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[915buck]

With boobs like that she is my God!!!

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

@anthonywilliams999

I agree entirely, it's just that at this moment in time, most Christian's are cafeteria cherry-pickers which makes them less of a threat than Muslims are. Where as there are millions of Muslims who take every word of the Koran as cannon, so they'll kill every infidel if they could because of that. The fact that they'll even die for it makes it all the more scary, since you can't reason with this type of crazy

[TheApatheistic1]

Agreed

[ElDuorPaso]

I came here for the tits.

[armanduk2010]

wtf is wrong with you lmao

[iridescentsquids]

@AtheismKills I've found Father George Coyne's take on faith interesting. Are you familiar with his general view of science and faith?

I would go further than simply saying that "balance" is needed. I prefer some kind of "co-existence". I don't think reason should ever be compromised in any way to preserve faith. I don't see how faith can ever be a counterweight to reason. If faith is going to exist, it should never be an insulator from ever-present reason and demonstrable evidence.

[ForceRecon198]

@LadyAmaltheaUnicorn I feel that Islam is only more dangerous than other religions because it has several countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan by the balls. It no doubt used to be the same way with Christianity in Europe but Christianity had a 600 year head start. Islamic beliefs are essentially the same beliefs as Christianity and Judaism. All stupid, but the same. You get your crazies, a few sane people. It just matters who has the reigns in that time and place.

[AtheismKills]

@iridescentsquids I'd pretty much agree with you. I love science and a reason and always try balance my faith with both of them. In particular I don't believe in blindly following any religious leaders. All leaders or preachers, whether religious or secular, should critically examined and held accountable. That said, even the last Pope said that faith should always be balanced with reason and that the two were like the two wings of a bird. Both needed to be used together.

[iridescentsquids]

@AtheismKills (continued #2)

But don't get me wrong. I understand that faith is encouraged in many religions in ways that frequently don't encourage conflict, let alone violence.

How to differentiate between good and bad faith is extremely tricky, and perhaps more at the heart of the problem. I have only heard one (tenuous and rare) definition of faith that doesn't involve arbitrarily limiting the powers of reason or undermining the importance of demonstrable evidence when making decisions.

[iridescentsquids]

@AtheismKills (continued)

but I do agree, not ALL belief in God.

I think the sentiment (often poorly expressed or over simplified) is that no good comes from faith-based belief or subscription to any ideology. What happens too often is that people who are upset about this distancing from rational action assume that religion in general is the culprit in that it encourages faith in place of reason/evidence.

Personally I think faith-based religion should take it's share of blame, but not all.

[iridescentsquids]

@AtheismKills " I reject the utterly insane idea that ALL religion or ALL belief in God is to blame."

All religion? Of course not.

But your same argument applies just as well to politics. Politics is everywhere, but can't take the blame by default.

As you know, politics and religion are very often intertwined. Beliefs and ideologies, whether political or religious, inform people's actions. Faith in a particular religious ideology played a huge role in informing the terrorists' actions.

[AtheismKills]

@iridescentsquids I'm not denying that religion played a role. I reject the utterly insane idea that ALL religion or ALL belief in God is to blame. The 9/11 hijackers had two legs so someone should do a video blaming people with two legs. The hijackers were Muslim, all the others in the video are Christian. Most Muslims reject the terrorists. I believe in God as much or more than the hijackers but would never dream of harming anyone. 9/11 was carried out for political reasons