All in all though it makes me very glad to see we are finally growing as a species and in just 100 years we’ll be pretty much done with religion except for the occasional mentally deranged person.

The whole point of Bill’s movie was to point out that religion could do more harm than good, today. Otherwise religulous is pointless. I am not sure if Bill accomplished that. I didn’t learn anything from the movie other than he interviewed incoherent lost in translation edited mumbo jumbo… But I did LMAO.

Personally I believe the root of all problem is poverty, terrorism will occur whether in the name of god or not as long as there are inequities. Who benefits and who looses from terrorism? There is a reason why some men are rich and some poor, sometimes its good entrepreneurship, sometimes it’s sheer slavery.

It’s the fat cats that need to be scrutinized. If there is anything I know for certain is that there is no limit to human cruelty or greed. And when you do see these things sometimes all a man has left is his prayer.

Like the old priest said “We live and die with our stupid ideas.”

McWin, so much of what you wrote makes zero sense. In fact the majority of the entire paragraph is full of faulty conclusions reached through faulty logic and reasoning.

So you think because of the existence of evil and suffering in the world this leads someone to say to themselves “well there must not be a God after all because what kind of all-powerful omnipresent being would allow these things to exist if he had the power to end them whenever he wants”? A much simpler argument for atheism is that there are far too many religions who all basically believe they are right and all the others are wrong. In some cases the other “nonbelievers” are damned to hell for eternity.

An even simpler argument for atheism would be if God does in fact exist, prove it. For instance we know that gravity exists even though we can’t see or touch it. All religions were founded by man, and throughout history man has been corrupted by having power over his fellow men. Is there anyway to have greater power over a population of people than to have a “prophet” claim that the only way to “salvation” is to follow my teachings and you will have “everlasting life”?

All religions are more or less pretty ridiculous but the farther forward we move on the time line of the world, the more ridiculous the religions become. Joseph Smith was a criminal who was killed by a mob while in jail, but he was also apparently a “prophet” who spoke to God and founded Mormonism. His God even told him he could take many wives and that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri. Have you ever driven through Missouri? I have and paradise on Earth isn’t exactly what comes to mind. Mormons also believe that their special temple garments protect them from knives and fire amongst other things. I really hope that Mitt Romney or any other Mormon never holds a high public office again because if he truly believes in the tenets of Mormonism than his ability to use logic and reasoning can’t be trusted.

L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer who wrote many fantastic tales about aliens and spacecraft. He too was also apparently a “prophet” who founded Scientology. The tenets of Scientology are based on his book “Dianetics”, which suspiciously reads exactly like “Battlefield Earth” and other sci-fi works of his. Maybe Stephen King and John Grisham are also prophets who will be starting religions in the near future.

You also state that because we have moral laws this proves the existence of God? So just because society is organized and not complete anarchy then there must be a God? Humans couldn’t have learned to live side-by-side in relative peace without the existence of a supreme being who they must be trying to emulate?

Religulous is a great documentary that everyone should see. The sad thing is that people who have “faith” already have their minds made up and they just don’t have the strength or ability to question the silly stories that have been fed to them for their entire lives.

In reality it is much easier to have “faith” and not ask questions than it is to believe that this life is all there is and question the silly stories that have been told for the past 4,000 years. This is why there are many people on the planet today who actually think that the Earth, and therefore existence, is only 7,000 or so years old. These same people assert that dinosaurs and man coexisted for a time until Noah’s flood.

I was raised Catholic and I went to a Catholic grade school through eighth grade. As a result I didn’t have a real science class until high school because we had an hour of religion everyday for 8 years. I started to realize it was all bullshit by the time I turned 15.

In closing, one of my favorite scenes from Religulous is where Bill Maher and the director Larry Charles are talking about how many people go through the motions of a religion simply for the chance at an afterlife. Bill Maher says something to the effect that these people have the attitude of “You can’t get saved if you don’t play”!
Just like the lottery…

Again you proved Inconsequentials point, the response to the posting made by Inconsequential was standard for you, switching attention from yourself and directing it at me by using McWin as a scapegoat! Lets be frank here – my posting was designed to create a bit of a stir, which of course it did.

Inconsequential glad you enjoyed the pre-bed time reading, It was entertaining and as such I’m thinking of creating a ‘Stevebets’ fanbase website. which I’m confident would receive more hits than Roberto Duran (google him Papa).

Steve – why is it you use ’selective choice’ on which of my postings to display, once before, I remarked on how you tend to make postings on how you believe the world should revovle, only for it to be omitted, please! that was an accurate take on you, which is possibly why you didn’t post eh?

Greatful for your response – Steve.