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  • #402
    oldrnwisr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭oldrnwisr


    Buzz84 wrote: »
    So no one is being forced then yeah?


    Ahem...

    Buzz84 wrote: »
    Yeah but they don't. Who's trying to impose religion on you? Being obsessed with something you don't believe in isn't healthy. Its pretty sad.
    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Um, the Roman Catholic Church?

    Let's not forget how this got started, shall we? Mad Hatter's response was to your question of trying to impose their beliefs. Like I said, the Catholic Church is doing all they can to try and impose their beliefs on people some of which are more successful than others.


  • #403
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Buzz84 wrote: »
    So no one is being forced then yeah?
    Buzz, my child has to produce a baptismal cert to stand any chance of getting into our local school in September. Does that sound like a choice to you? Being forced to baptise your child to go to the same taxpayer-funded school all her friends are going to? As it happens, she's been offered a place in an ET school in a different area anyway. I just need to move house so that can work - sure what have I got to complain about!

    Your objections smack of the "I don't give a sh*t so neither should you" attitude.


  • #404
    Reekwind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Reekwind


    robindch wrote: »
    Atheists and agnostics, at least on this forum and I suspect in society more generally, hold their views because they understand religion, not because they don't
    No, that survey shows that atheists are more likely to know about religion than the next person on the street. That is not the same as understanding religion* and it's most certainly not the same as being able to produce a coherent and knowledgeable critique of a particular faith

    (Of course if you've got something to suggest that everyone who's posted in this thread is well versed in Islamic law then that would be something)

    Now I've got absolutely no doubt that many atheists on this forum are knowledgeable and are well placed to criticise. I'd like to think that I count amongst those. But that is not something that I have seen in this thread and cutting/pasting from the Sceptics Bible/Quran is not a particularly impressive demonstration of said knowledge. Posting a quote does not make you a paleographer. We're supposed to be rationalists, not merely inverse evangelicals

    *Which is not even getting into the flaws of that particular survey. One would expect, for example, a Muslim to score highly when questioned on Islam but be largely ignorant as to Mormon practicies


  • #405
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,751 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Dades. Is there a reason why you've let this thread go off on a tangent from page 26?

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #406
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Worztron wrote: »
    Dades. Is there a reason why you've let this thread go off on a tangent from page 26?
    No particular reason. Perhaps because it made a tired thread briefly interesting.

    Threads like this usually fade away to be found occasionally as people find it in searches. But you seem intent to keep it alive when it should be enjoying retirement, much like the way they keep inviting Twink on the Late Late Show.


  • #407
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,751 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Dades wrote: »
    No particular reason. Perhaps because it made a tired thread briefly interesting.

    Threads like this usually fade away to be found occasionally as people find it in searches. But you seem intent to keep it alive when it should be enjoying retirement, much like the way they keep inviting Twink on the Late Late Show.

    Selective moderating at its worst.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #408
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Worztron wrote: »
    Selective moderating at its worst.
    Worztron - discussion of mod decisions is only permitted in the feedback forum, and not in-thread.

    thanks.


  • #409
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Am responding via PM.


  • #410
    Geomy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    Buzz84 wrote: »

    I love that word makes it sound far more sinister.

    The reality is the vast majority of people and especially children dont give an absolute monkeys about religion.

    Without their knowledge, they send their kids to a Catholic school and then are shocked that their kids are taught about religion. Shock horror.

    I don't know anyone who was forced to believe the religion that was thought in schools,I'm being honest.
    I'm not saying this for the sake of an argument or to be different or piss people off.

    The only time I ever got into trouble in religion was when myself and the lads were singing "Swalk in the light swalk"
    and not "walk in the light walk"

    Maybe some catholic schools were more strict than other's.

    I'm lucky I never ended up in one of those strict holy schools very lucky,as being a cheeky fcker wouldn't have gone down very well


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