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Religious processions .... like the Corpus Christi Day processions

bongsaway said:
Religious processions, in my opinion, do nothing to help any situation, they fool the believer into believing they do do something other than make the person feel better, maybe? Religious processions are not special, they're stupid, there are no gods. If you want to insist I'm wrong, send your god over to my place so we can talk, ok?
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Many of us might sympathize with you if your city or state is forcing you to attend these processions……not sure if this has been your experience…..
 
Metanoia said:
Many of us might sympathize with you if your city or state is forcing you to attend these processions……not sure if this has been your experience…..
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Apparently you did not attend Catholic school in the sixties.
 
nota bene said:
And you've deflected again. Alrighty then.
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I'm bad at this stuff, giving you responses you want me to say. Religious processions in my opinion are a waste of time, are they supposed to be like bribes to your god or something like that. Worshiping an invisible entity, seems rather insane to me. You know nota we can go round and round about this but you nor any other human is going to convince me there are gods.
 
Rumpel said:
processions maybe lots of things .... but not stupid.
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Back in 1973 there was a procession for the flyers down broad street after they won the stanley cup. That I could understand and I could actually see the cup for myself, unlike the christian god many worship.
 
Rumpel said:
no school ever forced us to take part in a procession
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Catholic school didn't force me either, you either show up or you're doomed. I still have pictures in our little white suits and dresses with hands folded and heads and eyes down walking down the sidewalk like a bunch of zombies.
 
bongsaway said:
Back in 1973 there was a procession for the flyers down broad street after they won the stanley cup. That I could understand and I could actually see the cup for myself, unlike the christian god many worship.
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generally speaking, there are things one cant see, but exist all the same.
Like the invisible part of the half moon.
 
bongsaway said:
Catholic school didn't force me either, you either show up or you're doomed. I still have pictures in our little white suits and dresses with hands folded and heads and eyes down walking down the sidewalk like a bunch of zombies.
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interesting!
so boys also wore white with you?
here they wear black.

and our eyes were not down and we did not walk like zombies
 
Rumpel said:
interesting!
so boys also wore white with you?
here they wear black.

and our eyes were not down and we did not walk like zombies
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Yeah, I was one of those good Catholic boys.
 
Rumpel said:
do boys wear white in the US for first communion generally?
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Don't remember but I had all those things done to ward off the evil spirits. Baptism, beatings by nuns, spiteful priests. Those sorts of things. I even took a nun administrator in front of a diocese for her horrible behavior towards me and won, temporarily, she found a way to fire me within a month of that incident. Spiteful bitch. She was eventually removed from her position and banned from the grounds.
 
bongsaway said:
Don't remember but I had all those things done to ward off the evil spirits. Baptism, beatings by nuns, spiteful priests. Those sorts of things. I even took a nun administrator in front of a diocese for her horrible behavior towards me and won, temporarily, she found a way to fire me within a month of that incident. Spiteful bitch. She was eventually removed from her position and banned from the grounds.
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that was really a very bad person!
i can imagine!
yes, children were sometimes treated badly that way. 😳😳😳
 
bongsaway said:
I'm bad at this stuff, giving you responses you want me to say. Religious processions in my opinion are a waste of time, are they supposed to be like bribes to your god or something like that. Worshiping an invisible entity, seems rather insane to me. You know nota we can go round and round about this but you nor any other human is going to convince me there are gods.
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Your only apparent intention on this thread is to whine yet again about your Catholic school trauma and how you were made into an atheist. You have not responded to me in good faith; in fact, your every response has been a non sequitur, a deflection.

Notice this time that none of my questions has anything to do with the existence of God or whether religious processions are worthy or a waste of time, and to help you, I will italicize and number the questions to which you refuse to respond:

Okay, for the sake of focusing on the topic--processions rather than your opinion on religion in general--let's pretend that this is a graduation procession that includes people wearing funny clothes and hats. (1) Is this okay? (2) Why do people do this anyway? (3)To invest dignity in the occasion and signify that it's special and important? (4) What do you think?
 
bongsaway said:
Seriously stupid. Religion to me is like putting all of your reasoning on hold to believe some truly wild stories about a god that I see no reason to believe exists.
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this was the answer to the procession of horses.
that was the topic
and i enjoyed those procession and blessing of horses.
 
nota bene said:
Your only apparent intention on this thread is to whine yet again about your Catholic school trauma and how you were made into an atheist. You have not responded to me in good faith; in fact, your every response has been a non sequitur, a deflection.

Notice this time that none of my questions has anything to do with the existence of God or whether religious processions are worthy or a waste of time, and to help you, I will italicize and number the questions to which you refuse to respond:

Okay, for the sake of focusing on the topic--processions rather than your opinion on religion in general--let's pretend that this is a graduation procession that includes people wearing funny clothes and hats. (1) Is this okay? (2) Why do people do this anyway? (3)To invest dignity in the occasion and signify that it's special and important? (4) What do you think?
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Yes it ok to wear funny clothes and hats, graduation should be fun. I can't speak as to why others do what they do, I have no clue. I think trying to invest dignity to signify a special occasion is ok like a fiftieth wedding anniversary but your god in my opinion does not meet the special occasion and why should some invisible entity that not a soul has ever seen rate such a high seat? I wasn't made into an atheist, I just stopped believing the crap the Catholic religion was spouting.
 
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