The Founding Fathers on Religion

[Nitro Express]

Why religious movements push having children is it's easier to keep people born into the church than to go out and convert new members. Then of course successful religions run schools and universities and most of those are pretty good because they want their slaves educated. Why? Educated people make more money and have more influence in society. The church makes more money and gets more power that way. If the religion is a young one, they tend to promote polygamy because you can build up a population base quicker. The formula is marry another member of the church, stay away from the birth control, have lots of kids, and educate them at a church school and or send them on a mission. Then they marry a member of the church and the cycle continues for another generation while some old men who run things get off on their power trips and count their money. Pretty much the formula.

[chi-town324]

how bout another creepy Catholic ritual...confession...yea go into a little wooden closet and wait for the priest to slide the divider open...and tell him all the bad things you've done...oh and then go say a few hail mary's and all is forgiven....if thats not weird and creepy i don't know what is

[FORD]

how bout another creepy Catholic ritual...confession...yea go into a little wooden closet and wait for the priest to slide the divider open...and tell him all the bad things you've done...oh and then go say a few hail mary's and all is forgiven....if thats not weird and creepy i don't know what is

Well, there actually is a Scriptural basis for that one, to some extent, in Matthew 6:6

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

So the confession box is somewhat Biblical, even if confessing to a priest itself is not

[Seshmeister]

I always think it's incredibly ironic when priests talk about homosexuality being unnatural.

It's absolutely and fundamentally impossible to think of any action that is more unnatural to a biological creature than celibacy.

Introduced of course to prevent the inheritance of church property by the children of priests back in the day.

Birds do it, bees do it even educated fleas do it...

[kwame k]

Be prosperous and multiply.......

They must of missed that day in bible study

[FORD]

Not to mention that priests consider themselves "married" to Christ. Who was a dude, last I heard.

[kwame k]

So nuns should be by that logic!

[So this is love]

thats a heavy subject to discuss on a Friday night guys???

[kwame k]

Nah, I'm not into fat chicks

[binnie]

I always think it's incredibly ironic when priests talk about homosexuality being unnatural.

It's absolutely and fundamentally impossible to think of any action that is more unnatural to a biological creature than celibacy.

Introduced of course to prevent the inheritance of church property by the children of priests back in the day.

Birds do it, bees do it even educated fleas do it...

I love it when people use 'unnatural' to criticize behaviour. Can anything which happens in nature be (by definition) unnatural?

'Abnormal', perhaps, but not unnatural - it's the easiest way to undercut arguments posited by homophobes, I find. Of course, they'll usually assume that because you're defending gay people you must be one......:D