Religion

[Summertime]

7 hours ago, Baby Brian said:

Sadly true as well. It makes intelligent people highly question religion its self, even to the point where you want to remove it if only to verify if religion is making things worse or not.

Now you're beginning to sound like Trump lol

[Baby Brian]

5 hours ago, Summertime said:

Now you're beginning to sound like Trump lol

Not quite. Trump only hates muslims. I don't care for religion as an ideology, but could care less about the sheep that follow it.

[Summertime]

24 minutes ago, Baby Brian said:

Not quite. Trump only hates muslims. I don't care for religion as an ideology, but could care less about the sheep that follow it.

Not forgetting Mexicans and fat people on welfare, as for sheep, I'm sure the Christians might comment about the "Good Shepard" tending His flock

[KookyKinky]

I am a Mammonite. I worship Lord Mammon and have started the Church of Mammon.

[Summertime]

4 hours ago, KookyKinky said:

I am a Mammonite. I worship Lord Mammon and have started the Church of Mammon.

Ahh another branch of the Church of Mormon

[KookyKinky]

On ?12?/?28?/?2015 at 4:11 AM, Summertime said:

Ahh another branch of the Church of Mormon

[Summertime]

1 hour ago, KookyKinky said:

Not really. Lord Mammon is the God of Wealth. In our religion, you reach salvation when you make the 1% of the richest people in America. Lord Mammon helps you reach that as long as you don't displease Him with sins ( like Socialism and Communism). We encourage people to do anything to make money.

[KookyKinky]

On ?12?/?3?/?2015 at 4:23 AM, Summertime said:

There is often a misconception that the second world war was mainly religious but it was more about ethnic cleansing and leaving a "pure" and "superior" race, the majority of deaths were Jews but the Soviets, Poles, Serbs, People with Disabilities, Gypsies, Freemasons, Homosexuals, and Jehovah's Witnesses exceeded the number of Jews killed.

[Summertime]

9 minutes ago, KookyKinky said:

[KookyKinky]

10 hours ago, Summertime said:

The disabled people were only a small part of the purification, which doesn't make it any better and non disabled people are being targeted in most if not all the conflicts. Disabled people have generally been seen as easy targets and a drain on the resources of the "normal" population in the same way that the far right target minority groups "invading" their shores. The awful thing is that anyone is capable of horrific acts given the right circumstances, look at the Stamford Experiment. I think that you are right about white being pissed off but that comes from hundreds of years of belief that we are superior.

[Elfy]

To be fair I think everyone is more likely to be in prison than a CEO of a company, a major one at least.

[littlekat]

I was raised a Jehovahs witness, I still remember as a kid getting taught about world war II and how it could happen again in my life time so I better get ready for the cruel things people will do in an attempt to convert or wipe out religions. Also the whole being a pacifist religion meant that that while they tortured, beat or tried to kill you that you could never hurt them back. I'm not one any more, but it did scare me when I was a kid that anyone could do that regardless of religion, disability or race. Although it still sticks with me that a lot of the germans didn't know what was going on. They were fed propaganda videos of where these people were going for a better life and many couldn't cope when they found out what was actually happening.

I'm not one any more, just atheist now.

[Elfy]

I think there is quite a bit of debate about how much the average German knew but I think most would have known in the back of their head wherever people were taken it wasn't for a better life. You don't round people up, make them wear special clothing and take all their rights away just to send them to a place of sunshine and happiness. They may not have thought about literal extermination camps but many would have guessed wherever they were sent it wasn't a good place.

[Summertime]

40 minutes ago, Elfking said:

I think there is quite a bit of debate about how much the average German knew but I think most would have known in the back of their head wherever people were taken it wasn't for a better life. You don't round people up, make them wear special clothing and take all their rights away just to send them to a place of sunshine and happiness. They may not have thought about literal extermination camps but many would have guessed wherever they were sent it wasn't a good place.

I think that you are right Elfking, the segregation of the Jews was widely publicised, as was their removal from education, employment and the propaganda not to use Jewish facilities, not to mention being forced into ghettos and Germans taking their property and homes. The initial agreement to allow Jews to leave was quickly rescinded especially when America and Britain refused to accept the refugees. It was a tragic part of history which sadly we have failed to learn from.

[Cleandiaper]

On 02/01/2016 at 9:25 AM, littlekat said:

I was raised a Jehovahs witness, I still remember as a kid getting taught about world war II and how it could happen again in my life time so I better get ready for the cruel things people will do in an attempt to convert or wipe out religions. Also the whole being a pacifist religion meant that that while they tortured, beat or tried to kill you that you could never hurt them back. I'm not one any more, but it did scare me when I was a kid that anyone could do that regardless of religion, disability or race. Although it still sticks with me that a lot of the germans didn't know what was going on. They were fed propaganda videos of where these people were going for a better life and many couldn't cope when they found out what was actually happening.

I'm not one any more, just atheist now.

[jonoz]

Most of my family are Christians and when I was young I would of course follow in there footsteps until I got old enough to think for myself and now I really don't believe in anything except for life itself. I mean I was looking for a religion to go into but nothing really appealed to me except for Sikhism. All of what they do and how they do it just seems to connect with me and it makes sense but as for right now I don't follow any religion... but I do read the Satanic Bible!

[BabyWarlock]

I am an agnostic polytheseist I am baptized as a member of the Anglican Church but I am not Christian I believe in all gods as constructs of faith. I follow certain tenets of a couple of religions the philosophical side of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity. I also worship the ancient egyptian pantheon and the spaghetti god.

[Firefly 35]

On 1/2/2016 at 4:25 AM, littlekat said:

. I also worship the ancient egyptian pantheon and the spaghetti god.

Serioisly?

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

We have neither gods nor goddesses. They think they are better than everyone else and there is the constant quibbling of just who was created in whose image

[Firefly 35]

On 1/2/2016 at 9:33 AM, Summertime said:

I think that you are right Elfking, the segregation of the Jews was widely publicised, as was their removal from education, employment and the propaganda not to use Jewish facilities, not to mention being forced into ghettos and Germans taking their property and homes. The initial agreement to allow Jews to leave was quickly rescinded especially when America and Britain refused to accept the refugees. It was a tragic part of history which sadly we have failed to learn from.

And now we won't accept Syrian refugees here in the US?  Anyone see a pattern?

[Summertime]

2 hours ago, Firefly 35 said:

And now we won't accept Syrian refugees here in the US?  Anyone see a pattern?

Here in the UK the Government is celebrating the signing of the Balfour agreement however the irony is that Balfour was not only a Zionist but the agreement had racist undertones, Balfour believed that it was necessary to establish the State of Israel, at the expense of the existing population because he believed strongly that the British people would not tolerate an influx of Jewish immigrants regardless of the reason.

[Firefly 35]

And if everyone rejects racist laws like that, there won't be anything the government can do because the government can't just arrest the majority of their population.  (If they did, it would destroy their economy)

[Summertime]

You only need to look at what's happening the right are gaining ground in too many countries

[Firefly 35]

You mean the right people, or the right-wing people?  But I agree that you do have to watch out for what's happening in other countries too.

[Summertime]

Right wing people and yes you're right, unfortunately we don't seem to have learnt much from history