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RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill
March 15, 2015 at 12:09 am
(March 13, 2015 at 11:00 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: What if a pill existed that could cause a person to believe a particular religion or even believe atheism (gnostic)?

What do you think of engineering a religion that would increase happiness, productivity, morality, and other beneficial traits, and then force these religious pills down everybody's throats (sort of like giving pills to a cat Smile )?

Or if the social engineers decided that atheism would be best, what about forcing atheism pills down everybody's throats?

Childhood indoctrination is very much like this IMO.

I believe you've just described the movie "Equilibrium":


I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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Religious belief/disbelief pill - by watchamadoodle - March 13, 2015 at 11:00 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Norman Humann - March 13, 2015 at 11:02 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by watchamadoodle - March 13, 2015 at 11:25 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Norman Humann - March 13, 2015 at 11:31 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Mr Greene - March 13, 2015 at 11:37 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by watchamadoodle - March 13, 2015 at 12:05 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by robvalue - March 13, 2015 at 11:30 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by vorlon13 - March 13, 2015 at 11:35 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by vorlon13 - March 13, 2015 at 1:49 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by watchamadoodle - March 13, 2015 at 2:41 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by robvalue - March 13, 2015 at 2:08 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Godschild - March 14, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Jenny A - March 14, 2015 at 12:56 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by watchamadoodle - March 14, 2015 at 2:09 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Angrboda - March 14, 2015 at 2:47 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Spooky - March 15, 2015 at 12:09 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by watchamadoodle - March 15, 2015 at 2:58 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Nope - March 15, 2015 at 5:07 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by watchamadoodle - March 15, 2015 at 6:14 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by robvalue - March 15, 2015 at 6:30 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Minimalist - March 15, 2015 at 6:50 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Drich - March 15, 2015 at 11:58 pm
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by watchamadoodle - March 16, 2015 at 8:56 am
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill - by Drich - March 16, 2015 at 11:03 am

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