The story of Santa Claus and even the Easter bunny is actually the exact same as the stories "created" in the bible. As in it is based on some factual circumstances and ancient mythology wrapped up to make another story. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are symbolic and mythological derived from Peganism. Santa's were in fact a Shamen. And Christians unknowingly practice peganism. :1orglaugh

Not religious.

Correction: Their own "brand" of paganism.......

I remember the last time I spoke with god... he said, "don't worry about all that shit some other man wrote." It's even written down, in a book, that I made Doc 13: 1..... You should put blind faith in my words as well, it's no different than putting faith in the words you shared.

Schizophrenic much?

Check out this time lapse video of the Angel and Ogre clouds forming!

How do you explain just before dark the clouds

4 Gray THE END









http://photosofclouds.com/GHOSTS_Angel_Ogre.png

God is a figment of the imaginations of rulers. He's been talking to our "better" for millennium. They come and tell us all the time what he wants us to do. Which coincidently happens to benefit them.

Read the Old Testament to see who they say this guy God is. He had no problem drowning every living being, except two of every animal and Noah's family. Because, according to our betters, we weren't doing it right.

Then look at Sodom and Gomorrah. He didn't like what they were doing so decided to obliterate the whole city, again including the animals.

Then there were the Jews leaving Israel, he had no problem with the plagues and even the deaths of the eldest male child and then drowned the Egyptian Army.

When the Israelites decided to settle in Canaan he had no problem telling them to kill all the Cannites, again the animals got killed (what is it he has against the animals? It's not like they did anyone any harm.)

All the above have been proved to be bullshit lies. But very handy if you want to scare the living daylights out of ignorant people.

And it doesn't end in pre history. The rapture is a relative new thing dreamed up when some girl had a vision and the local priest decided to make something of it. And the last Pope who happens to be on his way to being a Saint. Told people not to use condom as they were no protection against s AIDS. Which lots of ignorant people did and they're now in Heaven. Or just dead.

And don't start me on Muslims.

Nuff said, the new messiah is here:

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When I was "religious" as a young kid growing up in a Filipino Catholic household, I would read the Bible and hear sermons about Jesus and the people he healed. He would heal lepers, forgive sinners, etc. I was "religious" back then so I saw myself as OTHER THAN and BETTER THAN the people Jesus was was working with.

As I got older and as the years went by, I realized that *I* was the leper, the sinner, the tax collector, and the miscellaneous "undesirables" that Jesus came to heal, forgive, and comfort. People find that hard to believe but Grace doesn't come to those who think they have it all figured out. It's hard to see someone who is PROUD and CONFIDENT of his success, of his place in the world, AND of his power to humble himself and say "YES, there's something WRONG with me. I don't know everything. It isn't ABOUT ME".

Yeah, the older I get the more I realize that I am the leper, the prostitute, the tax collector, the bad guy. But Jesus doesn't care about your past. The problem isn't the Truth and Jesus. The problem are always the "Tall" people around Jesus. The ones who crowd around him--wrapped in their self-righteousness and all to eager to CONDEMN those that don't "measure up." Thankfully, the Gospel shows that you can't WORK your way to heaven because let's face it, all of us are SCUM and deserve only DEATH if the LAW is the only measure. But Jesus doesn't care about your past and gives you the free gift of his Grace. This grace is the only thing that can empower people to even THINK of following his Law.

So am I religious? I hope not. The classic example of religiosity often involves self-righteous people pushing out the LEPERS out of their churches and Killing infidels in the name of God. How can you kill in the name of Love? The sad irony of that always gets me.

I'm not religious. I'm just a leper looking for healing. Day in. Day out.

I wish you all peace!

beware the well-fed philosopher..

Okay Dedi shows us on the doll where the priest touched you! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

fuck religion fuck! :mad:

The truth about religion...

Creation of Adam and Eve was the FINAL END TO EVOLUTION in OUR PRESENT!

Adam and Eve are the LAST HOMOSAPIENS not the FIRST!

Religion is the story of the Destiny of Adam reaching Eve... covered by the Truman Show on your TV every night in disguise as other characters.

So the twist is...... NONE OF YOU ARE REAL HUMANS!! :)

Adam & Eve
KINGS Beach, QUEENSland


http://photosofclouds.com/GENIE_Kings_Beach.png



http://photosofclouds.com/GENIE_genie_enhanced.png






About modern day Adam and Eve




About Adam

Adam and Eve fucked and had kids... those kids fucked and spawned 6 billion people. IE: Cam girls is the result of inbreeding.

A&E are a metaphor that covers creation of all things.

I was Catholic then i grew up and stopped believing in fairy tales.

Yeh random clouds appear over Kings Beach with the words


http://photosofclouds.com/GENIE_Kings_Fish.png




Kings Beach Fish

written in the sky over a vortex with a Genie in it, a little devil doing the graffiti, the hand of God, a woman kneeling, then a minute later the Genie hovers over the vortex....


http://photosofclouds.com/GENIE_genie_enhanced.png



and it's a METAPHOR!


because it's a well known fact you can see anything in clouds if you look hard enough!


http://photosofclouds.com/gfx/PEOPLE_taking_photo.jpg

actually, well said

Winner: best post in thread.

I especially enjoyed the paragraph this little gem was in: "Grace doesn't come to those who think they have it all figured out."

Many in this thread think they have it all figured out.


As to the original question, me and organized religion parted ways a long time ago. But if the OP is asking "do you have a faith?" that's entirely another matter. Having a spiritiual belief system IE; faith, in one's life and being "religious" are two different things entirely in my view.

I am a Atheist Jew