Religion

perhaps but, as i've said to many a door knocker, i'd rather believe in science and proof than scaremongering fantasy.

also it pisses me off coz, imo, religion causes the majority of the wars or oppression that happen on this planet. and unfortunately it will continue to do so for long after we have gone.

You must have been head alter boy then - that was the only perk of the job

but if there was no religion to argue which was right and which was wrong then its one less reason to fight. people take it far too seriously.

One of my mates found God a couple of years ago - now he is a fully fledged believer in the good Lord, he's even stood outside McDonalds on Northumberland Street, bible in hand, "spreading the good word".

His g/f introduced him into it, said he was praying one night then God came inside him, and said he could feel him and that he spoke to him.

I'd imagine that if you do believe it must be a great comfort to you.

But, if someone told you that they were hearing voices in their head - this could easily be described as a form of mental illness...

Religion is not the cause of wars, men twist and manipulate hope and faith - man is the cause of wars not religion.

show me a religion that teaches war?

And science and proof are forever being proved wrong and find me one scientific fact that can prove there is no "higher being" as you put it.

I'm nto religious - far intelligenter men than myself are - so I don't dismiss it.

You are joking if it wasn't religion there would be something else... and by your very logic we should do away with money as that is a far bigger cause of wars in todays era.

Man causes war - religion is just another excuse.

got to do loads of things, even was an alter boy in a film once

fucking hell thats a bit harsh.

'you will beleive in me bitch' take it' yeah!

Spot on... the old jungle on boxing day, Peter Grant blessing himself ... Macavennie tearing in to Woods, that's togerthness for you

Seriously though, I was at St Peters Square in Rome on Easter Sunday and it was one of the best atmospheres I've ever experienced. You could feel the

my mam is c of e & my dad is catholic...both me & my bro were christened catholic....

my mam was more of a church person than my dad so we didn't really go to church that much excpet for school services (c of e junior school & catholic senior)

because i went to a c of e junior school i never got to have my 1st holy communion & confirmation so i can't get married in a catholic church!!!

dunno how i feel on religion cos sometimes i wonder if there really was a god then why would there b so many deaths cos of illnesses (i.e. hiv, aids, cancer, lukimea [sp]) ...then again if this didn't occur then there wud b too much over crowding....

find me one scientific fact that can prove there is a "higher being"

there are many studies on this, some of the christian faiths were based on mental problems... take the seventh day adventist church this was founded by a woman who is believed to of had a form of epillepsy that is linked to spirritual rveelations...

im not saying its the only cause of war im saying people fight each other because of difference in beleifs. yes it is man who do this but if there was one religion then there wouldnt be any arguements over it. yes they would find something else to fight over. its mans instinct to fight and kill.

the taliban people whatever you call em are taught in their religion to hate the white man and the west world. is this not breeding and teaching war. this is manipulating young minds and turning them into possible future bin ladens etc. thats wrong. fiar enough thats man twisting it but its still religion to those kids and who are they to argue?

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No-one is saying they can prove a higher being exists, but people are saying a higher being doesn't exist due to science - science has never proven this...

people who believe in the bible use the explaination that god left us to our own devices because the human race 'shunned' his only son and saviour...

being the 'man of science' i'd want some hard facts to believe in a 'god' that created us all.

The taliban are a case of men twisting and manipulating religion though... islam does not teach this.

Religion unlike money provides hope, faith and morality to billions of people, that is far more good than money and power? Man will go to war over religion, like man will go to war over most things... A lot of bad has come from man's manipulation of religion but a lot of good has come from religion. Most of your ethics are probably based on religious ethics and morality.

Wasn't their a recent case in America where a staunch anti adoption Priest murdered a woman who was going to have an adoption...he is now on death row...he told the court that God told him to murder the woman for taking the life of her unborn child.

I'm not sayin that all people who God talks to are insane...if that was the case half the world would be crackers...

being the man of science wouldn't you also need some hard facts before you dismissed it?