15-year-old gets raped. 15-year-old is forced to apologize to her church for it. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Comrade General;22459460]I have lost all hope in a god thanks to this kind of shit. I was sort of in the sliding scale of Agnostic/Atheist But now i'm sliding on down into Atheism.[/QUOTE] Welcome to the dark side! :twisted::fh:

[QUOTE=Vinze;22459490]Welcome to the dark side! :twisted::fh:[/QUOTE] Take a look around you, At the world we've come to know. Does it seem much more, Than a crazy circus show? ..But maybe from the madness.. Something beautiful can grow..

And the Pope wonders why people are protesting the Vatican and complaining of Priest on child abuse. Fucking ignorant.

[QUOTE=Comrade General;22459584]Take a look around you, At the world we've come to know. Does it seem much more, Than a crazy circus show? ..But maybe from the madness.. Something beautiful can grow..[/QUOTE] Fine, be a bitch. Just because global religion is at it's final stroke in trying to reform the world into going back to the Dark Ages, and fail at it, does not mean we're in any way going backwards, right now the world is evolving, human rights are starting to grow, people are trying to fight the outdated system of conservatives and other political plagues. We're far from at a bad place, we're just busy re-arranging everything right now.

The world is going backwards fyi. I'm not saying religion is good. But humanity is on a one-track to the apocalypse now.

[QUOTE=Comrade General;22459460]I have lost all hope in a god thanks to this kind of shit. I was sort of in the sliding scale of Agnostic/Atheist But now i'm sliding on down into Atheism. [editline]09:33AM[/editline] I mean, if there is a god he's probably gone off to make penis creatures like Spore or something.[/QUOTE] Goddammit, people don't get what agnostic means. Gnostic = believes that it's possible to know for sure the existence of a god Agnostic = believes there's no way to know for sure if a god exists

[QUOTE=CivilProtection;22387555]This is the actions of one extremist sect, not the whole religion. All you idiots saying "fucking religion" is just like saying all of Islam is barbaric because of the 9/11 attacks. I'm sure all of you would berate someone who said that.[/QUOTE] Even before 9/11, Islam is like the Dark Ages compared to most religions of today. For instance: It states that anyone caught stealing should have their proficient hand cut off, and also that (for males) cheating on your with anyone who isn't Islamic isn't adultery, but for women, this isn't the case.

[QUOTE=Comrade General;22459755]The world is going backwards fyi. I'm not saying religion is good. But humanity is on a one-track to the apocalypse now.[/QUOTE] No it's FUCKING NOT. Shit like this happened since the age of man. Just now we got news and so we hear a lot of shit, but rapings of kids, stoning, murdering has been happening since forever. If anything, we are going forwards.

[QUOTE=johanz;22462052]No it's FUCKING NOT. Shit like this happened since the age of man. Just now we got news and so we hear a lot of shit, but rapings of kids, stoning, murdering has been happening since forever. If anything, we are going forwards.[/QUOTE] I mean in the fact we're just degenerating into more and more murder.

What? That's hilarious. Hundreds of people die every hour now. There was substantially less deaths in the 1800s.

[QUOTE=Comrade General;22462835]I mean in the fact we're just degenerating into more and more murder.[/QUOTE] No we're not. Murder was everyday activity in middle ages. Now it's pretty illegal. Are you 12 or what? [editline]03:41PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Comrade General;22463193]What? That's hilarious. Hundreds of people die every hour now. There was substantially less deaths in the 1800s.[/QUOTE] And hundreds are born, what's your point?

[QUOTE=johanz;22463238]No we're not. Murder was everyday activity in middle ages.[/QUOTE] :downs:

[QUOTE=sphynx;22464815]:downs:[/QUOTE] Like it wasn't? Executions, stoning and all that for stupid shit like witchcraft or not being a sheep.

[QUOTE=Jenkem;22397171]Two comments. One, I don't know any Christian who thinks it's her fault or would try to force her to confess. Secondly, the Old Testament actually has a provision for rape...the victim is supposed to be pitied in that case. Shows how much those guys knew.[/QUOTE] lol, what bible are you reading? [editline]06:50AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Jenkem;22417261]Let's see some proof that anything was actually changed. The Epic of Gilgamesh, as far as I know, hasn't been edited, and that's one old story, too. And I don't understand why people rob themselves of any hope or anything to look forward to whatsoever. If I didn't know better, I'd say atheists were also a variant of masochist.[/QUOTE] "I don't think we're for anything, we're just products of evolution. You can say 'Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose' but I'm anticipating a good lunch."

You are generalizing religion way too much. Bad things happen outside religion too, but do you blame atheism? Of couse religion often relates to the incidents unlike atheism, but it's not the religion's fault. There's always an abusing individual behind the incident. You (referring to the majority of FP) aknowledge ignorance as a bad thing, but you also practice it.

If the founding document is bad, then fuck, the religion is bad

[QUOTE=The golden;22394805]Religion: Keep the world stuck in the dark ages.[/QUOTE] How does it do that exactly?

[QUOTE=lulzbocks;22566939]How does it do that exactly?[/QUOTE] Did you fucking read the thread?

[QUOTE=Warhol;22567474]Did you fucking read the thread?[/QUOTE] I did, and I don't see how religion had anything to do with this.

[QUOTE=lulzbocks;22567873]I did, and I don't see how religion had anything to do with this.[/QUOTE] since you're new to this whole religion thing, read up on it [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church[/url]

I was immensely surprised the Westboro Baptist Church didn't have their slimy claws in this case.

[release]She says her New Hampshire pastor, Chuck Phelps, told her she was lucky not to have been born during Old Testament times when she would have been stoned to death.[/release] Oh god, hahaha. Facepalm.

I hate religion.