That's the old testament and they use that as an example of what not to do, after Jesus begins his teaching people they were living in the wrong way...Jesus stopped them and said "Let the man without sin cast the first stone." Jesus goes on to say "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord" The bible tells us NOT TO JUDGE one another "Judge not, yet ye be judged" so no...the old testament tells of how horrible it was before Christ and then the new testament tells everyone what to do instead.

Yes thank you, it was quite awhile ago but I don't think anyone ever can stop missing a pet. Once you make an animal friend they'll always be apart of you.

Just fucking don't!

The people who are doing bad in the name of religion isn't even going by the religion they're claiming to be! These different religions doctrine doesn't say to hurt people, it says the exact opposite. These people would hurt and kill other people if they never heard of thier religion...it has nothing to do with religion at all. That's like saying people are bad for thier race, a group of a certain race are terrorizing everyone so the whole race is just bad and we must do away with them...it's just plain wrong.

It does, but honestly a raccoon would jack that cat up. They're bad asses if you piss them off. I had one ;-) best decision of my life. He passed away though. :"(

That's more like agnostic

You're going to argue that you don't believe in God because it's just "A work of fiction" but you're using a list someone just made up to argue it? Do you see the issue I have here?

Thank you, for doing what I was too lazy to do for myself. *hands iccarus a cookie*

I'm not trying to get you to believe it, I'm not trying to get you to like it, and I'm not going to debate it with I'm presuming an atheist. I am saying that I am religious, I believe in science, I don't hate anyone, and if religion itself taught hate and bigotry then I would be a hateful bigot. It is in human nature to be greedy, to harm others, and to hate what they don't understand. If you want that to stop, then religion isn't where you should be looking it's science....somewhere yet to be found, in our brain, or chemistry, maybe our DNA that causes people to be hate and greed filled. If this were a science experiment then you would have data, if you took data from everyone and broke it down into 2 groups (one being religious people and one being non religious people) and you tested them for greed, hate, ect...You would see that religion has nothing to do with our human nature...and human nature is all science.

Ok, my bible teaches me what I believe to be true and it is a book that is history. I'm not just knowing in my heart, although I do feel faith in God. I know that most people believe that in order to believe in God I can't believe in science, but I see it differently. I believe that God is the ultimate scientist. He knows all and has seen all, the same way a scientist in a lab closely watches his work. In the bible, I believe that God only tells us a very small amount of information and in a way people will understand, if you think about the mindset of people back then it would be more convincing to explain everything the way the bible does if you want them to believe it...knowing that after it gets passed down over time the belief will stay strong. It also tells you in the bible (mine at least) that there's much more god wants to teach us but we'd not understand yet. I chose to believe in this, but I also am making a choice when I believe other history books.

Abort trying. ABORT! How could I be so wrong?

YCW you're just picking certain people who fit your opinion and that's exactly what the people who preach hate with a bible in thier hand is doing with thier religion.

A belief in religion isn't an absence of the knowledge of science. I consider myself to be Christian, but I've never not loved science or never not believed scientific facts. Choosing to have either faith or science is a choice.

Please don't yell. I'M A FRAGILE FLOWER DAMNIT!

It's not about religions though, it's people. One person will preach about hatred and bigotry and another will teach of love and forgiveness, even if we all woke up tomorrow and didn't remember any of our religious beliefs we'd still have hate. Unfortunately you are asking to get rid of religion but what you really want rid of is sin.