Touchiness about religion.

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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by Pappa » Thu May 27, 2010 4:28 pm

Nightfly wrote:I've got friends who use this app - but only as an absolute goof. Never seen it done sincerely! Your light-hearted contamination of it was perfect, you should keep it up...

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Funny thing is. I saw the bit showing which of my friends are also using this app, 5 out of the 6 of them are Ratz. :hehe:

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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by Svartalf » Thu May 27, 2010 4:53 pm

RuleBritannia wrote:It's such bullshit, what it's saying is; god has given you joy and happiness, so if you aren't happy it's your fault, not gods.
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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by Svartalf » Thu May 27, 2010 5:02 pm

Well, about touchiness... about a fortnight ago, we were celebrating a birthday (well, group of birthdays) among friends, and the talk turned to an absent friend who is a kind of exalted born again catholic, and who had chosen to spend the Ascention weekend at a retreat in Taizé (famous religious community) rather than be among friends... and one among us said something rather critical of his attitude. Out of the blue, somebody else, who's not even known for being particularly religious (unlike our host who's a bourgeois traditionalist), flies at him and tells him that he's no right to "attack the religion"... Coming from her, that was a rather total WTF moment for us...
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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by Robert_S » Thu May 27, 2010 9:40 pm

I can deal with a person being religious and expressing it in a polite way.

But to have an app that more or less reduces your religion to an inspirational magic 8-ball/fortune cookie/horoscope type thing kinda bothers me.

Also, it really bothers me when people make religion cute. It tends to diminish it. I cannot see how people making their religion (that stuff they claim to base their lives on) into something trivial and banal can fail to make them more trivial and banal people.

Besides, isn't a random message kinda like a fortune teller which Jews and Christians are supposed to steer clear of?
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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by charlou » Thu May 27, 2010 11:47 pm

RuleBritannia wrote:It's such bullshit, what it's saying is; god has given you joy and happiness, so if you aren't happy it's your fault, not gods.
Ah, that kind of bullshit arises in Genesis .... it's one of the two main things I despise about religion, the other is knowledge (and 'knowledge') being condemned as sin.


I use this quote often as it sums it up so well ...

In The Case Against God, George H. Smith said, "In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince men that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, man is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation."
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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by charlou » Thu May 27, 2010 11:48 pm

Pappa, I think your reply was appropriate, even more so if she had posted that on your wall.
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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by Faithfree » Fri May 28, 2010 12:26 am

Charlou wrote:
RuleBritannia wrote:It's such bullshit, what it's saying is; god has given you joy and happiness, so if you aren't happy it's your fault, not gods.
Ah, that kind of bullshit arises in Genesis .... it's one of the two main things I despise about religion, the other is knowledge (and 'knowledge') being condemned as sin.


I use this quote often as it sums it up so well ...

In The Case Against God, George H. Smith said, "In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince men that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, man is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation."
Excellent quote Charlou - it says it all. :tup:
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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by CookieJon » Fri May 28, 2010 2:48 am

Charlou wrote:In The Case Against God, George H. Smith said, "In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince men that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, man is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation."
Ooh I like that quote. Create the pain / provide the salvation: the oldest trick in the book, practised by protection racketeers, churches and telemarketers.

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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by A Monkey Shaved » Sat May 29, 2010 6:13 am

In my experience people far more touchy their hair than religion. Look at the number of men with combovers in the street and you see what I mean.

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Gary McDonald’s alter ego “Norman Gunston”, Australian comedian who parodied the old combover to a ridiculous extreme in the late 1970's .
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Re: Touchiness about religion.

Post by Svartalf » Sat May 29, 2010 8:47 am

A Monkey Shaved wrote:In my experience people far more touchy their hair than religion. Look at the number of men with combovers in the street and you see what I mean.

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Gary McDonald’s alter ego “Norman Gunston”, Australian comedian who parodied the old combover to a ridiculous extreme in the late 1970's .
Point to you, I must admit I admire my cousin for daring to go Yul Brynner when he discovered he was balding at 25...
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