QUOTE (Dr Lecter @ Apr 23 2005, 01:59 PM)
Fine fuckwits, I am the Forum's anti-pope. bow before me! PIE FOR ALL!
Since the pope is someone we are supposed to listen to and believe to be infallible, if you are the anti-pope, doesn't that mean we should completely ignore you? Oh and pie bad, casserole good.
Rhubarb, since you express a desire to know why I am so eager to prove the church is a cult, I will tell you. In the thoughts of most religious people, cults and religions are two distinctly different things. If they realise this is crap however, it might just take them from the hideous darkness of religious thought and into the bright shining light of atheism.
Oh, I forgot an argument you made the last time I posted, so I will refute it here. If "the church is a religion by fucking definition" because the western concept of religion was started by the catholic church, how come society doesn't view religions such as hinduism and budhism as cults? They are extremely different concepts to catholism, unlike judaism and islam which are more or less the same. Not that they weren't considered cults at one stage, but the lovely concept of PC thought meant that had to change. Interestingly, this only seems to apply to ancient religions. Anyone starting a brand new religious movement now has to be starting on offshoot of an established religion or they will be instantly labeled a cult. Even if they are an offshoot, such as mormonism, they will still probably be thought of as a cult. If cults and religions are completely different things it should be possible for someone to found a new religion tomorrow. If brand new cults are completely different things to brand new religions, I would very much like to hear how they would be any different from one another in anyway whatsoever. They would both agressively seek new members, as you said only cults did, because neither would have any members at all if they did not.
I wasn't aware that satanism was considered a religion. I am quite impressed they managed to pull that off. They don't offend me any more than christians do. If I thought the bible was the literal truth I would certainly take satans side because all he really did was rebel against a dictator. Having said that, I have never met a satanist, and satanism sounds to me like something started by someone who wanted to shock their parents. Such people are generally wankers.
And the HTML was due to a rather irritating piece of software that seems to have infected my computer, which I cannot seem to get rid of, called NT search. It turns random words on a web page into links to look the word up in their search engine. It even turns individual words in links already on the page into links for their fucking site! If I click on the first word of the link, I get taken to the intended page. If I click on the random word selected by NT search, I go straight to their fucking search engine. If there is any justice in this world, when the man who designed this thing dies, he will be chained up in the lowest dungeons of hell, with a catherine wheel tied forever to his penis.
And yes, the churchs view of lust is especially offensive to me. This was caused by endless nights of sexual frustration when I was thirteen. That is until I came to my senses, realised the church was talking bollocks, and started masturbating furiously.