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Just noticed Tarty now have the DVD in stock .

It couldn't hurt...

But it's incredibly difficult, so I understand, for someone of any other faith to become a Jew. Isn't that weird? I can't really follow either of those points I'm afraid. I think it's pretty safe to say that nothing in the bible actually happened and that all the stories are 'metaphors' and, if assumed to be taken literally are bull shit. If the creation story is bullshit then surely it has to point to the rest of the book (religion?) being bull shit too (in the sense that the stories, not the meanings, are ficticious). As for Scientology I think you'll find that if Tom Cruise were to fly down from the sky in front of a bunch of reliable sources, film crews, photographers etc and start preaching that he has seen Xenu and Scientology is the only way forwards then there would be mass conversions and a lot of people would start following him as the new Jesus. Not kidding. And as Anal says, chances are in 2000 years there will probably be a thread on 'jet bike observed trials on Neptune-forum.com' wondering how half the population of Earth could possibly believe some stupid story about an alien, a volcano and some strange little man who's stuck in a closet but was considered to be the saviour of mankind...

Just watched a bit of the Panorama program on there. Scientology should be banned worldwide if you ask me. I really don't get why so many 'famous' people have been dragged in, unless they have money invested in it... which is very possible.

I was quite close to becoming an arsonist when the Church of Scientology opened up in Bournemouth. Had a couple of fliers through the door which made me want to letterbomb them...

They seem to spend 10 minutes politely talking without actually saying anything... they would make excellent politicians.

Ok, I hear what you're saying. My views mainly relate to Christianity though, sparked by those retards in the first post, Americans who seem to be primarily Christians and the basis of Christianity which is the Big Book of Fairy Tales Bible. The logical reasoning for there being a 'first cause' or whatever you want call it from biology and maths etc strikes a chord with me but anything to do with the Christian Bible I consider laughable.

DAMNIT!!

My sincere apologies, never actually watched any Alan Partridge :$ .

You know what I mean! I'm perfectly willing to accept the possibility of an afterlife, god or whatever else. However, that possibility is so minute that I might as well preaching that there is a variety of pig unfound by man who has wings and can fly. Of course there's a possibility (gotta keep open-minded here) but the actual chance of it existing are so small it's not worth considering. Cue BBC newsflash reporting the finding of a flying pig...

My main problem is that I see things as black and white. In my mind there is no God- there has never been any kind of evidence to point to the slightest possibility that there is. There is no afterlife- why should there be? We've evolved from amoeba, do the single cell organisms of today have an afterlife? I doubt it so why should we? I know I come across exactly as you say and I don't really mean to but in my mind I just find it completely preposterous to believe anything in the bible and can't understand how anyone could. Of course good can come from religion, but as I've said before, only in the common sense kind of way of 'be nice to each other, don't rape, murder or steal' kind of stuff (which funnily enough is the opposite of what's in the old testament so go figure). I've argued my opinion with logic and reason 'til the cows come home in the previous threads and it all comes back to science=sensible, logical and open-minded while religion=close-minded, illogical and completely irrational. Basically in my mind, those that disagree are wrong. Much like anyone who strongly believes in Christianity and the bible think that I'm wrong and will burn in hell for eternity for my sins. Anyway, please don't be too pissed off with my comments- yes I believe what I write but a lot of it is tongue in cheek to provoke a response. How dare you... How very dare you.

You'd never be able to get rid of religion completely. There's waaaaay too much money in it and it's faaaar too good an excuse to be incredibly shitty to each other and murder people in its name. There will also always be the less intelligent, less confident people who want and need to be told what to do and think. In days gone by people truly didn't know what was out there and so the nutjobs could spout their rubbish and people knew no better. These days I think more people are willing to question what's around them and combined with the progress in science probably helps to reduce the number of todays youth who attend church. It would appear that Amercians might be a bit behind us in that department .

Or everyone accepts the truth and starts following my FeS religion. Or Scientology.

Of course not but the basis of the religion is the same; believe all this made up tosh and you'll be ok. Don't believe it and bad things will happen. No really, they will. Those guys have taken it to the extreme and are just being retarded and exploiting kids at the same time, but the truth remains that a lot of Americans are scarily Chrisitan. In the UK it seems like there's (thankfully) a fairly strong trend moving away from the Church and Christianity in the youth of today. From what I've seen of Americans this isn't the case, with a worrying number of 'normal people' (and I'm talking BMXers, motocrossers and whatever else) thanking god and jesus for helping them get to where they are. Each to their own but I find it really disappointing when I hear that sort of stuff.

Like it .

I'd prefer to think it's about the money but I honestly think they believe the crap they peddle.

My mum works with a physio up in Scotland who's working on the scheme. Hate the way they call them 'customers' but otherwise it is at least trying to weed out the real wastes of life from those who could actually make something of themselves. However she also works on the childrens panel and a lot of them would benefit from sterilisation at birth...

Phew, I'm glad that's cleared up. Everyone can relax .

Ah Ben, you're mistaking me for someone who doesn't sterotype . I'm very bad for stereotyping and am quite happy to dislike the entire population of America (bar a few exceptions) for being annoying Christian numpties. I'll avoid bringing up George Bush and Sarah Palin for now but... oh, damn, too late .

Isn't it great?! Hallelujah, praise Jebus. +∞ You'd be surprised... I know only a minority of them will be as retarded as those in the video but from what I've seen there are a huge number of Christians over there who take it way too seriously.

In my mind a hell of a lot would be solved by mass sterilisation of the population from certain areas... They wouldn't need to be told, or asked (something in the water maybe...) but it would certainly help if a lot of chavvy, wastes of life families happened to become obsolete. They know who they are. Or maybe they don't. Meh.

Glad to hear it! I doubt you'll have any trouble selling them but it might be worth sticking a post up on Trials-Central or something to let the moto boys know it's available in the UK too .

Are they having a giraffe?

He's actually now been given the all clear to ride again so expect some more crazy stunts in the neaar future!