Mmmm. Condensation is just one of the powers of abstract thought.

It was unto me to build a kingdom of beauty in heaven.
It was unto you to build a kingdom of beauty on earth.
Failure, fighting, frustration and flatulence.
Mankind forever at war.
Mankind forever derelict in duty.

....."New prophets arise when charlatans come along with the skill to do more than plagiarize."

Would you be interested in joining the church of the flying spaghetti monster? Our heaven has a stripper factory and a beer volcano.

Discussing religion is as pointless as discussing the color of orange juice.

To Karmacide: Oh yeah, I would definitely join your church.

What's with the popularity of religion-based topics lately? I thought it was advised not to have these.

(but to answer your question, I'm an ardent atheist.)

You had me at "spaghetti." DEAL.

:')

Great! Welcome.

http://www.venganza.org/join/

I bet you had that site bookmarked for months waiting for a chance to use it on a post. And i bet you giggled so hard.

And yeah atheist and church people are the most annoying as hell people to talk to. Both shove their beliefs onto people and show off how ignorant both are.

I giggled like a little school girl.

I'm of the opinion these days that Pastafarianism is a hipster snipe at religion in general. or that it certainly get's used that way. However the original letter that inspired it(brought it into the open). Was an awesome response to the attempt to force an American school board to teach creationism.

http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/

^ No, you may think so but its telling people to stop being doushebags about knocking down religion or whatever people believe in-general.

Who cares about what you believe in we spend way to much trying to find contradictions with people and never things that we as a people share in common. If you take the time and read the Quran or Hindu scripture or the bible and buddism text its some beautiful thing to read. Cause after all all they share the same belief in love, the faith in man-kind, and day to day self improvement, and tolerance.

And science and the sake of curiosity we traveled west, we flew and touched the heavens, we sat foot on the smiley man in the night sky, and the thoughts for the future is limitless and so exciting. Both will co-exist and both will always have its place in the world, cause we hand by hand learned so much from each other. Cause both has the same universal theme..

nah, it's a hipster movement.

That statement makes me question the veracity of your claim to having actually read them. While although most religions teach essentially the same things, they do not teach them all equally well. While claiming that no man should murder another, these books then go on to explain in their own psychotic ways, that all non-believers are non-people, who not only don't count as people, but must be killed wherever they are found.

It's not the extreme end of religion that leads to conflict, it's the clear instructions in their books which explicitly condone and encourage violence and murder of "the outsider." Moderate religious people are simply choosing to ignore what they have been commanded to do. That does not however change what's written and the same old texts continue to act as engines for intolerance.

The day they all remove those horrible, evil, murderous lines from their texts. The day they all declare those lines to be heretical and blasphemous. The day they all realize that those commandments to kill are in direct contradiction to peace, beauty and tolerance --- is the day good honest people will stop condemning religion.

Im catholic. Simply because I was born and raised catholic, always attended catholic schools , and had catholic friends. Had I been raised under different circumstances im sure things would be different.

I'm a Christian and I don't really like the word religious. I call it having a relationship with the Lord. I'm this way because I came to point of realizing just how wretched I was, and how it was that the Lord saved me. I owe the Lord my life and He deserves my all. Throughout my walk with Him he has never led me astray and He even kept me when I was of the world. I hope I can spread the same love and joy I have for God to those around me.