the more materialistic we became the less satisfied we became.

It's taking a while, but religion is slowly being abandoned. Especially by smart people.

true, but if you have no belief in
god and greater powers...you admit you are lost in a maze of your own madness

Actually no, your mind would be free from thinking that kind of nonsense that they teach you to scare you into following them.

Actually you have a hole in your life because you don't have a relationship with God. My relationship with God is not based upon fear. My relationship with God is based upon love. My reward is peace and joy through the storms of life. The best you can hope for is to suffer without complaint which isn't likely as you seem like a big complainer.

I have a relationship with what I believe the universe is all about, and am totally at peace with it. But no, it doesn't involve an invisible dude who rules over us and expects me to follow a bunch of arbitrary stuff from 2000 years ago.

Neither does mine, dummy.

Your perception of God is so devoid of thought and logic it is not a surprise you don't believe in God. I wouldn't believe in God either if I thought the way you did. The problem is the way you think is flawed.

So why doesn't god correct me and all the others? Why let us hang onto something god knows is wrong?

Because it's your life to live, Taz. Where would you draw the line?

Like, before god threw Adam and Eve out of Eden and made us all live in sin.

Or something like that.

Not even close.

Before that?

You've never tried to understand it. What are the odds today would be the day you started?

I understand that you think that an invisible magician poofed everything into being and now cares what we do. Doesn’t that sound stupid?

Yes, what you believe I believe is stupid.

That is what you believe in a nutshell.

Not even close.

God poofed everything into being. If not, then what?

You said an invisible magician, Taz. My perception of God is a little more deep than that.

 

[james bond]

lol. Buncha lightweights.

Buncha lightweights? How many people have you brought down? Anything you say here is forgotten by the next post.

It's taking a while, but religion is slowly being abandoned. Especially by smart people.

Like you ?

Scientists Aren’t Religious, So Why Should You Be?
Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back

...

First, we know you're a lightweight b/c you can't explain it in your own words.

Second, only four in ten millennials left (and they could come back when they're older).

As for your first link, it's from 2007 (old as yer pud) and today's scientists are mostly atheist. We still have creation scientists which the article ignored.

Another fail on your lightweight part.

There's no such thing as a creation scientist, b/c creation can't be proven scientifically.

And you can't deny, and didn't, that people are leaving religion in droves, because science has shown it to be wrong about way too many things.

That's your ignorance or a lie. I read a thread today that showed creation happened. You know Einstein's equation E=mc2 (squared). Humans can turn matter into energy, but they can't turn energy into matter m=E/c2 (squared). Thus, that is scientific evidence of God. How else did the universe, Earth, and everything in it come to be. It goes to show you and your atheist scientists are wrong, wrong, wrong and evolution is just a theory.

If that's scientific evidence of god, then you should have no problem linking me to a REAL science sight that says this. And none of your fake creation science nonsense, they are NEVER based on science, just the same twisted illogical nonsense that you just put forward.

Just because science hasn't completely solved the Big Bang mystery doesn't mean that it automatically points to an invisible being who rules over everything. C'mon brah, get a grip.

You just got pw3nd and exposed as someone who doesn't know science. Do you know what c2 (squared) is? How can someone make that? Second, what did the matter to energy (which humans can do) create?

I don't want to waste time talking to the scientific illiterate dumbarse which many posters here think you are.

HOLY OBFUSCATION BATMAN!!

So you can't link me. Got it. All you have is fartsmoke.

As usual you can't answer my questions (only two) so until you can a link won't help you. We've discovered not much can help you as you just keeping making sh*t up. It fits why evolution is just a theory.

I never said that God created the BB. You're just too stupid to know what you're reading... like the bible.

Science doesn't know where and how the BB came from. So you invented an invisible magic man to fill the gap. What a rube.

No, we discovered you were the braggadocio who ended up being the lightweight. Now, you're denying what atheist scientists have claimed. It is obvious you can't put 2+2 together.

 

[BreezeWood]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

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that happens to be - "you say that I am". - from their own book.

there is only the christian bible in reference for the above, the religious itinerant left nothing physical or any other means to verify what was written in the 4th century or what existed was destroyed by those that wrote their interpretation of the 1st century events and written for the gov't of the roman empire. -

and is a book of forgeries and fallacies written 4 centuries past the events recorded by those that were responsible for the crucifixion of an innocent person proven over history by that publications uninterrupted history of persecution and victimization of the innocent and christianities unrepentant existence from their 4th century beginning to the present time.

 

[BreezeWood]

lol. Buncha lightweights.

Buncha lightweights? How many people have you brought down? Anything you say here is forgotten by the next post.

It's taking a while, but religion is slowly being abandoned. Especially by smart people.

Like you ?

Scientists Aren’t Religious, So Why Should You Be?
Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back

...

First, we know you're a lightweight b/c you can't explain it in your own words.

Second, only four in ten millennials left (and they could come back when they're older).

As for your first link, it's from 2007 (old as yer pud) and today's scientists are mostly atheist. We still have creation scientists which the article ignored.

Another fail on your lightweight part.

There's no such thing as a creation scientist, b/c creation can't be proven scientifically.

And you can't deny, and didn't, that people are leaving religion in droves, because science has shown it to be wrong about way too many things.

That's your ignorance or a lie. I read a thread today that showed creation happened. You know Einstein's equation E=mc2 (squared). Humans can turn matter into energy, but they can't turn energy into matter m=E/c2 (squared). Thus, that is scientific evidence of God. How else did the universe, Earth, and everything in it come to be. It goes to show you and your atheist scientists are wrong, wrong, wrong and evolution is just a theory.

If that's scientific evidence of god, then you should have no problem linking me to a REAL science sight that says this. And none of your fake creation science nonsense, they are NEVER based on science, just the same twisted illogical nonsense that you just put forward.

Just because science hasn't completely solved the Big Bang mystery doesn't mean that it automatically points to an invisible being who rules over everything. C'mon brah, get a grip.

You just got pw3nd and exposed as someone who doesn't know science. Do you know what c2 (squared) is? How can someone make that? Second, what did the matter to energy (which humans can do) create?

I don't want to waste time talking to the scientific illiterate dumbarse which many posters here think you are.

.

what did the matter to energy (which humans can do) create?

.
you have never proven there was ever a time physical matter has not existed in the universe - except of course the moment of cyclical singularity, the transformation of energy back to matter. a moment of complete transition for past to a new present.

 

[Taz]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Only dumb people follow a religion.

I follow a religion. Are you saying I'm dumb?

You’re likely not the sharpest shoe in the closet. You need to believe fairy tales for life to make any sense to you. Does that sound like someone who has a clue?

I have 19 years of formal education, a doctorate degree, and an IQ that puts me in the top 1% of the top 1%.

What is your level of education and intelligence, since you claim to be smarter than me?

Ya sure, we're all Nobel Prize winners on the net. If you were that smart, you'd be able to see to ton of inconsistencies in the bible. So why can't you?

 

[Taz]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

Those words were written by other men. Jesus didn’t have a secretary.

He had several. One being Nicodemus, the most accomplished and revered men of his time. Read what he had to write. Nevertheless:
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.

Who were these other men you think wrote the book? How is it that we have not uncovered the true identity of these masters of deceit, that wrote the book that has sold more than none other over the centuries? How did those guys know that the Jews would revert to their original language after becoming a nation in one day? No other displaced nation has ever done so... Who are these luminaries you speak of?

Bof, if you want to believe fairy tales are true, go ahead and live in a fantasy world where an invisible dude will punish me if I don’t follow a book.

My guess is that you don't believe American history books either.

The Bible isn't a history book. Ex: No worldwide flood has ever been found.

 

[Taz]

The Bible should be cancelled.

LOL. Not even if the earth and heaven disappear, Christ's words will never disappear...

Those words were written by other men. Jesus didn’t have a secretary.

Given your intellectual prowess on religion, I'm actually surprised you didn't think he did.

You’re just jealous because you feel compelled to worship an invisible magician like the intellectual midget that you are.

Compelled? No. Blessed. My cup runneth over with an abundance of riches.

You may be successful (isn't everyone on the internet?), but you still believe in an invisible magician who poofed everything into being from nothing and will punish me if I don't follow a book.

 

[Blackrook]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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Only dumb people follow a religion.

I follow a religion. Are you saying I'm dumb?

You’re likely not the sharpest shoe in the closet. You need to believe fairy tales for life to make any sense to you. Does that sound like someone who has a clue?

I have 19 years of formal education, a doctorate degree, and an IQ that puts me in the top 1% of the top 1%.

What is your level of education and intelligence, since you claim to be smarter than me?

Ya sure, we're all Nobel Prize winners on the net. If you were that smart, you'd be able to see to ton of inconsistencies in the bible. So why can't you?

You know nothing about me, Taz.

It is very stupid to make comments about me when you know nothing about me.

 

[Taz]

The Bible should be cancelled.

The vast majority of people in the Russian Empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, synagogues etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designations were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes. In the long run, state atheism failed to convert many people. Religion strengthened underground and was revived to help fight the Second World War. It flourished after the fall of Communism. As Paul Froese explains:

Atheists waged a 70-year war on religious belief in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party destroyed churches, mosques, and temples; it executed religious leaders; it flooded the schools and media with anti-religious propaganda; and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” complete with atheist rituals, proselytizers, and a promise of worldly salvation. But in the end, a majority of older Soviet citizens retained their religious beliefs and a crop of citizens too young to have experienced pre-Soviet times acquired religious beliefs.[10]

Religion in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Only dumb people follow a religion.

Darwin says otherwise, dummy.

As usual, no quote = total fartsmoke. Now go sniff another hairy nutsack.

You are cute when you act dumb.

Throughout history every society has overwhelmingly held the belief that man is more than just matter and that there is a higher power than man. When we look at the data today we see that more and more people are rejecting organized religion but have not abandoned their belief that they are more than just matter or that there is a force which connects or binds us all. From the atheist's vantage point these beliefs exist because of evolutionary forces. But the reality is that even that argument confirms that spirituality offers a functional advantage over materialism. According to natural selection there are two main components; functional advantage and transfer of functional advantage to the next generation. So even natural selection confirms that spirituality is a behavior which leads to success. Otherwise, according to natural selection, it would have been abandoned long ago. As mankind has gained more and more knowledge of his natural surroundings his desire for spirituality has not diminished. In fact, the more materialistic we became the less satisfied we became.

It's taking a while, but religion is slowly being abandoned. Especially by smart people.

true, but if you have no belief in
god and greater powers...you admit you are lost in a maze of your own madness

Actually no, your mind would be free from thinking that kind of nonsense that they teach you to scare you into following them.

Actually you have a hole in your life because you don't have a relationship with God. My relationship with God is not based upon fear. My relationship with God is based upon love. My reward is peace and joy through the storms of life. The best you can hope for is to suffer without complaint which isn't likely as you seem like a big complainer.

I have a relationship with what I believe the universe is all about, and am totally at peace with it. But no, it doesn't involve an invisible dude who rules over us and expects me to follow a bunch of arbitrary stuff from 2000 years ago.

Neither does mine, dummy.

Your perception of God is so devoid of thought and logic it is not a surprise you don't believe in God. I wouldn't believe in God either if I thought the way you did. The problem is the way you think is flawed.

So why doesn't god correct me and all the others? Why let us hang onto something god knows is wrong?

Because it's your life to live, Taz. Where would you draw the line?

Like, before god threw Adam and Eve out of Eden and made us all live in sin.

Or something like that.

Not even close.

Before that?

You've never tried to understand it. What are the odds today would be the day you started?

I understand that you think that an invisible magician poofed everything into being and now cares what we do. Doesn’t that sound stupid?

Yes, what you believe I believe is stupid.

That is what you believe in a nutshell.

Not even close.

God poofed everything into being. If not, then what?

You said an invisible magician, Taz. My perception of God is a little more deep than that.

Who kicked Adam and Eve out of Eden for being hetero.