RE: Why religion was necessary; why it no longer is.
August 23, 2012 at 9:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2012 at 9:47 am by Creed of Heresy.)
(August 19, 2012 at 10:57 pm)apophenia Wrote:
You put words in my mouth and then you claim that I'm the bad guy for being insulted? What an ass.
You obviously know dick about the various traditions of shamanism mentioned. That you can find some examples where religion appears to fit the mold doesn't explain the many examples I gave where it doesn't. (Grecian oracles helping Greek rulers maintain control over the masses? That's a joke, right?) Like many stupid atheists who have made similar arguments in the past, you have a narrow view of what religion is, and a gaping ignorance of the history of religion, so you base your argument on a small range of examples of religion, and address that. That makes your entire argument a straw man. And you still haven't addressed why your explanation is a more compelling explanation of the phenomenon than evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science.
The rest was little more than equivocation on the meaning of the word religion.
Go fuck yourself.
Makes my entire argument a straw man? You didn't even UNDERSTAND my argument, clearly. Everyone else so far clearly grasped it yet you're the only one who didn't. Your lack of comprehension is not my fault, and it no longer is my problem, either. Not to mention I bring up several examples and you just dismiss them on the grounds of their being a "small range?" What, you want me to list every single fucking one? If several examples doesn't work, then no amount really will, and I'm not going to waste my time on someone who doesn't want to admit they're WRONG. The crime of "putting words in [your] mouth" was not enough to warrant your hostility to begin with and the fact I was actually quite level-headed in my reply was just thrown in my face. You know what? You're fucking retarded.. YOU failed to grasp what the point I was making is. YOU still fail to do so despite my laying it out. YOU made an extremely vague post where you disagreed with something I never even fucking said which I attempted to clarify upon. YOU reacted with unwarranted hostility and excessive condescension.
YOU go fuck yourself, you stuck-up overblown philosobabbling bitch, consider yourself ignored. I should have expected such close-minded bawling from a person who follows a belief that treats intelligence and inquiry of the world around them as something to forsake.
