Tom Cruise on Scientology

The only difference between the two is that the bible has been controlling people for 2000 years, Scientology for 50 or so.

Although, Paul never wrote sci-fi thrillers

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

You are. That bullshit is the individual justifying their pre-concieved notions more than anything else. I've pretty much never met somebody deciding to behave that way suddenly after reading a bible passage who wasn't already decided on it.

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That's the danger though. The Bible is completely ambiguous. If you want to read it and find peace, you can do that. If you want to read it and find ways to justify hate, you can do that too.

The pick-and-choose-what-you-like-out-of-it nature of Christianity is what makes it dangerous.

I man, after all, it is the word of God. :rolleyes:

Hey, whatever gets you through the day, man.

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Originally Posted by Giga Power

That's because it's just as far fetched and silly. You can't make fun of one religion, be a normal rational person six days of the week, and then go to a building and worship zombie Jesus and old man Yahweh yourself. That makes you equal amount idiot.

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I wouldn't say idiot. Maybe a hypocrite, but not an idiot. For one to be an idiot, it really depends on why they are a Christian.

If you're in a club, you can make fun of other clubs, even if the idea of clubs is silly. Like message boards.

We can rag on NeoGAF all day, but in the end, nerds, yo.

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Originally Posted by Bailey

I'm fine with... being a bachelor, what's the issue?

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Well, in your case I agree bachelorhood is the way to go. The last thing we need is more Biffs in the world. However, if everyone did that, the species would die out in about 100 years.

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

Well, the Apostle Paul wrote a considerable chunk of the New Testament; and he had some out there ideas. Such as:
1. Woman shouldn't speak in church. At all. If they have questions they should ask their husbands/fathers later at home.
2. Women shouldn't cut their hair. It's their glory you know.
3. He also wanted all men to be bachelors, as he was. He did say it was a suggestion and not a decree, but he felt families held ya back from spreading the gospel; so you shouldn't bother with them.

There's more, but that's all I got off the top of my head.

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1 may or may not be true.

2. Only applies to the church of Corinth. It was wrong in that city to cut your hair. Only whores did that. But after the start of the church, a lot of people stopped doing things normal for that town, and most of the non christians thought they were a bag of dicks for doing so. Pauls letter boils down to him saying "hey, god doesn't say you shouldn't cut your hair, but he does say that you should try to get people to believe in him, and you can't do that if the whole town thinks you are a bag of dicks, so like, cut that shit out for now, k?"

If you want further proof that not cutting your hair is not a commandment of God, go to the end of that section, it says "for whomever contest this, this is not a custom for us"

3. Debatable. A more realistic belief is that Paul believed the end times were coming. He assumed that because God made him aware of them, they were going to happen in his life time. A lot of what he said was based around that. So when he said "it is better you should not wed" he meant, it is better you shouldn't wed, because a wife is going to be a major worry when the earth goes to hell in a hand basket.

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

Well, in your case I agree bachelorhood is the way to go. The last thing we need is more Biffs in the world. However, if everyone did that, the species would die out in about 100 years.

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See the only difference between you and I is that I have a choice, you wear fat pants.

yeah, but don't you hate your gf?

I'll bet you money it's true. I don't have a bible here at work, but it is in the same section as #2.