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Originally posted by GT40FIED
Well...I think that's a bit of a oversimplification. Lots of people who devote themselves to christianity are looked highly up by members of their community. Shit...look at the pope (a.k.a. Captain Popetastic). Millions upon millions of people worldwide look to him for guidance and whatnot. If you want proof, look no farther than devout roman catholics in Africa. They're dying in record numbers from AIDS, yet they still won't wear condoms because the pope doesn't think it's ok. I think organized religion in it's entirety is a sham...a lot like Kierkergaard. I don't think that a god lives in a statue or a symbol or a building, rather that it lives in those who believe. I happen to find the tenants of catholicism (and some other sects of christianity) utterly ridiculous...but that's not to say it's ALL crap. There's a lot of life lessons that, if one has the rationality to see the subtext rather than being a blind sycophant, people could learn something from. Then again...I'm also more prone to believing in things that are tangiable and proveable.

See I understand what your saying GT..and I truely respect your decision/opinion. I just find it funny that someone makes a comment about religion here and there..and people jump down his throat without providing a reasonable explination to why they don't believe or why they are doing that. And I you have a point on the oversimplification of things. All my friends say shit all the time "oh stupid christian's" and i've read shit like that on here also...and In my opinion...tha'ts oversimplifying things also. It goes both ways I understand...I dunno...just in one of those moods i guess.