Would the world have been better off without Bible-Beaters? Discuss.

[MikeG]

[Arugula Latte]

1. Yes.

I guess that wasn't much discussion.

Okay, here I go: yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

[adwon]

2. No one should abuse a defenseless book

[Amaya]

3. Absolutely!

"Religion is the opium of the masses"
~Karl Marx

[MikeG]

4. Where are these masses where you can get opium?

Mine just give wine and wafers.

[Amaya]

5. Go to a fundie church I'm sure they've got some

:)

[Taxloss]

6. Marx didn't say that.

No maligning your point, and I admire Marx, but that quote is a lie.

[Amaya]

7. Who said it then?

I've read it many times, so I dunno?

[Taxloss]

8. It's a misquotation. Marx said:

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

A very different meaning.

[DemBones DemBones]

9. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Bible Beater, just

to name one recent and well-known example.

[Taxloss]

10. Would he have been less passionate

about what was right and what was wrong if religion didn't exist?

[Inland]

11. It's "bible thumpers". If you are going to use an undefined term,

use the right one.

[MikeG]

12. Wasn't Thumper a bunny?

[Jo March]

13. Sigh. Just remember that the words of Jesus are of love and peace

Loving your neighbors, turning the other cheek, doing unto others as you would have done unto you, removing the plank out of your eye before trying to get the splinter out of someone else's.

The fundies and the zealots have all perverted the words of the Bible to fit what they want to believe and do - hate gays and murder people different from themselves.

They do not follow Christ or His teachings. I am ashamed at what they have done in the name of "religion" as it paints all of us with the same brush in some people's eyes.

Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Somehow that got twisted into "God hates fags and non-Christians."

Sigh.

[Moderator]

14. locking

GD would be better off without inflammatory threads.

Thanks for your consideration.
DU Mod