10th Jun, 2008

Religions are just cults

I might as well just share this information with you all now, it will help me to build a future without having to lie or hold back. I’m not religious. That’s not where a problem will occur, because even if you are religious there’s little chance that you will care about my thoughts. Give me a chance, I’ll cause an argument with you or someone you know.

As you might have seen on the wicca story comments at Retard Zone, I’m not a big religious zealot. Actually, I believe that religion is meant for a bunch of weak minded people that need to believe that after they die there’s something more.

I obviously can’t prove anything about post-death happenings. I will tell you that I’m not the only person that thinks people believe in religion in order to gamble that if there is an after-life, they are part of it.

Pascal’s Wager (or Pascal’s Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should “wager” as though God exists, because so living has potentially everything to gain, and certainly nothing to lose.

I gamble. I actually might be considered by some to have a gambling problem. But I’m not wasting my time with a useless bet like religion.

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You have it backwards. The weak mind is yours.

Thanks for reading Jack. Thanks for commenting too. Shame that you are most likely a sub-par intelligent person without the mental capacity to accept logic over belief.

Good luck with your gamble and thanks for keeping enough money in the church so that more pedophiles priests can be hidden away and transferred around to avoid justice.

You assume my religion wrongly.

Here’s my counter theory to your pascal beliefs.

Atheists are too afraid to accept the responsibilities of being religious so they choose to live in denial. Their reasoning is if they’re wrong they’ll go with the “I didn’t know” excuse.

Sorry to burst your bubble but the devil will stick his pointed tail up your ass and let you know that shit won’t fly.

Jack, nothing like the chance for a great debate to get my attention.

I was lucky to be given in-depth knowledge at several educational facilities throughout my childhood and through my early twenties. Finding someone that has a background with studies in more than their own religion is fairly rare.

The idea that you need to classify someone that does not have a belief like you seems aggressive or fearful. I never insinuated that you were Catholic or Hindu, but you decided to classify me as Atheistic. Perhaps I believe in a god that just doesn’t fit to your image of a god.

Do you believe that whatever religion you follow is 100% correct and all others are incorrect? Is it plausible that the religion you follow is not 100% correct and accurate and maybe, just maybe, is based upon a little belief?

The introduction of doubt into the mind of a blind follower is very difficult, so I’m curious if you are intelligent enough to think for yourself.

Please accept my deepest apologies for calling you atheist, I was not aware at the time that you were a nihilist. Also Darwin is not a god. My assumption was based on your article which does pretty clearly say you’re one of the two. Also the only pedophile priests I’m aware of are catholic, I may be mistaken, but that’s why I thought you were referring to christianity.

Now I don’t have “great” in depth knowledge of other religions than my own but as George Costanza would say “I know the basic plot” of pretty much all of them.

I do believe mine is 100% correct but do not believe others are 100% wrong. Simply the belief of an after life and a higher power is the biggest concept that non believers (or underestimators of the of the power of denial) fail to realise. By realising this concept other religions are not 100% wrong but have gotten the biggest part right.

I’m far from a blind follower though you may be unaware that you are one, being brainwashed by TV and science books throughout your life that it’s a fact that they have it right.

what people fail to realize is that these are stories. Fables. Myths. There is no horned man with a spiked tail ready to do you harm, just like there are no centaurs or genies (jinn).

religions are really an acculumated collection of human behavior. These things took hundreds of years to write. In that time, every permutation of human behavior — from the very noble to the very dispicable has been recorded. You read these books because people 1,000 years ago are emotionally the same as they are today. Use it as a guide on what people are capable of. Read it as a collection of fictional parables that illustrate human behaviors, but don’t ever think that shit is REAL.

plus, no one knows what happens when you die. its neither weak-minded or strong-willed to believe in an afterlife or not.

Michael,

I think the more fitting term (if any) would be agnostic?

Which seems to have a lot of meanings, least of them on my list of favourites is “non-committal”)

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