Carlos Laack's Blog

I do not think you need to believe in religion to believe in God.

Blind faith in religion is a recipe for trouble. It leads to riding the comet and drinking the koolaid. It leads to idiot women breast feeding and driving at the same time on the freeway because she was ordered to do so by her husband and according to their religion she has to listen to him. It leads to having to write "lists" of ways to be a better wife. It leads to people committing murder in the name of their religion. It leads to a lack of common sence in the name of religion.

To answer your question - religion is not important to make sence of an unknown world. All you need to do is believe. Religion is just another form of hypocrisy.

as to let a repeat , major sinner into a place like Heaven. I don't think you can pull the wool over God's eyes.
But, that's just my opinion.
I , personally, believe when you die you are just dead. I put all living creatures on the same level because we are all life and deserve that respect unless we prove otherwise by crossing that line and doing something you know is wrong for self-serving reasons.

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opiate of the people." -- Karl Marx

(Sorry if that's a copyright infringement, Carlos.)

I mean seriously guys, do you think man came up with marriage? Not just that, but make it so you can have only one? hey I'm just saying...

What about when religion is allowed to interfere with someone else. For instance - certain pharmacists can refuse to give medicine because it is against their religion. What gives them the right to interfere with someone else? You knew going in that you would be filling medical prescriptions - now suddenly you will deny someone? How dare you?

If you want to follow a religion - great. Enjoy. But you do not have the right to force your views or opinions on anyone else. Sadly I see a lot of that. Instead of rational thinking people blindly follow what they are told they are supposed to believe.

Hey man if you can't get a prescription filled, try the Walgreen 3 blocks down. I can answer that, because I come from a very religous family. When church folks work at places like Miller Brewing or Marlboro, or anything else. It's just business. As long as their not the one's directly selling the cigarettes to people or the one directly serving that beer or martini. It's pretty much allowed. Being directly involved with someone sinning is when, taht particular person might be out of line. Nothing really against guns in religion, and the religion influenced government has taken care of the whole same sex marriage issue. This stuff I know only applys to the majority, I don't know anything about buddist or how islam views it.

Ok, as for the pharmacist issue, I do think that there are certain medications that do go against one's religious beliefs. The question of whether or not one should be denied a product or service because of one's religion could also be turned around and you may be asked why you should compromise your religious beliefs when there are alternatives. Plus that was only an issue a couple of times. Unless you are talking about Walmart refusing to carry the morning after pill. But as a company, it is their right to do so. They are not stomping all over anybody's rights by not carrying that because they are not obligated to. Yes you can take your prescription to another pharmacy if a pharmacist refuses to fill it. But if they refuse to give it back, then I guess if I were the person with it, I would just make a phonecall to my local police dept and have them get involved. That would be called theft, and when it comes to prescriptions, it goes a little deeper. I have not heard about that, but I am sure if that did happen, it was only once and that parmacist is no longer working. I would love to see the news reports of that happening. I do think people focus too much on religion than their beliefs. Those are two very different things.

I used to think organized religion was the way to go, but as I look more and more at things, I wasted my life in the religion I was involved with. So many rules that had nothing to do with the bible or anything that had to do with God. Now, I am in a place where I can have my belief, share it with others,and not have to follow any stupid rules that s

Okay so centauri, were you trying to get a morning after pill and they told you no? sorry had to joke, because nobody was talkin about denying the morning after pill.

The only reason I could see for stopping gay marriage is for the future. If it becomes legal, then it becomes the norm. Truthfully I wouldn't want my kids public school teaching them that same sex marriage is normal, because it isn't. Now I didn't say whether it was right or wrong, I'm just saying it shouldn't be advertised as being normal, which is what will happen if it's legalized. That's just like making it legal for adults to have sex with teenagers, you or I might view it as wrong, but hey it's legal and now it's normal. Schools don't differentiate between what they think is right or wrong, it's legal and not legal. Just thought I'd give a little insight as to why the "ignorance" continues.

BTW...whether you believe it or not, people are born with homosexual traits and characteristics. Just because gays are allowed to marry doesn't mean people will start acting or "turning" gay or start doing perverse acts. I am so sick of hearing that.
All people think about when they think about gays is the sex. You know they do live "normal" lives just like heteros. Really...they do.

From where I stand with the issue of religion changing up, the United Methodist Church is a example. I should know, I go to a United Methodist Church. About 2 or 3 years ago, there was a discussion about whether or not the church should allow homosexuals into the church like regular individuals do each Sunday. At one of our annual conferences in Madison, the debate was very heated whether it should happen or not. Based on what my mother told me, who was there of course, she believed that the church should focus more on the moral side of what we should follow based on the rules and teachings of our denomination. She also brought up the question, how does this teach our children with this matter? Not to make a forceful thing about it, but it does raise questions of the moral side of it.