(September 30, 2008 at 5:34 am)Alan Wrote: That's that bullshit about wishful thinking determining your well-being innit?Yeah...the only reason I ever believed in it was that some physicists actually claimed that it was a science, and was SUPPORTED BY QUANTUM PHYSICS....I was 17 then and didn't have any evidence to support my atheism...I just thought the concept of God seemed absurd, thats all I had to support my atheism!
Like, if you have cancer and are going to die as a bum, it's because of your lack of faith.
Some prick actually got a little airtime in a local talkshow (not in the Springer style, more like a late show). Instead of taking him apart, the host's reaction was closer to "that's a bit unlikely", though.
It's new age bullshit of the most outrageous kind. The atheist equivalent of religious prayer and faith healing.
Now I know better!