[quote=zk][quote=Blogstar]Go Madison Wisconsin! Just say yes to those who say no to G-D.
I want to post this on my face book page but I have deleted everyone who posts blatant pro- religious or political stuff so that would be hypocritical on my part.
Sad that our nation (and our species in general) is reluctant to accept people because they don’t live their life according to a fantasy. A fantasy that originated before humans had the ability to explain the sun and the moon, but which has persisted among the unable-to-accept-reality crowd (most humans) since. A fantasy which most christians (and probably lots of other religious people) only favor their particular flavor of because a hundred and fifty or a thousand or two thousand years ago somebody coerced or tricked or forced their ancestors to at least pretend they favored that flavor. A fantasy that, while it generally claims to be informed by an omnipotent being, does, in most cases, change over time.
There must have been some evolutionary advantage to believing what you want to believe, rather than believing what the evidence tells you. And there was a rather obvious evolutionary advantage to not accepting people different from you. Add those two up, and I guess you get modern humans. Religious, and not willing to accept the non-religious. But just because that’s the way humans are, doesn’t mean it’s good.[/quote]
Your tone regarding religious people sounds a lot like how religious people talk about the non-religious.
There are many people who would swear on their firstborns’ lives that they have seen evidence of reincarnation or some sort of miracle that justifies their beliefs, too. Some things cannot be explained by science as we know it.
Many physicists, astronomers, and other scientists are religious or believe in some kind of higher power, too. How would you explain that? Are they just fools who are intellectually inferior to atheists?
Let’s just accept that none of us knows anything for a fact, especially regarding the afterlife and all of the possibilities of the universe. Insisting that there is absolutely no god or higher power is every bit as nonsensical as insisting that there is a god. We simply don’t know…none of us will know until after we are dead, if even then.
