(June 13, 2015 at 10:31 am)comet Wrote:(June 13, 2015 at 9:43 am)TheMessiah Wrote: Just thought I'd share my thoughts on this. While traditional, organised religion is in decline, the spiritual belief isn't. The New Age, especially the bullshit put forward by Deepak Chopra is highly, highly popular. It's a million dollar industry which is trying to revive ''faith healing, astrology, etc''. These beliefs are just as, if not more irrational than organised religion, they're not organised beliefs, they're highly individualistic beliefs, but the level of irrationality isn't going away.
Religion isn't declining, it's just changing.
http://www.scienceonreligion.org/index.p...ar-society
yeah, you understand alright.
Go get some science training before you spout noise about your "religion" as better than their religions. My sect of atheists is just as the definition describes. We do not subscribe to "our belief is better than their belief." But we do think Using the scientific method is a better process to form a belief. That is the claim.
You might want to read twice before you decide to get your feathers all ruffled.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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