Gene Simmons on Religion

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-07-14 12:25am

The Fundies seem to be attracted to his website for some reason! A recent letter and response:

Gene-

Ahhh...I see the religion topic is back up to full speed.
Just a friendly reminder:
Faith is beautiful and simple.
Religion makes it ugly and complicated.

Cam

Response from Gene:

Or, put another way, everyone leave everyone else the fuck alone.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-07-14 12:30am

Another response:

Response from Gene:

Actually, although I found your letter well intentioned and interesting, you're incorrect. All religions do NOT teach the same thing. They DO teach the same principles: do not kill (which should be DO NOT MURDER, by the way...taken from the original Hebrew/Aramaic it was written in) and so on. But Judaism teaches a very DIFFERENT IDEA in the following area: Jews are NOT ALLOWED (at the risk of SINNING) to tell anyone else that other religions are false. That's why there are NO JEWISH MISSIONARIES. They believe THERE ARE NO FALSE RELIGIONS. Get it? ALL PEOPLE HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO HEAVEN,...BASED ON THEIR DEEDS ALONE. NOT THEIR BELIEFS!!!

Go to the library. You might be shocked

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-07-14 12:30am

HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH!

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-14 01:45am

Wow, Gene Simmons the active pantheistic philosopher.
And he has a long tounge too.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-14 01:52am

[stupid] Who's Gene Simmons? [/stupid]

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-07-14 02:34am

Howedar wrote:[stupid] Who's Gene Simmons? [/stupid]

<---points to avatar

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-14 02:40am

i want a kiss-tongue.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-14 02:48am

Lord Poe wrote:
Howedar wrote:[stupid] Who's Gene Simmons? [/stupid]
<---points to avatar

What a curious fundie target.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-07-14 06:40am

Lord Poe wrote:
Howedar wrote:[stupid] Who's Gene Simmons? [/stupid]
<---points to avatar

So Gene Simmons is either a rock star or a pro-wrestler?

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-07-14 07:01am

The dude from KISS.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-14 08:13am

Mr.Simmons is smarter than he looks.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-07-14 09:04am

I saw him give an interview once about international politics etc.He's not stupid.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-14 12:05pm

Wow, is this guy Jewish?

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2003-07-14 12:33pm

IIRC, he was a school teacher.

He is Jewish.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-14 12:52pm

Sweet. Where are these forums at?

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-07-14 04:09pm

Vorlon1701 wrote:Sweet. Where are these forums at?

http://www.genesimmons.com

Look through the letters section. He personally answers the e-mails Not ALL of them, of course, but the good ones!

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2003-07-14 05:33pm

I believe he was also born in Israel and his father was a Rabbi (or a religious educator, can't remember which.)

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-07-14 05:36pm

Crap. Gene Simmons kicks ass. I need to read more of his stuff.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-14 06:05pm

Saurencaerthai wrote:and his father was a Rabbi (or a religious educator, can't remember which.)

I believe rabbi MEANS teacher.

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2003-07-14 07:45pm

kojikun wrote:
Saurencaerthai wrote:and his father was a Rabbi (or a religious educator, can't remember which.)
I believe rabbi MEANS teacher.

This is correct, however, one does not need to be a rabbi (as in going through a seminary/rabbinical school) to be a religious teacher.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-14 08:40pm

Saurencaerthai wrote:This is correct, however, one does not need to be a rabbi (as in going through a seminary/rabbinical school) to be a religious teacher.

Ahh. Ok. But I imagine rabbinical school helps.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-14 09:03pm

kojikun wrote:
Saurencaerthai wrote:and his father was a Rabbi (or a religious educator, can't remember which.)
I believe rabbi MEANS teacher.

Rabbi means "Learned man"

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-07-14 11:11pm

I remember a quote by him about Afghanistan and the burkas... Something along the lines of "They've got it all backwards, we're trying to undress our woman, and they're trying to cover them up." Or something like that.

Now if Christianity would take a bit of Jewish doctrine and mix it in...

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-07-14 11:59pm

"And if they had a list like that, I wouldn't mind those folks in Alabama posting it on the courthouse wall, as long as they included one additional commandment. Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself."
-George Carlin, on his revised list of The Two Commandments.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-07-17 02:14am

Howedar wrote:[stupid] Who's Gene Simmons? [/stupid]

You don't know who Gene Simmons is? Infidel!!!!

PS. Gene Simmons came up with the priceless line that "God is like a crazy jealous girlfriend".