God is Santa Claus for adults - Page 2

jilena · #11 06-17-2010, 06:02 PM

I thought the meaning of life was to fuck and make more people who also want to fuck?

pickled_heretic · #12 06-17-2010, 06:09 PM

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I thought the meaning of life was to fuck and make more people who also want to fuck?

If you could say there's a meaning of life, this is probably the closest you could get.

Taxi · #13 06-17-2010, 07:01 PM

To me theres not "a meaning to life". Theres a meaning to your life. What would you like to have out of your life. Chances are you wont have it but i think meaning is a personal thing and trying to describe a meaning to life in general is as futile as trying to understand how they put caramel in the caramilk.

ShadowWulf · #14 06-17-2010, 07:01 PM

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

braveheart · #15 06-17-2010, 07:07 PM

if the bible said the only way to attain heaven was to commit suicide at age 30 would you do it? wake.... up...

pickled_heretic · #16 06-17-2010, 07:10 PM

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if the bible said the only way to attain heaven was to commit suicide at age 30 would you do it? wake.... up...

If the bible said you had to commit suicide at 30, it wouldn't have become the paramount religious document it is today.

The bible is successful in part because it propogates successful methods of transmission (live long and prosper, go forth and spread the word etc.). It wouldn't have been nearly as successful if it told everyone to kill themselves.

Taxi · #17 06-17-2010, 07:15 PM

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if the bible said the only way to attain heaven was to commit suicide at age 30 would you do it? wake.... up...

I never read the bible with much intent of understanding it as a youngster.
I was a choirboy in the biggest church in Montreal and i think there wasnt a single kid in there who was a beleiver. When i was 12 years old in a religion course, i got scolded hard by my teacher for writing "fuck god" on the side of my bible, "Raisin" was the exact quote he used, over and over. "YOU HAVE TO BE A RAISIN, TO WRITE THAT ON YOUR BIBLE". I was a bit ruffled, but really, how ruffled can you get from being called a raisin.

Ok so yea, back to the subject. When i was 15, i picked up the bible while babysitting and really gave it a good read, just because i just didnt like religion in general and wanted to see what was in there.

OMG! the first time i read Genesis i was like WTF! this god says that jews escape in the desert, and egyptians dont follow. God, in his infinite wisdom and caring, decides to control the mind of the soldiers and sends them after the jews in the desert so he can drown them all by slapping waves at them from both sides of the desert. I dont remember the rest but that really stroke me as a wtf moment, crazy fucking god, i understand why there was so much wars over this bullshit now.

braveheart · #18 06-17-2010, 07:43 PM

i didnt ask why its successful or not, i asked would you kill yourself if the bible said to. no believe of the faith can answer this question because they are brainwashed, they only avoid the question.

Thoughtseize · #19 06-17-2010, 08:08 PM

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if the bible said the only way to attain heaven was to commit suicide at age 30 would you do it? wake.... up...

That's like asking if you'd give someone a knife to who wants to cut you to pieces to "make you better"

But if that someone is a doctor you'd do it. We let doctors cycle our blood through machines, slice open our chest cavities, all sorts of things we wouldn't let just anyone do. It'd be ridiculous for someone to say, "wake up" why listen to a doctor.

For Christians the issue isn't what the Bible says, it's the person behind it - the belief that it is God speaking.

Taxi · #20 06-17-2010, 08:18 PM

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For Christians the issue isn't what the Bible says, it's the person behind it - the belief that it is God speaking.

And that is fucking scary to me. Because no matter what angle youre coming at hardcore fanatics from, no matter if i pull out this 1940s catechism book that says jews worship the devil and says the church is always right because god speaks through the church and show it to them, it wont matter, its blind faith, like lemmings at a cliff.