Survey: High School Seniors 'Graduating from God'

SJames6621 »

Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:21 am Agree: 8   Disagree: 8

Just plain wonderful. We are educating people, and they see through all the layer on layer on layer etc etc of stories from the churches, which all root back to ignorance and superstition, and in some ways are nothing but terrorism - eg do as we say and you live beyond life (an insurance policy) or else you burn in hell (a terroristic threat.

I know hundreds of kids who are trashing their religious beliefs. That we may have intelligence, not blind faith and the giving up of our thinking caps to the chruch, to be replaced by millenia old stories.

Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Award for 'Expelled'

SJames6621 »

Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:16 am Agree: 4   Disagree: 2

Talk about arrogance. Intelligent design is just creationism in a new label. Ideas left over from ancient history, when most people were totally uneducated.

We've come a long way, and are around the corner from being able to assemble from non-living material the 480 =- genes needed to create basic life from non-life.

And then these churches will have another great scandal as intelligent, not brainwashed people, realize that the church never wants to change, for that would admit their house of cards was wrong, and the whole thing gets questioned. And faith dissolves. Just as it dissolved about all kinds of other church beliefs. From the flat earth, the sun revolving around the earth, the sun being a flaming chariot, etc etc etc

Religion has always been used to answer questions for which we did not have answers. But with the ever increasing rate of scientific advancement, religion will be seen as throwbacks to the days of ignorance.

And we are prob only about 25-50 years max from building computer systems that are aware of their own existance, totally different then the preprogrammed robots.

And the churches will have a choice. To become social service and charitable groups only, or to wither and die.

And if you look at the whole history of western civilization, you will see that religion has been the cause of or a a main participant in most wars, in denigrating and denying equality to blacks, gays, Jews, and all other minorities.

And btw, mankinds genetic code is now well understood. We are all related to a single mother who lived about 200,000 years ago, and was the real prototype homosapiens. And we have 93 to 97% the same genetic code as Gorillas and Chimps, who we are related to via a common ancestor of them and us, though they are on a different branch of the tree.

It would be nice if the church changed it's mind. Before the good it could do gets lost in its dogma and stubborness and it's fear its power will end as its errors are exposed.

Calif. Episcopal Church to Perform Same-Sex Weddings

SJames6621 »

Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:31 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Sin's only friend is death, whether you're an adulterer, fornicator, murderer, thief, liar, blasphemer, or the like. NONE of these will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Quote.

To me and the majority of thinking people, this is showing that the church is nothing but terrorism, telling lies that fly totally in the face of what Jesus life on earth was all about - God's love for all his creation.

I know all the brainwashed people here, terrorized by the church, will never change, for the church is really just one thing - master psychologists, driven primarily for their power over people's lives, and the money that comes with it - money that is "the root of all evil".

So we, my whole hetero family have left the Catholic church. We have joined progressive churches who do not live in the past, terrorize their people really in the name of the church sadistic power.

If anyone is going to hell, it will be the leaders of those who poison minds, want to live in the horrible ancient history of mankind, and who are the heirs to a 1000 year reign of terror from the catholic church, combined with corrupt kings, who murdered tens of millions of Muslims "in the name of God", but really in the name of grand theft and their psychopathic pleasure of killing people.

And there was also the burning at the stake of a million mostly women as witches, which was nothing but the ultimate expression of machoism based power, from a church that still holds women as inferior to men - that is all it is about - ancient beliefs.

And I could go on. The inquisition, the treatment of the Jews by the church. But the bottom line is that history is moving forward, and if the church doesn't change, it will become increasingly irrelevant in the modern world. The only shame is for all the horrible things it has sponsored, all in the name of God. It is you who should be quaking in your boots, for your day will come.

Bill Targets Religious Discrimination in Okla. Schools

SJames6621 »

Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:06 am Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

Isn't this sponsored by the homopphobe of all homophobes, the ignorant and arrogant sally kerns? I forget the details, but her arrogance toward gay people suggests that she would do well in Saudi Arabia. Except that she would find out what discrimination means first hand against her, for being a woman.

What goes around comes around. It would be poetic justice. keep your fairy tales out of our schools.