Never Forget, Religion is a Hole

by Gregor 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  Gregor

  It is easy to get too curious and fall in. You might wander around down there for years, have a family, make friends. Then you will find it is hard to get out.

  Someone once said, "Religion is a Snare and a Racket" Remember, a snare is always baited with something to attract the prey.

  Religion is organized superstition. It packages up all the answers to lifes perplexing questions and gives them to you on a platter, no muss no fuss, just have "faith" and, very important, try to act like a sheep. Sheep don't even know or care if they're in a hole.

  "People" invent and operate religions. They decide what all the answers are and feed them to other people. The people who run the religion are just like other people, they eat, poop, have bad breath, get toothaches, etc.
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  Gopher

  
  Stop it. You're making too much sense. Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain!

  Religion is organized superstition

  There's truth in what Stevie Wonder sang, "when you believe in things you don't understand...then you suffer! Superstition ain't the way"
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  candidlynuts

  friend of mine says there are only 2 people in the world that will ask you to have " faith"

  con men and religious people. sometimes the line is very blurred between the two
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  smellsgood

  Thats a bit too general Gregors
  I would say that since there is power in beliefs, there will always be swindlers trying to capitalise.
  Just like in any other market...
  Besides, sometimes religion isn't about answers to lifes questions, sometimes its about getting drunk and worshipping Dionysus by sleeping with the temple prostitutes...
  
  smellsgood
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  NYCkid

  Gregor:

  Thank you Thank you Thank you...well said. I think what you say applies to all religions, otherwise why would educated men find it absolutely logical and appropriate to fly a commercial airplane into a building or to avoid specific foods while the men refuse to cut their hair? (to name a few).

  From my standpoint, the very root of every single religion is it's mechanism to control people. So much for the "Jehovah didn't create us as robots, we have freedom of choice" theory. The very idea of good vs evil negates any opportunity for choice.

  Thanks for sharing,
  NYCkid
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  smellsgood

  Hi NYC kid
  
  "The very idea of good vs evil negates any opportunity for choice."
  philosophically speaking, I'm wondering if you could explain your thoughts a little more on this if you don't mind?
  
  smellsgood
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  skeptic2

  well said gregor, can I have your permission to quote you in entirety?
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  Gregor

  Skeptic2, Thanks, I'm flattered. Feel free to quote me. (Standard 5% royalty applies)
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  free2beme

  Life has many holes

  Religion, Hobbies, Clubs, Philosophies, etc ... sometimes though, in a world that is rough, you have to hide in the trenches to get by or you might get you head blown off.
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  Gregor

  Religion, Hobbies, Clubs, Philosophies, etc ... sometimes though, in a world that is rough, you have to hide in the trenches to get by or you might get you head blown off.

  Yeah, you could add drugs, booze, promiscuity, etc. but I think Religion is a particularly sinister hole. Many people get their heads blown off in that hole.