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Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
August 20, 2014 at 12:32 pm
As far as I'm concerned, the only thing Deep Thoughts lead to is Jack Handy.
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 11:28 am
I may be wrong here, but it almost stands to reason that deep thought kind of leads away from god, not towards him. Religion does not allow for free thinking, conformity does not allow for personal freedom.
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 11:34 am
(September 10, 2014 at 11:28 am)MistressD Wrote: Religion does not allow for free thinking, conformity does not allow for personal freedom.
I agree. I'm a former christian, and when I told a pastor that I rejected his 'authority' over me he asked... "Well then who decides who has authority over you... YOU?" To which I replied "Yes." He looked dumbfounded Big Grin
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 11:46 am
(September 10, 2014 at 11:34 am)ShaMan Wrote:
(September 10, 2014 at 11:28 am)MistressD Wrote: Religion does not allow for free thinking, conformity does not allow for personal freedom.
I agree. I'm a former christian, and when I told a pastor that I rejected his 'authority' over me he asked... "Well then who decides who has authority over you... YOU?" To which I replied "Yes." He looked dumbfounded Big Grin

Right?! I'd rather have authority over myself than give all control over to a being that may or may not exist. It is very incomprehensible to them!
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 12:03 pm (This post was last modified: September 10, 2014 at 12:03 pm by fr0d0.)
(August 12, 2014 at 11:45 am)ShaMan Wrote: I read the title as "Does Deep Throat Lead to God?" Giggle

Gargh! I can't stop reading it as that now! Big Grin
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 12:21 pm (This post was last modified: September 10, 2014 at 12:22 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(September 10, 2014 at 11:28 am)MistressD Wrote: I may be wrong here, but it almost stands to reason that deep thought kind of leads away from god, not towards him. Religion does not allow for free thinking, conformity does not allow for personal freedom.
Wrong on all counts. Reason may or may not lead towards God. And religion encourages more thinking than ontological naturalism.
(September 10, 2014 at 11:34 am)ShaMan Wrote: I agree. I'm a former christian...
I disagree as a former atheist.
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 12:40 pm
(September 10, 2014 at 12:21 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:
(September 10, 2014 at 11:28 am)MistressD Wrote: I may be wrong here, but it almost stands to reason that deep thought kind of leads away from god, not towards him. Religion does not allow for free thinking, conformity does not allow for personal freedom.
Wrong on all counts. Reason may or may not lead towards God. And religion encourages more thinking than ontological naturalism.
(September 10, 2014 at 11:34 am)ShaMan Wrote: I agree. I'm a former christian...
I disagree as a former atheist.

I think you're confusing atheism with apatheism. While there is no doctrine for atheism, it's usually arrived at through critical thinking. As for any religion, it does encourage thinking. Just not free thinking.
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 12:47 pm
ChadWooters, I know nothing about ontological naturalism so I have no words on that. But how does religion encourage free thinking, considering it requires you to conform to their beliefs above all else and to the exclusion of others?
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 12:55 pm
You're free to think whatever some preachy asshole tells you. It's very complicated.
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
September 10, 2014 at 3:36 pm
(August 12, 2014 at 11:45 am)ShaMan Wrote: I read the title as "Does Deep Throat Lead to God?" Giggle

You left off the second part of the title:

"Here's a swallow answer."
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