Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
Ok, I've not long got in from a 7am start and I've got to be back out again at 5 for a 10.30 finish-God makes work for idle hands-As my Nan used to say. I agree with you, i don't believe in god. I was brought up in a household with two catholic parents, my father denounced religion as he became an International Socialist and Marxist, my mother is still a Socialist but keeps her faith close and private, you can imagine the discussions that were had around the dinner table in my house.

Anyway, I do believe that religion is a concept thought out by uneducated men who were looking for an answer or control. I've heard what you have said a thousand times, I'd say that you're probably right. What i don't like is what i perceive as the belittling of faith, i know I've said it already, but i know hundreds of people with faith who don't take the teachings of the bible literally, they use faith as a way to help themselves and others. That may be misguided or even presumptuous in thought, i don't know. My opinions are based on the people on the ground, not those at the top who have been guilty of manipulating the poor and cosying up to Fascism and treating woman like shit. I hear so many people who are sure of themselves and dismissive of others because of what they may or may not believe in, disagree by all means, although proving people wrong with faith is as easy as taking a rattle from a baby and i sometimes think that there's an element of bullying involved, although for a long time the shoe was certainly on the other foot, still is in some of the poorest and least educated countries. Time to go
The Devil makes work for idle hands-A slip-or maybe not....