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Religion, A Curable Illness

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Religion, A Curable Illness
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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’ that can be ‘cured’
May 31, 2013 at 11:16 pm (This post was last modified: May 31, 2013 at 11:19 pm by phil77.)
10 years ago in Britain many scientists said that the combined MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) innoculation was a cause of autism in babies. This scared parents who put their trust in doctors.and refused the vaccination. Subsequently in Britain today 2013 we have many children and teenagers with measles. Measles is potentially fatal. Why do you have so much faith in self serving scientists who can't always agree with each other? I know I gave just one example but I could go on.
(May 31, 2013 at 11:07 pm)apophenia Wrote:


Mein Gott. You made him speechless.


Nein!! Gott in Himmel!!
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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’ that can be ‘cured’
May 31, 2013 at 11:21 pm
(May 31, 2013 at 9:10 pm)phil77 Wrote: Does this include the fundamentalist belief in Richard Dawkins?



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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism
May 31, 2013 at 11:25 pm
(May 31, 2013 at 11:16 pm)phil77 Wrote: 10 years ago in Britain many scientists said that the combined MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) innoculation was a cause of autism in babies. This scared parents who put their trust in doctors.and refused the vaccination. Subsequently in Britain today 2013 we have many children and teenagers with measles. Measles is potentially fatal. Why do you have so much faith in self serving scientists who can't always agree with each other? I know I gave just one example but I could go on.
Because when shamans, witch-doctors, and priests handle this kind of thing for us instead, they do a piss-poor job of it?
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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’ that can be ‘cured’
May 31, 2013 at 11:32 pm
(May 31, 2013 at 11:16 pm)phil77 Wrote: 10 years ago in Britain many scientists said that the combined MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) innoculation was a cause of autism in babies. This scared parents who put their trust in doctors.and refused the vaccination. Subsequently in Britain today 2013 we have many children and teenagers with measles. Measles is potentially fatal. Why do you have so much faith in self serving scientists who can't always agree with each other? I know I gave just one example but I could go on.

Great. So let's get rid of the scientists and see where that gets us.
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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’ that can be ‘cured’
May 31, 2013 at 11:32 pm (This post was last modified: May 31, 2013 at 11:35 pm by phil77.)
(May 31, 2013 at 11:21 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:
(May 31, 2013 at 9:10 pm)phil77 Wrote: Does this include the fundamentalist belief in Richard Dawkins?



Hillarious!! Thank you! rofl, although atheisists only laugh at shitty old monty python so they won't get the joke.
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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’
May 31, 2013 at 11:43 pm
I've never actually read any Dawkins, apparently this makes me some kind of atheist heretic.
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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’ that can be ‘cured’
May 31, 2013 at 11:43 pm
(May 31, 2013 at 10:01 pm)phil77 Wrote: I was holding Newton up as someone that scientists revere and not as a model Christian.

I do not revere Newton and I am sure no one worships that man in any way. What fascinates people about him is the contribution he made to physics by writing down the laws of gravity.

It is a idiotic illusion to believe that someone has to revere a person that has created amazing things, despite what that person may have done.

The great composer Richard Wagner was antisemite.
The artist Picasso was a mysoginist.
and the list goes on.

Great achievement doesnt mean great personality.

And you are getting everything wrong by assuming that atheists worship scientists.

Quote: Only one man left this earth perfect.

You couldnt resist stuffing this irrelevant information into you rabble of words.

Quote: Atheisism seems to follow a fundamentalism similar to that which is seen in aspects of Christianity and Islam.

Explain.

Quote: Also it is pisspoor to judge a dead bloke ( Newton) from centuries ago with modern ethics.

So you know the answere to the question if a historical persons achievements outway that persons evil?

historians have been debating this question for centuries, and I sincerely doubt that a runarround christian who makes out of touch assertions will have the knowlege to answere let alone to participate in debate arround this question.

The past as horrible, and we have to judge it on the basis of our modern set of values so we do not fall back into it and let it and it`s horrors reapear.

Unless you are the kind of person who would like to persecute jews, see cholera ravage and own slaves?
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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a mental illness
June 1, 2013 at 12:03 am



Why does everyone remember Newton for his work in physics and his obsession with alchemy, but nobody ever mentions the calculus. FUCKING PHILISTINES!!
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RE: Religion, A Curable Illness
June 1, 2013 at 12:06 am



BTDT.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-19079-po...#pid452469
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RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’ that can be ‘cured’
June 1, 2013 at 12:07 am
(June 1, 2013 at 12:03 am)apophenia Wrote:


Why does everyone remember Newton for his work in physics and his obsession with alchemy, but nobody ever mentions the calculus. FUCKING PHILISTINES!!



because it is what most physics students fail at and drop out of college for.

It suposedly is torture.
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