Religion

Fucking Asians. That's further than I've ever gotten.

dis nigga!!

why

Who said anything about changing your mind

Story time! Note before reading, or even if you don't read this at all, that I don't judge everyone who calls themselves religious. Just a few, certain groups.

I had the wonderful experience of growing up in a community absolutely filled with Mormons, and it's not a lot of fun once you're in about the sixth grade. It changes everything pretty drastically- There's suddenly loads of people who're willing to judge you for something you don't actually understand or care about. My mother, who raised me, was deeply religious at the time. (I talked with her through the years and she changed her mind.) So, I called myself a 'Baptist'. They made fun of me, threw rocks at my house, and wouldn't let me play in any of their reindeer games.

After all that traumatism, I started telling people I was Mormon, just as a lie. No one believed me, because I didn't go to the church. I told them it was a ten mile walk. They told me my soul should be worth a twenty mile walk. A bit after this, the internet (How I love it) taught me a fuck off attitude, so they picked on me decidedly less. I still didn't get to have a normal childhood, because of religion. I still lost one of my best friends to suicide, because of religion.

You'll understand why some of us are dis-inclined to appreciate the religious spectrum.

I feel sorry for you. But if it makes you feel better. I haven't had it easy either. Try having a drunk mom, divorced family, big bro drunk too, personal thing that has to do with my mom that I tell only for my closest friends (nothing abusive if you tought about that) . And bullied in school all the way from kindergarden till this day.
<----- Now something to block my horrible memories away.

I don't think he can... That's why they post religion things. Free thumbs.

yup because every religious person in the world was tied down and forced to listen to their holy book. and once they reached adulthood a gun was permanently placed against their head so that they could never change their belief. and there is NO possible chance that they chose to believe what makes sense to them of their own free will....thats just crazy talk

im Jewish.

I remind people that the whole no pork thing and no shellfish thing stemmed from the diseases that they carried. At the time, those rules save tons of people.
Now I don't see how they apply.

Concerning pork, there is another theory for its prohibition in ancient middle east: the diets of pigs and humans are very similar, so pigs would be direct competitors to humans for resources. In an environment where food resources are hard to come by, keeping pigs would have reduced your odds of survival significantly.

nobody in the history of judaism ever claimed those rules to be for the health of the people until the enlightment. there was no reason behind them in the first place or at least no reconstructable for us today. and there are so many other rules that don't make ANY sense. and many other people there ate pork and didn't suffer from massive losses of lifes

from wikipedia

Pork, usually if undercooked, is also known to carry some life-threatening diseases such as pork tapeworm and trichinosis. Scholars[citation needed] recently have suggested that some of the stigma placed on pork by Islam and Judaism might stem, in part, from ancient times when pork would be the carrier of disease.
The pig is the carrier of various helminths, such as roundworms, pinworms, hookworms, etc. One of the most dangerous and common is Taenia solium, a type of tapeworm. Tapeworms may transplant to the intestines of humans, as well, when they consume untreated or undercooked meat from pigs or other animals. If the infection is not treated, it can be fatal.

i didn't deny that it maybe gave the people there spme kind of advantage but i wouldn't think that this was the reason in the first place. especially we have NO texts that say so from antiquity

And just because we were founded on one does not mean we should blindly follow the same thought process as our forefathers had. We have developed enough to the point where we don't need religion to tell us right from wrong. We just need to take all the warning labels off and let natural selection go to work.

"I hate niggers" -Gandhi