All Religions are equally ridiculous

[a_unique_person]

What more can I say?

[Whomp]

So is "honor", "self respect", and "imagination"

Codswallop I tell you!

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by a_unique_person
What more can I say? Well, justification of the statement would be a good start. As it stands, it's pure trolling.

[arcticpenguin]

Codswallop is pretty ridiculous as well.

[triadboy]

Any following who claims to have knowledge about the conditions on the other side of life's milestone - "death" - is to be laughed at and poked with sticks.

[Yahzi]

Not all religions are equally ridiculous. Even if they are all ridiculous.

[evildave]

Yes, I would have to agree.

They're all VERY ridiculous, but precisely sufer it to varying degrees.

[Upchurch]

well, I agree too.

However, I still assert that without qualification, it's just trolling.

[Man of jade]

I'll admit that some religon is silly, but stop the trolling.

[the_ignored]

Originally posted by Yahzi
Not all religions are equally ridiculous. Even if they are all ridiculous. True. You have the bible, with talking serpents and talking donkeys (the story of Balaam's ass)<~~what really cracks me up about that story is that the authors don't have the guy react when his animal starts talking! He just tells it he was hitting it because it was scraping him against a rock wall when he was riding it! In real life, I daresay that the animal starting to talk all of a sudden would pretty quickly overshadow the fact that it wasn't a perfect mount! They could have at least tried to make it "believable" by having him say something like "WTF!! You're talking! How in the &(&( can you be talking!?"

Then there's the ("72 Virgins") Koran, and Scientology where the founder was a science-FICTION writer, who once admitted that to get rich, one should start your own religion...

Then there are the people who rely on "prayer therapy" to cure illnesses, instead of taking their kids to a doctor, there are those who beg for money on TV, and say that if you don't give it, you're "stealing from god"<~~John Hagee Ministries, I forget which episode.

They killed or imprisoned people for daring to question what they taught (ex. Killing Giordano Bruno for teaching heliocentrism) and today they go aroung saying "those weren't 'true' christians/muslims, etc. Our faith is what helped advance science.

And on and on...:(

[ceo_esq]

I agree that, while all religions may be absurd to some degree, the degree of absurdity varies.

At one point in Walker Percy’s great Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/percy1184-des-.html), the author surveys the basic tenets of Judeo-Christian belief. He concludes that Judaism is a highly preposterous religion, and Christianity even more so. Finally he decides:Catholic Christianity is the most preposterous of the three. It proposes all of the above [i.e. that which Jews and Protestants believe] but also that the man-god founded a church, appointed as its first head a likable but pusillanimous person, like himself a Jew, the most fallible of his friends, gave him and his successors the power to loose and bind, required of his followers that they eat his body and drink his blood in order to have life in them, empowered his priests to have power to change bread and wine into his body and blood, and vowed to protect this institution until the end of time. At which time he promised to return.