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America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 1:28 am
I scanned this comment out of a book I'm reading.
Quote:Save among politicians it is no longer necessary
for any educated American to profess belief
in Thirteenth Century ideas. The rise of biology,
the great event of the Nineteenth Century, is responsible
for that change, and especially the appearance and acceptance
of the Darwinian hypothesis of organic evolution.
Darwin, to be sure, did not answer any of the basic riddles
of existence, but he at least showed that the theological
answers were rubbish, and he thereby completed the revolutionary
work of Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Harvey
and Leeuwenhoek. Today no really civilized man or
woman believes in the cosmogony of Genesis, nor in the
reality of Hell, nor in any of the other ancient imbecilities
that still entertain the mob. What survives under the name
of Christianity, above the stratum of that mob, is no more
than a sort of Humanism, with hardly more supernaturalism
in it than you will find in mathematics or political
economy.
This was written by H. L. Mencken on page 252 of "Treatise On The Gods." He published it in 1930.
Apparently Americans were smarter as a group 80 years ago.
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 3:37 am
ahead of his time.
Sounds like my kind of bloke.
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 4:18 am
He just hasn't heard the good word of Jesus...?
Well in the 1930's people were more civilized than we are today.
Religion is like a Penis, you shouldn't whip it out in public and you shouldn't shove it down your child's throat.
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 5:05 am
(July 25, 2011 at 4:18 am)MilesTailsPrower Wrote: He just hasn't heard the good word of Jesus...?
Well in the 1930's people were more civilized than we are today.
But in the 30s there was a lot more bigotry, Ghandi for example couldnt stand black people.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/20...dhi/38814/
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 5:09 am
Shame really to see what the US has become. Won't be a world power for much longer.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 5:10 am
It became a power by being the factory of the world, China now fulfills that function.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 5:17 am
Looks like I need to move. Where to?
Religion is like a Penis, you shouldn't whip it out in public and you shouldn't shove it down your child's throat.
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 8:13 am
(July 25, 2011 at 5:17 am)MilesTailsPrower Wrote: Looks like I need to move. Where to?
Scandinavia. That's where I'm heading. Huge atheist population, great equality, low crime rates.
I'm aiming for Sweden.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 10:01 am
I disagree Min. Maybe the Great Depression hindered the construction of new churches? Either way it doesn't account for America not giving two shits about Adolf Hitler rising to power elsewhere during the 1930s or offering much-needed asylum to hundreds of Jewish German refugees, that much was obvious.
(July 25, 2011 at 8:13 am)Ace Otana Wrote: What do the grey areas represent?
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RE: America Has Fallen A Long Way
July 25, 2011 at 11:16 am
Isn't it cold there? Is there a warmer secular place to live. I'm sick of cold and rain. 
(July 25, 2011 at 8:13 am)Ace Otana Wrote: (July 25, 2011 at 5:17 am)MilesTailsPrower Wrote: Looks like I need to move. Where to?
Scandinavia. That's where I'm heading. Huge atheist population, great equality, low crime rates.
I'm aiming for Sweden.
binny 
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