BS: Is Religion rubbish?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:53 AM

Live decently and treat one another better than we do now?

It's a possibility we could do better without religion, considering how badly we are doing with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:46 AM

you see? Religion is so VERY important, because it gives us an outlet for a special brand of humor while it is being all the other things...*grin*

what would we do without all the jokes about going to Heaven and meeting St. Peter?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:41 AM

Grin.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:38 AM

Then I would take solace and comfort in the old UU hymn "We Would Rather Not be Moved"

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:28 AM

Well BillD, we could do the UU thing, and come burn a question mark in your front yard.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:25 AM

by the way...I used to go to a regular church when I was young - so, if you think I'm crazy for my continued attempts to find rationality in this ongoing debate, just remember,

There's Methodist in my madness.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:21 AM

its not so much 'religion'..

as those who are devoutly 'religious'


that worries me

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:20 AM

Here, here!

I also pray every day for an end to the religious wars that are tearing apart and destroying civilization around the globe. Especially the American brand...

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST,Frug
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:18 AM

I wake every day and thank God that I'm an Atheist

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:13 AM

Well...sorry to ruin a 'fun' thread with serious reasoning, but that's sorta what I do about some topics....

The question as to whether religion is 'rubbish' is not the same as "Is religion right?" or "Is religion useful?"....

I am NOT religious, but religion is important, as it is used (rightly, or wrongly) to give meaning & focus to many people's lives.

I would like to see us, as a race, move beyond the usual forms of religion and find purpose and meaning within ourselves, and discover that not all questions that need asking also need answers. This may or may NOT happen, but since we are barely peeking out from thousands of years of fear and superstition, religion will continue to be the easiest way for many to come to terms with mortality and and morality, and it will continue to be important forever as part of our history as humans.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 09:48 AM

Yes, and I thought the religiously inclined had agreed not to use (I would say abuse) the forum with their personal religious agendas in prayer request threads too, but I suppose that has gone out the window like everything else around here.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: mg
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:10 AM

Cool. I am supposed to be a reformed Quaker too. Sounds like a neat religion to me whatever it is. Left to my own devices I would be a Unitarian I think..as it is I am a Catholic with many disagreements with Holy Mother the Church. But I like the pope. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST,DuckBill
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:11 AM

Goodnight Sir jOhn sir. The best of luck to you in Hull. I worry about you in a city with so much violence.

Have you considered running for Hull Constable? You could clean up the town like Gary Cooper did that "High Noon" town. You would be famouser than you are now.

I would vote for you but I am an American. Would that matter? Voter fraud is not a problem in America.

Do they even have Constables in Hull Ireland?

Yawn, I am sleeeeeeeepeeeee Snore

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: hesperis
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:11 AM

Well, it might or might not be rubbish, but it sure is funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST,DuckBill
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:04 AM

Hey the big?

If anyone could talk to gOd it would be Sir jOhn form Hull.

They both speak the same language.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:56 AM

Hey, we already had a Religion & Rubbish thread. I think we decided that some people think one way, and others think another.

Is this a rerun?
Do they have reruns in the US?
Are reruns rubbish?

-Joe Offer, who'd like to be a quacker-

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST,DuckBill
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:51 AM

Durn! I mean QUAKER. We ducks are dull. How are ducks dull in Hull?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:50 AM

yes, thats it.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST,DuckBill
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:48 AM

Sorry Sir jOhn. Some of us are a little slow to catch on.
I get you now! Would that be Quacker? Like the oats you eat with the white-haired old fat man on the box?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:26 AM

heloo.
= its prounounced like qwaker
liker earth qwake er.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST,DuckBill
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:22 AM

Well Sir jOhn, if you became a quacker, most things that quack have wings so you would be one up on the winged angel thing.

I had better DUCK.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:06 AM

Wahts the best way to contact god?


anyway=
i did a religon test, a while ago, to see waht religion i should be.
it said i should be a reforomed quacker, i looked at there website, they seem ok, i think inobo is a quacker, he seems ok, also my frrend called chris is a quacker, i was going to be one, but i couldent be aresd.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: GUEST,the big ?
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:54 AM

ask God.. see what he says..


then can you tell the rest of us
just in case he answers

Subject: BS: Is Religion rubbish?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:10 AM

Hello,
for example = if you are a methodist person, and you belive it, and go to church etc,
then, you find out about diffeent religons, = y , how do you know your religon is right, ?
ie that it is the right one, [them church people say it is, but waht if they wrong, or they lying etc?


and there is loads of religions nowadays, so how you know you choosing the right one?

IS the one waht your mum and dad did, the right one, or if you learn about it, can you get a different one?
or aere they all rubbish?


and waht about , = if you want to marry you girlfrend and shes a muslim, [but not really strict about it, [not too religous etc],
waht then?

do you get marryied in church or mosque?
or if you not really a proper methodist christisan sort of person?
could you just only get married in the mosque, and would it be a proper weddinng?


[and could you still drink a bit, if you married a muslim woman?
[waht if she didn't know about it?
[ie, she goes to see family, = you go to pub?
is that ok?


[i'm just on about, a few drinks , now and then,m , not pissed up everery night etc], waht you think?

i think is good to repsect other people relgons, [eslecially, your wifes, [], but not get all carried away with it, and get too religous.

john