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  1. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    The Old Testament has been translated from Hebrew to Ancient Greek to Latin to whatever language you are now reading it in. The New Testament has been translated from Ancient Greek to Latin to whatever language you are now reading it in. I think you can see where mistranslations can come from.
  2. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    I know about the Roman Catholic Church because I was raised Catholic. I was refering to the American Consel of Bishops more specficly. We just had a big blow up over here because the new health care law states that all employers' health plans must include contraceptives and the bishops headed a...
  3. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    @ Music Dragon: The American Catholic Church is extremely conservative, even for the church.
  4. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Why would the trinity (a Christian symbol) be in Genesis (a Jewish religious text)?
  5. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Why do so many cultures have deities? Because the first one did.
  6. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    What your thinking of when you hear "theory" is a hypothesis. This the definition of a scientific theory according to Wikipedia: Evolution is often mistaken for "just a theory". It is, in fact, easily observed. Genetically test a culture of bacteria for a few days. I promise you that there...
  7. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Actually, in the American South the phrase "What's your name?" is commonly followed by "What church do you go to?" Still, that's considered polite in the South, so you can't always predict beliefs based off of that.
  8. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    I will point out that even the Vatican recognizes evolution. It's mostly American Fundies and non-denominationals that are bad about it from Christianity's side. Keep in mind that, like every other group, most religious people are perfectly nice people who feel that religion had honestly helped...
  9. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Besides, it's still a story, and that is what was mentioned. It might not have a central book, but it does have stories.
  10. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Exactly. My split was clean too; I hold no ill will against religion. When people and organizations do dumb shit and then claim it was for their religion, don't blame the religion (because most of the time they're using things that aren't even in their religious text), blame the people who do it.
  11. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    And do you now what we atheists call those people? Assholes. We're not all snarky bastards, dedicated to laughing at those stupid theists. Some of us just want to be left alone, and thus leave other alone.
  12. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    You guys must have bad priests or something; I'm an atheist and I love my mom's priest. Of course, that church is so open that at midnight mass Christmas Eve, they had some gay couples.
  13. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    You can just ask your priest to take you off the register, for starters. And I believe you're only on it after your Confirmation. Don't quote me on the last part, though.
  14. hopeandjoy

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    That movie is so creepy. Like... I'm only in the first 13 minutes and even since that women came on my face has been stuck in a permanent "D=" face. And now they started talking about science. I... I'm going to need a moment here.
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