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Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 9:43 am
Just thought I'd share my thoughts on this. While traditional, organised religion is in decline, the spiritual belief isn't. The New Age, especially the bullshit put forward by Deepak Chopra is highly, highly popular. It's a million dollar industry which is trying to revive ''faith healing, astrology, etc''. These beliefs are just as, if not more irrational than organised religion, they're not organised beliefs, they're highly individualistic beliefs, but the level of irrationality isn't going away.
Religion isn't declining, it's just changing.
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 10:31 am
(June 13, 2015 at 9:43 am)TheMessiah Wrote: Just thought I'd share my thoughts on this. While traditional, organised religion is in decline, the spiritual belief isn't. The New Age, especially the bullshit put forward by Deepak Chopra is highly, highly popular. It's a million dollar industry which is trying to revive ''faith healing, astrology, etc''. These beliefs are just as, if not more irrational than organised religion, they're not organised beliefs, they're highly individualistic beliefs, but the level of irrationality isn't going away.
Religion isn't declining, it's just changing.
http://www.scienceonreligion.org/index.p...ar-society
yeah, you understand alright. 
Go get some science training before you spout noise about your "religion" as better than their religions. My sect of atheists is just as the definition describes. We do not subscribe to "our belief is better than their belief." But we do think Using the scientific method is a better process to form a belief. That is the claim.
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 10:42 am
(June 13, 2015 at 10:31 am)comet Wrote: (June 13, 2015 at 9:43 am)TheMessiah Wrote: Just thought I'd share my thoughts on this. While traditional, organised religion is in decline, the spiritual belief isn't. The New Age, especially the bullshit put forward by Deepak Chopra is highly, highly popular. It's a million dollar industry which is trying to revive ''faith healing, astrology, etc''. These beliefs are just as, if not more irrational than organised religion, they're not organised beliefs, they're highly individualistic beliefs, but the level of irrationality isn't going away.
Religion isn't declining, it's just changing.
http://www.scienceonreligion.org/index.p...ar-society
yeah, you understand alright.
Go get some science training before you spout noise about your "religion" as better than their religions. My sect of atheists is just as the definition describes. We do not subscribe to "our belief is better than their belief." But we do think Using the scientific method is a better process to form a belief. That is the claim.
Not sure why you think I think New Age is good, I hate the new age crap
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 10:53 am
New age crap may be just as irrational as Christianity but there is no political power in it. That's the big difference. I would rather have 50 million people following a plethora of different and incompatible religions than 50 million united under a single religion. Christianity is itself fractured (thank FSM) but united enough to cause the chaos they did when they successfully took over the Republican Party.
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 11:08 am
(June 13, 2015 at 10:31 am)comet Wrote: (June 13, 2015 at 9:43 am)TheMessiah Wrote: Just thought I'd share my thoughts on this. While traditional, organised religion is in decline, the spiritual belief isn't. The New Age, especially the bullshit put forward by Deepak Chopra is highly, highly popular. It's a million dollar industry which is trying to revive ''faith healing, astrology, etc''. These beliefs are just as, if not more irrational than organised religion, they're not organised beliefs, they're highly individualistic beliefs, but the level of irrationality isn't going away.
Religion isn't declining, it's just changing.
http://www.scienceonreligion.org/index.p...ar-society
yeah, you understand alright.
Go get some science training before you spout noise about your "religion" as better than their religions. My sect of atheists is just as the definition describes. We do not subscribe to "our belief is better than their belief." But we do think Using the scientific method is a better process to form a belief. That is the claim.
You might want to read twice before you decide to get your feathers all ruffled.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 11:08 am
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(June 13, 2015 at 10:53 am)AFTT47 Wrote: New age crap may be just as irrational as Christianity but there is no political power in it. That's the big difference. I would rather have 50 million people following a plethora of different and incompatible religions than 50 million united under a single religion. Christianity is itself fractured (thank FSM) but united enough to cause the chaos they did when they successfully took over the Republican Party.
This.
Except for the New Agers are the ones that start the Anti-Vaxxer and Anti-GMO movements.
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 11:18 am
First polytheism changed to monotheism, now monotheism is changing into New Age bullshit. Hopefully, with enough time, New Age bullshit will change into no bullshit.
I'm an incurable optimist, aren't I -_-
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 11:22 am
Some humans choose to be willfully ignorant. they cannot be helped. Let's hope our society grows up and learns to ignore them. But between a "no bullshit" society and the destruction of mankind, I believe the latter is more likely to happen. yeh, I am a pessimist.
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 11:45 am
I never encountered a New Ager who hides his bigotry behind the guise of religious love as Christians are wont to do.
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RE: Unaffiliated/irreligious people isn't evidence of anything good
June 13, 2015 at 11:53 am
(June 13, 2015 at 10:53 am)AFTT47 Wrote: New age crap may be just as irrational as Christianity but there is no political power in it. That's the big difference. I would rather have 50 million people following a plethora of different and incompatible religions than 50 million united under a single religion. Christianity is itself fractured (thank FSM) but united enough to cause the chaos they did when they successfully took over the Republican Party.
I don't know, I have a friend at Uni who is studying medicine and IIRC he said they introduced some New Age bullshit.
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