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Why religion should not vanish
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RE: Why religion should not vanish
(June 14, 2014 at 9:28 am)Vox Wrote: Then by the same logic we must also automatically dismiss Athiesm because Chairman Mao and Stalin conducted a Holocaust promoting some of it's values.
There's as much of a logical connection between the political ideology and social experiments conducted under the guise of nationalism and atheism than there is with Hitler, Hussein, and Assad all having mustaches. Does their a-leprechaunism also claim a share in their motivations to slaughter innocent civilians? Atheism is not a creed so connecting it to the actions of any group is disingenuous and asymmetrical to comparing the words of holy books that millions of adherents claim to follow, and linking their violent actions with the violent character of the god they claim complete devotion to.

(June 14, 2014 at 9:28 am)Vox Wrote:
(June 13, 2014 at 9:47 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Not to mention, religion fosters a general credulity generation after generation that rears its sheepish head in areas not related to metaphysical abstract supermen.

I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at here, are we talking about people taking Genesis literally or something? Even then it's only a minority of the religious who do that.

I'm talking about people who aren't taught to put ideas to the test of empirical evidence and scientific plausibility. Embracing religion means embracing a standard of evidence which renders our world almost comic book-like, where nothing is explained and much is misunderstood.
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Why religion should not vanish - by Vox - June 13, 2014 at 5:13 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Chad32 - June 13, 2014 at 5:26 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Vox - June 13, 2014 at 5:43 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by SteelCurtain - June 13, 2014 at 5:59 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Napoléon - June 13, 2014 at 5:36 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Vox - June 13, 2014 at 6:09 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by SteelCurtain - June 13, 2014 at 6:26 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Vox - June 13, 2014 at 7:50 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Ravenshire - June 13, 2014 at 8:07 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Vox - June 14, 2014 at 9:28 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Mudhammam - June 14, 2014 at 6:29 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Napoléon - June 13, 2014 at 8:34 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by SteelCurtain - June 13, 2014 at 8:53 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Minimalist - June 13, 2014 at 6:23 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Napoléon - June 13, 2014 at 7:12 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Ravenshire - June 13, 2014 at 7:18 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by ShaMan - June 13, 2014 at 8:42 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Mudhammam - June 13, 2014 at 8:43 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Thumpalumpacus - June 13, 2014 at 9:21 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Silver - June 13, 2014 at 9:24 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Mudhammam - June 13, 2014 at 9:47 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Whateverist - June 14, 2014 at 9:35 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Ryantology - June 14, 2014 at 10:15 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by bennyboy - June 14, 2014 at 4:35 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Zidneya - June 14, 2014 at 10:49 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Elskidor - June 14, 2014 at 10:57 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Grandizer - June 15, 2014 at 12:12 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Bucky Ball - June 15, 2014 at 12:22 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by psychoslice - June 15, 2014 at 1:01 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Jackalope - June 15, 2014 at 1:42 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by psychoslice - June 15, 2014 at 1:53 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Jackalope - June 15, 2014 at 2:00 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by psychoslice - June 15, 2014 at 2:11 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Jackalope - June 15, 2014 at 2:16 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by psychoslice - June 15, 2014 at 2:24 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Jackalope - June 15, 2014 at 2:26 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by psychoslice - June 15, 2014 at 2:37 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Jackalope - June 15, 2014 at 2:47 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by psychoslice - June 15, 2014 at 2:58 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Grandizer - June 15, 2014 at 3:04 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by psychoslice - June 15, 2014 at 3:06 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Grandizer - June 15, 2014 at 3:08 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by psychoslice - June 15, 2014 at 3:10 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Grandizer - June 15, 2014 at 3:32 am
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Arthur123 - June 21, 2014 at 4:29 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Mudhammam - June 21, 2014 at 4:37 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Cato - June 21, 2014 at 5:41 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Arthur123 - June 21, 2014 at 4:40 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Mudhammam - June 21, 2014 at 4:45 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Arthur123 - June 21, 2014 at 4:48 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Mudhammam - June 21, 2014 at 4:55 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Arthur123 - June 21, 2014 at 4:57 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Mudhammam - June 21, 2014 at 5:18 pm
RE: Why religion should not vanish - by Arthur123 - June 21, 2014 at 5:34 pm

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