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28th September 2006, 03:28 | #1 |
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The God Delusion
"Our Western politicians avoid mentioning the R word (religion), and instead characterize their battle as a war against 'terror', as though terror were a kind of spirit or force, with a will and a mind of its own. Or they characterize terrorists as motivated by pure 'evil'. But they are not motivated by evil. However misguided we may think them, they are motivated, like the Christian murderers of abortion doctors, by what they perceive to be righteousness, faithfully pursuing what their religion tells them. They are not psychotic; they are religious idealists who, by their own lights, are rational. They perceive their acts to be good, not because of some warped personal idiosyncrasy, and not because they have been possessed by Satan, but because they have been brought up, from the cradle, to have total and unquestioning faith. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ht/5372458.stm Can't wait to get my copy |
28th September 2006, 03:38 | #2 |
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And I know, I JUST KNOW, this thread is going to turn into another religion flame-fest. /puts popcorn in the microwave and starts melting butter 'n' honey
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28th September 2006, 03:48 | #3 |
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28th September 2006, 04:04 | #4 |
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looks good~
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28th September 2006, 04:05 | #5 |
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Sweet, interesting interview
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28th September 2006, 04:24 | #6 |
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The Root of All Evil
Part One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB2vmj8eyMk Part Two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGeL1yFeK6I Part Three - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76UDVB-ofpI |
28th September 2006, 09:08 | #7 |
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28th September 2006, 09:10 | #8 |
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Let it all out man.
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28th September 2006, 09:44 | #9 |
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Super bonus points for mention of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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28th September 2006, 09:56 | #10 |
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*yawn*fart*beep* huh?
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28th September 2006, 10:24 | #11 |
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Nice job of restraining yourself there Lightspeed. Well done
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28th September 2006, 10:41 | #14 |
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red blooded christian?
you mean you weirdo's have different colours of blood?
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28th September 2006, 10:51 | #15 |
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some of them are actually Grey infiltrators
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28th September 2006, 11:37 | #16 |
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I'm curious
but aren't psychotic people also - by their own lights - rational, most of the time? but yeah I'm not touching this one |
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28th September 2006, 12:03 | #18 |
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Religion is just the varying amount of influence the temporal lobe section of the brain has on individuals. Variation accounts for some people being more or less religious.
They can trigger religious experiences with magnetic simulation to stimulate that part of the brain. and that's where religion comes from, thanks for listening reference: BBC Brain Story documentary ep1
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Oh - I blame high voltage transmission lines, and magnetic mattress underlays.
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28th September 2006, 12:15 | #20 |
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I blame planet-X and it's magnetic force on our auras ...
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28th September 2006, 12:34 | #22 |
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So, if you bone a chick on a magnetic underlay, she is more likely to scream out "Oh God!"????
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I mean, it seems pretty obvious to me, but then again I'm not a religious person in the sense of faith surpressing any sort of logic and reason
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28th September 2006, 18:25 | #31 |
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Well, we'd have to get religious fervour classified as a mental defect before that.
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And yeah that's a good point Cinc. Religion was probably originally invented for the purposes of explaining natural elements, but has since been converted into a tool for control exploiting the part of the brain aforementioned.
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28th September 2006, 18:56 | #33 |
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Actually, I think you'll find that God put the evidence of a link between the temporal lobe and religious experiences there as a test of faith. You failed. See you in hell.
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28th September 2006, 19:08 | #34 |
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Using the lobe thing as an argument against God is about as bad as using the shape of bananas and their convenient packaging as an argument for God.
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28th September 2006, 19:31 | #35 |
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^^ fair call
but seriously, it's only rational if i'm right, and there's no way that temporal lobe thing means the flying spaghetti monster aint real!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PqdC...s%20of%20faith Um, the part with the jewish islamic guy is fucking hilarious - I though dawkins was gonna get a hiding "you dress your women like WHORES!".... Can't remember which episode its in.... There is another series of 6 30(?) minute episodes called "the athieism tapes". 6 interviews with athiests of which one of them is dawkins Its a bit less exciting than "root of all evil", but still worth watching - the final interview with Daniel Dennett is really interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atheism_Tapes I am sure everyone has heard of them - in fact, I think I heard of the program on these very forums Couldn't find them on youtube - maybe they can be obtained from the bbc website....
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<the following is not directed to you, Lightspeed; the "You" in the following is the impersonal You> Belief in God, faith in God, does *NOT* require religion. Religion is humanity's way of making the unexplainable palatable to the masses. Whether it's for social conditioning, civic stability, the good of humanity as a whole, or a tool of the corrupt to retain power is irrelevant. YOU don't need the Church to have a personal connection to your God. YOU don't need a Pastor, Ayatollah, Priest, Mullah, Sufi or Minister to reaffirm YOUR connection to the divine. Religion is unnecessary - yet, when you state this 90% of the faithful* will respond that you are attacking GOD, Yahweh, Allah, etc. That is not a dialogue, that is a blind adherence to ridiculous stories because someone told you that they were true. Without going into them *again*, ad nauseam, it has been well documented about historical inaccuracies in many of the Holy texts, but in this instance I'll say Bible, yet many faithful will swear on the breath of their mother that EVERYthing is TRUE regardless of how often it is shown - fearful that if *one* piece of historical data is shown to be inaccurate GOD must not exist! How absurd is that? IF you believe GOD exists - then for you s/he-it does! Why does it require that *I* must believe he also exists to verify what YOU believe? People are social animals. People will naturally group (even in virtual land, such as this) with others of a like mind. Religion exploits those who believe in the same version of GOD, sometimes for good (i.e. St Johns), sometimes for bad (Scientology, Christian Camp) ... yet someone can never have gone to any religious based entity and still have a close and personal relationship to their GOD. Religion != Faith *Denomination excluded purposefully
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