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Benedict Arnold

Do bad manners have a place in religion?

Posted - March 20, 2017
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  • 7280
    As long as human beings have a place in religion, their strengths and flaws will be there with them.

    And maybe the "flaws" are why "love" is an important part of religion.
      March 20, 2017 11:18 AM MDT
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  • I was contemplating the idea of The Holy Rude.  
      March 20, 2017 11:20 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    Cute.

    Yes that does seem to exist at times.   lol
      March 20, 2017 11:22 AM MDT
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  • And Ps. 100 about noises.

    Anyway it is odd how chains of mental associations arise.  I have just purchased, "Dream of the Rood"  and the above question popped into my head. 
      March 20, 2017 11:24 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    Is that a 156 line poem?
      March 20, 2017 11:30 AM MDT
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  • I don't know the line count, but yes a poem.  Most people find it bizarre I like this very old stuff.  I have recently read some medieval morality plays and quite enjoyed them. 
      March 20, 2017 11:38 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    Not a test, I just wanted to make sure I had accessed the right "Dream of the Rood."

    It's on the internet and I will read it later. 
      March 20, 2017 11:43 AM MDT
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  • Yea I found it on the net too.  Seemed easier just to buy it. Then I can take it about and have less time reading a screen which is not always desirable.
      March 20, 2017 11:49 AM MDT
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  • I like this poem..

    One dark night, when the sun was bright. two dead boys got up tp fight.
    Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other.
    A deaf policeman heard the noise, came and shot those two dead boys.
    f you don't believe my tale, ask the blind man, he saw it all.
      March 20, 2017 3:01 PM MDT
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  •  had remembered part of it from middle school.  I got it entirety from the movie, "A Haunting In Connecticut".  which was  an inane POS.
      March 20, 2017 4:34 PM MDT
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  • They certainly did at one point (i.e. conquering other peoples and forcing your religion on them). 
      March 20, 2017 11:28 AM MDT
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  • That is a tad more than bad manners.  Now excuse me, I must make a joyful noise.
      March 20, 2017 11:39 AM MDT
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  • 1233
    Yes. Politeness is often a lie to protect people's feelings.

    The truth is more important especially since so many people are hypersensitive weaklings these days.
      March 20, 2017 11:45 AM MDT
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  • The truth is more important?????
    And youre the one saying that.
    I loled, and I'm not really a loller.
      March 20, 2017 12:58 PM MDT
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  • 1233
    You haven't got a f***ing clue what truth is. I would laugh at you but I find what people like you have done to western civilization too depressing.
      March 20, 2017 1:30 PM MDT
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  • Good thing you're not one of those people that you allude to, you know those with hypersensitive weaklingness, otherwise you would have taken offense to my comment.

      March 20, 2017 1:37 PM MDT
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  • 1233
    Manners are a system of rules that society enforces by social pressure. It's a form of censorship. Strong people ignore jibes or respond in kind. Weak people appeal to society to gag their opposition.

    I have no desire to censor you. I respect you expressing your views. In fact, it's the only thing I do respect about you. This post was edited by Zeitgeist at March 20, 2017 3:42 PM MDT
      March 20, 2017 2:49 PM MDT
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  • Ouch!
    That was harsh, why do you say that? I think I'm a pretty nice guy, honestly.
    Thanks for responding man, well talk again.
      March 20, 2017 3:36 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    Just curious....Do you know if that person is out on some kind of temporary pass from somewhere?
      March 20, 2017 5:59 PM MDT
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  • I don't know, but it is scary how many people share his views you know?
      March 20, 2017 10:34 PM MDT
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  • 7792
    Through history, I'm sure there are a ton of "religious" people that had bad manners. Unfortunately, those people do have a place in history. Apart from that, we all suppose to learn from those people which we have not. This post was edited by Zack at March 20, 2017 3:30 PM MDT
      March 20, 2017 1:07 PM MDT
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  • 7792
    People do seem to be rather destructive in the Lords name.
      March 20, 2017 1:12 PM MDT
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  • 7792
    I'm not religious at all much less spiritual. More scientific than anything, but that doesn't make much difference to you does it?
      March 20, 2017 1:16 PM MDT
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  • I'd say in many ways they go hand in hand. Manners, like the exercise of religions, are subject to the local customs of those being discussed. What one culture sees as appropriate conduct may not be so in another. 

    Think about the Crusades; is it "bad manners" to march into a foreign land and slaughter innocents of another faith by the millions on the whim and dictate of a Clerical Order? You bet it is. But not to the invaders. 

    Is it "bad manners" for one group to demand that all people not eat certain foods, dress a certain way, or keep their mouths shut on certain topics, lest you meet a grim fate? You bet it is, but name me a major religion that isn't guilty of at least one of these things. 

    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 20, 2017 7:14 PM MDT
      March 20, 2017 3:17 PM MDT
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