This was a question asked on the forum, and this is an example of what I like, and also the music. The Chinese girl in the green coat in the picture is my oldest sons girlfriend. http://hls.iweek.ly/pdf/lwj/news360/2014512/320.html?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0
If you click on the picture and hold it down while moving your mouse you can scan around it and see everything. Solitary
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I'd let her give me a shot at finding Jesus..
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These are my favorite kind of churches
Quote from: stromboli on December 06, 2014, 10:14:05 AM
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These are my favorite kind of churches
Currently a restaurant run by someone named Alice. :shifty:
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on December 06, 2014, 10:17:44 AM
Currently a restaurant run by someone named Alice. :shifty:
You can get whatver you want at Alice's restaurant
Excepting Alice.......
And thank God for that! (http://i.imgur.com/tQ8ibie.jpg) :doh: :rotflmao:
I like chocolate eggs around easter.
Also getting to have a break at the end of December is nice.
Hot cross buns are nice with some jam.
And above all else, religion gives me real confidence in myself. Because on any day if i'm not feeling like the sharpest tool in the box or not ahead with the times like other people could be, I just think, at least I'm not one of these people.
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Yes I do.
Hypocrisy is very funny at times :3
I think APA and I like this about religion, after we get her high on pure LSD. She would think we were gods. :eek: :pidu: :drool:
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I like the funny hats.
(makes it easy to spot the clowns)
I like the way churches smell.
The music. Change the words and hymns would be awesome.
Some of the outfits are nice in various stages of disrobement.
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Some fantastic music, art and architecture has been inspired by religious stuff. Angkor Wat, Westminster Abbey, Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Pyramids, the list goes on.
Quote from: Atheon on December 08, 2014, 05:35:05 AM
Some fantastic music, art and architecture has been inspired by religious stuff. Angkor Wat, Westminster Abbey, Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Pyramids, the list goes on.
yeah, but a lot of architecture was built around the world with human suffering made for the sake of religion too, so it pretty much taints any beauty such wonders of the ancient world had.
Quote from: Solitary on December 06, 2014, 10:02:27 AM
This was a question asked on the forum, and this is an example of what I like, and also the music. The Chinese girl in the green coat in the picture is my oldest sons girlfriend. http://hls.iweek.ly/pdf/lwj/news360/2014512/320.html?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0
If you click on the picture and hold it down while moving your mouse you can scan around it and see everything. Solitary
Awesome photo. It's very hard to have a picture give you any sense of what it's like seeing something like that in person.
It's amazing what can be accomplished through OCD.
I think the type of obsessive behaviour that sometimes leads to genius is the same thing that also leads to serial killers. Oh well, you gota take the good with the bad I suppose.
Quote from: stromboli on December 06, 2014, 10:14:05 AM
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These are my favorite kind of churches
I'll one up ya...this kind of church is better. One that's only value left is firewood...
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I masturbate religiously. I like that.
I like laughing at religion, does that count? :D
Quote from: christy starseeker on December 24, 2014, 10:03:41 PM
I like laughing at religion, does that count? :D
Yes. Yes it does.
I love how they can bow down to other people:
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No.
Anything that can be done without a religious context, is something, IMO, which can be done (if not better) without it; e.g. Like religious music. I find it lacking, when compared to secular music, and with less constraints. And don't get me started on science ...
Pretty stories and pretty buildings and pretty artwork will never take away from the destructive side of religion. No, I do not like anything religious. I do not hate human rights, I simply hate that humans have a hard time getting over myths.
Two weeks off work in December. Fuck yeah!
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Sure I guess, but many of the things you and I might appreciate at face value deserve closer scrutiny before concluding that they actually were good.
For example I love many of the structures and monuments, such as the great Gothic cathedrals.
However, it was appalling how countless people essentially had to work themselves to death, and doubly so because it meant the Church put the construction of monuments ahead of alleviating the suffering of the people on the list of priorities.
If anyone, its the slaves who built them who deserve all the credit. The Church's role in their construction was nothing short of despicable.
Only the art and architecture. I guess the bible is interesting as historic mythology as well.
Also the fact that the word goddamn is so useful. Taking god's name in vain is the only goddamn thing he's good for.
Quote from: Cocoa Beware on December 26, 2014, 02:13:32 PMSure I guess, but many of the things you and I might appreciate at face value deserve closer scrutiny before concluding that they actually were good.
For example I love many of the structures and monuments, such as the great Gothic cathedrals.
However, it was appalling how countless people essentially had to work themselves to death, and doubly so because it meant the Church put the construction of monuments ahead of alleviating the suffering of the people on the list of priorities.
If anyone, its the slaves who built them who deserve all the credit. The Church's role in their construction was nothing short of despicable.
There may have been some secular reasons for their construction as well. Attracting pilgrims and their purses is certainly nice, though I'm sure that did little to offset the cost. Definitely a symbol of the political might of the local ruler, though castles are much more daunting (and useful).
But yes, it's an extremely indulgent expense just at a time when Europe was destitute. Virtually anything else would have been a better investment. Heck, even that crazy guy who wanted to sail west to India would've been a better idea. Makes you wonder why they chose the way they did. But of course, they didn't know of all the cards on the table, nor was it a rational decision.
Some people love the sight of cathedrals. Some people love the sight of ancient ruins. To me, the former is every bit as much of a relic as the latter.
About 10 years ago I went with my mum and aunt to the town of Winchester here in the UK, and we visited the Winchester cathedral. Back the I thought it was fascinating, this huge stone building with countless corridors, spiral stair cases leading to upper levels and right up to the bell tower, it was really interesting then.
In retrospect now thinking back, I think about how all the stone and resources that went into building these massive structures, instead of having gone to building homes for people, all in the name of this fairy tale faith. I'm certain if star wars fans built structures this large to the force, it would be considered an eyesore by the Christians
I'll have to agree with old architecture and history. Those things are interesting to me regardless of religion.
Well, I do like some of the holidays. Without any religious aspects Christmas is still a fun holiday.
Quote from: Solitary on December 06, 2014, 10:02:27 AM
This was a question asked on the forum, and this is an example of what I like, and also the music. The Chinese girl in the green coat in the picture is my oldest sons girlfriend. http://hls.iweek.ly/pdf/lwj/news360/2014512/320.html?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0
Oldest son? Really? That sounds interesting.
I like the architecture of old cathedrals and ancient religious monuments--yes, even if some of them may have been built with slave labor. I'm not sure that all of them were, though. It would have been a great privilege to have a cathedral in your town, and while some of the laborers probably were working off debts, doing penance for sins, or doing community service in exchange for not rotting in prison, there were probably plenty of others who would have seen it as a great honor to work for the glory of God, building a house where he could live (because if the Bible teaches us anything, it is that gods live in physical places, such as mountains and tabernacles). So what if poor people were starving to death while the Church spent funds on extravagant buildings? That's their punishment for sinning, dammit! It's why today we have the Crystal Cathedral instead of the Crystal Homeless Shelter. Don't worry, they'll ALL have cathedrals when they get to heaven.
Oh, and I also likes me some old-timey gospel music, and I actually prefer older religious Christmas music to the more modern holiday songs.
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Wonderful
Where God builds a church, the Devil will build a chapel.
Quote from: Faisal on January 14, 2015, 04:08:37 PM
Wonderful
Where God builds a church, the Devil will build a chapel.
Hi Faisal! Would you would be so kind as to make an intro? You have 35 posts and no one knows who you are :biggrin:
Quote from: PickelledEggs on January 14, 2015, 04:28:27 PM
Hi Faisal! Would you would be so kind as to make an intro? You have 35 posts and no one knows who you are :biggrin:
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Johann Sebastian Bach. That's the only thing that can get me in a church anymore is an organ recital.
Aslan, the jesus allegory lion.
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Because I was innocent and sweet once and loved this story before i knew it had christian themes in it.