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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 7:06 pm
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Religions core msg is "Your here not to enjoy life, but to work/suffer a bit to give up your resources for the common good, otherwise God might have to torture you". Religion by definition is a big letdown. No wonder it gets deserved dislikes.
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 8:18 pm
Quote: its okay to disagree, but theres good evidence to support it.
I'm going to regret asking but.... like what?
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 8:20 pm
(October 31, 2016 at 12:30 pm)alpha male Wrote: For most people, what they hate is being judged.
By whom exactly?
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 10:20 pm
(October 29, 2016 at 1:24 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin
What has knowledge gotten us exactly, besides more efficient ways to kill each other.
Which is more desirable, to live in accordance with nature as aincient Native Americans once did? Or this modern society? Personally I'd take the former.
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 10:31 pm
(October 31, 2016 at 10:20 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: What has knowledge gotten us exactly, besides more efficient ways to kill each other.
Which is more desirable, to live in accordance with nature as aincient Native Americans once did? Or this modern society? Personally I'd take the former. And you have an option of doing that.
Yet you're on a high-tech device using a high-tech communications protocol to tell others you'd rather not be using this high-tech device and high-tech communications protocol.
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Touche'.
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 10:35 pm
I have the option of going back in time?
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 10:38 pm
Sure. Move in with the Amish.
I don't believe you. Get over it.
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 10:41 pm
(October 31, 2016 at 10:20 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: (October 29, 2016 at 1:24 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin
What has knowledge gotten us exactly, besides more efficient ways to kill each other.
Which is more desirable, to live in accordance with nature as aincient Native Americans once did? Or this modern society? Personally I'd take the former.
Just speaking for myself, Hugs, I'll take indoor plumbing, antibiotics, central HVAC, cars, and the internet over sleeping in the dirt and having to hunt buffalo every damn day.
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RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
October 31, 2016 at 10:47 pm
(October 31, 2016 at 10:20 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: What has knowledge gotten us exactly, besides more efficient ways to kill each other.
Lol... Are you dumb? (he asked knowingly...) So many things, it's impossible to count.
Medicine and vaccines. Protection from wild animals, cold and darkness. Effective ways of feeding people, without everyone picking berries, or driving thousands of buffaloes over cliffs (because that's how Native Americans hunted, before white man brought horses and guns to the continent). Ability to predict weather patterns as well as geological events, like earthquakes. Solutions to overpopulation, like contraception.
Higher standards of ethics (that's right, f*cknut - for example we now know that stoning your children for disobedience, or torturing heretics is not a normal thing to do - something your beloved barbarians had no idea about). Advanced social institutions. Democracy. Education. Human rights. Ecology. "Green" energy. Etc...
(October 31, 2016 at 10:20 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Which is more desirable, to live in accordance with nature as aincient Native Americans once did? Or this modern society? Personally I'd take the former.
Yeah - and die of smallpox, a common infection, or gum disease at 40. Or watch at least half your children die during, or shortly after birth. You're an ungrateful dipsh*t, who can't even realize how good he has it. I'll bet you've never even seen nature. Go - live in a forest, with your entire family of morons, I f*cking dare you, you fat, soft tw*t. See what that gets you...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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