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I love the bible. It does give some good advice. Treating others like how you want to be treated is a good moral foundation. But if I want to take revenge, I can use the bible to justify it. Use a little license and creativity, you can justify anything with the bible.
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No it's not.
What if they don't want to be treated how you like being treated?
What if someone is a homosexual Sammy Hagar fan does that mean it's moral for him to fuck you in the ass while playing Dreams?
It's a justification rule book to allow people to do shitty things to other people without having to feel guilty about it.
"Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.” (1 Peter 2:18)Comment
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It seems some people view life as a half full glass and other view it as a half empty glass. I think the difference is some view life as a challenge. I think Michael J Fox is such a person. They just seem to go on regardless of how much baggage they get saddled with. Robin Williams seemed to be the glass is half empty type.Well, that certainly clarifies the picture. Not a good future to contemplate for anybody, let alone someone already dealing with severe depression. Perhaps he should have called Michael J. Fox?
I watched two grandparents die from Parkinsons. As shitty luck would have it, they would happen to be the two who were once married to each other. So while there's not a definite hereditary link established yet to Parkinsons, my 73 year old mother is understandably concerned about that possibility, as am I. If I was diagnosed with that shit, I'm not going to say it wouldn't cross my mind to go out on my own terms.
I had one grandmother who was crippled with polio but she was always glad to see you and always fascinated with life. She read a lot and was always up on things. My other grandmother was in perfect health but always negative and miserable. She had money. A nice home. Always looked nice but you could tell. She never was that happy and always paranoid of something.
I think it's a person's attitude more than anything. Some people can do so much with so much shit in their lives and other's can't do anything when they have so little in their way. The biggest thing in their way is themselves.Last edited by Nitro Express; 08-14-2014, 04:50 PM.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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LOL! Hey. Constantine needed some scripture. If you can't wipe out the christians, exploit them. Constantine's way created more wealth and power than Nero had even dreamed of. The bible is a product of Rome. I'm sure the turn the other cheek bit didn't find itself there by accident.
This guy would fuck you up the ass without a reach around.Last edited by Nitro Express; 08-14-2014, 05:00 PM.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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That's how you percieve it because people use it like that. Cars weren't invented to run people over and kill them but it doesn't stop people from doing it if that's what they want to do. Doesn't atheism give some people the excuse to do shitty things to other people without regret too?Beware of DogComment
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Classic example is
'And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marveled at him.'
They marvelled at the fucking nerve of Constantine sticking in a bit about Jesus saying give money to the dictator 300 years later.
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You can spin anything. The thing is, I'm more concerned with how a person behaves than what they believe in. Right now it seems like there has been an explosion of people who want to shove their lifestyle in your face. Interesting enough it seems to come mostly from the groups that used to champion free speech about 35 years ago. Now they have become just as bad as the people they were rebelling against. There seems to be a cycle. Hell. Everyone wants power.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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The romans didn't care what you worshiped. They were more concerned with you paying taxes and not causing trouble.Classic example is
'And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marveled at him.'
They marvelled at the fucking nerve of Constantine sticking in a bit about Jesus saying give money to the dictator 300 years later.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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The thing is you will never get rid of religion unless of course you want a dictatorship that gets rid of it. Look at the Russians. They were under atheist communism for 80 years and now they are running back to the church. They are building 200 new church's in Moscow to meet the demand.
There is always going to be religion. People want it.
As long as I'm not forced to join and there is a separation of church and state, I have no problem. I would rather have people have the freedom to pursue what they want even if I don't agree with it than to have some centralized planning committee dictate how everyone should live. Freedom of choice is always messy but it's fun.Last edited by Nitro Express; 08-14-2014, 05:15 PM.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Education is improving things is most 1st world countries at least but yeah we are stuck with it worldwide for our lifetimes at least.
Even in the US there has been a huge rise in the non religious, especially among the young.
I'd say about 10% of the people I know attend church.
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I like going to church.American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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Yeah well we know why you go there...
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