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Poll: Do some people need religion?
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Yes
62.50%
10 62.50%
No
37.50%
6 37.50%
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Do some people need religion?
#21
RE: Do some people need religion?
Fuck the touchy, feely, people need religion to give meaning to their lives bullshit.

Religion is still necessary to keep stupid people from doing real harm to society.
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#22
RE: Do some people need religion?
Idiotic humans will make a religion out of anything and seem to have an innate imperative to do so. Anything from brushing your teeth, nutrition to the larger ideologies .....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism

The list can go on and on. Religion is just a way for a group of like minded people to mindlessly tap into an ideology an cause great societal harm in the process. Things start out nice..........
But like islam a few get into power and it is all down hill from there.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#23
RE: Do some people need religion?
(February 17, 2013 at 8:56 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: I do think certain people wouldn't be alive without depending on religion to get them through the day. Faith is powerful. It can save lives.

But - one can have "FAITH" without needing a fairy tale religion

(February 27, 2013 at 7:51 am)Confused Ape Wrote: I voted yes because new religions are being started in modern times. For example, UFO Religions.

It's possible that our species evolved to have religion.

Quote:Professor Pascal Boyer, an anthropologist at Washington University and author of Religion Explained, said that atheism was probably the unnatural way to be.

I've been reading a number of articles about how and why humans could have acquired religion as the result of evolution and all of them conclude that atheists are the odd ones out.



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Since there are LOTS of articles to the opposite - your statement only points out the bias of your choice of articles

(February 28, 2013 at 1:49 am)cato123 Wrote: Fuck the touchy, feely, people need religion to give meaning to their lives bullshit.

Religion is still necessary to keep stupid people from doing real harm to society.

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Sorry - but at a time when religion was the rules of law - in the world - it may have had a place.

Today - government has replaced that and religion is no longer needed
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#24
RE: Do some people need religion?
(February 28, 2013 at 9:17 am)ThomM Wrote: But - one can have "FAITH" without needing a fairy tale religion

I never understood this. The whole, spiritual but not religious thing. I feel like they kinda go hand in hand don't they?
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#25
RE: Do some people need religion?
No .... I don't think so.

It (to me) translates to .... "I can be a nice caring person without organised religion"

"Spiritual" if you like...along the lines of Buddhism
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#26
RE: Do some people need religion?
Buddhist philosophy helped me appreciate some aspects of science and allowed me to become more aware of the failings of Christianity.

Similarly, I know there are some mass murderers in Africa that stop when they have Christian experiences.

I would like these areas of the mind to be considered more by science before preaching atheism as what people need.
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#27
RE: Do some people need religion?
Well, we don't
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