Religion and Race - a new cornerstone for us?

[stryker]

Jesus this thread got hijacked.
The question was should we build our culture around faith to attract more poly's or the likeminded.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Simply, no.

If they want to have a prayer together before or after the game, that's their prerogative.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

take this with a grain of salt

no offense to anyone -

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

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

this is going to go nowhere

3 arguments no one ever wins

Wests v Balmain
JT vs Farah
Religion vs Atheism

The winners can now be declared:
Wests have all the trumps.
JT is like a jockey falling off his wild bronco called Farah after pulling the bit too hard and too many kicks into the groin area.
Religion had kicked about a million own goals, their top team is called Stupidity - while Atheism is off to the moon with science.

I was taught in a Catholic school that stars were holes in the floor of Heaven - that was religion's strongest card!

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Jesus this thread got hijacked.
The question was should we build our culture around faith to attract more poly's or the likeminded.

Objection your honour - you have showed unconscionable bias by beginning with exclamation "Jesus" and therefore should stand down so a Rastafarian on ganga can moderate.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

The abject abuse of power by priests looking after children and subsequent failure of the church to acknowledge this unfortunately prevents me from seeing religion as a solution.

I don't/won't judge others in their views as they shouldn't judge me

So you judge schools, scouts, local sports clubs, swimming teams, tv shows, annoying entertainers, family gatherings all as things that couldn't possibly be solutions?

On a more serious note, the disgusting issue you are referring to has been rife across most major institutions in our society. Picking on the church is like blaming your skin for skin cancer. Of course sickos are going to choose to operate in places they have power over their victims.

All institutions, ALL… failed the poor victims of these vile creatures. The church failed TERRIBLY. Humans failed. The Dept of Education failed. 1000s of families failed. It is horrible. Thinking it is proof one way or another of whether religion can bring meaning to your life is a bit of a leap.

That said I can see how you get there. The church and my beloved faith will be picking off scabs for generations because of what those vile creatures did. All the great work. All the volunteering and the charity.... Forgotten. Judged by the minority.

Probably like a Roosters player. In my mind they are all dog rooters.

There is a difference from where these so called solutions are coming from - religions put themselves up as the moral leaders of society, even condemning atheists such as myself to Hell for not accepting their bulldust. They have condemned all types of minorities to death such as homosexual people etc. it is even in their miscalled Holy Books. And during the Inquisition era they even had the State put these innocent minorities to death in horrific circumstances.

Where as all other the other institutions mentioned above don't have such perverse condemnations in their "constitution" and don't self-declare themselves as saviours of mankind. So religions put themselves up to be knocked down.