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Religion is the opiate of the masses. ~ Karl Marx

Humor is reason gone mad. ~ Grocho Marx

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If by tame you mean civilized then yes, religion has kept man tame.

Religion has also created organization and infrastructure where man alone couldn't be inspired enough to do it. You can rag on churches all day but where would modern publication be without the church? Where would humanity be? Religion is an evolutionary tool that has shaped social structure and created standards where there were only animals.

So go ahead, pull the steeple down if you think people can handle your "truth".

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Originally Posted by jakester

You can rag on churches all day but where would modern publication be without the church?

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Explain please.

I think most people dont want to believe in God and Jesus because they dont want to have to follow the rules. They wanna use drugs, get shit faced, fuck like a bunch of jack rabbits, and be moraly irrsponcible with out and recourse.
Saying things like Theres no proof of Jesus, or He could just be some hippie who smoke to much pot, All just excuses because you never tried to live in the morals of Gods eyes and get to know him. Im not a big religious nut, I dont even go to church, but your sitn on here ripping on some thing you never even tried. Go find him, Or be moraly lazy.

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Originally Posted by Trip06

I think most people dont want to believe in God and Jesus because they dont want to have to follow the rules. They wanna use drugs, get shit faced, fuck like a bunch of jack rabbits, and be moraly irrsponcible with out and recourse.
Saying things like Theres no proof of Jesus, or He could just be some hippie who smoke to much pot, All just excuses because you never tried to live in the morals of Gods eyes and get to know him. Im not a big religious nut, I dont even go to church, but your sitn on here ripping on some thing you never even tried. Go find him, Or be moraly lazy.

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I don't believe in god. This does not make me morally bankrupt. Maybe by religions' puritanical standards, but I don't really care to try to measure up to rules created by other men that I don't agree with. All in all, I try to enjoy my life without harming others. I'm polite to people and prefer harmonious relations rather than conflict. To observe my life, you wouldn't notice much of a difference between me and someone who believes in god. I don't need a god to scare me into acting good.

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Originally Posted by BlueBlazer

Explain please.

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Quite simply, remove religion and you would set the evolution of language, storytelling and publication so far back that it would likely be closer to cave scrawling by this date.

Let's not even get into education. People love to tout the ignorance of religion ignoring the amazing intellectual enabler that religion has been to date.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Clandestine

"Allah" is just a Arabic translation for "God", but Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) and Jesus Christ really existed. Whether or not they were divine is a hotly contested topic, but history has reasonably proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the men did once walk this earth, and did lead lives that many would consider extraordinary.

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sorry, i know this post is a bit old, but just wanna correct one major error most people have, i dont know about Buddha, but there is no proof (other than the new testament) that JC existed, no historians living at the time ever recorded any information about a man running around bethleham performing miracles, im not saying the man didnt exist, just saying there is no proof beyond a shadow of a doubt, in fact the only evidence is the new test, which wouldnt hold up in court