I would have gone with Manichean, but I’m all about irony like that.
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WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
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“Belief is the death of intelligence.”–Robert Anton Wilson
Why Quotes 
“When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying… The rest of his life he’ll spend discovering why…”–Erik Tanghe
“For as long as there’s anyone to ask ‘Why?’ the answer will always be, 'Why not?”–Vera Nazarian
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”–Friedrich Nietzsche
“Why should I even bother? What’s the point, really?” He thought for a moment. “Who says there has to be a point?” he asked. “Or a reason. Maybe it’s just something you have to do.”–Sarah Dessen
“I may not know why, but I do know why not and this is where I stand.”–J.R. Rim
“The ultimate question concerns not consciousness, evolution, origin of life or purpose of the Universe, but why is there something rather than nothing.”–Joseph Rain
“All knowledge meets an end at the question '…Why?”–Criss Jami
“When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.”–A.J. Darkholme
“The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?”–William Barrett
“Unreflectively posting quotes of people without any serious reflection or analysis is as much a travety against critical thinking as blind faith.” - Internet Abraham Linclon
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So… what I get from your reply is that you have no original thoughts of your own and can only CTRL-C CTRL-V. Is that really what you’re going for?
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Who is Erik Tanghe? Vera Nazarian? Sarah Dessen? J.R. Rim? Joseph Rain? Criss Jami? A.J. Darkholme? William Barrett?
Googling “why” and copypasting the top ten results is not an answer. It’s a waste of your time and ours. You’re telling us to ignore you, rather than pay attention to you. I’m happy to oblige.
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Bottom’s up!
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Будем здоровы!
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Skål!
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I have a friend who was born in Sierra Leone, located in West Africa. To my disbelief he informed me that, in schol his teachers taught him that Christopher Columbus discovered Africa. That was not surprising given the genocide, economic exploitation and deliberate mis-education reaped on Africa during European colonization.
Relgion, religious groups, organizations and individuals played a major roll in the colonization of Africa. Religion, religious groups, organizations and individuals are still playing a major role in the discrimination, human and civil rights violations, murders and violence, that is being perpetrated against the LGBTQ community in Africa today.
Africans worshipping Islam or Christianity with Africa’s long history of ancestral, cultural and ethnic spiritualism, brings to mind the words: brainwashed, mis-educated, spiritual slave, and dangerously unenlightened.
What is sad, despicable, and dangerous, with deadly consequences for the LGBTQ community in Africa, is when brainwashed Africans use the homophobic scriptures of mythical religions like Islam and Christianity to violate the civil rights, human rights and encourage murder and violence against the LGTBQ community in Africa.
…The fires of homophobia in Africa are fanned by the rhetoric of religious fundamentalists of both Christianity and Islam who at times incite mob violence and urge legislators to further penalize homosexual acts. This widespread persecution has caused refugee camps to fill with LGBT asylum seekers fleeing precarious livelihoods in their home countries…
While Lively is relatively unknown in the United States, he enjoys many supporters overseas, including religious and political leaders in Eastern Europe and Africa. “The most important thing I have learned in my long career fighting for biblical values,” he wrote in 2013, “is that worldview dictates policy.” He doesn’t think locally, he thinks globally, and he has successfully influenced anti-gay policies in other countries, most notably in Uganda from whence the current lawsuit originates. (Lively’s role in stoking homophobic hatred in Africa is captured in the documentary God Loves Uganda.)
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Chin-chin! 
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The Caste System of Hinduism: Violence against women in the form of Bride Burning and Dowry Death.
India has in recent weeks seen some of its most concerted protests because of caste. At least 18 people were killed and hundreds injured in violent protests by members of the Jat community who are unhappy about the caste quota system, as they say it puts them at a disadvantage in government jobs and at state-run educational institutes. The BBC explains the complexities of India’s caste system.
India’s caste system is among the world’s oldest forms of surviving social stratification.
The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based on their karma (work) and dharma (the Hindi word for religion, but here it means duty) is generally accepted to be more than 3,000 years old…
…The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. Many believe that the groups originated from Brahma, the Hindu God of creation…
…Outside of this Hindu caste system were the achhoots - the Dalits or the untouchables…
Humans were born as untouchables as a form of punishment for misbehavior in a previous life. If a person was born in to the untouchable caste, she or he could not ascend to a higher caste within that lifetime; untouchables had to marry fellow untouchables, and could not eat in the same room or drink from the same well as a caste member.
A total of 24,771 dowry deaths have been reported in the country in past three years with maximum of them occurring in Uttar Pradesh with 7,048 deaths.
http://www.indianchild.com/dowry_in_india.htm
Dowry originated in upper caste families as the wedding gift to the bride from her family. The dowry was later given to help with marriage expenses and became a form of insurance in the case that her in-laws mistreated her. Although the dowry was legally prohibited in 1961, it continues to be highly institutionalized. The groom often demands a dowry consisting of a large sum of money, farm animals, furniture, and electronics.
Bride-burning accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour in India.
These are all problems in India. What do they have to do with the mythical Christian solar god Jesus’s association with the Sun exactly? While the Indian cultural institutions of caste and dowry are a problem, they’re cultural problems so while dowry’s a problem across much of S. and SE Asia in areas that aren’t Hindu but Buddhist, and isn’t a part of Buddhism. The caste system’s more embedded in Hinduism, which is why there was a movement among Dalits to convert to Buddhism from Hinduism.
How do you understand the relationship between religion and culture working? This is a key issue that need to be made clear at the beginning of a meaningful critique of religion, since confusion between domains and confusion about causality can make a mess of an effort at analysis.
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That’s NOT an actual answer, it’s just more copypasta.
In your own words, what is your purpose in sharing all these points with the general public here on the BBS, ad nauseum?
In case you haven’t noticed (or just don’t care, or just can’t deviate from your programming code) most of the people here are not arguing in favor of the legitimacy of ANY theology, so:
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