This is borderline insanity when you look for symbols to represent a form of evil which may or may not exist depending on your religious views. I for one think its all for show ( nothing satanic or religious ) and when your day to day life is picking away at hand gestures made by athletes and interpreting them to be evil is one line past KOO KOO.
LOL, Sorry for the spelling mistake but I hope you understood. I don't even know how to spell satanism. Let alone knowing the ok sign meaning "Go Satan!"I'm not sure what a "satinist" is... Is that like someone who works at Bed, Bath and Beyond?
Unreal, Illini thinks Justin T. is laughing his ass off when he watches a basketball with a lot of three pointers being made.
I'd still like my question answered. Is Justin T. proud of being a satanist? Does he admit to this?
Get real, zit. Stop thinking your god is going to be mad at you if you don't make a fool of yourself by trying to defend your beliefs against science. The Greeks were pretty advanced for their time and they believed the sun was a god that rode his fucking chariot across the sky to his palace in the western horizon. The Egyptians, who were scientifically advanced enough in mathematics and science to build the pyramids thought that the sun was Ra on a barge.
The point is, ancient cultures used religion in the place of science. As science discovered the truth, the religions faded away. Your goofy, primitive and childish religious beliefs are the equivalent of still believing that Poseidon is the cause of earthquakes. If you fuckers don't manage to blow up the world, religions will soon fade into history, like they've done in nearly everyone other first world democracy, with the US trailing behind but trending in the right direction.
CANT' WAIT!
If you read what I wrote, I never once said the ballplayers were Satanists or even that they had a clue what their gestures meant.
Is Timberlake personally a Satan worshipper and participate in satantic rituals? Probably not, he's likely a puppet. Or is it just a coincidence that he holds up a satanic sign and has the word Magic as the name of his album. You can believe that if you want. Or I'm sure that Jay Z came up with Do What Thou Wilt on his own. Haha.
Is Timberlake personally a Satan worshipper and participate in satantic rituals? Probably not, he's likely a puppet. Or is it just a coincidence that he holds up a satanic sign and has the word Magic as the name of his album. You can believe that if you want. Or I'm sure that Jay Z came up with Do What Thou Wilt on his own. Haha.
I completely agree with you that religion will fade in time. However, in my experience, trying to convince a religious person that there is no God is about as pointless banging your head against the wall. In fact, it will probably have the opposite affect. People will commit even more to their religious beliefs (i.e. cognitive dissonance).
As I suspect it was for you, coming to the conclusion that there is no God is a personal journey that requires a rigorously honest evaluation of the mounting scientific evidence (or lack thereof). Most people just aren't willing to embark on that journey because it poses a threat to the comfort of faith.
Let's face it, being an atheist is not easy. In fact, there is some evidence to suggest that we are pre-programmed from birth to believe in a higher power as a way to psychologically deal with the knowledge of our mortality.
That being said, as an atheist, you tend to savor every day you're above ground because you know when it's over, it's over.
100% correct. I grew weary of fighting these battles on the internet, so I've adopted my current strategy of mocking them and pointing out how primitive their beliefs are rather than trying to use logic and reason. Every now and then, I get sucked back in.
As Mark Twain said: "The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible".
Or Isaac Asimov: “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
I think telling Fundies that their religion is an evolved trait would make their heads explode.
