RE: A Thought Experiment for Believers and Atheists Alike
October 9, 2017 at 6:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2017 at 6:23 pm by chimp3.)
(October 9, 2017 at 8:16 am)Hammy Wrote: Does the memory of religion disappear? I am just trying to be clear. Do people forget religion ever existed? I am only wondering because you say people wonder why they are wearing funny hats.
Yes. All memory of religion disappears. I am keeping the hats around for my own laughs.
(October 9, 2017 at 1:14 pm)Succubus Wrote: This thought experiment just can't work unless you are more specific regarding, buildings, for example. If Notre dam Cathedral disappears people will be wondering 'what's that opens pace', it wasn’t there yesterday. If the thing still dominates the Paris skyline then there will be a chorus of 'what the fuck's that? There's far to many paradoxes for this to work.The architecture of cathedrals would remain but all links to deities would vanish. Statues, paintings, gone.
(October 9, 2017 at 7:56 am)Alex K Wrote: Who dat Jesus guy we have reams and reams of music about? Seems a bit excessive...
The name, history, and image of Jesus would be gone. The tunes would remain but lyrics are gone.
(October 9, 2017 at 6:12 pm)chimp3 Wrote:(October 9, 2017 at 8:16 am)Hammy Wrote: Does the memory of religion disappear? I am just trying to be clear. Do people forget religion ever existed? I am only wondering because you say people wonder why they are wearing funny hats.
Yes. All memory of religion disappears. I am keeping the hats around for my own laughs.
(October 9, 2017 at 1:14 pm)Succubus Wrote: This thought experiment just can't work unless you are more specific regarding, buildings, for example. If Notre dam Cathedral disappears people will be wondering 'what's that opens pace', it wasn’t there yesterday. If the thing still dominates the Paris skyline then there will be a chorus of 'what the fuck's that? There's far to many paradoxes for this to work.The architecture of cathedrals would remain but all links to deities would vanish. Statues, paintings, gone.
(October 9, 2017 at 7:56 am)Alex K Wrote: Who dat Jesus guy we have reams and reams of music about? Seems a bit excessive...
The name, history, and image of Jesus would be gone. The tunes would remain but lyrics are gone.
The First Amendment of the US Constitution would protect freedom of the press but would not mention religion.
Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason" would not exist. Neither would the religious debates of Hitchens or the Atheistic writings of Ingersoll.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
