Here's the Bible's definition of religion. Welcome to religion my friend.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
] If an atheist is good to their fellow man are they religious?
Is that a tenet of atheism that indicates that to be true?
No, so the answer is no.
I'm not arguing what the definition of "is" is, you're arguing it's either "black or white". It isn't.
Why would you attend a religious service if you're not actually religious?
This is true. Precisely why Steven Wright will never be a good comedic writer, but is a great performer.
1) The Girls
2) Tradition/Social Obligation
3) The meal after
4) Play with your friends (what do you think Obama did as a kid at the Mosque?)
5) Exchange presents on Christmas Eve
6) The Easter egg hunt
7) Choir
I can keep going. There are plenty of reasons to go Church that actually have relatively little to do with God or religion
Yeah for some reason I doubt this poll went after the under 18 demographic.
There are no tenets in atheism.
Of course it is. You're arguing that my wife is not religious because she doesn't go to church every single Sunday. While I'm arguing that the only standard for being religious is believing in a mystical creator like oh...say....God.
I have not attended a religious service in 20+ years, and am still one of the most religious people I know...and people who know me would agree.
Actually it American religious people that tend to support it more and it only 12%(or was it 8%?) more. Could that simply represent the ideological pathways within America? The religious are more likely to be the usual Republican rightwingers and the less religious more likely to be the democrat liberals.This was a pretty interesting read.
Survey: Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful - CNN.com
The statistics show that the more often you attend church... the more likely to support torture. When I read this I found it interesting but not surprising. Thoughts?
The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was too small. See results of the survey
Believing in God is not the only standard. Nor is going to church. Believing in God is one standard. Others depend on your religion.
Mass murder aside, I would bet the Catholic church has tortured more people than all those dictators combined. The Inquisition lasted for 600 years.
Once upon a time you could read the news and expect more.
Deadpan comedy doesn't really work well when it's typed out.
Funny how most religious people I know are far more polite to atheists, than the reverse.
G.
Stalin killed what 100 million? you fail.
700,000 in the Great Purges, around 1.5 million deaths in Siberia, up to 1.5 million in the Russian famines, perhaps 4 million in the Ukranian famines; most historians say from 20-30 million, and the highest estimate I found was 60 million, but that was uncommonly high. Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
Remember that Stalin had fewer than 200 million people under his control, and your number begins to appear ridiculous. I won't use the word "fail", but I certainly could.
In sum the communist probably have murdered something like 110,000,000, or near two-thirds of all those killed by all governments, quasi-governments, and guerrillas from 1900 to 1987. Of course, the world total itself it shocking. It is several times the 38,000,000 battle-dead that have been killed in all this century's international and domestic wars. Yet the probable number of murders by the Soviet Union alone--one communist country-- well surpasses this cost of war. And those murders of communist China almost equal it.
I think a lot of it has to do with the Christian tendency to embrace torture as an article of faith, as witnessed by the huge success of the movie "Passion of the Christ", which revelled in the supposed torture of Jesus. After seeing what their Savior went through, Christians would consider waterboarding a leisure activity.
Stalin killed what 100 million? you fail.
CNN on a Pew Research Center survey said:The religious group most likely to say torture is never justified was Protestant denominations — such as Episcopalians, Lutherans and Presbyterians — categorized as "mainline" Protestants, in contrast to evangelicals. Just over three in 10 of them said torture is never justified.
The reason I find it interesting is because evangelical Christians tend to be regarded by non-Christians and the non-religious as being less tolerant and more cruel than their "mainstream" counterparts.
Defensive much? Alongside "your" virtuous and noble deeds, there've also been bigoted and hateful things evangelicals have been known to say and do and stand behind in support, or are you implying such simply has never been the case?Ah yes, we evangelicals are terribly cruel. It's horrible that we often run Crisis Pregnancy Centers, trying to help young girls with unwanted babies to deal with it without abortions. We are heartless for running soup kitchens and outreach programs and paying for them out of our pockets. Our cruelty knows no bounds when we send missionaries into the Amazon, bringing not only the Bible but medical care and other aid to primitive natives at great personal peril.
Sometimes, we even go around knocking on doors and inviting people to come to church on Sunday...OH THE HORRORS!!!
PUH-leese.
G.
30 Million is still more then the inquisition managed to kill.
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