Have you been lurking here long? Sorry to say, when religion is involved here, it really is much better to let those against it to mouth themselves off. Let them have their opinion, I have not seen one change theirs in the time I've been here. Live and ignore.Falthron said:How long has it been since you've been to a religious service? First off your generalizing all religion to be Abrahamic, animist and many polytheists don't have a specific prophet(usually) and don't necessarily pray all that much.Dan Steele said:Yes, but not the suicide bombers the media has popularized. I view religious people as terrorists to themselves. Think about it, most religions teach there brainwashed followers they are fallen sinners that are unworthy of love and affection and are only redeemed through pledging allegiance to the prophet of there religion, while the religions that don't do that make you waste your life away with pointless prayer. In the end it still wastes your life.Falthron said:Did you just generalize all religious people as terrorists.Dan Steele said:Race barriers and religion
Science flew us to the moon, religion flew us into buildings
racism because its a poison that keeps us from uniting as a whole.
I know, thats 2. I'll just flip a coin on it
We need to do away with beliefs that make you feel guilty for being human, that is the real terrorism.
Secondly, why do you completely forget the other parts of religion other than devotion, like help the poor, meek, etc. in the Christian faith, or how Islam united separate clans into a sprawling empire that promoted intellectual discovery and trade in the Classical per'iod (using Abrahamic because I know about these more.) "Wasting life with pointless prayer..... WE'RE VIDEO GAMERS we waste our time and life too in pursuit of entertainment or the next level. Your making assumption and generalizations about a group that you are no part of! The only religious people you wish to see are the outspoken crazy one! What about organizations like the Red Cross, or Christian Church groups who organize charities to give to various countries in need? Is that terrorism? Many Christian Churches I've been to are merely congregation points for believers to spread the word, learn about what the(primarily new testament) scripture and help the needy, you know like what Jesus preached. It's not terrorism to themselves, especially when many times a religious experience can drive them to become a better person as a whole. I know it's predominantly Christian oriented, but that is what I know.
You know I don't hate atheist, at least not by default, but that is really hard to do on this site when many atheists here also have some weird Vendetta against religon. I ask you to respect my beliefs(whether or not you think I'm "Brainwashed" doesn't matter), and I'll respect yours).
Now on to the real topic, removing an aspect of Mankind is a tricky subject, your bound to want to remove something that may have some unintended consequences and make the end result not quite human any more, so with that in mind I would like to remove the lapses in common sense people tend to have. I know many of us probably had an error in judgement in the past that they would like to take back, I don't think much humanity would disappear if we had fewer Darwin Awards.
(Really minor thing, might make me sound petty, but the few posts here bashing religion seem to have pretty bad spelling.)
OT: Get rid of procrastination, Just so I can actually get my work done without trying to rush and complete it in a day because "it totally slipped my mind" till the day it was due.
That or get rid of motivation and watch The Fall and the arrival of Nyx