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My views on Religion

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ijester

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Here is a joke that illustrates the absurdity of many of the 'exclusive' opionions of people and their religions. Remember - God created man, but man created religion.

Upon dying, a man finds himself standing in the streets of heaven. The loving, beautiful glow is almost overwhelming as he strolls along. Eventually he comes to a number of extremely large brick walls that extend up and out as far as he can see.
'God' he says 'Why are there walls in heaven?'
God replies 'Because so many of the religions like to believe they are the only ones here.'

 
Umm.. ok. Not really P&N material here, IMO.

And for what's it's worth, a few months ago, our preacher was talking about this very same thing. He said, "I guarantee you, when some of us get to Heaven, we are going to be very surprised by some of the people we see there. And I also guarantee that some of the people there will be very surprised to see us!"

I don't understand why some people are so blind toward religion. Sure, if you look at things like the crusades, Jehova's Witnesses (😉), and child-molesting priests, you'd think religion was a bad idea all around, but why do they always seem to ignore the "good" aspects of religion? There are some very smart, well-educated, common-sensed people that are religious in nature. Do you think all them to be "blind sheep" and "zealous hypocrits?" Sure, many "bad" people claim to hold religious belief, but do not appear to follow them. You can't just comdemn an entire institution because of the bad apples, can you?

Anyway, I'm not sure if that was an attempt to bring this discussion to something relevant to this forum category, but there are probably dozens of other threads that would be better suited for this discussion.
 
The human fear of death leads to children stories like heaven. When you die, you corpse will rot and you will exist no more. Welcome to reality 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Todd33
The human fear of death leads to children stories like heaven. When you die, you corpse will rot and you will exist no more. Welcome to reality 🙂
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Well I am not religious at all what ever happened to respecting the beliefs and opinion of others. I don't see the big deal why ppl argue over religion I mean I don't follow it but I don't go online or out of my way to disrepect someone's belief. I know sociology states it was created for a meaning to death but than again according to sociology it was suppose to cease to exist yet it never has.
 
Originally posted by: Todd33
The human fear of death leads to children stories like heaven. When you die, you corpse will rot and you will exist no more. Welcome to reality 🙂
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thats bout the long and short of it
 
I think heaven is made of popcorn, and we are all just the seeds, and love is the butter and God is the microwave. Wait...
 
Originally posted by: ijester

Here is a joke that illustrates the absurdity of many of the 'exclusive' opionions of people and their religions. Remember - God created man, but man created religion.

Upon dying, a man finds himself standing in the streets of heaven. The loving, beautiful glow is almost overwhelming as he strolls along. Eventually he comes to a number of extremely large brick walls that extend up and out as far as he can see.
'God' he says 'Why are there walls in heaven?'
God replies 'Because so many of the religions like to believe they are the only ones here.'
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Well, as a joke it is an utter failure - 404 no funny found

As a parable or whatever the appropriate term for this literary device is, it's illustrative without substance.

Could prompt some moderately stimulating cocktail party conversation maybe...
 
Originally posted by: Todd33
The human fear of death leads to children stories like heaven. When you die, you corpse will rot and you will exist no more. Welcome to reality 🙂
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:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: Todd33
The human fear of death leads to children stories like heaven. When you die, you corpse will rot and you will exist no more. Welcome to reality 🙂
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That's only a small part of it
 
Originally posted by mWilder:
Well, as a joke it is an utter failure - 404 no funny found
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The joke is not the important part, it is the concept behind it. It is very clear.

The color of your skin, what church you attend, where you live are not the true determining factors behind whether you go to heaven or not. And just because in your human pettiness you wish to belong to the 'One true religion' that does not mean God is going to behave that way.





 
Originally posted by: ijester
Originally posted by mWilder:
Well, as a joke it is an utter failure - 404 no funny found
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The joke is not the important part, it is the concept behind it. It is very clear.

The color of your skin, what church you attend, where you live are not the true determining factors behind whether you go to heaven or not. And just because in your human pettiness you wish to belong to the 'One true religion' that does not mean God is going to behave that way.
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A bit of advice: Say what you mean the first time instead of using badly adapting bad jokes to imply your point.
 
Mwilder: Did you really have so much trouble understanding it that criticism is necessary to make you feel better?

If you want to comment on the concepts and ideas please feel free. But trashing people and their attempts to open conversations simply to make your own point is, well, pointless.

 
What you're saying is so trite that trying to elicit any notion of profundity from it being wrapped in a joke is absurd; yah, more absurd than the joke itself. IMO 🙂
 
How is it trite to point out the relative absurdity of the notion that you have to be a catholic, or muslim, or protestant, etc. to have a chance of going to heaven?

 
Originally posted by: ijester
Mwilder: Did you really have so much trouble understanding it that criticism is necessary to make you feel better?

If you want to comment on the concepts and ideas please feel free. But trashing people and their attempts to open conversations simply to make your own point is, well, pointless.
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But he is right, your OP was neither thought provoking or profound. If you actually want to start a conversation you need to post a thought, not a stripped down joke.
 
Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: ijester
Mwilder: Did you really have so much trouble understanding it that criticism is necessary to make you feel better?

If you want to comment on the concepts and ideas please feel free. But trashing people and their attempts to open conversations simply to make your own point is, well, pointless.
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But he is right, your OP was neither thought provoking or profound. If you actually want to start a conversation you need to post a thought, not a stripped down joke.
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Here's a better idea - OT has enough flamebait religion threads as it is, dig one of them up instead. 😛

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: ijester
Originally posted by mWilder:
Well, as a joke it is an utter failure - 404 no funny found
Click to expand...

The joke is not the important part, it is the concept behind it. It is very clear.

The color of your skin, what church you attend, where you live are not the true determining factors behind whether you go to heaven or not. And just because in your human pettiness you wish to belong to the 'One true religion' that does not mean God is going to behave that way.
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Only thing I find funny is the implication that regardless of religion and such, there is doubtless a god and heaven... 😉
 
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