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kyupol

on July 8, 2008

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Rant of the Day
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How to tell if your religion is false:

- expectation of blind obedience and discouragement of critical thinking. This religion is the REAL ONE and all the rest are false or inferior to this religion. There is no other source of truth except the particular religion.

- you must not question the leader. He/she is infallible. He/she is always right.

- if its focused on hating the non-believers and other religions. Doesnt matter if it quotes scripture to justify hatred. As long as it focuses on HATE and not LOVE it is false.

- If the leader has a deluded sense of self in the form of an over-inflated self-esteem. If he/she refers to themselves in the 3rd person. If he/she has some grandiose opinion of themselves. Like claiming to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Like claiming to be some sort of ascended/enlightened being who is superior to all other people. Sure you are. Even if you can prove you have a psychic ability, that doesnt make you superior to all humans because ALL HUMANS HAVE A PSYCHIC POTENTIAL.

- You are guilt-tripped and shaming language is used (e.g. you're not even 1/4 of so-and-so member) to keep you in line or if you want to leave the religion. The manipulation is to make you base your self-worth on the opinion of the leader or of a certain "elite" group.

- Has absolute no respect for freedom of choice. Rituals have to be done or else you go to hell or the threat of something bad is gonna happen to you.

- Is a moneymaking business. If it requires members to give money, it is false. Legitimate religions may urge their members to donate money but the legit ones DO NOT FORCE them.


I'm not gonna name names but I leave it up to YOU to decide if your religion is false.
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@SarahN, trevoramueller, patoborracho, krisikas, Black Daisy, Walrus, Peipei, simonitro - thanks. Putting guns in proper perspective is much more trickier.

@JustNoPoint - hope its not as bad as Eman's family. :)

@magickmaker - not really. If you noticed, the uniform isnt the modern day uniform.

@Akki333 - nice to see you back again.

@BlkKnight - Thats a picture of a fence I took. Then manipulated in photoshop.

@ghostrunner - most of those who support Bush are either elitist who made profits or the highly brainwashed fake conservatives and fake christians who think they're part of the power structure but are too dumb to realize they're just pawns. Its sad. Btw I dont really think that Bush is the real one calling the shots. He is just a figurehead and he doesnt really give a rats ass if he's hated by 90% of America and the world. As long as he's pursuing the real agenda.

@Aussie_kid - I use toys for drawing guns and cars. Refpics arent as good since my brain switches to copy mode when using refpics. To draw objects like that, its necessary to have a 3-d image of that object in your head.