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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 16, 2010 at 5:35 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: (January 15, 2010 at 11:17 pm)Zagreus Wrote: (January 15, 2010 at 11:54 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: You bring up empirical evidence yourself as an ... |
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February 7, 2010 at 2:22 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
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| (February 5, 2010 at 9:46 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Zagreus, I think perhaps you would benefit from the book: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - by Daniel Dennett which I am cur... |
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February 5, 2010 at 12:17 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 15, 2010 at 8:58 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: In reply to your earlier question.
I grew up in a totally secular household. My parents were neither pro or anti-religion…
This makes sense too, as y... |
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February 4, 2010 at 9:10 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
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| Hey, accept my apologies for being away for a while; been caught up with other stuff. This will be a brief initial response to get myself back in the discussion, though I’m enjoying reading the one t... |
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January 27, 2010 at 10:35 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| Purple Rabbit, thanks for the obviously well thought out answer. We seem to agree a fair bit, so if you’ve read the whole thread then I’ve obviously not conveyed my meaning quite as I intended.
(Ja... |
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January 15, 2010 at 11:17 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 14, 2010 at 1:14 pm)lukec Wrote: (January 14, 2010 at 11:24 am)Zagreus Wrote: See, even saying ‘some sort of animism’ requires an initial idea that there are souls in other things, and a... |
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January 15, 2010 at 9:48 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 13, 2010 at 11:44 pm)lukec Wrote: Yes, I think it was Dawkins who coined the "meme" in name at least. What I was saying up there was just paraphrasing and consolidating the way I understoo... |
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January 14, 2010 at 11:24 am |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 13, 2010 at 9:53 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: (January 13, 2010 at 8:34 pm)Zagreus Wrote: Take away people and there is no art, philosophy, literature, etc. either. Religion is just ideas and be... |
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January 14, 2010 at 9:52 am |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 13, 2010 at 8:03 am)Lilith_86 Wrote: I don't really think that the killing of a 6 month old foetus should have been used as a rhetorical question. The answer would depend on too many facto... |
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January 14, 2010 at 8:36 am |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 13, 2010 at 4:47 am)lukec Wrote: I think I read something on what you mean- it seems to me to fit very well with the idea that social evolution happened alongside biological evolution of t... |
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January 13, 2010 at 8:34 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 12, 2010 at 2:20 pm)LukeMC Wrote: I'm very annoyed. Accidentally hit refresh and lost my response. :dodgy:
I’ve done that many times too! Really frustrating. That’s why all mine on here, a... |
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January 13, 2010 at 4:19 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 11, 2010 at 8:01 am)leo-rcc Wrote: (January 10, 2010 at 3:32 pm)Zagreus Wrote: No, many religious people teach that the followers should not question, and should believe in things that t... |
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January 11, 2010 at 9:28 pm |
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Thread: Answers to an Apologist
Post: RE: Answers to an Apologist
| (January 11, 2010 at 1:14 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: 2. How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of Biblical stories, places, and people?
Have you ever heard of Historical fiction? At a... |
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January 11, 2010 at 8:34 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 11, 2010 at 7:48 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I'm sure I made it quite clear that it was fundamentalists that I was referring to.
Yes, and in my opening post I said:
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January 11, 2010 at 7:32 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 10, 2010 at 6:44 pm)LukeMC Wrote: You said in your original post on this thread that religion cannot be separated from our species from any perspective, hence my question: "in what sense a... |
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January 11, 2010 at 5:37 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 10, 2010 at 3:38 pm)Saerules Wrote: You seem to have taken my statement of A to mean B :P I'm hardly referring to the people believing in religion (although i do find those who do to be si... |
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January 11, 2010 at 3:45 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 10, 2010 at 2:55 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: (January 10, 2010 at 6:24 am)Zagreus Wrote: My point is that many atheists just dismiss religion, and I think it's an interesting subject. You sa... |
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January 10, 2010 at 8:28 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| (January 10, 2010 at 6:46 am)Retorth Wrote: Zagreus,
That is exactly my point, that religion is used for personal greed and other personal gains. Religion has been an excuse for countless generati... |
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January 10, 2010 at 3:32 pm |
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Thread: I love religion!
Post: RE: I love religion!
| My point is that many atheists just dismiss religion, and I think it's an interesting subject. You said it made you laugh, well why? I'm arguing that atheists shouldn't just dismiss religious people'... |
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January 10, 2010 at 6:24 am |
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Thread: I love religion!
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| No, she's not. That's what I'm saying! Not all religious people are fundamentalists, and to treat them so is not correct. |
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January 10, 2010 at 5:36 am |
