religion, or the lack of it?

well this has probably been said before, but heres what I think of religion...I think its shit, people should be able to worship who/whatever thay want and not be prosecuted for it, all that ever results from organized religion is war, and more needless bloodshed

I like idealism, but don't become cliché, your views are held by many sheep of the media who believe what their processed rolemodels tell them.

Man I know what you mean people shouldn't be presecuted for what they believe. But religion has done a lot more than started wars. I have seen people have thier whole lives turned around by religion and reiligion has done a lot of good for the world like charities like sharelife and whatnot.

[sp0rkius]

quote:Originally posted by Roostergougingureyesout:

I like idealism, but don't become cliché, your views are held by many sheep of the media who believe what their processed rolemodels tell them.

Sheep of the media.... I hate that term. I hate how everyone thinks the media are trying to shape an image of things because they're out to fuck up the world. Maybe in America.

[Metalligod]

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quote:Originally posted by sp0rkius:

Sheep of the media.... I hate that term. I hate how everyone thinks the media are trying to shape an image of things because they're out to fuck up the world. Maybe in America.

Take a look at what Marilyn Manson did to suburban teenagers. He was the rolemodel they needed to express themselves. The media attempted to portray him as evil, which now many church groups believe this, because the media told them so. (Some did come to this conclusion by way of the music alone, but think of the church going outcry against early rock.)

The news media is attempting to poison the non-thinking group of society into believing that the war in Iraq is about "freedom" as opposed to revenge. That the war is about securing fair oil for the rest of the world as opposed to taking control of a majority so that we may feed our gas-guzzling economy. People are, in my view, very eager to latch onto a bandwagon because they are afraid to be left behind. Think of that dreaded, and severly overused term; peer pressure.

I may sound paranoid and just a tad nihilistic, but I tell it how I see it.