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What does religion offer?
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RE: What does religion offer?
(August 15, 2013 at 9:01 am)Maelstrom Wrote: Religion is to humanity as the appendix is to the human body.

While I like the idea of your analogy, it has recently been discovered that the appendix does have a function.

It turns out that the appendix is a store house for beneficial bacteria. If a person contracts a disease, such as cholera, that kills of the friendly fauna in the gut, the friendly fauna stored in the appendix are able to 'reboot' the gut.

"Scientists from the Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina say following a severe bout of cholera or dysentery, which can purge the gut of bacteria essential for digestion, the reserve good bacteria emerge from the appendix to take up the role."

Maybe you should change your analogy to wisdom teeth or goose bumps...

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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What does religion offer? - by Bad Writer - August 14, 2013 at 9:37 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Wolf - August 14, 2013 at 10:51 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Writer - August 14, 2013 at 11:00 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by pineapplebunnybounce - August 14, 2013 at 11:10 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Godschild - August 14, 2013 at 11:40 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Jackalope - August 14, 2013 at 11:43 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by freedomfromforum - August 15, 2013 at 12:08 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by pineapplebunnybounce - August 15, 2013 at 8:07 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Writer - August 15, 2013 at 8:35 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by Silver - August 15, 2013 at 9:01 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Wolf - August 15, 2013 at 9:06 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by Simon Moon - August 15, 2013 at 3:06 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Jackalope - August 16, 2013 at 2:25 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by bladevalant546 - August 15, 2013 at 9:40 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Writer - August 15, 2013 at 11:06 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by bladevalant546 - August 15, 2013 at 11:23 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by Minimalist - August 15, 2013 at 11:19 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by NoraBrimstone - August 15, 2013 at 2:25 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Fidel_Castronaut - August 15, 2013 at 2:46 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Walking Void - August 15, 2013 at 3:27 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Thor - August 15, 2013 at 4:35 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by pineapplebunnybounce - August 15, 2013 at 4:37 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Thor - August 15, 2013 at 4:42 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by gall - August 16, 2013 at 2:15 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by paulpablo - August 15, 2013 at 4:52 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Wolf - August 15, 2013 at 5:23 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by paulpablo - August 15, 2013 at 5:29 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Wolf - August 16, 2013 at 8:59 am
RE: What does religion offer? - by Anomalocaris - August 15, 2013 at 5:19 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Ryantology - August 15, 2013 at 5:55 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by paulpablo - August 15, 2013 at 5:59 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Writer - August 15, 2013 at 6:02 pm
RE: What does religion offer? - by Bad Writer - August 16, 2013 at 5:28 pm

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