Quote Originally Posted by F L E S H
siSTARindigo,
As for the "militant" part, I made that up cause I thought it was funny, forget it.
The only reason I even typed that was because it was funny. I was really commenting on the athiest part.

Quote Originally Posted by F L E S H
And I'm in the spirituality forum because it affects me, religion affects everyone whether they like it or not.
Why does it affect you if you don't believe in it? It still sounds as if you are very insecure, and unsure.

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And people, all of you, sure,for now, let's live and let live, we'll be a big happy family, each with our own beliefs. But don't you realize what happening in the world? Fundamentalism is on an exponential rise in popularity, both in America and in the Middle-East. These are people willing to kill over the name of a god. And their leaders wouldn't want it any other way.

Look at Bush, Mr. Born-Again. He's using his religion as a form of control. So is Bin Laden, re-interpreting the Qur'an as he wishes to control people. That's what religion (at least, the Big Three) is for, population control.
This is exactly why I say that I am a spiritual person, instead of a religious person. Because bad people have given a bad name, and taken something that was supposed to be good and turned it into a horrible business. Yes, and use it for control, just like a cult. There is good and bad, positive and negative. Don't allow the bad to outshine the good.

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And siSTAR, yes, it's a big deal if you just pick and choose what you want to believe in while rejecting stuff you don't like. It just doesn't make sense. You feel better about yourself because you believe in a god? Are you less afraid to live on your daily life knowing that there's a nice old man waiting to give you a big hug after you die?
Actually I don't subscribe to the "sex" of god, much less wether or not there is a beard. Again, you would have known that had you read this whole conversation And maybe the stuff I don't like is just the crap people have changed and added.

And actually I believe that there are tons of passed family members, animals, friends, angels, guides, ascended masters, there to great you with "love" when your body dies. What exactly do you think it is then that leaves our body when we die? And it has to go somewhere. Something inside us that makes us each unique (personality) leaves, and our body starts to decay. 2 years old, 102 years old. What is "this" energy which can be recorded? And where does it go?

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Fact is, people the world over have been picking and choosing what to believe since the dawn of humanity. Three thousand years ago, it was Egyptian religion... The came the Greeks and the Romans, with something else. Today, their religious stories are considered "mythology", a nice little fairy tale with some life-lessons. Now who decided we should all stop believing that and start believing in a completely different fairy-tale? Jesus Christ? He didn't even exist... And his religion is a re-hash of ancient Egyptian religion anyway.

So yeah, like you said, all the major religions pick and choose what they want to believe and leave out the rest, I guess you could do it to. So I believe the world was created last week by a giant Dwarf named Andy, and he just makes us believe that the world is older through telepathy, and when we die we all end up in a land of candy with holy dwarves running among us. Don't mock my beliefs, you ig·no·rant person! It's all here in my book, Andy's world.
There really isn't a point to quoting this but it was really funny. You should really write books or something. Your very imaginative, and entertaining. You could be a millionare:thumbsup:

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