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Who do you pray to? PM me if your's isn't on here! Only serious requests will be taken. I don't care how much you love anime, waifu-chan isn't a deity.

Jesus Christ
YWHW
Allah
Lucifer (And his many names)
Hindu gods catchall
Shinto gods catchall
Norse gods catchall
Other
I don't pray

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i pray for pusillanimous individual on the regular and my prayers are always answered. explain that stuff atheists
they were traps

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Personally, I see prayer as both a method of communicating with your Beings and as a way to think out solutions to your problem.
« Last Edit: May 15, 2017, 10:28:57 PM by Rabbot32 »


norse gods are best gods

New topic set. Should we damn the masses for the actions of the few?

To answer the poll first, I don't pray in any meaningful sense. I don't have a practice or set aside time to pray. I do pray silently on the fly, and I address my prayer to "God", but I don't believe that to be the Christian God, nor do I even believe that the "God" I pray to exists. I don't even believe that any god can hear my prayer. My prayers are really just me hoping and thinking, but I do it in the manner of a prayer.

Maybe that doesn't count, to pray without belief. Maybe that's just talking to yourself. But it's the closest I come to praying anymore.


As for the new question, by and large I don't think all members of a religion should be judged by the actions of a few, nor do I think they are responsible.

What I do believe however, particularly (if not entirely) in the case of extremism/terrorism, is that the people of a religion (particularly religious leaders) have a duty to condemn the actions of those who cause pain and suffering in the name of their religion.
If you claim to follow a religion of peace (which all our world religions do) then you need to condemn those who manipulate the religion to destroy peace.

I think that the way to do this is to look at your religious teachings and find the areas that allow for murder and evil, and then to denounce those areas.
I know that's difficult in some religions where the entirety of a sacred text, including its contradictions and allowances for evil, are considered as gospel and unchallengable. But a religion has to grow, especially if its to teach peace and kindness and love.

If you can't do this then you can't condemn evil-doers because you continue to justify their actions.
And I think it is fair to judge the members of a religion who do justify and give room for the evil of other members.

should people of a nation be judged with the worst?

The people of a religion should be held accountable for monstrous acts committed in their time assuming they can do something about it. Holding Christians hostage for the Crusades is dumb. Yelling at Muslims for not actively damning extremists is insane and stupid, bit the logic chain actually works.


I've heard this so many times it's basically a strawman
What? Do you even know what a strawman is?
Hint: it has nothing to do with how often an argument has been used

we should not judge members of a religion by the worst members of that religion but we should judge the religion itself by the worst members
« Last Edit: May 16, 2017, 01:43:50 PM by TristanLuigi »

i love god almost as much as i love building bricks in minecraft

Due to the low popularity of the last topic, we're smash-cutting to another.

When is it morally sound to ban religions?

When is it morally sound to ban religions?
When it threatens the values of freedom and lives of a country and it's people and is an all around incompatible religion.

When is it morally sound to ban religions?
Like, worshiping a specific religion? Never.

How would that even be possible? The government can't know what's in people's heads. At least until we all start wearing neural implants and the NSA gets in.