Religion Poll (Please take a second to take!)

[Jaxx]

one of the arguments i hear getting used a lot is, if the entirety of the human race was entirely wiped out, all shreds of our knowledge, history, and experience destroyed, and a new species similar to us rose up, what would they find out? they'd rediscover fire, the wheel, social structures, communication. physics, chemistry, aerodynamics. but our story, of a guy getting strung up on wood by a bunch of pagans, would be lost forever.

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[Talent74]

pastafarian

[Electrk]

*Judaism

[_Rave_]

Cloths aren't natural, are you saying we should go naked?



To make what I said earlier make more sense:
Shut up, the other person doesn't believe in what you do. Get over it.

alyx shut the forget up, that was the dumbest stuff

we actually need clothes

[The True Zephyr]

I'm a christian, but I dislike it when people think that all Christians condemn homoloveuality. Leviticus 18:22 was talking about two things, and not that homoloveuality is wrong. It was talking about how armies humiliated the losers by raping them pretty much. It was also condemning it because women were considered property, and a man could not be property unless they were slaves. That's what it was talking about, not that homoloveuality is wrong. But that's just my two cents.

[EazyE]

i believe all film rolls are put on earth for a reason and we are to respect and worship our movie gods

[Kevso]

Catholicism, the belief in God, and The Virgin Mary.

[SWAT One]

Catholicism, the belief in God, and The Virgin Mary.

I giggle at your pagan modifications of Christianity.

[Headcrab Zombie]

BRB making people rage with logic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pascal's_wager

K abandoning thread tell me when the coast is clear

LOLk.
See, the problem with this argument is that it forgets that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of religions, all of which say I have to follow their god in order to gain, and if I follow another god, I lose. There is no way to know which one of these to choose, as they all present the same in terms of evidence - none. And once I have made my choice, I am still losing in the view of all the other religions. You could argue that choosing one religion from random has a very slightly higher chance of a "win" than atheism, but then you have to argue why I should choose your religion over any of the countless others, which is absolutely not what Pascal's Wager is about.

One of the links you posted even says something along these lines

There are many problems with the reasoning in Pascal's Wager, as well as the unsavoury theological assumptions it makes. Like most arguments for the existence of God, it seems more about reassuring existing believers than converting non-believers. This is because in order to convince a non-believer, a theological argument must both prove that the god it argues for is the One True God and disprove all other possibilities. People lacking a belief can see the potential for multiple gods existing, in fact an infinite number, but believers are constrained by their existing view that there is their god or no god. Only in this latter case does the reasoning behind Pascal's Wager make any sense.

When you use an argument that is a few hundred years old, keep in mind that the refutations are also a few hundred years old. Almost every atheist has heard this argument. This is why you come up with your own argument, instead of just parroting someone else's.

K abandoning thread tell me when the coast is clear

aka "leaving so I can't see why I'm wrong"
Though people who say this usually return anyways

[Jaxx]

LOLk.
See, the problem with this argument is that it forgets that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of religions, all of which say I have to follow their god in order to gain, and if I follow another god, I lose. There is no way to know which one of these to choose, as they all present the same in terms of evidence - none. And once I have made my choice, I am still losing in the view of all the other religions. You could argue that choosing one religion from random has a very slightly higher chance of a "win" than atheism, but then you have to argue why I should choose your religion over any of the countless others, which is absolutely not what Pascal's Wager is about.
When you use an argument that is a few hundred years old, keep in mind that the refutations are also a few hundred years old. Almost every atheist has heard this argument
aka "leaving so I can't see why I'm wrong"
Though people who say this usually return anyways

as well, to say "well, there's this religion and if i only stand to lose my not believing in it, i better believe in it", is not only dishonest, it's against the entire point of the religion because someone who only kept to a religion for personal gain is no better than someone who didn't at all.

[Dillpickle]

I've decided today that I'm just going to announce myself as an agnostic theist. I'm going to assumed what I've been taught upon with God and him being there, but I'm going to put my full faith forward and be preaching up a storm on any one subject about the Bible.
 
I'm really loving tired of my christian friends, when I argue about homoloveuality,
them saying "Your in support of sin dylan?"

And my reply being; "Yes, I'm in full 100% of Homoloveuality Rights and the equality of marriage."

I'm tired of having to have this "if your christian why do you support this sin?!" or even when I'm being a normal teenager people, I've had this happen, go "i thought you were christian!" Firstly, the person who asks me that is a "worse" person in terms of their faith than I was, back then.
Now, I don't even care what someone would say. I'm not going to put religion before any facts. I'm not going to say "I'm healed because God healed me!" I'm going to say "I'm healed cause my immune system finally killed the virus, and that the medicine I've been taking has healed me, thank you science!"
/endrant

[Nitro_Weavile]

Jesus Christ, my savior and shepherd, he comforts me in the valley of shadow of death


-Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God


-Romans 5:8 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus

[SeventhSandwich]

The poll is inaccurate because Atheism is not a religious belief. It is the absence of religious beliefs.

also your poll question has a subject-verb agreement error.

[Daedalus]

I truly believe that religion will die out in the next 200-1000 years.
Science is moving at an unstoppable rate - much too quickly to be holding onto vague explanations for things that we may very well know by the end of the century.
Besides, many religious beliefs are becoming quite unpopular because of the shift of our generation's personality, so it's losing power.
Just my two cents.

[Harm94]

Besides, many religious beliefs are becoming quite unpopular because of the shift of our generation's personality, so it's losing power.
Just my two cents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKULc8W7lM
Back then Religion was like the science of it's day to explain anything. The barbarians and tribals shunned them wanted to stick to the old ways, but were crushed. Now Religion is looked at as some sort of ancient fairy tail and it's all about science. What will happen in the future? Will science share the same fate as Religion?