So say goodbye to Werewolf, and he is correct; he really can't discuss these things calmly. But don't anyone think I'm getting all hot and bothered as he so obviously is. I'm afraid the religious types in this thread are pretty well-accustomed to anti-religious vituperation, so we're not sobbing into our hankies as he seems to imagine. Don't even think he's begun to upset me, try as he might. I mean, can the use of the f-word to describe religious people really come under the heading of respectful disagreement?
Are you not clearly saying that all religious beliefs are false, and that only the stupid or weak would believe them,
Pretty much! I suppose if the shoe fits feel free to wear it.
Translation: No fistful, I'm not insulting Wiccans, Druids, Buddhists, Deists, Methodists, Rastafarians, or dervishes, or their beliefs, I'm just saying that they're stupid and/or weak. All of them. Even though I've never met them and know nothing about their accomplishments as individuals. Who could take offense?
and only the evil promote them?
Never said that - doesn't surprise me that you'd interpret it that way though - what with you taking everything so personal and all.
Get it thru your thick skull that what applies to organizations does not necessarily apply to the individuals that make up the organization.Oh, don't worry, gentle reader, I know that The Wolfy One doesn't really mean to insult me when he claims I have a thick skull. Perhaps I should have explained that I was speaking of the "shamans" he described so lovingly:
Organized religion is all about power and control and the shamans thereof have known it since the dawn of history.
Hence we learn that all religious leaders are domineering psychopaths. And I suppose this next bit was meant to extol the virtues of those humble peasants who genuinely practice the Christian virtues - oh nevermind, he said they're impractical, thus showing a total ignorance of the meaning of said verses. And then of course, there's the silly generalization that hate, fear and murder are characteristic of Christianity. Yes, I'd say old Wolfy gets a little hot under the collar about this subject, poor dear.
Even religions like Christianity who's foundation was built on the values of a man who said love thy brother, turn the other cheek and all that other impractical BS uses hate and fear to control it's adherents. And not only do they kill people of other religions for having the audacity to pray to a GOD other than theirs they freakin' kill each other
Yup, my preacher forgives even really big sins if I bring him the head of a Jainist!
But I guess I'm not logical or realistic, anyway, right?
Right... And yes - make no bones about it - that is a personal attack.
What can I say?