Role of a Spiritual Person in a Civil Society

[crypto]

Take any given religion and you can isolate its convictions regarding the divine from its convictions regarding ethics.

[Dinomoto]

Atom this is Crypto, get used to it and dont retaliate.

-Peace

[Ghast]

I may be benighted, but I get shit done.

[Pillz]

I believe it all comes down to the rationality of the spiritual people. Because sure, the religious nuts who preach hatred to everyone and fuel their religious beliefs with anger, are detrimental to the peace of our society, but the ones who sit in their church, and preach to the people who WANT to hear them, I have no problem with. A church should never be a hateful place, it should be the epitome of peace. Sure the shit the preach isn't always flowers and butteflys, but the people usually are. Even if they're terrible people on the inside, at church you're just kind, and yeah. Peaceful.

That's fine with me. I don't believe peace originates out of religion, but neither does pure destruction and hatred.

TL:DR - Peace/NoPeace = user bias?

[crypto]

Atom this is Crypto, get used to it and respond with logic or evidence.

-War, bichez

Fixed.

[Holy]

What's the point of handing evidence to someone who is too blinded by their bias against it? My favorite line in the bible is "Don't cast your pearls before swine."

[Cadaver]

Its like this: Cadaver, being your Global Moderator in the forum, has faith you will all abide by the rules, as they are simple and easily read.  His actions bring civility to the forums, by minimizing drama, trolling, and overall butthurt. His cleansing of the posts are keeping the spirit of a civil society (CG) alive. He is saddened and dissapoint at those who break his faith by breaking the rules.  Yet, he still tries to keep his faith...

Good enough analogy?  Perhaps.  But, most will only noticed I typed "anal" in the post.

[crypto]

What's the point of handing evidence to someone who is too blinded by their bias against it? My favorite line in the bible is "Don't cast your pearls before swine."

It's not a matter of bias. Like I said, you can take any religion and isolate its beliefs about the divine from its ethical views. You failed to refute that point—speaking of bias, that's pretty grotesque on your part. Which makes you biased and hypocritical.

My favorite line in the Bible is the part where God kills every last firstborn son in Egypt simply because the pharaoh was an asshole . . . along with SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE and all the other plagues God dropped on Egypt's head. Yup, that's justice right there. I also like the bit where St. Paul degrades women by telling them to be subordinate to their husbands. Oh, and the obliteration of Sodom and Gomorrah is awesome. And God's little social experiment where he sees if Abraham is willing to kill his own son out of loyalty to God. I also love the part where God condemns any person who touches Mt. Sinai to death—yup, a heap of rocks is totally more valuable than human life, which was supposed to have been God's most beloved creation. The animal violence is great, too: punishing an ox for goring a slave by stoning it to death—gotta teach those evil sneaky oxen a lesson, goddamn it!

Yeah, God is a pretty great guy. <3

Thank you for smoking.

[Holy]

It isn't bias, I've listed factual websites which have shown people of faith benefiting people where as all you have contributed to this topic, and any religion based topic for that matter, is an off topic rant about your own snotty self-righteous ideas.

[crypto]

Evidently you are illiterate. Goes along nicely with your irrationality.

[Ghast]

Crypto, I swear to god some of the things you say will be in history books.


God damn.. 

[Atom]

I think you are both nuts in the head considering that you guys are making references from the bible. Again... there are like a million different versions of the bible all written by man. Can't trust that book.

[Jorgen]

Its like this: Cadaver, being your Global Moderator in the forum, has faith you will all abide by the rules, as they are simple and easily read.  His actions bring civility to the forums, by minimizing drama, trolling, and overall butthurt. His cleansing of the posts are keeping the spirit of a civil society (CG) alive. He is saddened and dissapoint at those who break his faith by breaking the rules.  Yet, he still tries to keep his faith...

Good enough analogy?  Perhaps.  But, most will only noticed I typed "anal" in the post.

Wut where is this anal!??!?!?! oh right analogy...

I understand that CG is filled to the brim with trolls so it is gonna be a hard job caddie xD