God is man's nastiest fantasy.

(June 4, 2012 at 10:53 am)Epimethean Wrote: God is man's nastiest fantasy.

Wow, wish I had thought of that one. True true true. It really is the anthropomorphic reflection of our own narcissism. Humans get nasty when they don't have control. God is merely a comic book version of our real evolutionary strive to be the alpha male in a group.

(June 4, 2012 at 10:53 am)Epimethean Wrote: God is man's nastiest fantasy.

Because man - particularly avaricious priests - is one nasty animal himself.

Keep this in mind when arguing with people who believe Noah's ark.

What is a never ending source of amusement is the fact that theists, of all stripes, look at every other cultures flood myth as some sort of primitive superstition....but never apply that standard to their own bullshit.

Quote:Inca
During the period of time called the Pachachama people became very evil. They got so busy coming up with and performing evil deeds they neglected the gods. Only those in the high Andes remained uncorrupted. Two brothers who lived in the highlands noticed their llamas acting strangely. They asked the llamas why and were told that the stars had told the llamas that a great flood was coming. This flood would destroy all the life on earth. The brothers took their families and flocks into a cave on the high mountains. It started to rain and continued for four months. As the water rose the mountain grew keeping its top above the water. Eventually the rain stopped and the waters receded. The mountain returned to its original height. The shepherds repopulated the earth. The llamas remembered the flood and that is why they prefer to live in the highland areas.

Quote:United States
The Ojibwe: "There came a time when the harmonious way of life did not continue. Men and women disrespected each other, families quarreled and soon villages began arguing back and forth. This saddened Gitchie Manido [the Creator] greatly, but he waited. Finally, when it seemed there was no hope left, Creator decided to purify Mother Earth through the use of water. The water came, flooding the Earth, catching all of creation off guard. All but a few of each living thing survived." Then it tells how Waynaboozhoo survived by floating on a log in the water with various animals.

Quote:Aztec- A man named Tapi lived a long time ago. Tapi was a very pious man. The creator told Tapi to build a boat that he would live in. He was told that he should take his wife, a pair of every animal that was alive into this boat. Naturally everyone thought he was crazy. Then the rain started and the flood came. The men and animals tried to climb the mountains but the mountains became flooded as well. Finally the rain ended. Tapi decided that the water had dried up when he let a dove loose that did not return.

The difference is the theists scums of the christian variety is not that far from controling the nearly half of the world's nuclear weapons, choking off the most productive scientific research establishment in the world, and perverting the finest higher education system and producer of real, secular, talents today.

Furthermore, they are trying very hard to preempt the emergence of large portion of the world's population into the modern enlightened world by soaking them in concoctions called "christmatic christianity", which are singlularly nasty even by the exhorted standard of vileness of christianity in general.

(June 4, 2012 at 2:01 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Keep this in mind when arguing with people who believe Noah's ark.

At least people know that Captain Picard was a charater when he said "Make it so".

(June 4, 2012 at 2:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What is a never ending source of amusement is the fact that theists, of all stripes, look at every other cultures flood myth as some sort of primitive superstition....but never apply that standard to their own bullshit.

But don't you see....? These flood fables found in other cultures are PROOF that Noah's flood really happened! Of course, all those dragon myths found in different cultures are proof of.... well.... never mind.

(June 4, 2012 at 4:22 pm)Thor Wrote: ...

But don't you see....? These flood fables found in other cultures are PROOF that Noah's flood really happened! Of course, all those dragon myths found in different cultures are proof of.... well.... never mind.

They say that dragon stories are proof that man walked with dinosaurs.

(June 4, 2012 at 4:22 pm)Thor Wrote: Of course, all those dragon myths found in different cultures are proof of....

... of dragons, of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK6tkcxAHIw?rel=0