Brad Pitt Rocks!
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- 7point340
why are we as a people so concerned with the opinions of others?
- MarleyMarl0
gramme: do you have any friends who aren't raving loonie god lovers?
- Mimio0
It's not the law's responsibility to respect religious ideals. This is isn't Iran.
- ceiling_cat0
wen i created teh urth, i sed let me luk like bred pit
- BRNK0
The commonly accepted definition of a religious moderate in the atheist community is on the other end of the spectrum from a fundamentalist... a person who ignores large parts of their so-called holy text in order to rectify their religious beliefs and their modern lifestyle.
When someone says "Everyone can believe what they want to." They are giving intellectual shelter to religious extremists who act out some of the loonier, more violent things written in the world's various "holy texts". I believe this is an amoral idea to postulate.
We've decided as a society that certain types of beliefs and behavior are simply harmful to the world (since by definition a true belief necessarily dictates action), like believing that children are suitable sexual partners or that a certain race of person is inferior and needs to be eradicated. Why then can you hold other, possibly equally harmful beliefs, if you do so under the banner of religion? As an institution throughout history religion has done much harm and should not enjoy the untouchable status it currently has in our society. Certainly no other equally valuable and helpful social institution, such as politics, enjoys such a status.
I'm pretty sure that you'd have a hard time finding atheists that are against gay marriage because the corner stone of atheism is rational thought and science has proven that homosexuality is a natural state (there is a gay gene), not a choice. Therefore opposing gay marriage is a restriction of civil rights.
Sorry for being inflammatory in my original post. I enjoy level headed discussions of this sort.
- sea_sea0
i should have known.. i really don't have time for this do i?
*holds palm to head. (nothing against you gramme.)
- gramme0
MarleyMarl: yes, I do have non-Christian friends. I'm a graphic designer after all. Christians are in the minority in my circle of colleagues. I've always been a theological/religious outsider when working for other people. I'm fine with that. I actually get along pretty well with people of all sorts. I even have friends with whom I can have heated debates and never agree, but we somehow still manage to clink pint glasses at the end of it all.
- Coffeemaker0
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- ooops, sorry, wrong window/application...Coffeemaker
- Nice raggramme
- i just scratched my ass on that rag. what a relief..Coffeemaker
- itchiness abounds in the great outdoors.gramme
- Ooohhh..an old school catholic! The latin gave you away :)TheBlueOne
- yeah i always tend to write latin when i didn't get my meds in time...Coffeemaker
- fooler20
No Religion
Pro Pot
Pro gay marriagehe has my vote!
- mg330
Great interview; I do like seeing him talk with people and read interviews about him. He's really one of those stars that is 110% genuine and always seems to mean well.
- __TM0
good to know that Brad roles the best joints in Hollywood
- Tungsten0
He seems like a cool dude,
I would still never trust him to be alone with my girlfriend though, my apartment would be full of socially conscious babies with chiseled jawlines before I knew it.
- locustsloth0
"it's not my way or any other Christian's way; it's God's way. That's neither pretentious nor close-minded; it merely implies a source of faith which some possess and others do not."
That's a nice neat little sentence, that last one. Kinda reaches around and starts gobbling it's tail until *POP*.. it's as if it were never there
- It's not like it's an exclusive club man. The possession of faith is a matter of revelation, not intelligence or performance.gramme
- —Nor is the reasoning circular; you just don't like the fact that faith can't be empirically disected.gramme
- And that it can provide answers.gramme
- my point was that you begin by saying it's not pretentious and then end the sentence sounding pretentiouslocustsloth
- Ah, well that's what we call a matter of opinion.gramme
- ...and misunderstanding.gramme
- version30
he was on the floor.... not drunk mind you, but busy rolling the most beautiful joint i've ever seen.
-Maher on Pitt
- ukit0
Let's face it, it's easy to be handsome, nonchalant, socially conscious, and smoke weed all the time when you're rich.
- exactly, when I do it 'm considered a loser. minus the handsome partTungsten
- handsome maybe not so muchversion3
- he said, he didn't smoke anymore.akrokdesign
- version30
he owns these
- Coffeemaker0
some say religion is a genetical issue, you know, like albino's only less rare.
think of it of a disease. religious people have it, in the way gay people are sick, and negro's, jews etc.
- i didn't type that. evil demons take over after an aggressive wasp injected poison in me today..Coffeemaker
- Nobody says that.gramme
- i just wanted to end this thread with a comment that just doesn't make sense..Coffeemaker
