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RoccoR5955

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29. The real war is on people who don't believe in god nor do they believe in religion.

Sat Apr 4, 2015, 11:07 AM

Apr 2015

There are even "atheist churches" popping up all over the world, where they say that it is the same thing as Sunday church, without the god.
BS I say. There is still someone controlling the message, and after all, isn't that what religion is all about? You may say that it is about something else, but realistically when you think about how and why religions were formed, it was all about control, and it still is.

I don't need a god nor do I need a religion (though I am practicing clergy of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster) to control me, and tell me what is right and wrong, nor do I need to assemble with others who have the same beliefs as I do. (I am only a Pastafarian, because its "beliefs" are these things, and many look down on someone with no religion. So I tell them that I am a Pastafarian.)

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