Originally Posted by Nerdsrock22
I was born and raised in western society, which also means I was born and raised into the religious dogma that helped shape it's society. Abrahamic religious thought is taught to us by every means of communication possible, yet somehow it is still tax except. It's on the airwaves, it's idea's and teachings are reshaped in literature, it is on our televisions and I could walk to the corner of my street and throw a rock and possibly hit about 5 different churches, to door to door salesman from the religious institutions and even evangelicals at car shows.
To claim that I do not have full command of the ideas put forth by the character of Jesus Christ and the mockery the church has become of his teachings, would be the same as claiming I lack the understanding of how to breathe in and out...frankly it's insulting to anyone of average intelligence. Religion IS my Satan. When I hear gods name, I smell sulfur, when I hear his words, I smell death. I can see that his filthy religion has polluted the world I have to live in far more thoroughly than any fossil fuel could ever dream of. And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on Earth....NOT to enhance it. To keep us fearful. To suppress knowledge. To curtail freedom and creativity. And to celebrate death. It's nothing less than the dumbing down of the human race. Not to mention the cancer at the heart of it....Jerusalem. That jewel in the desert, that celestial piss-hole in the sand, from which the spiritual black death of the Middle Eastern desert has oozed and spread throughout this world like a vile oil slick, coating and contaminating everything it touches with a thick slime of pious ignorance.....only we don't call it ignorance, we call it faith. The current wars in the Middle east are perfect current examples of these gifts that just keep on giving.
The entire concept of faith should hold no more meaning in our lives than astrology, tarot card reading or sooth-saying with a crystal ball and anyone taking these practices seriously should expect nothing less than to be openly mocked and ridiculed until that individual does some serious re-evaluation of their mental state. But THAT is NOT happening. Instead the free pass that we consistently give to this fake virtue of faith, religion is now completely out of control. The fact their are even blasphemy laws to protect people from hearing words that might crowbar their minds out of the stone age is a perfect illustration of the cowardly immaturity of the religious mind and the emptiness of religion itself.
If I published or spoke these words in almost EVERY other nation in the world at the very LEAST I would be imprisoned and in others I would be killed. In the United Kingdom On 5 March 2008, an amendment was passed to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 which abolished the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in England and Wales. (Common law is abolished, not repealed.) The Act received royal assent on 8 May 2008, and the relevant section came into force on 8 July 2008. That was only last year! In Islamic countries under Sharia Law the sentence is death. This is the nature of Abrahamic Religion.
If religion contained any truth, it could be ridiculed, insulted, even defiled, without being diminished in any way. Its truth would shine through, undimmed, unblemished, shaming those who abused it into silence. But that's just not how things are. The only true thing about religion is that it's false. Its claim to higher knowledge is laughable. It doesn't even have any lower knowledge. Not one of its ludicrous claims about reality would have a hope in hell of standing up in a court of law.....and it's just about time we stop treating them as if they do.
Satan: it's literal translation in Hebrew means "the accuser", in Arabic al-Shaitan means "the adversary" al-Shaitan is the equivalent of Satan in Islam and Jinn, "Iblis" is the personal name of the Devil who is mentioned in the Qur'anic account of Genesis. But I do agree that there are only a few instances in the Bible where Satan is described as having a significant impact on human affairs. So your viewpoint of not considering them as an adversary is commendable. But I also think you are more of an exception and not the resounding consensus.
Mark 3:29 "But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of eternal sin."
Again you can reference the blasphemy laws listed above in my previous response and find many instances of imprisonments and death sentences issued for blasphemous speech from many governments across the world.
It was also reported on 21 May 2008 that in Kenya that a mob had burnt to death at least 11 people accused of witchcraft.
And instances of moral panic in the modern West have some similarities to the earlier (and later) witch-hunts. Notably, the hysteria surrounding Satanic ritual abuse, prominent in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere during the 1980s, employed much of the same occult and conspiratorial imagery. We term it "the Satanic Panic"
Sarcasm so I will not address this. But this I will
"and monthly visit to assist in an Atlanta-based food shelter holds back the advancement of the human race"
I have as well personally helped out strangers I thought were in need, I personally paid for the mortgage of an individual refered to me from a friend to keep his families home out of foreclosure. I just refuse to help ingrates or those that are unwilling to help themselves, and I also did not need to read it in the bible to help guide my goodwill. I have other instances of this, but this example was the most recent.
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