RE: Uprooting believers.
April 4, 2013 at 5:38 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 5:42 pm by Golbez.)
Well, your reality is full alright. The founding fathers were much more rational and intelligent than anything the Bible has to offer, with sole exception to the Golden Rule, which had been around well before the Bible at any rate.
http://youtu.be/70SYwkoH_yc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q37NhrCPNo
It makes us wise because we start shedding idiotic ideas about how to feed people and keep them healthy. We wash our hands with soap and water now. We pasteurize certain foods, and cook others. We better understand how the world works instead of fictional accounts, like what stars are, how gravity operates on different objects, whether everything revolves around the earth, etc. Previously, catholicism offered perhaps temporarily suitable but ultimately foolish explanations for these details. You may still not see this as opposition. I can't help you there. But it most certainly is.
The same is true in today's world, where religion disputes the age of the Earth, resists condom use, discriminates against gays, and lobbies against climate change. I understand the movement against them though. Once these major pillars of religion ultimately fall to advancing societies, there's very little left to prop it up. And who wants to be exposed for dedicating their whole life as a believer?
Though I think the more important question is, who wants to throw in good years after bad?
Oh, if you should happen to watch either of those videos (very well put together, if you're interested in a researched position on the Bible), this is a link that corroborates it a bit:
http://www.project-reason.org/gallery3/image/105/
The 33x44 link underneath the image can be zoomed to look up and verify them. I'll add that link here:
http://www.project-reason.org/bibleContra_big.pdf
http://youtu.be/70SYwkoH_yc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q37NhrCPNo
It makes us wise because we start shedding idiotic ideas about how to feed people and keep them healthy. We wash our hands with soap and water now. We pasteurize certain foods, and cook others. We better understand how the world works instead of fictional accounts, like what stars are, how gravity operates on different objects, whether everything revolves around the earth, etc. Previously, catholicism offered perhaps temporarily suitable but ultimately foolish explanations for these details. You may still not see this as opposition. I can't help you there. But it most certainly is.
The same is true in today's world, where religion disputes the age of the Earth, resists condom use, discriminates against gays, and lobbies against climate change. I understand the movement against them though. Once these major pillars of religion ultimately fall to advancing societies, there's very little left to prop it up. And who wants to be exposed for dedicating their whole life as a believer?
Though I think the more important question is, who wants to throw in good years after bad?
Oh, if you should happen to watch either of those videos (very well put together, if you're interested in a researched position on the Bible), this is a link that corroborates it a bit:
http://www.project-reason.org/gallery3/image/105/
The 33x44 link underneath the image can be zoomed to look up and verify them. I'll add that link here:
http://www.project-reason.org/bibleContra_big.pdf
Religious but open minded about the arguments of atheists? You may have spent your whole life learning about the arguments for religion. May I present to you 10 segmented hours for the case against it?
