Religion is overrated.....

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Fyodor Dostoevsky said:
That's not true. The majority of Christians in the Southern United States may believe this, but the majority in the rest of the world do not.
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I'm confused again, are you saying that that the majority of christians support the evolutionary theory?
 
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tigervol9802 said:
Im going to have to disagree with this.
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I do agree with the "southern United States part." Having lived in both Mississippi and Michigan, I've realized a lot of the Christians in Michigan are less, how do I say this, "brainwashed." In fact, every Christian I know personally in Michigan fully supports all scientific evidence. As Christians, they believe in God and Jesus of course, but they don't find everything in the Bible so literal.
 
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Rockytop1018 said:
I do agree with the "southern United States part." Having lived in both Mississippi and Michigan, I've realized a lot of the Christians in Michigan are less, how do I say this, "brainwashed." In fact, every Christian I know personally in Michigan fully supports all scientific evidence. As Christians, they believe in God and Jesus of course, but they don't find everything in the Bible so literal.
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I think the right word might be ignorant as they've never really thought about what they believe and just believe.

I will still disagree bc most christians I know don't fully support the full blown idea of evolution and I am friends with many from many places. My personal stance is that I've really quit caring about the debate as well as the age of the earth debate because we'ew focusing on the entirely wrong thing from genesis 1-3 when we incessantly debate about it.
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tigervol9802 said:
I think the right word might be ignorant as they've never really thought about what they believe and just believe.

I will still disagree bc most christians I know don't fully support the full blown idea of evolution and I am friends with many from many places. My personal stance is that I've really quit caring about the debate as well as the age of the earth debate because we'ew focusing on the entirely wrong thing from genesis 1-3 when we incessantly debate about it.
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That is true. I consider myself a Christian, but I very rarely went to church, so I grew up in school learning more about science than the simple "God did it." So I do consider myself a Christian, but I'm also in agreement with science. I don't literally believe EVERY word written in the Bible, so therefore, I personally don't see how science and religion have to collide so much. I guess it's different though if someone believes everything word for word. And as far as the age of the Earth being 6,000 years old, where does that come from? Is that from the "a day is like a thousand days to the Lord" passage?
 
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Rockytop1018 said:
That is true. I consider myself a Christian, but I very rarely went to church, so I grew up in school learning more about science than the simple "God did it." So I do consider myself a Christian, but I'm also in agreement with science. I don't literally believe EVERY word written in the Bible, so therefore, I personally don't see how science and religion have to collide so much. I guess it's different though if someone believes everything word for word. And as far as the age of the Earth being 6,000 years old, where does that come from? Is that from the "a day is like a thousand days to the Lord" passage?
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If you add the years in the genealogies from genesis plus rough estimates to the time frames we are fairly certain about you get roughly 6K.
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The vast majority of posters on this board are extremely conservative, so it's only logical to assume the people they know are like-minded. I, on the other hand, am a commie, liberal, socialist, so I know many more of my ilk. The majority are Christians. And I've lived in seven states in the past 15 years. I've always considered the quiet Christian majority to be much more enlightened than either the left or right portray them. I am solidly open-minded when it comes to others beliefs in God. All paths to God are right. Except the malicious, discriminatory or oppressive.
 
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Fyodor Dostoevsky said:
The vast majority of posters on this board are extremely conservative, so it's only logical to assume the people they know are like-minded. I, on the other hand, am a commie, liberal, socialist, so I know many more of my ilk. The majority are Christians. And I've lived in seven states in the past 15 years. I've always considered the quiet Christian majority to be much more enlightened than either the left or right portray them. I am solidly open-minded when it comes to others beliefs in God. All paths to God are right. Except the malicious, discriminatory or oppressive.
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My beliefs have evolved over the past few years to a similar place but would not say all paths are equal. I would say that I am in no way, shape or form in any position to condemn another for their beliefs. God works in many different ways and who am I to condemn another, I leave that for my maker to decide.
 
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IPorange said:
What's good for the "group" and "tribe" is generally what is "good." Don't murder. Don't rape. Don't steal. All these things cause society's order to break down. That's bad for the group. What's bad for the group is bad for the individual, as humans are basically social beings, needing at least small groups to survive and raise young.

I see no reason why all the world's people would be "given" a sense of morality by a particular small nomadic desert tribe's god.
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2 months late on the response, woot woot.

So by that theory, if the tribe were out of food and there was a thief living amongst them...would it be good for the tribe to kill and eat the thief? It gets rid of the thief and feeds the others.

PS - they are part of a primitive tribe and have no knowledge or beliefs in a superior being. What is right and wrong to them in that situation?
 
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Fyodor Dostoevsky said:
The vast majority of posters on this board are extremely conservative, so it's only logical to assume the people they know are like-minded. I, on the other hand, am a commie, liberal, socialist, so I know many more of my ilk. The majority are Christians. And I've lived in seven states in the past 15 years. I've always considered the quiet Christian majority to be much more enlightened than either the left or right portray them. I am solidly open-minded when it comes to others beliefs in God. All paths to God are right. Except the malicious, discriminatory or oppressive.
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This might be up there w one of the most arrogant posts I think I have ever read.
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