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[bionic77]

Does anyone know what percentage of Americans regularly go to church,temple, etc.?

I was under the impression that not even 50% of Americans attend their religious services on a regular basis anymore. Am I just totally off?

 

[Fix]

If it wasn't God it would be Justice, Freedom, Country, whatever! It's always the same.

But it's not those things. It's Divine Justice, God-given Freedom, and a Country built successful and prosperous under the constant watch of the Almighty. People think they have a right to go to war to defend or proliferate these ideas because of where they believe the ideas came from. It's the same thing that allows them to belittle their adversaries into godless animals beneath the very tenents of their own beliefs and slaughter them in the better hope of living in eternal bliss once their meat-puppet kicks the bucket.

If you ask me, it's difficult to boil any conflict between people down to an argument other than whether we do or do not have a soul. Were it not for that unanswerable problem, we'd have a lot less of this wavering and shooting. And where does that argument come from?

Rhetorical bullshit, sorry. Most wars in recent memory have been started for socioeconomic reasons that anything else and the assholes at the top USE religion to get the people to go along with it.

I don't see how what you're saying is any different than what I'm saying. The people empower the leaders by following religious beliefs, if not religious doctorine. If the leaders didn't have the **HIGHER POWER** to call upon to sell an otherwise unpopular action, the people (particularly in a democratic society where, ideally, the leader is born no better than the rest) don't see that leader as being any more qualified (etherially) to fight that war. But it's not the leader that wields that power. It's the churches that put the idea of the power into their heads and then the people themselves who corrupt that idea into a cause to blow people up. The leaders are just there to remind them and then apply the ideas to some nationalistic purpose.

 

[MetalAlien]

As opposed to jackasses like yourself who add half truths and bullshit while contributing nothing but assinine rhetoric to a thread? Whatever :rolleyes.

Half truths my ass.. You haven't posted one damn thing that was any better than any of us posted.. Get off your high horse, you're an idiot like the rest of us... you post on GAF... live with it...

LOL@Phoenix

jackass

 

[Boogie]

Half truths my ass.. You haven't posted one damn thing that was any better than any of us posted.. Get off your high horse, you're an idiot like the rest of us... you post on GAF... live with it...

LOL@Phoenix

jackass

Ah, a well-reasoned rebuttal.

 

[MetalAlien]

Ah, a well-reasoned rebuttal.

Yea that was the last page, this page it's cold hard truth.

 

[Boogie]

Yea that was the last page, this page it's cold hard truth.

He's contributed far more than you have. And he usually backs up his talk, while you've done a pretty weak job in this thread.

 

[Monk]

You guys seem to be trying to argue that wars wouldn't exist if it wasn't for religion. You guys are stupid fucking idiots if you think that.

 

[MetalAlien]

He's contributed far more than you have. And he usually backs up his talk, while you've done a pretty weak job in this thread.

1st, he didn't have a counter point. He flat out disagreed. When I challenged him he still didn't have a counter point. He cited single events in sceince where they acted closed minded, which I stated was expected. He ignored that part.

2nd, no where in my profile do I promise to never get pissed, I didn't like his additude so I had one too.

3rd he's wrong, I'm right. The great part being it's GAF, who cares.

 

[Boogie]

1st, he didn't have a counter point. He flat out disagreed. When I challenged him he still didn't have a counter point. He cited single events in sceince where they acted closed minded, which I stated was expected. He ignored that part.

Citing examples is better than simply asserting that you are right.

...

3rd he's wrong, I'm right. The great part being it's GAF, who cares.

like here, for example.

 

[MetalAlien]

Citing examples is better than simply asserting that you are right.
like here, for example.

What are you his lawyer? Am I in some sort of legal trouble?

GREAT, I was having a useless argument with Pheonix, now I'm having an even more useless arguement with you!

His examples were crap.. they didn't rebut anything I posted...

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

You know, despite the fear that we have of the nuclear bomb... it has been relatively effective in its task, preventing large scale, world war type wars from breaking out. Of course, if a large scale war does break out, then the nuclear bomb will be pretty apt at making sure the casualties are the best ever!

That's true, but like you said, the potential for disaster is far greater than any other weapon around. It's the future I'm primarily worried about. As more and more people get their hands on more advanced technology, nuclear weapons will proliferate.

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Does anyone know what percentage of Americans regularly go to church,temple, etc.?

I was under the impression that not even 50% of Americans attend their religious services on a regular basis anymore. Am I just totally off?

I heard recently that 60% of Americans went to church on a regular basis versus 40% of Canadians. I could be way off, though.

 

[Vinzer Deling]

they didn't rebut anything I posted...

Actually they did but you got your head shoved so far up your own ass you don't see it.

 

[MetalAlien]

Actually they did but you got your head shoved so far up your own ass you don't see it.

Yea maybe, but what are you doing up there too?