Smel. The Christmas tree isn't christian, it's pagan. So I agree. Stupid of them to chase it out as a christian symbol. Also, the first laws waaaaaay predate the ten commandments, mate.

Wasn't your point that without religion the world would be a better place?

(I also think you completely misplaced where my allegiances lie.)

Actually, I was raised with a choice to believe in whatever I wanted.

My parents raised me with the choice of eating brussels sprout or yams for Christmas, but that still didn't stop me from being an edgy motherfucker.

Your parents gave you free reign at character creation and you picked "Tedious Douchebag"?

You need to re-roll that shit.

Easy there killer, I never said anything harmful to you. If you have some thoughtful input, then go ahead, but that post was completely unnecessary.

Dude, it's easy to ask for thoughtful input, but you're not really reciprocating is all anyone's saying.

Man, I've been posting thoughtful input. Read the last 3 pages.

You are an empty cafe that has closed down twenty years ago and never was bought. Eventually, you were bulldozed to make the property you stood on seem more attractive, but even that land has yet to be sold.

Your gravel driveway is choked with weeds that are cut down only three or four times a year.

Wow, that's just beautiful. What the heck does this have to do with anything?

I don't appreciate your rudeness. It's offensive and frankly unbecoming to someone who posts Thoughtful Input on Great Matters.

Ok then, do you want me to clean up my hurtful language? And sorry if I offended you, I was just inquiring as to why you posted some sort of poem about a cafe or something.

It's not the language, fucknut. It's the ideas behind it. I think you have a hard time conceptually understanding things that aren't spread-eagle for you.

You are a religious tract done up to look like a folded $5 bill. Small children throw you on the ground in disgust, and the trash men never remember to pick you up when they're taking everyone else's trash away.

Dude, what's up with the weird metaphors? You're creeping me out.

You're a car alarm on a 12 year old Honda Civic, driven by a college student that hasn't vaccuumed out your upholstry since he bought you. $2000, sitting on someone's lawn. It was obvious you haven't moved from your spot in some time, the grass was six inches long under you.

The struts will need replacing soon. I don't know how that kid is going to afford it.

Wow, you're irritating.

Perhaps, GameInfarcer, this would be an excellent time for you to just shut your trap and get the hell out of this thread.

Seven of your posts after mine and not even a reply. :(

What do you have against me Styphon?

The world would be a better place without religion. Just because Communist Russia wasn't the greatest place in the world does not mean that the world would be just like that.

Because its people like you who make me look good.

No, thats wrong. Religion doesn't kill people, people kill people. Pretty soon we're gonna see fanatical atheists running around burning down churches because they think the world is better off without them. Seriously dude, you seem rather narrow minded. I'm open to the fact that perhaps there is no God. Are you even remotely open to the fact that there might actually be one?

Religion has been a blight on humanity since the very beginning, it should've died out long ago. And yes, since you can't disprove anything, I am very remotely open to the existence of a god. Although I'm just as open to the flying spaghetti monster being that god. One of the reasons I'm so "narrow minded" about it, is because people actually believe in it. And there's so many people that do. Around 90% of the people in America believe in god, and I think that's ridiculous.

Is the fact that you're a whiny douchebag who can't shut up or take a hint enough?
This thread would be (and, in fact, was) a better place without you.

Do your part to make it better.

I found an article on wikipedia for you to peruse with proof of God, perhaps you can make some better arguments than "People believe in religion, so I hate it."

Proof of God

Whats so bad about 90% of people in America choosing to believe in God. You're saying that you hate the fact that they impose on other people, and yet here you are complaining about the fact that they don't believe in nothing.

You obviously have no real concept on why such a thing exists in the first place.
Not to diss on anyone that follows any religion, but more or less it's a method to control and concentrate the actions of the masses.

Religion is necessary despite anything said by anyone. At the very least, it keeps the masses from outright depression, etc. by giving them something to believe in.

You can't just outright say that something that's been around stimulating the growth of the world's population, overall emotional growth, and a basis for a small mainstream intellectual right, should be dissembled immediately. Simply stating such a suggestion is hard evidence that you lack any knowledge of said subject, and also infers that you're likely a teenager, have emotional problems, or are depressed. Any or all of the above is usually true about anyone that makes such an argument.

GameInfarcer, you're a new construction in a subdivision on the outskirts of a small town, forclosed on by the bank because your previous owners bought you at a price well above their means, and they used a predatory loan to try to hold on to the American Dream. Your materials are sub-par. You will not last for longer than twenty or thirty years. Your kitchen faucet already doesn't have hot tap water. The bank isn't desperate to get rid of you, since the market is so bad there would be no way they can get a good price. You will stand vacant for almost a year.