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gilbert sullivan

(192 posts)
10. Faith is a pisspoor substitute for thinking
Sun May 28, 2017, 06:29 PM
May 2017

We have learned more about our universe and how and why it operates in the last half century
or so than in all of previous human history.

This is why we no longer need to invent imaginary, magical, supernatural 'gods' to explain thunder, disease, planetary motion, speciation, chemical reactions, etc.

Hundreds of religious belief systems have gone down the toilet of history and the remaining ones are circling the bowl as we speak. Intelligent educated people understand this.

As Neil deGrasse Tyson so elegantly put it, "God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that is getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time goes on".

The good news is that someday we will finally resolve the old question of whether religion is the cause...or the result...of insanity; then we can work on a cure for both.

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Here's What Atheist Lack... [View all] tecelote May 2017 OP
"But, what about the lack of religion?" trotsky May 2017 #1
Anti-Religion is Our Religion tecelote May 2017 #3
Speak for yourself Warpy May 2017 #9
So be yourself. tecelote May 2017 #13
Indeed, and being anti child abuse gilbert sullivan May 2017 #19
Atheism is not based on anything other than a lack of belief. Voltaire2 May 2017 #2
Atheism is not simply a belief in nothing. tecelote May 2017 #4
So, if I walk out into the street and get hit by a car, I'm controlling my destiny? SwissTony May 2017 #6
You get that control from God? tecelote May 2017 #11
OK, I'm an atheist. Have been for 50+ years. SwissTony May 2017 #5
Empirical Knowledge (or evidence)... tecelote May 2017 #7
But many factors in our lives are beyond our control. SwissTony May 2017 #8
Yes. But don't blame it on God. tecelote May 2017 #12
The word is acceptance, not PassingFair Jun 2017 #21
Simplest explanation. SonofDonald May 2017 #16
that't it. Brainstormy Jun 2017 #20
Faith is a pisspoor substitute for thinking gilbert sullivan May 2017 #10
So, we agree. tecelote May 2017 #15
It's a numbers game Cartoonist May 2017 #14
Good point. tecelote May 2017 #17
I ain't lacking shit. Iggo May 2017 #18
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