GOD loves the CITY (5 Viewers)
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skybluelee
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Is the op a joke, i can't work it out?
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
I find religion offensive. I was dragged up by nuns and priests in a 1950's convent. I had religion forced upon me from the age of 5, I was made to learn Latin at the same age. If I didn't get the language right, I was beaten with a 4" wide leather belt. I had to go to mass every other morning, and every evening after a crap meal, it was either an hour of rosary or benediction in the convent church. I've written a book on this.
Religion? Forget it!
TheRoyalScam
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Hi Japandy, hope you're well. Have you tried this test: http://humanism.org.uk/humanism/are-you-a-humanist/? Wonder what score SBTers get too....
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
Just done that quiz Royal S. Seems I'm an agnostic! 
TheRoyalScam
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Out of interest, what % did you get? (You don't have to reply - I know it's quite a personal 'quiz'!)
deanocity3
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God was a woman,
her real name was Godiva
her mates called her God
her real name was Godiva
her mates called her God
Harry Krishner
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Good man Andy.
A lot of people on here confusing God with religion.
A lot of people on here confusing God with religion.
SkyBlueCharlie
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Just tried that and I'm 86% humanist, is the other 14% alienist?
Hhhhmmm I was 86% aswell.
TheRoyalScam
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Just tried that and I'm 86% humanist, is the other 14% alienist?
Can you guys remember what message you were given at the end? Mine was:
'Wow, you are a definitely a humanist. Many people are, often without even knowing it!'
Nonleagueherewecome
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ashbyjan
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So £60m in debt, in administration, in the 1st Division, just been deducted 10 points scuppering any hopes of promotion and still got David Bell for another 2 seasons - if this is God showing his love lets be thankful we haven't pissed the Big Man off or things could get bad for us!
TheRoyalScam
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Question for 'believers': Why is 'god' always male?
Sky Blue Pete
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He's not royal scam!! As a Christian I think to give god a personhood is unhelpful
Nonleagueherewecome
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I have to say the only scam here is that survey! As ever, the answer you get depends on the question you ask. And for over half of those questions, my answer wasn't there, meaning you find yourself choosing the one they want you to to avoid the "complete bastard/nut-case" options!
Organised religion is bad; organised middle class hippy wank trying hard to not to be religion is every bit as bad IMO.
Organised religion is bad; organised middle class hippy wank trying hard to not to be religion is every bit as bad IMO.
TheRoyalScam
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So which answers were "complete bastard/nut-case" from your point of view?
And I'd be interested to see your own answers to the questions.
With only 4 available answers I agree with you that it is a very basic 'survey' - it's just the BHA trying to provoking discussion and debate on individuals' philosophies.
Nonleagueherewecome
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I can't be bothered to go back onto it, but stuff like the one about laws, "I do what I want", or the one which alluded to the meaning of life being to get as much money as possible...that sort.
Nonleagueherewecome
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Essentially, I see the whole humanist movement as a bit of a "ohh, we hate religion, but we want religion in our lives after all, only in a smug and pretentious way". I dunno, just watch the Peep Show episode about it, it says what I think in a much more entertaining way than my incoherent ramblings!
SkyBlueCharlie
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Personhood? What is that? More PC rubbish!
TheRoyalScam
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Only going on what people say or what I read, SBP!
Ashbyjan: 'The Big Fella'
The Lord's Prayer: 'Our Father....'
Sky Blue Pete: 'He's not....'
The Two Mormons who called chez Scam the other week: #1: 'I see him as a big old white man with a long beard....', #2: 'So do I....'
Nonleagueherewecome
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Has anyone seen the Matt Stone and Trey Parker thing on the Mormons yet?
Royal Scam the recent BBC4 series on the history of early Christian art was fantastic, quite revealing...so much of the imagery around Christianity is very much added on later and bares little resemblance to the characters portrayed in the Bible.
Royal Scam the recent BBC4 series on the history of early Christian art was fantastic, quite revealing...so much of the imagery around Christianity is very much added on later and bares little resemblance to the characters portrayed in the Bible.
Nonleagueherewecome
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God's Manhood: good name for a bad Christian Metal band.
TheRoyalScam
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You're quite wrong I'm afraid - humanists don't 'hate religion' or 'want religion in our lives after all'.
Let me quote Arthur C. Clarke: "One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion."
I like Peep Show but unfortunately haven't seen the one concerning Humanism.
TheRoyalScam
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100% yes, ajsccfc - Easter has always been a secular festival, just like Yule - both of them hijacked by religion.
Nonleagueherewecome
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Of course humanists wouldn't say that; it's my analysis and opinion of them. Just can just live your life and do the right thing, you don't need a load of pretentious baggage to justify it.
Nonleagueherewecome
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Does secular mean the same thing as pagan? Lord, where are you, that's probably your area!
TheRoyalScam
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'...live your life and do the right thing, you don't need a load of pretentious baggage to justify it...'
It could be argued that humanists do precisely that: do the right thing without the baggage of religion.
What's 'pretentious' about Humanism?
It could be argued that humanists do precisely that: do the right thing without the baggage of religion.
What's 'pretentious' about Humanism?
Sky Blue Pete
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No god as a human concept is unhelpful wasn't using pc nonsense!!
I know us Christians believe Jesus was god in human form but god is not a human being
Sky Blue Pete
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Made me smile!!
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
Jesus was just a religious prophet like John the Baptist or any other. His so called "disciples" made him out to be "god"!
TheRoyalScam
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'secular': not having any connection with religion
'pagan': belonging to a religion that worships many gods, especially one which existed before the main world religions
'pagan': belonging to a religion that worships many gods, especially one which existed before the main world religions