why exactly are you convinced that religion plays a role in and/or significantly impacts the lives of the vast majority of the earth' s populace? I'm genuinely curious because I'd be hard pressed to name a single person that I personally know who is even mildly impacted by organized religion (unless bikram yoga counts).
Get real with your life gare...zero chance I'd take the bus. When I need to go to the mainland, I take the ferry and then ride my beach cruiser through downtown like I own the mofo playing chicken with the taxi cabs and the bus drivers
Is she under control of her human - sinful - urges to enjoy sex at 10 x the capacity of you? Think multiple orgasms that have indefinite elements to them, at least in terms of biological potential.
Have you ever heard of the institution of "marriage"?
Have you ever paid a tax?
Have you ever visited or received a postcard from a nation-state?
Have you ever come across one of the 8,000,000,000 (8 billion) copies of the Bible they have printed?
Have you ever enjoyed a weekend off without realising only slaves have scheduled days off?
Have you ever interacted or had reason to become familiar with the law or rules or guides for conduct?
Have you ever heard of property rights? Birthrights? Heritage? The class system? Caste?
I'm surprised to discover you don't wear clothes?
You don't shake hands to cover for your sociopathic incapacity to be warm and genuine upon meeting a stranger for the first time? You don't fall onto your default small talk in light of having nothing else **safe** to risk talking about?
You've never been paid a salary? Drawn an hourly wage? Punched in a clock?
You've never been forced to defer to a superior even though you knew he was incorrect? You've never come across the construct of "power" or "authority" before?
Have you ever seen violence in action; or perhaps on television?
Have you ever felt the emotions of jealousy, anger, rage, a desire for revenge, an identical but more socially acceptable desire they label "justice", benevolence, charitable, mercifulness, desperation manifesting in pleas to non-existent constructs? Have you never felt hatred or animosity or vindictiveness? Have you never sought to control your natural urge to breathe air or eat food? Have you never be patient when circumstances did not justify sensitivity to the unlucky existence you broke laws of nature to permit to be artificially selected rather than naturally culled? Have you never felt an identity, a sense of belonging (like a piece of property that can be identified and claimed) by said family from said area known for said history and proud of being proud of said something or something said?
Have you never found shame in sexual immorality; like not having sex when you wanted to or do you think control of your naughty desire to breathe might be more suitably arrested and sanctioned?
Quote:
Galatians 5:17 ESV
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Your desire to breathe and eat and exercise are sins. Go and sin no more.
Have you never taken something that didn't belong to you and was being used by another, smaller, weaker, less cunning human?
Have you never exploited your size, strength, mind, speed, muscle twitch, reflexes, senses to gain an advantage over another human's expense or suffered a disadvantage when another exploited the disparity between your religious inferiority and his respectively superior religious advantage demanding to be applied?
Have you never had a reason to interact with a member of the opposing sex?
Quote:
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Have you never traded in emotional currency?
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Matthew 5:1-48 ESV
And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
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Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...
You've never been taught the construct of time? Of a beginning and end of something finite?
You've never been introduced to the concept of omnipotence and fatalism and miracles which serve as effective indefinite answers that solve mysteries you cannot yourself decipher with your tiny mind?
You've never heard of a "secret" or come across information that was "restricted" or "classified", not for your eyes or which you didn't need to know but weren't allowed to know if you needed to know or needed to see? You've never had answers or information withheld on the grounds that the information was simply "private" or "personal" and therefore - justifiably - held from you in the way you should have held the neck of whomever claimed that insanity until no more air might escape its oesophagus? I mean, if you were humane.
You've never heard of sovereigns ordained by a higher power to rule over your lesser and inferior chattel, to rape you if the higher power so wills it but mostly to rape and leech and ransack the area under his or her holy dominion?
Have you never been exposed to murder, genocide, rape, sexual slavery, bartering humans for profit or advantage; arranged marriages, human sacrifice, tokens of virginity or the practice of culling excess captives?
Have you never come across the emotional constructs of fear, terror, respect, insanity, obsession, shame, inner mind emotional torture of the kind that presents in violent physical explosions when the victim cannot distinguish between the pain inside their molested and abused mind and their natural body's alert system which serves as an Early Warning against physical trauma and blood loss?
Have you never been in conflict or been forced to defence yourself against a human with a conflict of interest?
Have you never heard of war?
Have you never been in love or been loved by another sociopath confused about what - exactly - exclusive love even is?
If so, I'm positively Biblically jealous myself. Make sure you blabber some emotional currency to give credit where credit is due, for your good fortune.
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Giving God All the Glory Rom 16:27
Blessing the Lord at All Times.
Continuallv Praising the Lord with Our Mouths Psa 34:1
BLESS YOU ALL. BLESS YOU THIS DAY. BLESS YOU ON ALL DAYS. BLESS YOUR CROPS. BLESS YOUR CHILDREN. BLESS YOUR HEALTH. BLESS YOUR WORTHY BLESSINGS.
And thank you for this food and shelter in exchange. And I'll take that there 14 year old who has clearly been raised right. Seen and not heard, exactly how I like my children. Respectful of their elders and trusting in the Way of the Lord.
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You've all been touched by religion in countless ways you cannot even comprehend.
A more insightful exercise might seek to isolate a single instance of your behaviour or action or thought process or emotional tapestry of feelings that hasn't been corrupted by the insanity of those fucking androgynous priests working in tandem with old haggard whores to retard the human species and reduce our once-proud race into faeces.