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I'll just sign this for Brad Pitt, no he's not capable of being here to sign the marriage contract... yes, he's busy. Busy with stuff. Yeah. (I know you were joking. )
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10-11-2006, 11:12 PM | #703 |
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Brad Pitt's not getting married, silly. Not until marriage is open to "all who want it", which I presume actually means same-sex couples. Like we care...
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11-13-2006, 01:04 PM | #704 |
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Elton John's suggestion
So do we all know about Elton John's "aha!" solution to ending violence? Yeah, ban organized religion. Sorry Mr. John, but that's already been tried. What he really meant, of course, was Ban Chrisitianity...since one of his reasons was that "religion (aka that evil religion christianity) encourages hatred against gays."
And we all know that christianity is the most anti-gay of all religions, and that its constituents are the most wild-eyed evil people who ever walked the face of the earth. Oh well, any stick is good enough to beat Christianity with, eh?
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11-13-2006, 02:40 PM | #705 |
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Yeah it is a silly suggestion to ban organized religion even if christianty and Islam DO encourage hatred against gays.
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11-13-2006, 02:57 PM | #706 |
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Did he specifically say to ban christianity? Because you know, organised religions are bit bigger than just that.
It's an impossible solution but still, if we hadn't have religion, I can't help thinking we'd have a lot less of the current conflicts. But of course, knowing us, we'd find some other characteristic to pick fights over...
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Thanks Rex, for realizing it's a useless suggestion
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Keeping religion to yourself ain't such a bad idea, though I'd never ban it.
It's like sex. As long as it's kept in the bedroom, people can do as they choose.
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The term organized religion does not solely contain christianity, that's what I'm saying. Not every 'stick' thrown at 'organized religion' hits christianity on the head. I'm sure all the other organized religions want their share of stick beatings too.
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I'm not bursting out in tears or anything, I just thought maybe you guys wanted to dicuss this subject, seeing as it's all over the news
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Great post, Rosie
...People talk about what the world would be like "if christians had the power!?". I can understand how a lot of Muslims must feel, going through this time, having to be associated with terrorists. Rosie O'Donnel apperantly thinks "extreme" christianity is "just as dangerous" as "extreme Islam". Heck, some weirdo author thinks christians are so bad, she wrote a novel (The Handmaid's Tale) about how it would be for women if christianity took over. The fact is that christianity is the thing that liberated women. ...well, futile to talk about it taking over, because it already did takeover, and it produced this country of America.
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Puritanism is the reason you can use the restroom in peace, Rex. I wouldn't be so quick to run over it...
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Oh please do elaborate...
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On some level I do agree with Elton John. At least in our current world situation it would seem that organized religion does more bad than good. However suppression solves nothing and creates just as many if not more problems than it is trying to fix. Society needs good religion just as much as it needs good government.
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Well, as I said, I think he's taking a [cheap] shot at Christianity, in particular.
What i'm surprised about is the fact that someone that far over to the left, for all they preach about tolerance etc...whatever happened to the proponents of freedom expression? At the bottom of it, christians don't really give a dang what people do in their bedrooms. The problem is when their kids are taught it in school. If we really want to follow Elton John's method, why don't we just ban gays? Problem just as easily solved, right? "Uh...cuz that's wrong?"
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