Religion (split from Q&A)

[Haykakan]

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Meh, they aren't more fun, they are just as annoying, there should be a athiest vs. religious war, and agnosts can sit and have some popcorn and watch the match...or here's an idea, a religious and athiests could have a soccer match, I'll bring the vuvuzelas.

As to the death thing, lol, it was amusing.
It's odd viewing death from an Aztec perspective though, we have dancing little calacas, calaveras and mariachis and candy, death is seen as a joyous occassion rather than mourning. In old Aztec mythology, you were meant to be ahmiquizmauhqui (fearless of death)

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Keep the freakin vuvuzelas in Africa! My son was asking me where all the bee sounds were coming from and i told him it was a musical horn, he looked at me in silence as if that was the dumbest idea ever.

[Pedro Xaramillo]

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Meh, they aren't more fun, they are just as annoying, there should be a athiest vs. religious war, and agnosts can sit and have some popcorn and watch the match...or here's an idea, a religious and athiests could have a soccer match, I'll bring the vuvuzelas.

As to the death thing, lol, it was amusing.
It's odd viewing death from an Aztec perspective though, we have dancing little calacas, calaveras and mariachis and candy, death is seen as a joyous occassion rather than mourning. In old Aztec mythology, you were meant to be ahmiquizmauhqui (fearless of death)

[Haykakan]

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I am agnostic myself for the same reasons Pedro mentions but i gota admit athiests are more fun. Here is a skit on death and how religious people say stupid things and again the funny stuff is in the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExAw4hIhRIU&feature=related

[KanadaHye]

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http://wikiality.wikia.com/Great_Britain Now everything on that page IS TRUE.

"As there's not much point worrying about history before the birth of Jesus, 0 AD would be a good starting point. According to the lyrics of the hymn 'Jerusalem', Jesus visited Britain. Noone in Britain is impolite enough to contest this.

Friendly British natives were then rudely invaded by the Romans during their imperial days, not to be confused with the infinitely better and more polite British Empire. The Romans couldn't invade Scotland, so one man called Hadrian built a wall sealing it off. The Romans then left when the Empire was ravaged by barbarians (Germans causing trouble; a sign of things to come), which left the British to be rudely invaded again by Vikings, Angles, and Saxons.

Just when the Angles and Saxons got all comfortable, Britain was conquered by the French in 1066. They were led by William Wallace the Conquerer. Britain was never invaded again, unlike the French, which is ironic. However, Americans don't understand irony, so it's not worth mentioning. "

LOL

Strange Laws in Great Britain

It is illegal to be Irish in Britain. It is not illegal to sleep with your best friends mam, as long as you say 'cheerio' and 'that was rather nice' when you leave the house.

Religious

Britain is a religiously diverse nation, with religions running the gamut from Godless Heathen Paganism to Free Masonry

Dentistry

Oral hygiene is believed to be a myth propagated by the elusive "tooth fairy." She is used to frighten children into not flossing.

[Pedro Xaramillo]

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At some point in time, I shall get a t-shirt with KanadaHye's name on it.
Indeed I agree with Andre, I myself am of partial Irish descent and connected with both my roots, while being an agnost, I do respect the contributions that Catholic Irishmen have made to keep their culture and use it as battle strategy to fight against the Saxons. We Irish have a strong warrior presence before that indeed, but look at what Protestant Irishmen did, very often sided with the British (although there are some Prod Fenians). But I see it much as the same as an Armenian would I assume view the Armenian Orthodox Church, it protected Armenian culture from assimilation from Turks and a fall to Islam, which would have left the Armenians in the position of the Kurds on this day and age.

My take on religion is, I'm an agnost, I can't tell you that God exists or not, I can't analyze God, that doesn't mean there can be no God, we couldn't measure atoms before, because we didn't have the science available.
The FSM argument, while amusing, cannot hold an argument, as we know spaghetti was made by man, it existed post man, therefore it's impossible to see we were created by something that created us, the timeline gets kinda shadoodled there no? However, before theorising evolution, people saw, as animals can breed to create offsring, it is possible that original man came from a creator, it's not that far fetched from that perspective. Now let me repeat, I do believe in evolution, but I don't see how anyone that believes that the big bang, or the original proto-humans were formed by God neccesarily are hypocrites.

My favourite hypocracy is when people who are overtly athiest push their beliefs on others (including agnosts) and then complain about religious people pushing theirs...great example of a free exchance of thoughts

[Haykakan]

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Ah yes... an Australian... another one of Britain's great achievements... let's take all our criminals and put them on an island, wipe out the aboriginal people and plunder the land.

Yeh the imperial britts do indeed suck ass but i still dont see where your goin with this.

[KanadaHye]

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This one is lovely, especialy the ending!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXThbqU0dw4

Ah yes... an Australian... another one of Britain's great achievements... let's take all our criminals and put them on an island, wipe out the aboriginal people and plunder the land.

[Haykakan]

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This one is lovely, especialy the ending!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXThbqU0dw4

[Haykakan]

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He's not exactly an ordained scholar now is he... taking views on religion from a comedian is like going to the hair dresser to get your car fixed. It might come back shiny from the hair mousse but the car will still be broke.

Nah man i am not taking views from him nor anyone else. I form my own views based on the information available. I just happen to agree with the views he expressed there and i am delighted that he could do it in such a hilerious way.

[KanadaHye]

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Different views my ass lol. He has it right on! You cant point out a single thing in his skit that is false and should be different. He was right and hilerious which is not always easy to do. I think i will pray to Joe Pesci tonight lol.

He's not exactly an ordained scholar now is he... taking views on religion from a comedian is like going to the hair dresser to get your car fixed. It might come back shiny from the hair mousse but the car will still be broke.