[Closed] +/- thread for religion..... no debating, just info.....

"We're really excited dude! It's awesome!" 'nuff said 🙁

No debating? I vote 'no'.

Define what you mean? I'm not sure I understand the question.

Some people may say X is a positive for religion whereas others would say that the same X is negative.

I'm off to look at bikes. More interesting.

Define what you mean?

don't be so picky. Religion isn't really something you [b]can[/b] define, you just have to do a lot of handwaving and point out it's obvious really...

I'm stoked! !oo!

don't be so picky. Religion isn't really something you can define, you just have to do a lot of handwaving and point out it's obvious really...

Ah, I see. A bit like that chap Magnus Pike but in a dress?

All the evidence points to us inhabiting the organic scum on the surface of a small planet orbiting an unremarkable star in a quite ordinary galaxy amongst billions of other galaxies in a universe that is indifferent to our existence so -ve for me- but hey whatever gets you through the night as long as it doesn't harm anyone else.

but hey whatever gets you through the night as long as it doesn't harm anyone else

that's the trouble though really - all religions seem to start off blathering on about brotherly love and tolerance and the next thing you know they have to kill someone for some reason or other 🙁

next thing you know they have to kill someone for some reason or other

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What kid's camps did you go to SFB ?

What kid's camps did you go to SFB ?

they wouldn't have me. It was mutual.

I'm + for religion.
It gives comfort to the simple-minded and that's no bad thing.

I'm not quite so narrow minded

I often think it would be 'nice' to have 'faith', to take comfort in something-and i have many religeous friends, But it dont make sense to me, and all I can see is that religions cause bloodshed and hatered, so its a no from me.

I often think it would be 'nice' to have 'faith'

I have faith. In fun, in waking up to another day, in the endless play of light, in bloodymindedness, stuff I can see and touch.

they wouldn't have me. It was mutual.

Ah right, well that helps me put your comments into some sort of context then 8)

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As a child of 8-9ish, I was an improbable member of the 'Coeur Vaillant'. Catholic and for kids, the organisation always had an annual 'kid's camp' or 'colonies de vacances'. My abiding memories are of blissful idilic days spent playing 'les grands jeux' with friends on sweet lavender-scented mountains in the Maritime Alps. And also of engaging in various arts & crafts such as painting and plaster-of-paris casting, in an enchanting chalet next to a chestnut grove - Les Chataignes, not far from an isolated peasant mountain village which appeared stuck in a time warp, and who's tiny alleyways between it's white-washed houses, stunk of damp.

I don't however have, any memories of coming away with a strong urge to kill anyone.

all I can see is that religions cause bloodshed and hatered

Religion is a way of quantifying the unquantifiable. I sometimes think that religion offers a more plausible explanation of "the Universe" than some of the "scientific" ideas that gets hypothesized.

I'm not religious and my education is in the sciences, but for the people who need or want a framework around their existence and reason-for-being then I'm all for it.