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BlueSkyKing · M
“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@BlueSkyKing You are not a very deep thinker are you? Too Funny. Atheism: We don't know why or how but 'stuff happened and then we die".
Carazaa · F
@BlueSkyKing Atheism is not logical, nor scientifically possible!
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BlueSkyKing · M
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“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’ ‘How did they know what to write?’ ‘Did they, in their time, really mean what we, in our time, understand them to be saying?’ ‘Were they unbiased observers, or did they have an agenda that coloured their writing?”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’ ‘How did they know what to write?’ ‘Did they, in their time, really mean what we, in our time, understand them to be saying?’ ‘Were they unbiased observers, or did they have an agenda that coloured their writing?”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
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Carazaa · F
@BlueSkyKing People saying things like that are idiots because they are unaware that all those questions have been answered by the most educated scholars in every christian country. I have studied the Bible for over 40 years and I know the Bible is the word of God!
BlueSkyKing · M
@Carazaa Anecdotal. In comparison, I’ve seen astrologers make equal claims of decades of "study". I always ask obvious questions because I can’t imagine the procedure. Mostly the investment of money and time. Where does the financing come from? How and what type of data was collected? What was used as a lab? Did you find find anything where astrology simply got it wrong? Where are the published results? Of course the answer was no answer.
I work and commute for a living. Relationships and other activities occupy the vast majority of my free time. Do people that spend decades of "study" have a life?
There is no sacred book of astrology but they also "know".
I work and commute for a living. Relationships and other activities occupy the vast majority of my free time. Do people that spend decades of "study" have a life?
There is no sacred book of astrology but they also "know".
Carazaa · F
@BlueSkyKing They are aware that christians are powerful because they have God! They aren't fooled!
BlueSkyKing · M
Science has given us much. What has theology ever provided?
Theology has given us hell.
Theology has given us hell.