RE: Ages of Athiests
September 26, 2013 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 1:35 pm by Cyberman.)
Turned 44 just the other week (by the way, Min and Tonus, happy birthday - you kept that quiet!). I'd like to say I've been an atheist my whole adult life but I'll have to get back to you when I grow up.
I think it was Pat Condell who said something like "religion is the perfect hiding place for the scoundrel", echoing of course Steven Weinberg's point. Then again that sounds a bit too pollite to be one of his.
(September 26, 2013 at 12:34 pm)max-greece Wrote: But are you more likely, or less likely, to be a twat if you are a theist?
I think it was Pat Condell who said something like "religion is the perfect hiding place for the scoundrel", echoing of course Steven Weinberg's point. Then again that sounds a bit too pollite to be one of his.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
