What religion are yall?

SOJB

Religion sucks, it makes you believe you are right and others wrong , unless you believe God loves all xxx

imandi_kavithya2012

Sri-Lankan

Its getting boring

Sri-Lankan Its getting boring

what_game_is_this

I'm baryonic.

And yes, I am against everyone made of anti-matter, shame on you!

I'm baryonic. And yes, I am against everyone made of anti-matter, shame on you!

jose1122

@SOJB said in #21:

Religion sucks, it makes you believe you are right and others wrong , unless you believe God loves all xxx

You don't believe God but you think you're right and the religious ones are wrong. It's not about religion, you could just admit you hate God for some reason, or the idea of idolizing a true God if He exists.

@SOJB said in #21: > Religion sucks, it makes you believe you are right and others wrong , unless you believe God loves all xxx You don't believe God but you think you're right and the religious ones are wrong. It's not about religion, you could just admit you hate God for some reason, or the idea of idolizing a true God if He exists.

clousems

Well, at least nationalists are up front about their whole "nation as a supreme entity" mantra these days. Good on them.

A24BaTrA

There is a difference between nationality and religion.

Cassiodorus1

Ah religion. Here's George Carlin:

https://youtu.be/8r-e2NDSTuE

Ah religion. Here's George Carlin: https://youtu.be/8r-e2NDSTuE

jose1122

I don't understand why apparently there are so many atheists in the chess environment. I know chess makes people selfish, haughty and lonely, still I would expect more opened people instead of narrow-minded ones.

george_mcgeorge

@ jose1122 said in #28:

I don't understand why apparently there are so many atheists in the chess environment. I know chess makes people selfish, haughty and lonely, still I would expect more opened people instead of narrow-minded ones.
Well, I guess this has two major reasons: Many "chess-countries" were part of the former Soviet Union, and they weren't keen on religion. The second reason is, and this may be a prejudice, that many players are "fairly well educated", to the point that they question things. And atheists usually question the religion they were raised in - and for some, atheism is just the door out of one into another system - but this time, at their will. Besides, I wouldn't call atheists narrow-minded - likewise, many people who believe aren't narrow-minded as well - it just starts to be narrow-minded, when you don't anyone else to speak their mind, and this can come from any person, regardless of belief (or lack thereof).

@ jose1122 said in #28: > I don't understand why apparently there are so many atheists in the chess environment. I know chess makes people selfish, haughty and lonely, still I would expect more opened people instead of narrow-minded ones. Well, I guess this has two major reasons: Many "chess-countries" were part of the former Soviet Union, and they weren't keen on religion. The second reason is, and this may be a prejudice, that many players are "fairly well educated", to the point that they question things. And atheists usually question the religion they were raised in - and for some, atheism is just the door out of one into another system - but this time, at their will. Besides, I wouldn't call atheists narrow-minded - likewise, many people who believe aren't narrow-minded as well - it just starts to be narrow-minded, when you don't anyone else to speak their mind, and this can come from any person, regardless of belief (or lack thereof).

jose1122

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@george_mcgeorge said in #29:

Well, I guess this has two major reasons: Many "chess-countries" were part of the former Soviet Union, and they weren't keen on religion. The second reason is, and this may be a prejudice, that many players are "fairly well educated", to the point that they question things. And atheists usually question the religion they were raised in - and for some, atheism is just the door out of one into another system - but this time, at their will. Besides, I wouldn't call atheists narrow-minded - likewise, many people who believe aren't narrow-minded as well - it just starts to be narrow-minded, when you don't anyone else to speak their mind, and this can come from any person, regardless of belief (or lack thereof).

Well you came with two possible reasons, I think they are logical but I don't actually think they should be the main ones

The first you said people come from the USSR where religion was forbidden. Ok this is true but the soviet union citizens are all old now, the next generations grew up with religion, all the former soviet places developed the religion in these 30 years, there are only a few places where atheists are more in number then the religious so this can't explain the phenomenon properly.

And the argument of education is even worse to me, because religion brings development in terms of education and it's absense brings ignorance; the proof is the ascension of the Europe.
During the Roman Empire, we had the Greeks, Romans, Persians, North of Africa like Egipcians, etc, all close to the heat of the Middle East, this was the center of the human kind. How a cold and dead place like the Scandinavia, or the Iberia, or the Britain Islands where people were called barbarians, vikings, a nomad people even without writing system could rise to the most developed place nowadays? Specially the north of Europe should be a terrible place to be in nowadays like it always was before Christ, and places like Greece should be the center of culture and education. Almost all the countries of North Europe boast in their main flags the cross of the christianity, because it was the religion who made what they are. The less a people had contact with the christianity, the less it developed. So the educated people should be at least opened to the religion, at least because of their culture or to maintain their legacy of prosperity, but what I see is debauchery, infamy and mockery... I actually think it is the opposite, it's a false education, or miseducation, which makes people dumber by thinking they are or they know something.

@george_mcgeorge said in #29: > Well, I guess this has two major reasons: Many "chess-countries" were part of the former Soviet Union, and they weren't keen on religion. The second reason is, and this may be a prejudice, that many players are "fairly well educated", to the point that they question things. And atheists usually question the religion they were raised in - and for some, atheism is just the door out of one into another system - but this time, at their will. Besides, I wouldn't call atheists narrow-minded - likewise, many people who believe aren't narrow-minded as well - it just starts to be narrow-minded, when you don't anyone else to speak their mind, and this can come from any person, regardless of belief (or lack thereof). Well you came with two possible reasons, I think they are logical but I don't actually think they should be the main ones The first you said people come from the USSR where religion was forbidden. Ok this is true but the soviet union citizens are all old now, the next generations grew up with religion, all the former soviet places developed the religion in these 30 years, there are only a few places where atheists are more in number then the religious so this can't explain the phenomenon properly. And the argument of education is even worse to me, because religion brings development in terms of education and it's absense brings ignorance; the proof is the ascension of the Europe. During the Roman Empire, we had the Greeks, Romans, Persians, North of Africa like Egipcians, etc, all close to the heat of the Middle East, this was the center of the human kind. How a cold and dead place like the Scandinavia, or the Iberia, or the Britain Islands where people were called barbarians, vikings, a nomad people even without writing system could rise to the most developed place nowadays? Specially the north of Europe should be a terrible place to be in nowadays like it always was before Christ, and places like Greece should be the center of culture and education. Almost all the countries of North Europe boast in their main flags the cross of the christianity, because it was the religion who made what they are. The less a people had contact with the christianity, the less it developed. So the educated people should be at least opened to the religion, at least because of their culture or to maintain their legacy of prosperity, but what I see is debauchery, infamy and mockery... I actually think it is the opposite, it's a false education, or miseducation, which makes people dumber by thinking they are or they know something.

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