Like do you really like driving around in 4x4's polluting everything? \nDo you really get a kick out of bombing innocent peasants? \nMaking up false allogations about others religions?\nCondemming all South Amenicans and Muslims for a few nationalist nuts?\nAND no even caring that the next generation will be living in an inferno, and have no resiurces?\nIT LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE THE ONES LIVING FOR TODAY.\n\nNo wholly convinced by any religion.
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Don't believe everything you read or hear. I am a Christian and I believe in peace. I don not condem your people or your religion---thats your free will to believe what you choose...but it is unfair that you label "Christians as the ones doing and saying things unfairly" about your nationality. I hope for peace what do you hope for?
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Well, it's not a bad idea, but do you really only want to elicit responses from people who think and believe exactly as you do?  I know the ignorant answers are annoying, but I actually enjoy reading different points of view from other cultures.  I like to learn from them.  Even when they are being vehement and fanatical I find that I can learn something about their culture and beliefs.  And what category would you put someone like me, who identifies with no specific religion.  I just follow my own spiritual path, made up of beliefs from several religions, new age spirituality and my own gut.
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I'm kind of puzzled about why you, as a self-described "non-religious person," would go into a site designed for religion and then ask this question.  I mean, aren't you asking why you're here, too?\n\nFor me, I think it's partly about education.  I'm not an Atheist, but I like that there are Atheists here, posting to the Religion & Spirituality board, because their POV is a part of the whole picture.  And everyone has a spiritual side, even if some people like to claim otherwise.\n\nIt's also partly about taking people down a notch when they get really smug.  That's petty, I know, but some of the so-called "Christians" on this site\nseem to spend a lot of time asking questions that are designed to just make them feel better about themselves, and that does breed resentment.  Especially when they wrap their prejudices up in the guise of piety, which I see a lot of.\n\nAnd, yeah, partly it's out of a resentment of the damage that religious fundamentalists seem to be doing in this country and the world.  And in a sense that's not fair, because the real damage is being done by leaders and fanatics, but then in a sense it is fair, because a part of the way they do this damage is through the voters, and that's all of us.
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I won't even try to give you a reason to change your mind... \n\nAnd, why would you say that you are sorry for drawing a conclusion based on a reasonable search for data from knowledgeable and reliable sources which led you to a logically concluded decision?\n\nGosh... your decision could even be considered a reasonable course of action taken out of self preservation, couldn't it?\n\n{}{}{} r u randy? {}{}{}\n.\n\nPost Script to toots:\n " [they] practiced religious tolerance"...???  \n\nWhat are the decades of attacks on Jews, Dude, and their disputes and attacks on Hindus ... are these just well-meaning deliveries of accidentally exploding cheese cake...?
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quite well said.\nNice religion isn't it??\nJust like any other religion I've encountered.
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Exactly! I Couldn't agree with you more, It's so funny because I feel like I have more values and morals then they do and I don't even believe in God. They support war and the Killing of people. I don't believe in Killing in any way shape or form. The funny thing about Christians is there are 2 kinds. The ones who think that everyone except Christians are going to burn in hell...and then you have the moderates who try to avoid that issue by saying we are all God's children and maybe they are legit because they have interpreted god in a different way. I think both groups are dangerous because they do not benefit human grown in any intelligent manner. My Family sadly is extreamly religious and talking to them is like talking to a brick wall...they continually remind me that I'm going to burn in hell and the things they say to me are evil in my opinion.
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Yeah, kinda silly isn't it? You can tell this religion was founded by a very evil man, can't you? \n\nI'm with you all the way...
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You are fighting for garbage just like the muslims and Jews...\n\nAn impartial Atheist
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I'm not sure where you are coming from, particularly in referene to the "details" given, but it is true that Christianity as portreyed in some of these answers does not seem too relevant to the 21st century.  Makes me wonder how representative of Christians they really are, though; perhaps it is the unusually fanatical ones that spend their time answering every question with a Bible reference, and give us all a bad case of the heebee jeebees.  Frankly, I can't see anyone converting to Christianity because someone wrote "God is angry with you" in one of these answers.  I did actually get that line in an answer once.  Imagine the arrogance to speak for God to that extent!
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My icon rocks. First, its says that Islamic threats have not intimidated, I hold free speech highest in the pecking order of civil rights.\n\nNext, Ive receieved more death threats as a result of my Icon which must be a good thing coming from religious wacko freaks.\n\nAlso, I show respect for the brave Danish cartoonist who knowingly, IN ADVANCE, risked his life for free speech and will be looking over his should for life.\n\nFinally, Islamic insanity is the eptiome of religious insanity and thus to mock Islam, with all its intimidation, is to put me on the top of the agnostic/atheist pecking order by a long shot.
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so why are you preaching your beliefs? mean what you are doing is putting your ideas down, telling others they are wrong (religious nuts) and say that your way would leave people in peace. are you sure of this , do you have any facts to back this up? (does this sound familiar)
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We think your religion is wrong (and sometime absurd). As for the people themselves, we think many of you are nice people with the major exception of missionaries (especially j4j types) and those who teach antisemitism.\n\ncheerio
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You know, this is actually an interesting question.\n\nMany religious people believe that it is religion that gives them morals and prevents them from Hell and such. But really, it's not that at all. You can have morals but no religion.\n\nI believe that there is a moral world order, a sort of universal code that must be adhered to in order to preserve order and good in the world. This is not my religious feeling, but instead my moral compass, if you will. \n\nI don't do good deeds for fear of hell, or as supplication so that I may enter heaven. I do good and fight evil because I feel that good must always prevail over evil, or we will have lost our humanity, and become beasts.\n\nMorality is very often a black and white issue. Rape is never grayscale. It's never justified, and the people who commit it need to be put in prison or in an electric chair. They have forfeited their humanity, and like dangerous animals they need to be locked up or destroyed.\n\nOther issues that are black and white to me are murder, arson, and terrorism. Terrorism is never justified, no matter what. I don't care if US Black Hawk helicopters shot up your village or somthing as a kiddie and killed your mujahdeen daddy. The fact of the matter is that you can NEVER EVER kill civilians in cold blood for political reasons. You can never treat humans as tools for political advancement. \n\nMurder is never justified because killing another human being is just wrong. I say only murder, not killing, because murder is cold and premeditated. Manslaughter is also included in this. That a person could plan and execute a deadly attack on another is shocking to me.\n\nArson is never right either. No one has a good reason to be burning some buildings down.\n\nI disagree with you about Stalin. That was not religiously motivated. Nor was the Holocaust. In fact, the years 1936 to 1945 were remarkably unreligious given Germany's usually strong Catholic base. Hitler disliked the Church and largely they went along with him. However, Hitler did not claim divine support. \n\nHowever, atrocities are often commited in the name of religion. How about the Crusades, or the Thirty Years War? Thousands of lives wasted, all in the name of God!\n\nSometimes I think my moral compass is better than your Bible. I have all the morals with none of the religious radicalism.
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Let's see what COWARDLY group loves to plant bombs to blow up innocent people? You get ONE guess....can you say exetremist muslims<?>
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I would like more of the faithful to become atheists because I feel that when people let their interpretations of what imaginary beings want intrude on their actions they have made an error in judgment. Now, by and large, it doesn't matter what people believe, but often times the whims of these "gods" intrude on the rights of others.\n\nI have seen, on this very site, people who I am sure are decent, pleasant, respectful people post venomous responses to gay kids looking for advice. They post purely hateful things because they think that their god wants them to do so. This is unacceptable.\n\nI feel that my country is currently engaged in an unjust war. I am afraid that one of the reasons that thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of others have died is because our president believes that it is god's will that he invade these places. Not only is this unacceptable, it is a blight on our reputation as well as an atrocity.\n\nThe point you make is well known by the higher-ups in the world's churches. Their entire business is based on selling the gullible a story. Faith in this country generates billions (with a "b") of dollars of revenue every year. The people who cash those checks are well versed in your theory. However, I feel that the cost for humanity is too high, even though some of us are getting rich in the mean time.
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I seen  this problem myself. They, in their own misguided way believe that they can actually change those of us that they pertain to be "lost". They are told by their religious leaders that it is their duty to go out and find all those who are not practicing the christian faith and 'save' them by forcing their religious beliefs upon them.  Now one must keep in mind that the only reason those poor sheep are actually practicing christians themselves is that they must be led, they don't have the self esteem that they need to actually make a decision for themselves therefore they join a religious cult where their God tells them how to behave, how to live, and even in some cases what to eat and what not to eat. Sad but true. They are so brainwashed in some cases that they will even go door to door by orders of their leaders and try to convert others. They  live in fear of their God, and are proud to call themselve GOD FEARING CHRISTIANS!  It all comes down to the sad fact that they simply don't have the self esteem to know who they are or what they want and its easier for them to be led then to do the hard work of thinking for themselves. I personally prefer a Deity that I don't have to fear and who loves me for who I am despite all my faults and human frailities. I fear few things in this life, my deity should not be one of them. So don't be angry with our poor Christian brothers and sisters who invade our chats and groups, instead pity them. For they know not what they do.
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I have no problem with any religion, I dont agree with all of them, but I dont dis on any of them, God made us belive what he wants us to believe in. The Jews were great people and if you actually talk to one from the Holocaust youll want to cry This guy came to my school when I was a senior, and gave a speech, I went just to get out of class and was so suprised by what I heard, They are amazing people