Good. Because even a child would , right after his vaccination, say your position is idiotic. You are wise not to converse with Anyone about it.
Personally? A log cabin with a potbelly stove and a woman old before her time? Or? A penthouse in skyscraper with a robot serving me drinks and dinner with a beautiful lady. Oh, I dont know let me think.
I am SO sorry. I definitely did not read these right. That's what I get for posting before my brain is awake. My apologies.
Well if belief in a Deity is fundamental to prosperity, then the Islamic world ought to have the highest standard of living and the greatest prosperity. But they don't. Why? Because God is not an economic principle. It is a delusion left over from the Dark Ages. What is a fundamental principle of economics is liberty, i.e., to prosper all men need is the freedom to do so. Ayn Rand: Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/freedom.html To deal with reality, it is both impractical and immoral to rely on prayer to a mystical unknowable, unprovable, entity. However, reason works really well, and to work at full capacity, man must be free to do so. It wasn't a lack of belief in God that destroyed Stalin's dystopia, it was communism's obliteration of the right of Man to be free. Creative minds cannot be forced.
Religion is cool now.. we learned about photons and how the light shines in the halls of shambala (the guy who made the first prism was a heretic..not good back then).. we can uber to shambala now.. self flying cars are coming soon which will save us a fortune on infrastructure.. no bridges or roads required
Tell that to Joel Olsteen.. Mike Huckabee thinks he should be in charge of the government.. Donald needs a better AG Pick.. America is going to blinded by the illuminating photons from the chrome dome.. Manfred Mann's Blinded by the light will become profit seed Meth for Betsy 1+1 = the number of tits you have.. it is a multigender solution
Yet Islamic Spain had more books than all of Europe combined during the Golden Ages of Islam. But let me guess, it was in spite of religion, right?
It stands that the Islamic world was marked with the extensive generation and development of science during the pinnacle of its religous history. So much for your flimsy and orientalist theories....
Because...? Prove it. So does delusion - the common element being that they are both entirely subjective. And yes, I'm aware of the "probablistic" behavior of subatomic particles.
The fact that we are born, die (really die), without any purpose other than to pass on our DNA is simply too much for many people to mentally handle. That is why religion was created.
The 5 arguments of Aquinas are merely logical tricks born of ignorance of natural laws and full of magical assumptions. They hold little to no value today, and they are the product of backwards think. They are fodder for college freshman in their first philosophy class.