(December 31, 2011 at 5:56 pm)padraic Wrote: Oh goody,just what we need,ANOTHER angry atheist.
Damn right.
Quote: Rather than telling us what you're AGAINST,perhaps tell us what you are FOR.
Gale is FOR "ripping religion from anyone I can". This seems like a positive use of energy.
Quote:"Flawless logic' WOW! Can't wait to see THAT. I don't think we have another trained logician.
Give Gale a break - saying "fucking wibbly wibble" is flawless logic compared to theistic waffle.
Quote:Just a tint niggle; wanting to tear down religion because [implicitly) the world will be a better place is neither rational nor logical. It's Utopian/magical thinking..
Religion needs to be destroyed. I'm in Gale's corner.
Quote:ME ?recovering Catholic for over 40 years. I think organised religion is parasitical and a carbuncle on the arse of humanity. I'm also confident that if religion disappeared overnight we humans would remain the same greedy,stupid,self destructive animals we have always been.You would probably notice a different set of justifications, but no difference whatsoever in the behaviour of our species. .
You're probably right - get rid of religion and climate change or something else will fill the gap.
However, let's try and find out.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.