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fu_cky_ou_

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Jun 27, 2005 13:20

"We just thought it was funny, because Jesus said to love thy neigbor, and be kind to each other, and then people spent the next 2000 years killing each other because they couldn't figure out quite how he said it." - Terry Jones of Monty Python.

I think this man just summed up everything I've ever been trying to say.

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demoniam June 27 2005, 18:54:02 UTC

hahaha... same here.

___expo86 June 27 2005, 20:43:18 UTC

I wish religion could be a geniunely good thing for people instead of something that is used to oppress others. And what's sad is that it's not so much religion that causes oppression and violence. It's the immature people who can't see things outside the walls of their own spiritual beliefs. That's just my opinion.

fu_cky_ou_ June 27 2005, 22:52:07 UTC

It boils down to the simple fact of people that like their high school's football team. They don't like their football team because it's genuinly the best, they like it because it's THEIR school's football team. Same with religion. People don't follow a religion because they really think it's right, it's just that it's THEIR religion that their parents basically forced them into believing. A true testament to this is the fact that everybody we went to high school with was some form of a christian. Nobody strayed away from this formula and believed what they wanted. That, and they would get their ass kicked if they said they didn't believe in religion, which was a risk I was willing to take. I'm not going to let the opression of the dark ages limit me from telling a room full of people that I'm the only one of them with my own individual beliefs, and don't just hop a band wagon of religion. Funny how my beliefs offended a room full of people, yet I had to listen to a room full of Neandrathals state their beliefs, and didn't ( ... )