Religion for Retards

[Kilgamayan]

The difference here is that religion has been around for countless years. I hate to break it to you, but one person making up a bunch of stuff on the spot is not going to make a difference in the world within a week of when it was made. Basically, you don't matter.

If you want to have any hope of mattering in the world, try something revolutionary. Try to base a new faith on whatever you just wrote. I can't guarantee success, but if you do succeed, more power to you. If you don't, then who cares? You didn't matter anyway.

[Nonexistent_One]

I understand that I'm not going to make up a new religion right here on the spot... I don't intend to. Religion has been around for so long because it is a mindset carried along from very early times, when people were first asking questions and making up fantastic stories. It is something that, being around for so long, has become ingrained in society. We're so used to organized religion that it's hard to break away. Why would I, an atheist, want to creat a religion? maybe a new way of thinking, maybe a certain mindset, but never a religion.

I know that I don't matter to the world as a whole, but the world as a whole matters to me; and I'm not satisfied with it.

When I mentioned Invisible Pink Unicorns, I was actually refering to an atheistic parody of religion. It's actually quite humerous, from my P.O.V. The site is-- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...kunicorns.html --if you're interested. It is possible that, with time, it may actually be followed as a true religion, because it could vvery well function as one.

[Kilgamayan]

I can tell you're not satisfied with the way society handles religion, but you must realize that I'm not the one you need to be talking to about this kind of thing. Not only am I unable to help you well, but I can see where you're coming from to the point where I "sympathize" with you, as it were.

This is why I don't like getting in religious arguments. I understand the logical standpoint perfectly, but quite often the person I'm discussing with either doesn't understand the idea of "it just is" or get really ticked off by it, and either way they take it out on me to the point where I have to really restrain myself from saying things I'll regret. ;/

[Nonexistent_One]

I'm sorry. I do understand the concept of 'just believing,' but I can't accept it. I guess I tend to tick people off more than I realize, as can be seen by many topics in this forum alone. I try to keep my arguments as civil as possible, but sometimes I get carried away. Forgive me for being so rude.

~NEO

[LostUserName]

1 Can you have blind faith without religion? Or vice versa?

2 many things that were once "miracles" can be explained by science. Thereby weakening you're deity's influence (i.e. people stop believing because science contradicts the power of whatever supernatural being or beings you believe in)

[Nonexistent_One]

1. You can have faith without religion. There are people who don't believe in 'organized religion,' and they choose to have faith without them. I don't think that you can have religion without faith though; not in a true sense anyways. I still go to church and have been baptized into the Catholic faith--does that mean that I have a religion without faith? Some may say yes, some may say no. It's all in the way you look at it.

2. Yes, this is true. That is one main reason why the ancient Gods of past cultures seem so ridiculous--becase we have a better understanding of how things work, and we don't need dieties to explain those things anymore. We do still cling to dieties for the things still unanswered by science, but someday many things we believe to be divine may very well be explained. It's an ongoing reduction of the importance of a belief in a 'God.'

~NEO

[Kilgamayan]

I'm sorry. I do understand the concept of 'just believing,' but I can't accept it. I guess I tend to tick people off more than I realize, as can be seen by many topics in this forum alone. I try to keep my arguments as civil as possible, but sometimes I get carried away. Forgive me for being so rude.

~NEO

It's all good. I suppose everyone needs a "reality check" once in a while, even the religious.