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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Church/temple is an institution that has the means to bring people together and maintain tradition, if done rightly. Tradition is, in my view, the reason for church to exist today.   Traditions are what keeps families together. To give people who need help a place to come to, or for people who want to make friends and have a support system but don't know how to come together.  It is time for people to realize that church/temple is a place of gathering/reflection which is sorely needed in this day and age of alienation.  It has stopped being about the "right" God and the "right" religion for many people.[/quote]

Well said.  The real benefit of organized religion, in my opinion, is the social / tribal aspect of it.  I think it's pretty clear the supernatural stuff is wishful thinking.[/quote]

In many religions, people are taught to believe in the supernatural stuff and part of what they are taught is that you will suffer after death if you don't believe it.  This can be pretty scary, especially to little kids and people are taught this when they are children.  On the up side, you will live forever in heaven if you do believe it.[/quote]

Not the PP who told OP to take her atheism elsewhere. But I suppose this thread is a good outlet for DCUM's  two ranting atheists who want to spew their ignorant opinions. For example, there are so many errors, both factual and rhetorical, with the uneducated and bigoted last two posts.

But if you guys promise to stay here in your hate-filled little sandbox, the rest of us can have adult conversations on the other threads.

Deal?[/quote]

I wish we had a deal where you kept your religion out of politics, so women didn't have men making reproductive choices for them, gays being forced to live with restrictions you don't, and the environment and animals being smothered under your backward logic. I like how you toss around around the word bigoted. It's okay to criticize your nonsense beliefs. All the young people do. In a few years, they'll be running the show. That's right none of them go to church. [/quote]

Stop already with the sweeping, bigotted generalizations about all religious people. Plenty of us from all faiths want religion out of politics and think it has no place in government. You know this, of course, but acknowledging it would get in the way of you being a bigoted jacka$$.

If you stop being a bigoted jacka$$, then we religious folks won't associate all atheists with the immature, angry bigots on DCUM.

Deal? [/quote]

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