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Why Be Interested In Other Religions?
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Regardless of where you live, you have no doubt seen for yourself how religion affects the lives of millions of people.
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Hypognosis; To say that someone who believes the sum total of religion is a belief in "sky fairies" is lacking in the IQ department, is not the same as saying that all atheists are stupid. This is something I have never said (and naomi, not even of Dawkins). What I have said in my classifying of various positions, is to distinguish between different types; those...
16:13 Wed 30th Mar 2016
goodlife - "You know the way I see it Science and archaeology are not essentials..."
So, 'science' is not an 'essential' eh? If 'science' is such a throwaway idea then I assume that you'll refuse all modern scientific medical care if you are ever diagnosed with a serious illness? And when you may need root canal treatment for your dental agony, you'll refuse modern anaesthetics and forgo all the advances in dental treatment discovered by 'science' too? I assume that you also walk everywhere too, wearing clothing made from entirely natural fibres and that you never, ever, get into or onto a car, plane or ship.?
No? Really?
Like all of us living today, you enjoy all the luxuries and conveniences of modern life provided by 'science' and yet you have the audacity to say that 'science' is not an essential part of your world (ie. the internet, the internal combustion engine, antibiotics, electricity, civil engineering infrastructure, surgical technology, etc.). I'm trying to come up with a word that fully describes your breathtakingly ignorant hypocrisy but I don't think that such a word exists.
Well, not one that could be published on AB.
So, 'science' is not an 'essential' eh? If 'science' is such a throwaway idea then I assume that you'll refuse all modern scientific medical care if you are ever diagnosed with a serious illness? And when you may need root canal treatment for your dental agony, you'll refuse modern anaesthetics and forgo all the advances in dental treatment discovered by 'science' too? I assume that you also walk everywhere too, wearing clothing made from entirely natural fibres and that you never, ever, get into or onto a car, plane or ship.?
No? Really?
Like all of us living today, you enjoy all the luxuries and conveniences of modern life provided by 'science' and yet you have the audacity to say that 'science' is not an essential part of your world (ie. the internet, the internal combustion engine, antibiotics, electricity, civil engineering infrastructure, surgical technology, etc.). I'm trying to come up with a word that fully describes your breathtakingly ignorant hypocrisy but I don't think that such a word exists.
Well, not one that could be published on AB.
@jomifl
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Hypo, predestination also implies that what we do either has no effect on the final outcome or is predestined anyway. Does that mean that we can steal murder and pillage as part of god's plan?
20:13 Sat 26th Mar 2016
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Now that question would, surely, be worth a thread in its own right although we'd reach, unavoidably, the conclusion that god's plan is very strange indeed or at least his methods were suspect. Either that or my pet theory, which is that 'god' is just the sum total of us. We're just displacing it by a level, because worshipping humanity would be… odd.
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Hypo, predestination also implies that what we do either has no effect on the final outcome or is predestined anyway. Does that mean that we can steal murder and pillage as part of god's plan?
20:13 Sat 26th Mar 2016
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Now that question would, surely, be worth a thread in its own right although we'd reach, unavoidably, the conclusion that god's plan is very strange indeed or at least his methods were suspect. Either that or my pet theory, which is that 'god' is just the sum total of us. We're just displacing it by a level, because worshipping humanity would be… odd.
Who wrote the Bible ? Where the OT is concerned, a bunch of rabbis with overactive imaginations. Actually, science and archaeology do come in here - science and archaeology prove that ( for instance) the exodus never happened. Research in the very extensive ancient egyptian records and archives shows absolutely no sign of plagues of blood/locusts/boils, death of the firstborn, escape of many thousands of slaves, destruction of a huge pharaonic army. Nothing in the egyptian records or any other records, come to that. Can you imagine plagues, thousands of deaths, etc, NOT being recorded ? being just forgotten ? And the old testament goes on to describe all the places the hebrews took after the exodus - but none of those places ( Jericho, Ai, Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, Kiriat-jearim, etc ) had any kind of settlements or inhabitants whatsoever at the time the Hebrews were supposed to have conquered them. They would therefore have conquered only empty and nameless bits of desert. So, goodlife, you had better not write off science and archaeology, since between them they have definitively written off a huge chunk of your scripture.
Ref: Implausible beliefs, A Mazur, 2008 9781412806770
Ref: Implausible beliefs, A Mazur, 2008 9781412806770
The history of religion is as old as the history of man himself. That is what archaeologists and anthropologists tell us. the new Encyclopædia Britannica says that “as far as scholars have discovered, there has never existed any people, anywhere, at any time, who were not in some sense religious.”
The questions come where did all these religions come? Since there are marked differences as well as similarities among them, did they start independently, or could they have developed from one source? In fact we might ask: Why did religion begin at all?
The answers to these questions are of vital importance to all who are interested in finding the truth about religion and religious beliefs.
The same principle can be applied to the investigation of the origin of the rise of atheism
What are people searching for then, well just as the ancient world did not understand Jesus, it did not understand the Christians and therefore hated them. Since they refused to worship the emperor and pagan divinities, they were accused of atheism. If a catastrophe occurred, they were blamed for having angered the gods.
The questions come where did all these religions come? Since there are marked differences as well as similarities among them, did they start independently, or could they have developed from one source? In fact we might ask: Why did religion begin at all?
The answers to these questions are of vital importance to all who are interested in finding the truth about religion and religious beliefs.
The same principle can be applied to the investigation of the origin of the rise of atheism
What are people searching for then, well just as the ancient world did not understand Jesus, it did not understand the Christians and therefore hated them. Since they refused to worship the emperor and pagan divinities, they were accused of atheism. If a catastrophe occurred, they were blamed for having angered the gods.
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