organized religion is a crutch and a sham for weak minded people

Atheism is just as much a religion as any doctrine. Why is it atheists always attack Christianity but say nothing about Hinduism, Islam, Native American Beliefs, etc...? You need to watch The Secret. James Ray explains it like this, everything in the Universe, at its most basic level is made of energy. Energy has always existed and cannot be destroyed. It is moving into form, through form, and out of form, but it never ceases to exist. Humans, way down at the cellular level, and even beyond to the subatomic level, are composed of energy. This is the same energy that comprises the universe. In short, we are an energy field operating within a larger energy field. "So if you think you are just this meat-suit running around, think again, you are a spiritual being." James Arthur Ray.

James Ray is not the only one who things this way, look at the works of Fred Allen Wolf, PhD physicist, Deepak Chopra, and others.

This is not to say that organized religion isn't a terribly destructive force; it can be and often is. However, one's personal faith in the author of Creation, whether you call it God, or energy, or the Infinate Radiant Is, is a matter for the individual and all of the harping by the bitter, antagonistic people out there really doesn't mean anything. If a person chooses to believe that we are just pink talking monkeys that is there right. Just as it is the right of others to place their faith where they choose. The main point is that we are free to believe whatever we want and one lie as as good as another. One Truth, however, is infallible.

OK, enough said. We'll all find out if we're right about our beliefs when we're dead. If we're just pink-talking-monkeys, then the end of our existence will demonstrate to us that point. If, however, our consciousness survives the transformation that coincided the termination of our physical presence (our bodies) then we'll know too.

Anger is the breeze that blows out the lamp of the mind

I hate to burst all your oh-so-interesting bubbles and self centered to self righteous opinions, but this is MOVIE board made for opinions on movies.
Do you see were I'm going with this?
So please, at least keep your senseless complaining and ranting to movies.

Have you seen Zeitgeist?

I got it from a Usenet news group and the part on religion blew me away.

The other two parts are just as good - and controversial.

People should watch it at least once. I think snippets of it can be seen at Youtube. The whole version is movie length.





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Most of today's issues are brought on by religion. Get rid of religion and the world would most likely become a peaceful place.

Unfortunately, those brainwashed with god are hopeless.

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"organized religion is a crutch and a sham for weak minded people".......

wow,...i've never heard it quite like that before....very profound.

"If the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda pussy to drink it" - Rory Breaker (Lock'Stock)

Are you kidding me? I hate to fight, but Roman and Greek mythology was made up by a mad woman named Semiramis who was married to Nimrod (look it up). They were descendents of Noah and decided they didn't want people to worship God so they set up a hierarchy and declared themselves as gods. Semiramis set herself up as the Goddess of love and fertility. She then had Nimrod killed and declared her son to be Nimrod raised from the dead, like "Jesus", they called him Zeus! So get the story right, Christianity, well Judaism has been here longer than mythology. And as for the catholic priests, they abused their power and most likely are going to hell. Unless God has mercy and they really do have a change of heart then they ARE!

What about the intelligent scholars of studies in the fields of physics to theology who ascribe to a faith? Are they weak minded?

If we do away with religion, is there really a social body of thought that believes crime will cease at global scales? What about the street crimes of New York City? Do thieves go around robbing old women only in the name of theology?

The problem of crime exists not because of the principles of any theology practiced today but the wants of people. If one studies the various theologies of the world, it will be evident that none of those religions endorses the murder of innocent people to satisfy their set beliefs.

However, killings in the name of religion do occur. Obviously that doesn't make sense. But as social scientists research, it is clear that violence occurs due to the unreachable needs of one being or a group and not because one is compelled by some non-existent religious script to cause evil. [edit start] However those individuals or groups use a theology to summon a historical conflict that has affected their theology and attempt to parallel the themes in justifying the actions they take to acquire their needs. [edit end]

Even if Christianity is "nothing more than Roman and Greek mythology", it still teaches its followers to do good things. What's the harm in that? How does that affect the nonbeliever? Those who deviate from a religion's script cease to be members of that religion. It's plausible for that person to go and cause harm onto another. He believes perhaps he did it to satisfy his religion. But which religion? It's never the religion which goes astray but always the individual.

Even atheists can tell right or wrong; religion isn't necessarily needed for that.

Check out this collection of weak minded people:

Sir Isaac Newton
C.S. Lewis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
J.R.R. Tolkien
Johnny Cash
Salvador Dali
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mohandas Gandhi
Bob Dylan
Ernest Hemingway
Nicolaus Copernicus
D.W. Griffith
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Al Gore
Jimmy Stewart
Victor Hugo
Leonardo Da Vinci

My father, who has a 165 I.Q., was a rocket scientist, worked for NASA, made six figs.
My cousin, who is a doctor working in the trauma ward at a children's ER
My uncle, who was a commander in the Navy and has a genius I.Q.
And my cousin, who is in the C.I.A. and earns over six figs.