The Religion Thread

[silkyman]

I think everyone that has grown up in Britain is a cultural Christian to some extent.

We had no choice!

 

[HertsWolf]

Anyone ever celebrated the Buddhist festival Songkran in Thailand, or the Hindu Holi festival in India. These religious people sure know how to party!

Was in Delhi for Holi the year before last. Had to go to the airport in among the celebrations and the taxi was absolutely covered in bright paint b the time we got there. Incredible experience.

 

[JimJams]

Anyone ever celebrated the Buddhist festival Songkran in Thailand, or the Hindu Holi festival in India. These religious people sure know how to party!

Songkran is Thai new year not a Buddhist festival.

 

[Back in the DHSS]

Songkran is Thai new year not a Buddhist festival.

Really, the temples are always busy with water being sprinkled on Buddhist/Hindu deities and it's the Buddhist calendar new year.

 

[HertsWolf]

Considered starting a new thread on Christmas but on reflection reckoned there's a couple of reasons for posting here.
A survey of 1,000 children (5-12yo) last year, commissioned by Brent Cross, discovered that:

20% believed Jesus Christ played for Chelsea and 35% thought Jesus was born at the South Pole.
25% thought the shepherds used Google Maps to find Jesus. 15% claimed the Three Kings gave Jesus a wand, tiara, and wings as gifts. One child in ten thought Rudolph was present in the stable.

This suggests that religious education may not be as pervasive as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris might imagine.

 

[JimJams]

Or that kids are thick as fuck.

 

[Christian Slater]

And the questions posed to them are heavily suggested. I mean, 'played for Chelsea' and the 'wand' answers seem awfully specific. A push poll for children.

 

[HertsWolf]

And the questions posed to them are heavily suggested. I mean, 'played for Chelsea' and the 'wand' answers seem awfully specific. A push poll for children.

My guess is that it was multiple choice and that 5-12yo's (just occasionally) don't take things seriously. Still funny though.

 

[silkyman]

Everyone knows Jesus plays for City.

 

[JimJams]

 

[HertsWolf]

Which reminds me that "Jesus loves you" is always better heard in church than in a Mexican prison.

 

[silkyman]

An interesting look at some of the attitudes. It's a group of full-on creationists, basically being driven around the US and talking to - and very much NOT listening to - some scientists. ('Science doesn't know anything' and a great bit of using a dictionary definition of a word to show that science is fake, or something.?)

Total 'fingers in ears' stuff from them at times, and one pretty much goes full Homer Simpson by essentially saying 'Facts are meaningless... You can use them to prove anything that's even remotely true' after talking to the guy who said that Noah's Ark couldn't have happened because no one (else) in recorded history has been able to build a wooden boat of that size.

Also interesting to see the Tea Party lot's attitudes towards atheists, and bringing out the old 'can't have morality' stuff.

I'm only halfway through rewatching it, but for people who are not Young Earthers, it gives an insight into atheist views. 'How can you actually believe that... It makes no sense.'

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

everyone should go to the world famous creationist museum in northern kentucky if u get a chance. there are posters of dinos being washed away in the flood in there

 

[Stagat]

Dinosaurs never existed.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

i respect your opinion but you're objectively wrong and your beliefs are harmful and u are a twat, i hope u enjoy the bexhill re-education camp

 

[silkyman]

Another memorable bit, at the Grand Canyon.

'Water doesn't act like that... It's basic physics.'

'Perhaps God changed it for that bit'

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

without religion we wouldn't have the song tears in heaven

 

[Stevencc]

What a wonderful world that would be.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

it's about his dead son don't disrespect his memory

 

[smat]

Clapton went to my secondary school (for a bit).

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

wow great alumni that school has

 

[Stevencc]

it's about his dead son don't disrespect his memory

He disrespcted the memory of his own son by pronouncing heaven as "heavon" imvho.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

philistine

 

[mnb089mnb]

philistine

And you wouldn't be able to call stevencc a philistine if it weren't for the bible, so the joke is on stevencc.

 

[Stevencc]

I've been made a complete fool of.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

and i wouldn't be able to call u a 'c***' were it not for the incan tribe of 'cuntinsuyu' unifying with the christian incan kingdom of 'kinsantinsuyu', and converting their name to the latin alphabet u c***

 

[silkyman]

Shame it wasn't Thursday.

 

[silkyman]

I've watched the second half of that documentary now, and it's interesting that a couple of them seem to have had it hit home that there is all this evidence and science that says that the 'Young Earth' idea is simply not viable, and were questioning that particular area of their beliefs, but one of them, one of the lads, went through it all and decided 'No. I didn't really buy that, but now, yeah.... Earth is 6000 years old and Genesis is a literal description of the creation of the universe'.

I'm watching a debate between Dawkins and a Creationist now. The evolution of the eye seems to be a sticking point. The guy can't get his head around it, mainly because he doesn't think that there is enough time for it to have happened (In 6000 years, obviously) but that also has no problem with the entire diversity of life on Earth being able to descend from the 16,000 animals on the Ark.

His 'evidence' against science, however, appears to be batshit insane to me. Which is probably what he thinks about the whole 'eye' thing.

But then he does also say 'how did the ability to go to the toilet evolve. Could we just not do It for millions of years and then grow the right organs' So he might actually be insane.

 

[Womble98]

#notallmuslimsjustaslightlylargernumberthaneveryoneelsehadbeensayingforalltheseyearswhowanttheuktogotohell


I find it disgusting that we turn a blind eye and accept groups who chant "British police burn in hell".

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

what would u like us to do