The Austin said:
Billion Backs said:
The Austin said:
Billion Backs said:
The Austin said:
Thanks for ruining the concept of "Religion" WBC.
Dicks.
Because they are the ones who ruined it. Look at the history.
Please, PLEASE, don't start this with me.
You're the one who started it. I have merely corrected it.
A bunch of idiots protesting and saying fairly hilarious things compared to self-proclaimed religions of peace and not being dicks to your neighbors attacking and killing gays, scientists, grabbing money, and all that. Look at a good portion of the past 2000 years. And even before that, because other religions aren't generally all that better in some respects.
Yeah. Clearly, the former is the most vile thing that hath ever tarnished the pure concept of religion!
Jesus Christ, you had to start it didn't you.
YOU had to start it, because I didn't do anything. I just made a post, and you had to come in with your "anti-religion" guns a' blazing.
You know what? I'm done. I'm not willing to start a big argument with you about how religion is good or how it's bad, about how you need to back off or about how I'm an ignorant jackass, blah, blah, blah.
I'm going to stop this shit before it begins.
Good day sir.
I fail to see how my comment was at all anti-religious. Unless anyone actually agrees that discrimination and violence should be important parts of religions that market themselves as religion of peace, I don't see how my first post was at all offensive.
Thanks for digging through my profile, though. My ideological or political views are of little concern here. Your original comment was "incorrect", because you implied that a bunch of dickheads with placards "protesting" and to some extent perhaps abusing their right of free speech are ruining the concept of religion. I've got nothing against the concept of religion as a uniting force - well, I do have SOME problems but as long as said religion doesn't try to become the government or infiltrate the public education, I'm cool with it.
However, simply sweeping all the other atrocities people committed in the name of their religions, things that often go against the core rules of said religions, under the carpet just makes you look like an asshole. A bunch of idiots with slightly offensive - and funny, in a fucked up way, slogans and placards are nothing in comparison to centuries of discrimination and violence against, well, pretty much anyone. Women, gays, atheists, other theists, and so on.
So, no, WBC did not "ruin the concept of religion", if you assume religion to be some kind of a positive force which it very much can be. To say that they ruined the concept of religion would be to turn a blind eye on all the atrocities committed in the past centuries by practically everyone. Hell, even the atrocities committed fairly recently. No offensive slogan equates to loss of life.
So, I am merely providing a correction for your ignorant statement. By no means I'm attacking religion in this post, I am merely going over very real atrocities committed under the guise of religion over much of our history and comparing them to, well, a bunch of dicks protesting with mildly offensive slogans.