Is religion just imaginary friends for adults?

[Old Hack]

...'selling' Children to become martyrs at the local mosque...

Adjusted as there are more faiths

[LatteLiberal]

As my priest says, you meet a better class of people at church.

33% of people believe they have a guardian angel. Best they believe in something that teaches them to have a moral code.

Yes how else would we know that it's right to mutilate the sexual organs of children without good old religion?

[Ketchup]

I started this because we have a BA at my current clientco who has requested somewhere to pray 3 times a day. She has to do this at certain times so arranges her day accordingly. If i said i needed allowances to be made to go and speak to my imaginary friends at regular intervals i can only imaging what would happen

[sasguru]

As my priest says, you meet a better class of peodophile at Catholic church, who are then protected as far as they can be by the upper levels of the Catholic establishment.
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FTFY. HTH.

[stek]

I'm not religious nor do I believe in ghosts or spirits or afterlife, but....

But there has to be something, otherwise we all live and die and fook each other over for nothing. I really can't believe the whole universe/concept of existence is so you just become ash and that's it.

So I think there is something that carries on, I do think that the subject of human consciousness still baffles but for now, for most of us, we will only find out when we pop off, and either say 'blimey!' or say nothing, cos that IS it....

[xoggoth]

What's wrong with a puppet parrot?

[Ketchup]

FTFY. HTH.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to sasguru again

[VectraMan]

I'm not religious nor do I believe in ghosts or spirits or afterlife, but....

But there has to be something, otherwise we all live and die and fook each other over for nothing. I really can't believe the whole universe/concept of existence is so you just become ash and that's it.

So I think there is something that carries on, I do think that the subject of human consciousness still baffles but for now, for most of us, we will only find out when we pop off, and either say 'blimey!' or say nothing, cos that IS it....

Sounds like you're religious to me. There must be something in the human brain that means we have to invent reasons for things, like the fact that we're here, rather than doing what animals do and just live and die and fook each other. But why does there have to be a reason?

Perhaps when computers finally become sentient we'll be able to put all this nonsense behind us. If human beings can create a consciousness, then clearly there was nothing that special about the human race in the first place.

[d000hg]

I started this because we have a BA at my current clientco who has requested somewhere to pray 3 times a day. She has to do this at certain times so arranges her day accordingly. If i said i needed allowances to be made to go and speak to my imaginary friends at regular intervals i can only imaging what would happen

She believes hers is real, whereas you're just being a prick to cause trouble.

HTH

[d000hg]

There must be something in the human brain that means we have to invent reasons for things, like the fact that we're here, rather than doing what animals do and just live and die and fook each other

This is a valid scientific theory, and also has the added benefit of suggesting Sas has a faulty brain.