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Mocking religion.; Is it right?
Topic Started: Mar 27 2009, 09:19 AM (1,595 Views)
Copper
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sue
Mar 28 2009, 12:29 PM

but by the time you are an adult you have the ability to think

Thank you for the kind words, but for many age doesn't always indicate the ability to think.

I see many people driving cars every day who are clearly unable to think and age seems to make no difference.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Dewey
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Lauren is playing Mrs. Harcourt, the social climbing mother, in the Cole Porter show 'Anything Goes' this weekend. That show, written in the early 30's has some SERIOUS Asian stereotypes, almost akin to a minstrel show. I'm surprised we're not getting picketed.


It's only because all the Asians are too busy working overtime or doing homework.
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Wacki Iraqi
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Mar 28 2009, 02:52 PM
Religion is acquired culturally. Contrary to a current popular theory I do not think humans are genetically hardwired towards religion. I therefore highly doubt that religious or spiritual yearning is genetic. That is not to say however that an individual may or may not have character and behavioral traits that predispose them towards religious beliefs and the sense of community that religious devotion offers.
I would have whole heartedly agreed with you Renauda. Lately (mostly due to some of Deweys comments), I think humankind might be genetically predisposed to some kind of "God delusion", that there may be at least some driving (lets say chemical for the atheists) force that requires us to believe in the supernatural as powerful as the chemicals that combine to urge us to procreate where we are in no threat of obvious impending extinction. I think the least that theists deserve, is a a bit more of a powerful motivation to believe in a deity than simply, cultural gullibility. This would be a guess on my part, i've just started to wonder........I think there is tenuous scientific evidence on the subject. It could just be a misinterpretation of a biological phenomenon, rather than a gene per se.
You're an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.........I just go one God further.
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TomK
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I'll disagree there. religion is a universal human phenomenon. It has been there in every society in every time that man has been in existance. Societies completely removed by thens of thousands of years all have some sort of religious beliefs--not the same mind you, but they all have some sort of belief in creation system and a divine lawgiver beyond the mundane.

There is a cultural element to it all, of course--but the universal application of the supernatural to all sorts of cultures in all sorts of times speaks to something other than just happenstance.
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Luke's Dad
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Sometimes I get the feeling that after everybody dies, we're all going to say "See, I told you that you were wrong!"
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Mar 29 2009, 12:43 PM
Sometimes I get the feeling that after everybody dies, we're all going to say "See, I told you that you were wrong!"
Either you do, or maybe the muslims do? Just make sure you don't die a virgin.

If, when I die, I find that the Rastafarians were right all along, I'll no doubt go to hell bemoaning all of the lost opportunities.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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John D'Oh
Mar 29 2009, 12:49 PM
Luke's Dad
Mar 29 2009, 12:43 PM
Sometimes I get the feeling that after everybody dies, we're all going to say "See, I told you that you were wrong!"
Either you do, or maybe the muslims do? Just make sure you don't die a virgin.

If, when I die, I find that the Rastafarians were right all along, I'll no doubt go to hell bemoaning all of the lost opportunities.
No, I didn't say "See, I told you that I was right" I said, "See, I told you that you were wrong". Big difference between the two.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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