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RE: Religion is nothing more than misplaced mythology
September 28, 2009 at 12:14 am
At some point in time, when humanity was in its infancy, religion was a rational thing, as an attempt to make an explanation that made sense to proto-man's simple mind. Having an explanation for things proto-man could not control (like the weather, natural disaster, etc.) demystified them, and turned them into something not to be afraid of, but to be conquered. Now that we have scientific explanations and the ability of logical reasoning, religion is very irrational, and unnecacary, and only serves to create foundation for people to lie to themselves and cloud their veiw of reality to make their probably unfortunate situations not their fault, or normal.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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RE: Religion is nothing more than misplaced mythology
September 28, 2009 at 3:47 am
That misses all the ideas of spirituality we can observe in human history ferenghi.
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RE: Religion is nothing more than misplaced mythology
September 28, 2009 at 3:02 pm
No, fr0d0, he is absolutely right. Religion has always been a comfort thing... and nothing more. It is a way to cope in a world both frightening and mysterious... it is a basis for bravery in the face of the uncontrollable... it is the confidence that the sentient need, lest insanity and paranoia envelope them entirely, drowning them.
Once the sentient population can comfort itself with logic: it has no more need of religion.
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RE: Religion is nothing more than misplaced mythology
September 28, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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Then you know nothing of religion Saerules.
A sentient population comforts itself with delusion. It's the way of all flesh. Religion deals with logic, science with evidence.
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RE: Religion is nothing more than misplaced mythology
September 28, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Religion being non evidential in certain realms demands it be more about logic. Science is putting together what is evidenced. It internally requires less logic.
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RE: Religion is nothing more than misplaced mythology
September 28, 2009 at 7:04 pm
EvF remember a theist idea of logic is different from our idea of logic.Our logic is natural and stems from our own minds and reflections of nature and the world we live in.Their logic is supernatural and stems from a stupid concept called faith without evidence in fables of our origins based on lack of knowledge and fear of the unknown.
There is no logic in religion what religionist try to pass off as logic is laughable in my view.It's nothing more than apologetics that try to make sense of the stupid mistakes found in the bible by the so called inspired nomads that put it together.
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RE: Religion is nothing more than misplaced mythology
September 28, 2009 at 7:34 pm
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Umm... religion IS delusion... or is Zeus REALLY going to smite me for stating the obvious?
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