23rd April 2004, 5:30 PM
Quote: I've wondered about this before, and I've written some lengthy posts about the subject before... I don't want (or have the time) to do that again now, however.
But I think that for prehistoric man "gods" were easily their best explanation for the question "Why?". Somehow that got burned into our culture and we can't let it go...
Oh, and the Communists tried to destroy religion. It didn't work. The problem of course was that the people already believed so they would not be shaken... you'd have to have people grow up with no religion at all around, with no concept of "gods" except as quaint historical myths of previous cultures (if that), for it to have any chance at all of working.
'Action' won't go anywhere, in short.
Soviet Russia quest to destroy religion was tyranical , They would grab hole families put them at gun point and say sign this papper stating that you dont believe in god and swear loyalty to the mother land, If they didnt want to give up their faith, They would take away their children and they would be orphaned and never see their parents again, The parents would be put away to siberia and they would be forced to work in a labour camp and have all their possesions ,families and freinds striped from them .Some would be even tortured to extract information. I studied all about this , Ive read and watched documentory films and books all about that. Some of the families never got to see each other untill 30 years after being seperated.
The Russian orthodox church was hard and trickier to break down, But those genius athiest had a wonderful idea , Lets replace christian orthodox traditions with communist party figures and engage in modern day Emperor worship, They had Lenin mummified and used him as the new Religion.So infact they tried to replace God with a Man.Russia became another example at how a dream of utopia can be twisted into horrible things.
The soviet union is history,Acording to bible chronology it was the king of the North after the Nazi reich as said in the book of Daneil (of course you have no idea what I am talking about :( )
Quote:Who are you to claim to know my parents!? My mother is the nicest, most understanding, soft-hearted woman in the world, you fucking cocksucker! You just can't stand to accept that an atheist was brought into this world without his parents being Nazis or Bolsheviks!
Note below how our dear friend ASM calls me ignorant, and yet makes 16 spelling/grammatical errors in this one paragraph.
I dont know your mother maybe she is a wonderful lady ,But why do you say my parents because they were religous brainwashed me from childhood into being a backward Superstitious dope?
I know that some people have put their opinions on you and maybe I have myself and for that I apologize. But you bash other peoples beliefs sadistically and treat us like were idiot Morons , You dont give a good impression of your upbringing, But I will assume its not your upbringing and its all yourself .
the Nazi and commie thing was a joke which started as a post april fools thing and I am sorry you were traumatized by it, so I got rid of it. :D
Quote:I'm ignorant for calling you wrong; but you lampoon all non-Christians as wife-beatin' drunks!
No I meant that my caring god fearing parents were better then what some people have.I never meant that anyone who waisnt was a wife beater.My grand father was a opinionated bitter old man who hurt the people around him and eventually paid in the last few years of his life spent in total loneliness counting his whealth,He always was defensive and eccentric fearing everyone wanted his money.If he had been a spiritual man I think he would have had a happier life.
Quote:Nothing--nothing at all, it's stark, comparatively sad, and miserable. Thusly unpopular. But doing things because they're pleasant, if not true, is no reason to be done.
Darunia I may not be the best person to say this , But you need to be more positive , If you think religion is non sense, Then why not study Confucism and other philosophies that dont have a god per say so you can get some guidance and purpose to your life.So you dont have to live in the cold dark closet and miss out.