Irony of religion

[One-Way]

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http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthyism.htm

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040920/carroll

Quick sample.

Are we talking about today's world, or things that happened in the Salem Which Trials - lol.

And Bush isn't even considered a normal human in my book. Illuminatus.

[Anahita]

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Are we talking about today's world, or things that happened in the Salem Which Trials - lol.

Which trials? The witch trials! (that now take other forms... did you like my song in the last message edit?)

Yes, the Bush Jr. admin is a nightmare of the worst kind.

[Anonymouse]

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Ok then...

I hope you don't feel that I'm making fun of religion. I think what you (not just you, but in general) think/believe is great, for you, so long as your religion doesn't harm. (Christianity has done both major harm, and good...) I just have a very hard time with 'religion' being forced onto others. Religion and ethics are very different things. Tell me something about what you think is unethical, and we'll have a discussion.

Many issues 'debated' right now in politics are not 'debated' at all. They are 'faith based.' I am VERY certain that some of these 'faith based' arguments are BUNK.

But, if tell me the reason is 'someone said so,' how can we have a discussion?

So... let's talk.

Everything, at its root, is faith based. Pretending otherwise is BUNK.

[bell-the-cat]

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Everything, at its root, is faith based. Pretending otherwise is BUNK.

Is that a statement of faith?

[Anonymouse]

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Is that a statement of faith?

Oh you know very well it is Mr. Cat.

[bell-the-cat]

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PS, I just realised that that was my posting number 666.

[One-Way]

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[QUOTE=Anahita]Which trials? The witch trials! (that now take other forms... did you like my song in the last message edit?) [QUOTE]

Witch*

And, no.

[Anonymouse]

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PS, I just realised that that was my posting number 666.

The devil is in the details, as they say.

[Anahita]

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Everything, at its root, is faith based. Pretending otherwise is BUNK.

So, would you faithfully assert that you exist because I BELIEVE you do? I would say that the definitions of RELIGION that Sip posted are most like what I mean when I use the word, religion. I can see reflections or elements of 'truth' in many different religions, but not in fundamentalism.

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Am I the only one who finds this thread both funny and ironic?

I posted the “Irony of Religion” thread in jokes and humor.

And why is this thread in the "Jokes & Humor" forum?

Then, the thread is moved from “humor” to the “intellectual lounge.”


“Irony is best known as a figure of speech (more precisely called verbal irony) in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood. It can also be considered a twist of fate where an eventual event relates back to a particular quote.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

“Irony: a leading part of humor. Irony is using words to express something completely different from the literal meaning. Usually, someone says the opposite of what they mean and the listener believes the opposite of what they said.”

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002267F/types_of_humor.htm

I said somewhere else that I often find irony, ironic. I do see humor in ‘unpredictable’ twists of events.

[Anonymouse]

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So, would you faithfully assert that you exist because I BELIEVE you do?

That is a good attempt at trying to be philosophically adept. I am to guess that you are also one of the people that believe evolution is not faith based, eh?

However, you missed my point, which was that everything, at its core, is a metaphysical assumption.