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=> Religion is dangerous because....

Religion is dangerous because....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, June 23 2016, 18:17:04 (UTC)
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...because Stone Age medicine would be dangerous as well...as would Stone Age anything.

...2000 years ago when people believed in a variety of religions with a variety of Gods and demons and creation stories it mattered little whether or not you believed in Jesus, or an alligator god, or the three headed dog...everyone was believing in some form of evidence-free bullshit...so what could be harmful about choosing any one of them?

What was truly unique was not Christianity but the first steps towards Reason and evidence and facts and science as away of explaining what actually existed in Nature and not what this or that tribe "believed" happened....and all religions made it death to explore or seek evidence....for obvious reasons.

Today we're facing an attack on scientific reasoning and evidence-based reality...today isn't the Stone Age...at least not all of us think of those hoary by-gone days as a Golden Age...but you can see why religious folks do.

Take a high school class in anything, math or science or literature...most of the students are making the effort, with varying degrees of success, but they are trying, even though most do poorly or fail....

Then take a look at the religious students in class who smile and smirk their days away confident that their "Faith" in 2+2= 15 is absolute...god-given...no need to crack any other book but the Bible, no need to test for evidence or results, no need to listen to the teacher "She's probably an atheist anyway."

How comforting...how reassuring. You don;t have to do any work because God is on your side...you just KNOW the right answer.

God loves the uneducated too.



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