Comments on: George Carlin’s Take On Religion

By: Korgan

Korgan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:23:02 +0000

Alllost, it is not credible for anyone to take the bible as a standard for anything, when it is not even self-consistent.

Furthermore it is extremely annoying for you to claim that many of us here have not read the bible. Get a grip. Most westerners are force-fed that absurd collection of fairy tales known as the bible from early childhood onward.

It is appalling in the modern world that anyone still buys into this nonsense of your bible as a “standard” considering all that has been shown to be wrong in the bible, such as how diseases propagate, how the earth was populated, the age and shape of the earth, and much much more.

Perhaps you yourself should read a basic science textbook. And then some modern biology.

Religion is for the ignorant, the gullible, and the stupid, and for those who would profit from them.

By: jagannath

jagannath — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:44:37 +0000

One cannot rid himself of his primal fears if he does not understand the nature of the universe but instead suspects the truth of some mythical story. So without the study of nature, there can be no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)

By: Alllost

Alllost — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:03:16 +0000

Science must harmonise with the Bible with the Bible being the Standard for science and whatever else to match up to. Science is ever changing as the years roll by. Scientists theories and findings keep changing so texts get updated. men just floating another man’s ideas in changing times and developments. The Bible, the words of God, never changes. Remains the same yesterday, today and will remain forever. Archaeologists are discovering that bible history are true. Scientists are discovering there’s someone in control. Those who don’t believe that Jesus Christ paid the price for your sins and life has been given to you freely because of what He has done are already damned.
Give yourselves a trial run. Read a chapter in the Bible daily for three months and see if you are still the same person. Challenge yourself and see. Go buy yourself a Holy Bible. I guarentee you won’t be the same. God Bless evryone.

By: hyrocket

hyrocket — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:02:56 +0000

Ron, for this is not my only home, for my home is with my Father. You, Ron have another home if you see that Jesus came to save the dead and as you put it violent and selfish, let Jesus Christ show you how much He loves you or just be in a place like this funny guy on this clip.

By: Ron F.

Ron F. — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:34:43 +0000

I would just like to comment on the violent attitudes of the religious believers comments. I always notice that when you don’t agree with the views and comments of the so called (Christian’s) that they always are the first to get insulting and violent toward non-believers! It’s KILL the Infidel’s syndrome! You always get your “stupid” or “ignorant” or something worse from the believers if you try to just not believe! Where is my So-Called-Free-Will in that? Religious people are why we have so much violence in this world. because they cause the conflict of to believe or not believe! I do not believe there is a supreme being coming to save any of us! We are all alone in this and that has me even more scared! for I have no faith in man-kind ever getting past it’s violent selfish nature! Not too mention what we are doing to our own planet! Our ONLY HOME!

By: Mr. Joe

Mr. Joe — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:50:17 +0000

RIP George. You will be missed. I’m so glad I got to see him back in January a few months before he died.

Check out georgecarlin.com and go past the intro and read a section of his will. He wanted a total secular event following his death. I’m sure he got it. I found it completely interesting.

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:52:37 +0000

Sorry BC, for flippantly characterizing your post. You are explaining that certain parts of the Bible are mythical, and I don’t disagree. Such as the virgin birth in Bethlehem, definitely a story designed to raise Jesus up to God-hood and claim his lineage back to Abraham, or whomever. The December 25th date was set by Constantine, FYI, not in the Bible. But that’s not important to me.

My reference to “Kings” was a challenge to the question of what is historical proof. There are many historical figures that are not questioned, but we only know they existed because a bunch of people wrote about them. I’m willing to accept the conclusions of historians (many non-Christian) who accept that the non-miraculuos parts of the story happened, with some degree of error due to oral tradition, etc.

We now know a lot more about what is above the clouds, and how the earth rotates on a tilted axis creating the “ages” you speak of. It is our job to accept that people who wrote these stories didn’t know these things, and try to understand what it was they were dealing with. Seems to me it was someone pretty special, someone worth discussing.

Thomas Jefferson literally separated the myth from the (possibly) factual story, by rewriting the gospels without the miracles and angels and junk, http://books.google.com/books?id=kBZUJvBwZB8C&dq=thomas+jefferson+bible&pg=PP1&ots=n15FMXyFkK&sig=0WToF7×8UbumYIxt27VH90QNono&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA92,M1

By: MarcDLS

MarcDLS — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:47:36 +0000

I am reminded of a study in which scientists filled a tank with what they believed were the conditions of pre-life Earth and set to applying sparks (i.e. lightning). What do ya know, they were able to form the basic building blocks of life (i.e. DNA). Given enough time the DNA would become more abundant, mix together, mutant, and finally form cells. Problem is, we don’t have long enough life spans to prove that. But we have proven that microbes do evolve since we can witness hundreds of their generations, and that pre-life Earth could have spontaneously formed DNA.

By: BC Campbell

BC Campbell — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:45:10 +0000

John,

It’s not Numerology, every character is a myth, they never existed. They weren’t kings, they were gods, worshiped in the past by what we call the ancients.

Let me explain. Sirius is the East Star, the 3 Kings are Orion’s Belt, birth of “God’s Sun” is on the Winter’s Solstice, Dec. 25th, virgin Mary is Virgo, Bethlehem’s meaning is house of bread, Dec. 22, 23 and 24th symbolizes death to the ancients. Meaning that the sun seems to stop moving south for 3 days and it dwells in the vicinity of the Southern Cross constellation ( Crux ) before it begins to rise again on the 25th of Dec., that’s where the resurrection also comes in.

Also let me point out the Miracle Birth (born of a virgin) was 15 centuries before Christianity. Jesus is in the age of Pisces, symbol of the 2 fish, note that he always fed the people with 2 fish. The coming of age according to the Bible is a man bearing water, Aquarius will be the next New Age, we are still in the age of Pisces.

There is more to this than what I have written here, but the basis of the Bible was purely astrological, no factual evidence, just the readings from the night sky above our heads, the sun and moon, and the changing of the seasons.

Have a nice day,

By: BC Campbell

BC Campbell — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:03:04 +0000

Jayman,

Who said I was religious? Get a grip!!!

As far as watching evolution in a dish, ask yourself this question, where did the scientists get the single cell to study? Anything they study already is, they can’t make cells, and if they did, we would have to assume they are creators.

Our planet has been destroyed how many times? Life that existed upon it was also destroyed during those times. So stating we have been evolving for billions of years is a false statement.

The Bible is a book of fables, religions are BS and there has been documented proof of scientists making claims of discoveries that have proved false.

Believe what you want, doesn’t make a difference to me, but please, in the future, get your facts straight.