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(Opinion) 'The Invention of Lying' Contains Sinister Anti-God Message

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'The Invention of Lying' Contains Sinister Anti-God Message

a valid criticism

From this description it sounds like a valid criticism of organized religion .

- MrBook October 4, 2009 6:07PM

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- What wouldn't to you?
  
  You can find an argument against religion inside a Pez dispenser. You ignore everything good about religion in your zeal to paint the religious as zealots.
  
  - SolarSanitizer October 4, 2009 6:41PM
  
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  - Paint
    
    When did criticism of religion become painting 'the religious as zealots'?
    
    - MrBook October 4, 2009 7:45PM
    
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    - Constantly.
      
      When you do it incessently and at every possible opportunity.
      
      You are not hopeless, though.
      
      http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Theophobia +treatment
      
      - SolarSanitizer October 4, 2009 7:52PM
      
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      - bounds
        
        I am rather critical of the major organized religions, and religion in general... but that is largely confined to areas where it tries to spill out into the observable universe.
        
        - MrBook October 4, 2009 9:51PM
        
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        Or in other words...
        
        When you say "...it tries to spill out into the observable universe", do you mean whenever it is observed by you?
        
        Other people attack things they detest whenever they observe it also. People like racists and homophobes.
        
        How does your intolerance differ from theirs, exactly?
        
        - SolarSanitizer October 4, 2009 10:03PM
        
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        debate
        
        I'm still not sure what you are getting at... this is a debate website, I come here to debate topics that are posted.
        
        - MrBook October 5, 2009 6:32AM
        
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        opposing views
        
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        I am totally intolerant to pedophiles, and assume all here are. Perhaps you could explain how this makes all, or any of us, "racists and homophobes"?
        
        I am intolerant of many other despicable things too; the pope telling Africans condoms are worse than aids, 50% of pregnancies ending in termination by god , people who drive in the fast lane when they're the slowest on the road, the list goes on.
        
        I it still doesn't make me a "racists and homophobes"
        
        - alaskansee October 6, 2009 4:04PM
        
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        I think what he meant by spill into the observable universe
        
        Is when religious people try to enforce their religious views on the non-religious or people of other religions. I don't detest religion I just want it separate from my nations laws, as the founders intended. Funny how Christians love to bash Muslim nations for creating laws based on their faith when Christians are trying to do the same thing here.
        
        The difference in "intolerance" is that you (using the word you to refer to all religious people who try to push their views on the rest of us) are choosing to push your beliefs on others who don't want it. I'm intolerant of pushy jackasses. If I were intolerant of a certain race or sexual preference because of the way they were born I would be an intolerant jackass. Not wanting you to set laws on me based on your interpretation of your book is not intolerance.
        
        - State of Reason October 7, 2009 10:53AM
        
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        To get back on topic
        
        I haven't seen the movie, but from the review above I can't wait.
        
        - State of Reason October 7, 2009 10:54AM
        
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        Why argue with MrBook?
        
        He is not open to other peoples opinions or arguments. He has made up his mind and is completely intolerant of anyone who does not believe as he does. Just read his posts it is blatantly apparent where he stands on most if not all subjects. I read his posts but I do not respond as that would be the same as talking to a wall.
        
        - TheCatholicHeretic October 7, 2009 12:48PM
        
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      - Constantly, you say?
        
        Funny how the Catholic League constantly is whining about any hint of criticism, labeling everything as "bigotry". The persecution complex is quite amazing. Whine, whine, whine. The Catholics don't have the power to simply chop off your head if you don't agree with them, so now they constantly portray themselves as victims despite the fact that their organization is one of the most powerful in the world. Truly pathetic.
        
        - WayOfTheDodo October 7, 2009 3:54PM
        
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        Yeah..
        
        I was accusing that user of constant and incessant intolerance at anything resembling religion or anyone who identified themselves as religious.
        
        I am not minimizing the atrocities perpetrated by worshipers throughout history.
        
        So...
        
        - SolarSanitizer October 7, 2009 4:19PM
        
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- I do not agree
  
  The movie seems to address the topic of wrongful or deceitful claims . I do not think Religion is that - "lying" - is a psychiatric patient suffering from schizofrenia "lying" when he or she has hallucinations? Of course not. Maybe some of those "religious people" don't really believe in those hallucinatory disorders those real believers suffer from, and are in fact lying, to make money , but I do think these believers sincerely thing in all these outrageous magical things they claim. They aren't lying per se - they are just very sick people that need our help.
  
  - Khannea Suntzu October 7, 2009 5:30PM
  
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