RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 5, 2011 at 11:14 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2011 at 11:32 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 5, 2011 at 3:19 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(August 4, 2011 at 9:38 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Except when religion or the religious make a claim that provides us with a testable hypothesis. Increasing your knowledge of science does in fact increase your knowledge of religion.It can help distinguish what religion isn't. Properly understanding religion helps to understand the limitations of science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_science
Properly understanding science helps to understand there never had been room, except in the tawdry drug dens of wishthinking, for religion. What religion isn't is literally everything religionists wishfully insist it is.
(August 5, 2011 at 10:55 am)Salty Amy Wrote: It's hard to very argue that America is poor.
Not in the British house of commons. When it was brought up that in time of austerity, Britain actually increased it's foreign aid budget and was giving india $1 billion to improve basic education and reduce abject poverty, Cameron government defended this allocation by pointing out the basic education in India is indeed in dire need of Improvement, and the poor there are indeed in great need of survival assistance. The opposition immediately shot back that basic education was also indeed poor in Mississippi and Alabama, and the poverty stricken In Louisiana are also in dire need of assistance. Why did the Cameron government not also offer a billion to the USA to improve education and alleviate poverty?
