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02/19/09
what do we mean by that?
eager to see the film!
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Although the whole atheist vs. religious authority is completely unnecessary. Seriously, they could have gone with any other other concept, and yet they choose this one. Sure, it worked in "V for Vendetta", and I didn't mind that, because it wasn't as blatant. But they make it a little more obvious from the statement above. Why?
It just bothers me.
p.s.-- And please don't just dismiss my comment because of the statement I made. I hate it when people get shut down just for defending and stating their beliefs. Although, many of them get shut down just because they're complete morons who like to start argmuents with other people.
But I'm not one of those people; I'm just stating my opinion, that's all. I don't want to start a fight. I try to avoid conflict as much as possible.
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I'm willing to venture that you're not a practicing member of any faith, or if you were, you're not anymore.
In any case, you obviously don't know that churches and faiths are peopled with individuals and not just sheep that attack any opponent to their belief system. Sure, there are thousands of churches just like that all over the world, where anyone who questions the teachings of the institution is shunned by the other members who don't know enough of their own faith's doctrines to form their own opinions, but there are also vast numbers of informed people out there within the various systems of faith that take stands and stick up for themselves; of course they wouldn't be widely known about, since at that point they either leave their group in search of other informed members of their faiths, or they become leaders in their own right of their own groups.
To say "there's not many of them" is uninformed and ignorant; even if you somehow could back that statement up with any sort of statistic, it would still be wrong, because most people aren't as stupid as they let on to be, but fear of going against the crowd does amazing things to a person's psyche.
Your hypothesis is flawed and your statements are inflammatory; if you can't say something without making broad, sweeping generalizations and presuming to speak for other people (which is just pompous) then it's best if you just shut your mouth altogether.
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i was born and raised conservative christian by conservative christians that included the portion of the bible which dictates that christian moral values only apply to other christians. that non-believers should not be expected to live up to or judge for not following the christian faith. that doing so was counter productive to the true meaning of christianity, to be christ like.
while i am not current a believer or practice of any religion i am not without an background in this subject. it is, in fact, my background that so readily leads me to mock so called 'conservative christians' moral/political agendas when it is so obvious to anyone who studied christ that institutionalizing christian moral values was not his way.
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"when you're a whig, you're a whig all the way
from your first state house seat to your last dyin' day!"
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I like a good debate as much as the next girl, but you guys are jumping the gun here.
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I wanted her to have a breakaway cape, precisely to trick thugs into trying to grab it. AHAH!
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Actually, that implies the film makes it out in the US at all, and somebody explains the plot to them... since all I'm getting from that trailer is "confusing dystopian future where everybody dresses like that one guy from 'Starman.'"
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Everything has already been done, finding a truly original idea these days is really hard. Every movie or show or idea, is just mixture of old concepts with different themes.
Heroes is X-men
Fringe is The X-Files
Neil Gaiman is always original
Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy of somthing.
Yet as an idea travels down the line, it them becomes something that is its own, and becomes something trully different, and fresh.
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LOL.
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organized religions are the worst
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there comes a point in every person's life where they question their belief system and choose a different path
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How many people beliving the same thing does it take to become a religion?
It is always interesting to see what kind of arguments people come up with when saying, with any sort of definitivness, that their answer is right, and reject all other definiations. Religion is in and of itself un-definable, because as I see it, if you can randomly put ten people in a room and ask them to come to an agreement as to what constitutes religion, and they can't do it, I don't think there can ever be a accepted definition.
Sure, you can have working definitions, but I think that is about as far as one can go. So, an atheist is about the only person who can claim to not have a part of religion, as it is the distinct lack of belief that defines them.
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I think criteria #1 is probably that you have to believe in the existence of a spiritual power. If you don't, it's not a religion. It's just a "personal philosophy".