You are not even the only person in your family who dislikes organized religion, so I'm not sure why you asked this question. Reported!
You are not even the only person in your family who dislikes organized religion, so I'm not sure why you asked this question. Reported!
No,alot of people don't like organized religion.
| dallas said:
Protestants- they seem to think that bc they are christians and dont do things like drink or smoke weed, that they are superior morally and ethically to other people. I've known plenty of Christians that pieces of Sh!t that you wouldnt want around your worst enemy, but whatever. I dislike how they have their morality based on things like drugs, gambling, drinking, etc. If I want to go to vegas, who the hell am I hurting? |
Same can be said for some athiests. Actually some of the atheists on this site are the most obnoxious, ignorant, hollier than thou, people that I have ever come across. That doesn't mean that every atheist is like that. I have quite a few friends and met many atheists who actually don't have an ignorant remark to make when something religious is said or the topic comes up.
I personally don't know what Christians you've met but out of the churches I've been to they teach that all have fallen short of the glory of god, none of us are without sin and not to judge each other, so please don't ignorantly generalize us due to the bad experience you've had, thanks!
" Rebellion Against Tyrants Is Obedience To God"
I am an atheist myself, but I find organized religion to be very interesting.
Organised religion was a tool invented to bring social order through fear. It doesnt have a place in the future of mankind as anything but hope that there is something beyond death.
Sometimes I wonder how grown adults can wage war over which entity they worship.
Oh, we're talking about religion? My bad, I thought we were talking about the peeople on gaming forums.
Yes, you are the ONLY person in this life that doesnt like organized religion.... Incluiding your atheist family...... Jk dude, Im agnostic btw
03/10/09 HUGE day in my life:
| dsgrue3 said: Even the religious are turning away from organized religion and are simply unaffiliated with any church. Churches tend to preach fundamentalism, which is total nonsense and sometimes very harmful. This is positive direction for the human race. |
Actually, the number of members of most big churches is not falling, but growing. While the numbers of members are significantly falling in the rich, western countries, worldwide they're actually increasing. And over the next decades, this trend may even become much stronger.
Many atheists have a very one-sided view of religion etc. They seem to be completely incapable of acknowledging just any positive aspect of religion, churches etc., they're only seeing the negative parts.
Take Nietzsche for example, whom you're so prominently quoting in your sig. If he hadn't been raised in a very religious environment, he most probably wouldn't have become such a remarkable critical thinker.
And just months after he published the the sentences you're quoting, he became a lunatic, incapable of doing almost anything. And once again, it was his religious environment that actually helped him most: It was his own, very religious family, his mother and sister, who got him out of the lunatic asylum and cared for him until he died about a decade later. So Nietzsche himself was actually lucky that his religious family didn't feel the same disgust about touching atheists that Nietzsche claimed about touching religious people.