Is religion a from of evil in disguise?

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Is religion a form of evil in disguise?

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  1. supaskip

    supaskip Well-Known Member

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    Oh, as I said, supression and conditioning means that you can complete the job; training would be useless otherwise. The point is, you have emotions (afterwards) - of course not during because you have been conditioned.

    The social factors of being in the army have not removed emotion or internal dialogue on the matter, they have simply been buried.
     
  2. RiseAgainst

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    A relationship with Jesus Christ is not a religion so therefore neither is Christianity. The pagans attempt to categorize all religions that are either centered around Jesus and/or use or reference the bible as their sacred readings is a VERY deceptive move and its purpose is to weaken the message of Jesus Christ which nothing can penetrate, so nice try people.

    Atheism combined with evolution-centered blind faith is a religion and based off of the OP's logic a form of evil in disguise. :laughing: I am not talking about people who just don't believe in God and keep to themselves but if you go around spreading your gospel of your theological opinions, nihilism, and evolution (Anyone else find it funny how Evolutionists sling verbal sewage at us Creationists over believing something without actually having solid proof yet they proudly and blindly believe in evolution in the same way. We are all blindly following something, only ours brings people to the light and yours darkness, death and eventual anarchy)
     
  3. tomteapack

    tomteapack New Member Past Donor

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    Human existence is not needed for what goes on in nature, lol. But to understand what goes on in nature, human understanding IS needed, at least for humans to do that understanding.
     
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    tomteapack New Member Past Donor

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    Since IT does not exist, it does not know anything.
     
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    tomteapack New Member Past Donor

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    Actually, the Islamic culture retained far more of the works of ancient civilizations during the period when the CHRISTIAN religion was destroying anything and everything that did not agree with the bible. We owe modern civilization as much to the Muslims as anyone. That does NOT make religion worth anything, since it was religious nonsense that caused the dark ages.
     
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    tomteapack New Member Past Donor

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    Your concept is entirely mistaken, but you will never believe it, so, nuff said.
     
  7. Jack Ridley

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    Empirical evidence, both now and in the future.
    Like it knows that phlogiston is the cause of combustion.
     
  8. tomteapack

    tomteapack New Member Past Donor

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    Since IT does not exist, then IT knows nothing.
     
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    tomteapack New Member Past Donor

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    The two largest sources of works written before the dark ages are heretical monks in Ireland that kept documents that were banned by the catholic church and ordered burned, AND the far larger source is the MUSLIM, who at the time of the dark ages were the only source of science and advancement in learning in the western world.

    By the way, if religion had NOT existed, there would have been no widespread destruction of scientific documents and historical works. They were destroyed by the RELIGIOUS NUTS OF THE TIME.
     
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    Sorry, but this is typical religious nonsense. In the first place IF this biblical Jesus Christ existed, he is long dead and it is not possible for anyone to have a relationship with the dead. SEcondly, by definition, Christianity is a religion ---- RELIGION - The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.

    YOU have a belief in a god, and YOU worship that god, therefor you have a religion, PERIOD.

    Since you started off with two obvious falsehoods, I have not bothered to read any more or your nonsense, since it will obviously also be false.
     
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    Why do you think God created Satan ?
     
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    What country do you reside in?
     
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    You are quite ignorant of history, it was muslims who destroyed the Great Library at Alexandria, and the social upheaval of barbarian savages who couldn't read and didn't care about knowledge caused them to take the gold and silver and burn the rest.
     
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    Implying that you can't tell where Tomteapack is from is actually a nice compliment.

    Your country is obviously either USA or Iran.
     
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    tomteapack New Member Past Donor

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    Satan is a Myth, just like god, so, no one created it.
     
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    This is not the point of the question.

    Assuming God and Satan are real. Why would God make Satan ?
     
  17. RiseAgainst

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    What country do you reside in?
     
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    Thank you for the compliment.

    I'm from Denmark.
     
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    tomteapack New Member Past Donor

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    I was born and have lived in the USA for 65 years. I have fought for this nation and given my blood so you are free to believe as you choose, but not to force any foolish beliefs you may have on others.
     
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    The library at alexandria was partially destroyed twice and totally destroyed once, long before Islam existed----Julius Caesar's fire in the Alexandrian War, in 48 BC; the attack of Aurelian in 270 - 275 AD; the decree of Coptic Pope Theophilus in AD 391(total destruction.

    by the way, the so-called destruction by the Muslims which supposedly occurred around 650 ad (no date is really known) is not very valid. There are only five references to it in history and the oldest of them dates to 500 years after the so-called event. Many belief that it is nothing but Christian bigoted propaganda to support the crusades. There is no verifiable facts to support such an an occurrence.
     
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    I never make assumptions, nor can I see why anyone would assume such nonsense.
     
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    I can say whatever the hell I want. Stay in your place.
     
  23. supaskip

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    I could say the same about your interpretation!
    Rather than saying you are mistaken and believing that I know all, I'll suggest that we can't come to an agreement and we are both neither correct nor incorrect... more information is required.

    If you honestly believe you are 100% correct and I am not, then please proof is required and I can be converted with cold hard facts. This type of debate has been going on for millennia!
     
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    Sorry, but if I were to give you facts, all you would do is ignore them, deny them and be unable to understand them.

    As I said earlier, NUFF said, and enough is enough!
     
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    To test us? I don't know I haven't spoken to الله before so I'm assuming Satan is a test.

    It'd be a waste of time to create a Hell without a force to test us to sin... Otherwise Hell would be empty.

    Salam :)
     

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