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Which was first: Atheism or Religion?
RE: Which was first: Atheism or Religion?
(June 29, 2014 at 12:08 am)Rhythm Wrote: They're his thoughts, after all, and he gets to decide where he leaves them.

That would only be fair if he was keeping that thought to himself and not trying to make himself out as the enlightened one telling us that it's his view that's the truth. In that case, there is an expectation to actually elaborate on the contents of that thought and not dodge and dance around the question., like some of the politicians in my country keep doing when cornered. (Julia Gillard and now Tony Abbott)
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RE: Which was first: Atheism or Religion?
(June 28, 2014 at 11:44 pm)Irrational Wrote: Have you succeeded in trying to get a satisfying answer from a dodger?
No one has.
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"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Which was first: Atheism or Religion?
I've just checked the dictionary. Atheism came way before religion.

Perhaps that's why religion is so frustrated and neurotic?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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