It's still the fastest growing religion.Leslie said:Both?
chcr said:In my view, all religion is it's own worst enemy. It requires you to accept things that are unlikely at best up to that which is demonstrably untrue. As education continues to improve, and it is improving worldwide regardless of how we're fucking it up here, religious thought will become less and less a basis for governance. Note that it will likely take a very long time.
It requires you to accept things that are unlikely at best up to that which is demonstrably untrue
Are you really that bored?Professur said:As opposed to science, which changes it's mind daily, when it finds out that yesterday's facts were complete nonsense. Sort of like "50% of the matter in space is magically invisible" .... as opposed to "Present theories can't reconcile the observed phenomena (insert muppets singing). More work is needed".
Wrinkly said:Indeed it does
sure beats
an unseen benevolent super being snapped his fingers and poof
there is two nekkid peeps inna garden plookin' eatin' apples
and gettin' pitched out buff naked in the cold, and they lived
happily ever after
still believe in santa and the easter bunny?
besides what's it matter where we came from
more importantly
where are we going?
A Von Daanikenite (sp?) then?Gonz said:That sounds equally like horseshit.
Which is my point entirely.
The God-fearing attack the Godless as heathens and the godless attack the god-fearing as morons.
Who says both sides aren't wrong?
Failed Suicide Bomber: I Was Kidnapped, Drugged
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A suicide bomber captured before he could blow himself up in a Shiite mosque claimed he was kidnapped, beaten and drugged by insurgents who forced him to take on the mission. The U.S. military said its medical tests indicated the man was telling the truth.
Mahmoud Kaduri, 29, recalled bitterly how he was forced to work with the insurgency currently fighting US and Iraqi government troops. "They told me to work with them or my son would be killed," he recalled.
According to Obaidi, a number of recent offensives led by US and Iraqi government forces have turned up a handful of Iraqis found to be fighting with insurgents against their will.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6JEJTQ?OpenDocument
Erich von Daniken. The "Chariots of the Gods" guy. Says that we were "helped" along the evolutionary path by aliens. Sorry, it was a joke. Like most jokes it's not as funny when you have to explain it.Gonz said:
chcr said:Erich von Daniken. The "Chariots of the Gods" guy. Says that we were "helped" along the evolutionary path by aliens.
Professur said:I read it. That guy has ducks in his shoes.