Reply to: Do you suck at your religion?

[sasguru]

How is it an accident of birth when Asians are evangelised by Europeans to Christianity, or Europeans by Asians to Islam?

You're discussing religion as culture, rather than religion as a conscious personal decision; the two are very different and many religions say only one of those 'counts' properly.

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And what's your point? So a small minority of people are "evangelised" i.e. have their set of cultural, human artefact, religious beliefs replaced by those from another culture. Another random event, much like an accident of birth. It may be a more conscious decision - but it's not a particularly intelligent one.
A Muslim convert from Christianity has merely replaced one "holy" i.e. received wisdom book for another, one set of human cultural constructs for another.

[Troll]

You might like to know that "flat earth" has never been a mainstream religious belief. The fact that the earth is round has been known for thousands of years.

Doesn't the Quran teach that the Earth is flat and pegged out?

[SimonMac]

You can get cream for those.

Is there a cream you can use to get MF removed from yours

[BrilloPad]

Its an oblate spheroid

You can get cream for those.

[SimonMac]

Actually, it's spherical (ish)

Its an oblate spheroid, a sphere is perfectly round so can't be ish!

[d000hg]

Edit: To me people who believe in one set of religious beliefs (e.g. Christianity, Islam, Judaism) are showing a serious lack of imagination. Do they not think it's only an accident of birth that makes them believe what they do? I suppose it's in the nature of believers to think they are exceptional

How is it an accident of birth when Asians are evangelised by Europeans to Christianity, or Europeans by Asians to Islam?

You're discussing religion as culture, rather than religion as a conscious personal decision; the two are very different and many religions say only one of those 'counts' properly.

I suppose it's in the nature of believers to think they are exceptional

I don't think that makes much sense. There are a billion or so Christians, maybe the same number of Muslims. You might not be the norm in your workplace but in no way are you unique or exceptional, totally the opposite in fact.

[SimonMac]

Isn't a religopath someone who hates religion? So russell is saying people who hate religion are morons?

The entomology of -path is from the Greek pathos meaning feeling or suffering, therefore CUK is suffering from Russell, so we are Russellapaths

[louie]

Never mind that bollocks, how come you're even letting the little sh!t continue posting?

Just in case you're confused as to which "little sh!t" I'm referring to, I mean Russel/louie.

Someone needs a cuddle......come here.. you......

[SupremeSpod]

That'd be an inhabitant of the German state of Westteo. They really hate those Osteos.

Never mind that bollocks, how come you're even letting the little sh!t continue posting?

Just in case you're confused as to which "little sh!t" I'm referring to, I mean Russel/louie.

[SupremeSpod]

Well clearly he doesn't since he takes the piss out of Jews and Muslims in that sketch.
And the point remains, if you were Indian or Chinese you'd probably have different set of human artefact fantasy beliefs.

Edit: To me people who believe in one set of religious beliefs (e.g. Christianity, Islam, Judaism) are showing a serious lack of imagination. Do they not think it's only an accident of birth that makes them believe what they do? I suppose it's in the nature of believers to think they are exceptional (or "saved")

That's the carrot.

Eternal damnation being the stick.

Toe the line or else.

[NotAllThere]

What about an osteopath?

That'd be an inhabitant of the German state of Westteo. They really hate those Osteos.

[mudskipper]

Hi Russell. You might like to know that "flat earth" has never been a mainstream religious belief. The fact that the earth is round has been known for thousands of years.

Actually, it's spherical (ish)

[sasguru]

. It's a bad sign for a start that as a typical ignorant Yank he thinks Christianity is synomous with Religion.

Well clearly he doesn't since he takes the piss out of Jews and Muslims in that sketch.
And the point remains, if you were Indian or Chinese you'd probably have different set of human artefact fantasy beliefs.

Edit: To me people who believe in one set of religious beliefs (e.g. Christianity, Islam, Judaism) are showing a serious lack of imagination. Do they not think it's only an accident of birth that makes them believe what they do? I suppose it's in the nature of believers to think they are exceptional (or "saved")

[d000hg]

What about an osteopath?

[louie]

And homeopaths hate gay people.

And GardenPaths hate gardens?