@Snowy, he's aware of it and I already addressed the issue myself. Please don't mini-mod. If there's an issue with profanity, use the "Report" feature. Thank you.
Didn't see any modding done and I thought I'd give a friend a hand tell him to be more careful, but I'll take your word for it, thanks dude. =D
Ah, I didn't see that edit there until now X] Silly me, I withdraw my prior statement and apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused you, my action was taken with a good intention. :derpe:
I tolerate the religious because it serves my self-interest to do so. Staying sane in an insane world is hard enough. There's no point in getting bent out of shape over religious zealots or statists or whomever when there is no chance to change the narrative. I'll just keep my peace and raise my own children properly.
Well, I must say I agree with most things said here I consider myself religious. I believe certain things because I've thought about it, heard many different points of view, and eventually picked something that feels 'right'. I do believe in an universal life-force that could be called 'God'. Even thought there's never been anyone that told me I have to. I choose to believe, because I want it. Not because I have to, nor because I'm looking for an easy explanation for life and the universe. Other people may disagree with my resolutions, and I would love to hear why because they might actually be right. And that's what religion really is to me. An open-minded search for answers. Personally, I'm convinced every religion was essentially founded to bring people together, not to drive them apart. Before it became a tool for gaining political influence, justifying wars and justifying discrimination against groups people feel threatened by. Like homosexuals.
They're pretty much the same thing. One rug is just being swept under, the other is not. We'll get there, eventually. Then we'll have threads on the internet that are all like, "I grew up in a strictly statist household and my congressman abused me. I even took political science in college. I studied the sacred documents and ideas some more and I realized they were all nonsense. Now I'm an anarchist and my family has disowned me." Yeah, she was a bit nuts, and kind of a hypocrite. Brilliant nonetheless. It is harder than it looks, only because it is so easy to be unreasonable - to compromise with idiocy in exchange for supposed moral and intellectual superiority. It feels good and everyone will like you. But it's wrong. In this case it works out for me because I didn't manage to offend anyone. Most times it doesn't because people aren't honest with themselves and they throw a hissy fit when I don't tickle their plotholes.
That thing they say about broken clocks and their accuracy of displaying correct time on any given day... Yep. And Bastiat. And Hoppe. And Rothbard. And Hazlitt. I think you see where I'm going.
First it's religion. Then it's politics! This thread is getting REALLY interesting. ..........Where's my popcorn...
Read Bastiat's The Law before you do anything else, if you haven't already. Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed is an interesting economic look at the time preference incentives of public-owned government (Democracy) vs. private-owned government (Monarchy), and makes the case about how Monarchy is a superior form of government. Afterwards, he explains why it is still a terrible form of government and what the best alternatives are.
The hateful Christians are fake Christians. The judgemental Christians who think they are better than everyone else are fake Christians. God calls Christians to love EVERYONE. No matter what. Period. All those who claim to be Christian, and act like this ^ are real Christians. Don't be put off by the delusional ones because they're not representing us properly. Just if you guys didn't know. Because the true Christians are just as pissed off at the bad Christians as everyone else is.
I'm glad I chipped in my two cents already, might post something else here but not yet. I think I will play it safe and watch.
