Are you religious?

Are you religious?

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I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!
 
Its easy to judge if a forum has a high percentage of atheists, all you have to is merely type the word "God". If you're swamped with insults, hate and people belittling you you've found you're foul atheist hive.

Sherdog is clearly infested with militant atheists but this place is wayyyy better than some atheist sites if visited. Its sad atheism is growing in the west because its just leading to moral decline and will end in totalitarianism.

I pray to God the US doesn't lose its soul like Russia did in the twentieth century with its Godlessness.
 
I did want to say there are a few atheists here that are really good guys to discuss with.
 
ripskater said:
I did want to say there are a few atheists here that are really good guys to discuss with.
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I agree. It's sad you get so much hate here Rip haha. Somehow people have a problem with you but turn a blind eye to dangerous atheists comparing religion to poison. You're a great guy to remain civil.
 
Overpressure said:
Surprised to see so few religious folks here.
A little disappointed to be honest.
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I really hate the term religion. Religion IMO is law- do's and don't. Jesus said, "finished" at the cross. But I'll suppose I'll vote religious for this poll
 
oleDirtyBast4rd said:
As an atheist, why does that disappoint you?
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All my friends and family are religious, and I enjoy discussing religion with people who've also been trained religiously. It's always better to discuss religious ideas with someone who knows. Most of the religious discussion I get on these forums is with other atheists or religious people who came to it later in life. I was raised Catholic, twelve years of dogma and a year and a half of seminary.
 
colby25 said:
I really hate the term religion. Religion IMO is law- do's and don't. Jesus said, "finished" at the cross. But I'll suppose I'll vote religious for this poll
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Can you explain that a bit more?
Seems to me religion, the word, is a good term for what we're discussing, at least.
 
colby25 said:
I really hate the term religion. Religion IMO is law- do's and don't. Jesus said, "finished" at the cross. But I'll suppose I'll vote religious for this poll
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That's what I did. I voted religious. But becoming a Christian is not about rituals of a religion, it's about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
 
Overpressure said:
Can you explain that a bit more?
Seems to me religion, the word, is a good term for what we're discussing, at least.
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The law (10 commandments and such found throughout the Old Testament) was established to show how sinful a man is. No one could fulfill the law except Jesus Christ. That's why Christ said I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.

We're all sinners. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1) 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2).

There is nothing in the world that can save you except for the gift from Jesus Christ. No works.

A good parable of this is this parable:

"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius (A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.) a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 He went out about the third hour, (Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 AM.) and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. 4 To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, (noon and 3:00 P. M.) and did likewise. 6 About the eleventh hour (5:00 PM) he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

7 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

8 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

9 "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. 10 When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, 12 saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

13 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. 15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?' 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.

In that parable God is the man who is the master of the household hiring workers. The wage here is salvation. The ones who labored all through the day are those that have been saved at the beginning of their life- Christians from day 1 and the ones hired last are those that were converted on their death bed. And yet they are equal to those that have been Christians their whole life.

Salvation is freely given from God- a gift. I hope I explained that correctly lol
 
colby25 said:
The law (10 commandments and such found throughout the Old Testament) was established to show how sinful a man is.
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I can appreciate your explanation, but my own view is that the similarities with the Hammurabic codes and other sets of societal laws indicates that the Commandments were established to keep an orderly society.
 
Thurisaz said:
Religion is nothing compared to anti-religion in what comes to poisoning everything.
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Please elaborate.

Even if true it would still be true that religion poisons everything.
 
I'm with the guy that said people poison everything. People suck.
 
meauneau said:
Please elaborate.

Even if true it would still be true that religion poisons everything.
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A great place to start would be a list of wars started to force atheism on a population who didn't want it.
Jumping to mind are...
Um...
All those wars.
 
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