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Andrew Bernstein
“Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.”


― Andrew Bernstein

Too fucking true.

These days at least religion is the purview of the ignorant.

[Exian]

And the minds that were applied to the world not only had to wrestle with their own religious turmoil, but outside prosecution.

Alfred Korzybski had this to say:
"Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. One has to stop and think! There is nothing mystical about the fact that ideas and words are energies which powerfully affect the physico-chemical base of our time-binding activities. Humans are thus made untrue to "human nature." ... The conception of man as a mixture of animal and supernatural has for ages kept human beings under the deadly spell of the suggestion that, animal selfishness and animal greediness are their essential character, and the spell has operated to suppress their REAL HUMAN NATURE and to prevent it from expressing itself naturally and freely."

The real human nature he speaks of is our ability to bind time, as he called it. The ability to apply passed knowledge of our ancestors to our time for the use of future generations.

[Zen Badger]

How much mental effort was wasted deducing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin?

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[vorlon13]

How much mental effort was wasted deducing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin?

Considerable, no doubt. But I might point out, the Christers (and other religiousites) are stuck with such absurdities, and we can wield them to great effect.