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I must be doing something right if all the crazy liberals seem to think I'm a fascist and all the crazy conservatives seem to think I'm a socialist.
Please. Dawkins is every bit as intolerant and hate-filled as any of the right-wing nuts--- just because you agree with him doesn't redeem his extremism.
I've hear of exactly ONE non-christian politician...that guy who was recently sworn in on a Koran. Can anyone else think of any others?
Can a religious group that utterly dominates government honestly claim to be "oppressed"? C'mon people. It's the most ridiculous claim EVER.
I must be doing something right if all the crazy liberals seem to think I'm a fascist and all the crazy conservatives seem to think I'm a socialist.
Religion is not about understanding the world, it's about understanding how to act. Slightly different. Most religions are pro survival, at least the survival of the followers at least. The modern nihilism (anti-human) movement abhors an ideology which makes people feel emboldened to live. Elitists hate hope.
Well, teaching how to act is not doing so well. (Huge factor deciding to fight a war many times) so it must be about recruits not just for survival, but a race to be the only religion (a few of them). Yea, I can see things getting nasty. As far as I can tell though, I think the teachings I learned are a good model to live a life. I seem to have a unusual ability to retain integrity for right and wrong that most people don't don't seem to recall today. We use to--but not today IMO. We tend to grow away from right and wrong IMO. Tollerance does tend to have a domino effect, over generations, that way IMO.
Anyone who can compare Falwell with Dawkins could compare bananas to peas and come away with no difference.
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"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." Richard Dawkins
"An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: "I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one." I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist." Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being." Rev Jerry Falwell
I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed." Rev Jerry Falwell
"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."
Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to which Rev Pat Robertson agreed, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)
That muslim-american representative from Minnesota.
I dunno. I guess I'm a Buddhist-American?What the fuck is a Muslim-American? I didn't realise that was an ethnicity.
No, he doesn't. However, in the academic world one must read up on the subject being discussed to act as an authority on the subject-- in other words, he would not have to read up on "Leprechaunology" to disbelieve in them, but he would have to read up on it in order to present himself as an authority on leprechauns and why they don't exist.
The public has a short attention span, and lesser comprehension skills. Democracy isn't all it is advertised to be. The freedom to choose representation is a great thing, unfortunately, those who choose to refrain from educating themselves on the issues do not refrain from voting.
Are you shittin me? You don't have to be an authority on idioicy to tell what it is, like Christianity.
Where'd God come from?
People with degrees in theology are all idiots. There's no more dumbed down discipline, besides sociology (the study of communism).