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'Pulling the rug' from under the feet of "peacecful believers"?
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RE: 'Pulling the rug' from under the feet of "peacecful believers"?
(April 21, 2015 at 1:39 am)Kitan Wrote: If someone finds that freedom is disorienting or chaotic, then that someone is fucking retarded.

It's not "someone", it's social science studies.

People don't want their freedom crushed in a tyrannical cult, but neither do they want the other extreme of chaos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_...y_Delights

This is why Christians and Muslims favourite argument against humanism is that it promotes nihilism, mindless hedonism, Nietzschean madness, existential angst, etc.

That's the challenge for humanism.

“Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).” 

― Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.” 

― Jonathan Haidt
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RE: 'Pulling the rug' from under the feet of "peacecful believers"? - by mralstoner - April 21, 2015 at 1:59 am

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