Religion: The Great Delusion

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  1. FivepointFive

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    met a vet yesterday who was deployed by the navy to the 6 day war.. they steamed through the Med.. they did not get their in time

    but the radioactive lights they gave him gave him a dose that caused complications for life.. he did look happy to me but the vet hospital said he did not look like agent orange was involved in any collusion against his well being.. Sad our elder vets are treated like dogs.. Vet Hospital is more degrading than Washington Redskin

    I was inspired to learn he had 40 amp solar service he built himself.. He said 25K$ for 5KW electrons.. sounded very expensive



    Had lunch in the academy club in westpoint..Arthur was incredibly stable genius.. we joked about the unstable genius inflatulating the metafartsickle universe

    sorry to turd the great delusion.. there is always mike huckabee and ISIS


     
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  2. Starjet

    Starjet Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Again, didn’t help did it. Just a bunch of barbaric thugs today. Nothing enlightening about Islam. About the only thing they’re spreading is “bow it or lose it.” Whoopie-dee-do”
     
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    And remember the 10 Commandments have a lot to do with controlling your behavior.
     
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    It's still standing. Ideas have come and go, but the three major monotheistic religions trudge along, for knowledge of God is the best of all things.

    The nascent idea of Atheism breeds nihilism and self-resentment. It is a concept rooted in ego and manifests in reality in arrogant form, hence the overt rejection of God. Atheism is inherently insecure, for it clings to the material. The atheist is not confident, for he operates on fixed limitations.

    Yes, the idea of Atheism is just another tiny blip in time, like Nazism, like all the other BS ...but Reality will continue to unfold. The Truth will not die, and the Light will not be taken out.

    Let the fools have their fun.
     
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    Or perhaps too little. :wink:
     
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    Self soothing nonsense...as the "divined wisdom" (translation: magical nonsense) of religion retreats from empirical knowledge into the nooks and crannies of our easily deluded minds amd the remaining gaps in our knowledge , the far superior morality, methods, and ethics of evidence-based thought dominate our way of gaining and verifying knowledge. You can hear the death knell of the fundies when they confuse not getting what they want, how they want it, with "oppression". They have ,in this country, been relegated to chanting in their heads and cheering on scum like Trump and Kavanaugh. It's easy to see which paradigm has one foot in the grave....
     
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    And amen to that.
     
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    Well, as a fool, I’m not afraid to go where angels fear to tread. :angel:
     
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    You seem to equate the One being, Lord of all mankind, with certain components of the American political theaterter. No wonder you're clueless.
     
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    They weren't designed to tread where man was permitted to go. But unlike the angels, man is ungrateful.
     
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    Hell, I’ll go a step further, it is precisely the delusion, God, that makes possible the reality, Trump.
     
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    Unlike believers, free men don’t bow.
     
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    A delusion that seems to work perfectly for him, as he's leader of the most powerful country on the planet.

    So much for reality.
     
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    They certainly do. They bow to themselves.

    That never seems to end well...
     
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    By default. Besides, some needed to tell the world to F*k off. Trump’s as good as anyone.
     
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    Nah, they stand tall and look forward to the tomorrow they will create.
     
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    Yet he, and not anyone else, presently resides as leader of the most powerful country in the world.
     
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    Gee, I thought Pelosi and Schumer thought they were.
     
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    ...if it ever comes.
     
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    Not worried. Hasn’t failed yet.
     
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    We'll see.
     
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    Ah, but question is, who will be tomorrow’s leaders: free men and their creative minds with their appeals to liberty, reason, science, and technology; or demagogues and populists with their faith and prayers appealing to the masses consumed with superstitious nonsense, envy, fear, and hate.
     
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    This is a "have you stopped beating your wife" type of question.
     
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    Nope. It’s how you gonna save her.
     
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    Not so. For one, i am speaking to religious dogma and belief in god, not to the existence of god, as any honest actor in this discussion would readily admit instead of pulling the charlatan's trick of bait and switch that you just attempted.

    And it is the religious actors in our political arena who do that for themselves. Just ask them. Look at the poor GOPers, forced to lie about belief in evolution on the primary stage.
     
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