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Don't you love how religion doesn't affect culture how it was intended to?

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rustyowl Newbie

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Well, that still doesn't add up to 100%. lol.

 

30% of people who interpret it as it was meant to be interpreted

29% believe it's symbolic of his teachings

10% believe it's bread and wine from Jesus

23% personal symbolic beliefs.

7% non Catholics.

 

If that's what you think it means. What do you think is the percentage breakdown. Besides, why were they surveying non-Catholics. It completely changes the variables of the survey.

 

And editing that last sentence in was just obnoxious.

 

I get a little annoyed when people act obnoxious when claiming they're right and you're wrong, when they are in fact wrong, which he did. Sorry.

 

Also, I'm just going by the wording of the actual article. You're right, it doesn't add up to 100%, but they might not have reported one of the categories, such as "No opinion" or "I do not know".

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And I'm not even Catholic. I just know a little more about it than you do.

 

Good for you.

 

I get a little annoyed when people act obnoxious when claiming they're right and you're wrong, when they are in fact wrong, which he did. Sorry.

 

Um. No.

 

I was mistaken, and missed the "Catholic" part. You're apparently right about the bread and wine thing.

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Hm? I don't know much about religion. In fact my religious views are somewhat stupid until you've heard them through. My religion, or rather way of life, is Jedi. Now, it may sound stupid but I take teachings from the Jedi to better myself. I don't believe in a man in the sky watching everything we do. I believe that you should be as selfless as possible and meditate as frequently as possible. There are no spiritual beliefs involved, just being a good, selfless person for a clean and free mind. It really has done wonders for me as a person. I urge more people to try it. Plenty of Buddhist temples teach you how to meditate without expecting you to be a Buddhist. The feeling you get after meditating is peculiar, it's rather intriguing.

 

I'm not bothered about how religion effects culture, because I am me. I may be a part of a culture but I am still an individual. I prefer not to worry about how religion effects the world for the worse as I have no interest in taking action to change it. I just go with the flow of life.

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rustyowl Newbie

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Good for you.

 

 

 

Um. No.

 

I was mistaken, and missed the "Catholic" part. You're apparently right about the bread and wine thing.

 

Right. I just got annoyed when you just came out and said the survey was wrong just because you thought you knew something or simply misread it. And then you tried to undermine me by saying that I claimed to be an expert on religion just because I read an article, which I didn't say. I just got annoyed with you saying that.

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Miror B Newbie

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On the blood and wine thing:

 

Different Christian branches view it differently. Some see it as that it becomes the body and blood. Some that the body and blood are under the bread and wine so they're there, just not physically. Some just say the bread and wine represent and nothing more.

 

Either way I don't see the problem. The pastor blesses the bread and wine and it becomes/represents the body and blood, which Jesus did himself when he had the last passover. Unless people start killing babies saying "I DRINK THIS BLOOD IN YOUR NAME LORD!" I'm not going to be too worried about it.

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It really is a shame when people use Religion as a Scapegoat for all the problems of the world just because of a few people high in power are advanced in age are more or less senile. Leviticus just only explains the rules of the Levites, which do not apply too well to modern day Christianity's function. I don't mind the Catholic branch, but they do more for power than more for hope and salvation.

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Hm? I don't know much about religion. In fact my religious views are somewhat stupid until you've heard them through. My religion, or rather way of life, is Jedi. Now, it may sound stupid but I take teachings from the Jedi to better myself. I don't believe in a man in the sky watching everything we do. I believe that you should be as selfless as possible and meditate as frequently as possible. There are no spiritual beliefs involved, just being a good, selfless person for a clean and free mind. It really has done wonders for me as a person. I urge more people to try it. Plenty of Buddhist temples teach you how to meditate without expecting you to be a Buddhist. The feeling you get after meditating is peculiar, it's rather intriguing.

 

I'm not bothered about how religion effects culture, because I am me. I may be a part of a culture but I am still an individual. I prefer not to worry about how religion effects the world for the worse as I have no interest in taking action to change it. I just go with the flow of life.

 

You are no Jedi. You are Sith.

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I founded my own religion. I call it Tartcatism; the belief that one's mortal body is only a vessel for a fragment of the spirit of the great and immortal Nyan Cat, whose love transcends the planes of the universe and whose teachings shall lead to peace among his many other fragments that inhabit this small Earth.

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I am severely disappointed in you guys. All this talk of Catholics and Protestants and Sith and Tartcatism, when it's obvious that true salivation can only come from our one true Jurassic Lord, the Raptor Jesus. Hail he who will defend us and our daily lulz from the evils of the Tyrannosatan, and who shall finally disembowel that great enemy, and his followers of rear entry and animal costumes, in the days of the Velocirapture, so sayeth the books of SDN and Lolwut!

 

Our God is a Jurassic God,

he reigns from 4chan below

with wisdom, power, and lulz,

our God is a Jurassic God.

 

OT: How it was intended to? I'm pretty sure it still causes divisions among the common people, and yet gives people a reason for them to live (wasting most of their life worried about what some bearded sky-man will say after they die) without making them find their own purpose to fulfill.

 

Religion takes itself a little too seriously, and as a result we have two nations fighting over which one has the right ancient book where some piece of land was promised to them by aforementioned bearded sky-man. Atheism tends to fall right in there with it at some point, though it usually depends on the person.

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I'm not sure why any Christian thinks that following ancient books of Jewish law would ever be a good idea. It's always baffled me.

Because that book was made by the same God. Jewish and Christian texts and histories are the exact same up until it gets the the bit where a magical man name Jesus died and revived then turned Gold, flew into the sky and summoned a giant Dragon of good and...wait wrong anime.

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I founded my own religion. I call it Tartcatism; the belief that one's mortal body is only a vessel for a fragment of the spirit of the great and immortal Nyan Cat, whose love transcends the planes of the universe and whose teachings shall lead to peace among his many other fragments that inhabit this small Earth.

It's no more stupid than the concept of a man in the sky that created light. You have my approval.

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