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Originally Posted by jones jones
is this a fair definition of religion?
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! . . . But He loves you!" —George Carlin
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Not sure lets break it down...
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day..."
..."And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do...."
"...And if you do any of these 10 things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!..."
I'd say thats about right, 'religion' (mankind) has done a good job of reducing biblical truth to a list of ten basic do's/don'ts handed out by an invisible entity.
But in reality God is not a man, he is not like man at all, and is a Spirit, and the list does exists, but you do not get punished for doing or not doing the list... punishment is for those who refuse to recognize that God is. The list is incidental.
So Yes, Mr Carlins right, in my opinon, religion is a convaluted pack of lies perpetrated by mankind to make true belief a farce so mankind can do whatever it is that it wants to do as guilt free and in ingorance of the truth as possible.
The only problem is that Mr Carlin said this, of course, to perpetuate the myth of religion and keep doing everything he desired regardless of how it affected the truth that God is.
I gurantee he knows the truth now.