one of the fastest de-rails in this section ever. i've never been much of a chick-fil-a person anyway.
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i was raised roman catholic, went to bible school on Saturday, and church every Sunday for the first 19 years of my life. But nothing of any of this ever really made any sense to me when i was young. As i got older and learned more about religion in general i started to see the potholes and contradictions more and more. Nothing really seemed to add up right. Throughout recorded history religion has been the glue of numerous societies. I have a pretty religious family but i'm not a religious person in the slightest.
All we really have about religion is thousand year old interpretations of events that have been interpreted over and again by those before us, and possiblly manipulated (i'll elaborate a bit why i think that below). If anyone asked me about it all i can say it two thousand years ago events of significant influence took place on this planet that spawned a belief system that seems to do more bad then good. I'm not gonna pretend to "know" what happened back then like so many religious people do.
"6. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony"
this statement i agree with the most out of all the quotes cause i am also of the opinion that, whether or not he is real idk, that God is no longer humanities savior, he's become its pawn. Human beings have used his name and image to justify more things from atrocities to general negativeness then we can count. Just look at the westboro baptist "church" for a recent example. Hell, religious principles are even involved with this war bush started. The Taliban are using their faith & their god's name to justify their actions against us and their own countrymen. He is a symbol of power that can be used to rally the like minded and those lost and looking for a path. And power is one thing humanity cant get enough of. I mentioned the stroies of the bible can have possibly been manipulated. We really have no way of knowing with 100% certainty so im not gonna saying it was. But it is a man written book. i could have easily been done so or it may have just been misninterprited. Given the era it covers the humans of that day were vastly ignorant of the world around them. Alexander the Great "conquered the world" at one point. we know today he basically only took control of one section of one of 7 continents he knew about. But back then it was the world because thats all they knew. The people of that era were very smart, but they were ignorant of the vastness of the world around them. The rest of the world was there reguardless of their lack of knowledge of it. thats my biggest qualm with the credibility of religion. It's never said in the old or new testiment, but we can infer from reading it that it's core is that the earth, for all intents and purposes, is center of the universe. And we know full well today it isnt.
