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[url=mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/url], Uber Goober <uber.fubar@... wrote:
Thanks Bru, for your post! I may have to rent that movie to see what it's all
about. I agreed with a lot of what Bill Maher said. Hail Satan!
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From: bru <bruiatu_revine@...
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Sent: Sat, August 21, 2010 5:16:44 AM
Subject: [JoS4adults] Re: 2012 Where will You Be
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This may be a little off topic , but there is a documentary that I liked a lot.
It`s called religulous . this is the ending part : "Bill Maher: The irony of
religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the
world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for
mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having
in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would
steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the
entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn
a lot about it. Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to
brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are
intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense
that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is
dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think
that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm
willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are
no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own
corruptions and limitations and agendas. And anyone who tells you they know,
they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you don't. How can I be
so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do
not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is
not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is
humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just
a litany of getting shit dead wrong. This is why rational people,
anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert
themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really
need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion
brings you actually comes at a terrible price. If you belonged to a political
party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia,
violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do
otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism
that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers. If the
world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future,
decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember
what the real problem was that we learned how to precipitate mass death before
we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or
die. " Well ,I think he is kinda right .. Anyway , best wishes everybody .Hail
Satan!