There was an unanswered resident answer...

We could found a Brainwashed Cowards Club? See, I'm bi and religious too and don't have a problem. My dad is Catholic, my mum is atheist, and I never even got any religious indoctrination anywhere.....maybe I don't even exist.

Oh, and I have AR'd this thread. Say something before it's closed...last orders....

Ibtl/pbss

I always make a point of *not* quoting long pages of other people's thoughts simply because people often forget that faith is a very personal thing. There isn't a "one size fits all" answer.

Even atheists and evolutionists tend to disagree on certain issues - both of which, by the way, are "faiths" in their own way, by trying to explain the origins of where we came from.

Broccoli

Nah ... you're just a figment of your avatar's imagination.

Everything you're saying here is a qoute from when you were indocrinated unless of course you were born with a full blown belief in God and an understanding of the workings of religion.

Look up "quote" in the dictionary before you post here again, please.

Also, "indoctrinated", thanks.

Believing in something does not make you insane. Those that believed in a possible trip to the moon, could have been labeled insane in the 1800's...now, it's a reality. Believing in quantum physics is just as questionable as believing in Mohammad or Buddha.

Insanity has nothing to do with that.

If you are trying to scratch the spiders off your back, you might be truly insane. But who's to know? What IS real?

I wasn't "indoctrinated" in the slightest.

My conversion was my choice. I had questions, someone discussed them with me and answered them, and nobody forced me to believe. Having investigated the facts for myself, I came to the conclusion that there was only one answer, and that answer was that God existed.

You do, of course, have the right to disagree with me - but you cannot force me to change my beliefs any more than I can you yours.

Broccoli

IM in world we must chat and great minds do think alike im sure

But it is one of the best books i have ever read FYIW i am going to get the new book shortly as well as they have discussed in detail Dr Jaynes theories further and coupled with the advances in science sine he wrote the first book it should be an interesting read

Your arguments here are rather petty don't you think? Nitpicking about this and that without really opening your mind to anything nor are you proving anything. Screaming for a locked thread, filing AR's, and generally just being disruptive does not make for sound debate.

What ever gave you the impression I was trying to prove anything? Because, heads up, I haven't been.

The only time I've nitpicked is when you blatantly misuse words to support a fallacious argument.

I've never once screamed for a locked thread - I said it should be locked, which per the rules it should, but honestly I don't care - and I've never ARed anyone.

And the only way I've been "disruptive" is that I don't let you get away with sweeping and false generalizations while insulting those you generalize about, and then crying foul when those people you have insulted and marginalize fight back.

The other thread was not a debate on on wether Religeon should exist.

It was a debate on Missionaries, who by definition try to get others to change their beleifs.

It was taken over by Aethiest "Missionaries" trying to tell people they should stop believing in their Spirtuality.

This thread is merely a continuation of that.

So to say we should debate the existance of God is pointless - it was not the purpose of the original thread.

For my part - even though I was told I was repeating myself - I will again.

Leave people alone with their own beliefs. Whatever they are.

But isn't it always funny how the "atheists" are the worst missionaries when it comes to proclaiming their beliefs?

Only some. Many Athiests and Agnostics are completely willing to let people beleive whatever they want.

I think it goes back to human nature.

If those Athiests were Christain they likely would be the ones preaching to the non-believers.

Them being Athiest didnt change their need to try to convince others they should have the same beliefs they do.

Oh, the AR'ing was me.

And it's not nitpicking, it's SEMANTICS. You might want to look that up, too.

Besides, I was an atheist for 30 years.

Exactly what is there to debate, this is a resident answers forum, regardless of religious or moral belielfs those that do should respect the forums.

There is a time and a place to discuss these matters and if you only all wake up and realise the time this is not the place.

Of what use is this to SL, if your on a mission then perhaps a more appropriatte thread should be posted elsewhere.

There's enough space on the web to incite and induce others, why do it here.

Agreed, and I'm a God fearing atheist. If people want to discuss religion inworld and setup groups then fair play to them.

It would make more sense for LL to respect their customers and reopen the general and off topic forums.

I definitely support this proposal. There are issues, such as this thread has proven, that touch upon both inworld and RL activities that doesn't fit the strict criteria for this forum but people would like to discuss these issues here.

Chris

Perhaps that may be an option, but can we not have appear on new posts and only selected by those that want to view such topics....

Hence my quotation marks.

Did someone force you to read this thread or any thread in the forums?

Ahh I see.

Praying For Nothing?

A very religious man lived right next door to an atheist. While the religious one prayed day in, day out, and was constantly on his knees in communion with his Lord, the atheist never even looked twice at a church. However, the atheist's life was good, he had a well-paying job and a beautiful wife, and his children were healthy and good-natured, whereas the pious man's job was strenuous and his wages were low, his wife was getting fatter every day and his kids wouldn't give him the time of the day. So one day, deep in prayer as usual, he raised his eyes towards heaven and asked:

"Oh God, I honor you every day, I ask your advice for every problem and confess to you my every sin. Yet my neighbor, who doesn't even believe in you and certainly never prays, seems blessed with every happiness, while I go poor and suffer many an indignity. Why is this?" And a great voice was heard from above:

"BECAUSE HE DOESN'T BOTHER ME ALL THE TIME!"

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