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Buddhism?.... as for your previous statement about hitler, nazism, etc....perhaps it would have helped if i had said a contemporary nazi. he has simply read some fucked up shit and decided it was right, then slaughtered the baby jew. he calls himself a nazi.

Self-ascribed Nazi. That is, one who approached Nazism of his own reasoning, not by being told that it was right and never questioning it. A Nazi would definitely look at a jewish newborn and see an abomination.

who is this we you're talking about? is it americans? is it american christians? is it american christian evangelicals of a particular subsect? Again, coercive exercises advocated for by persons claiming a religious affiliation is scant evidence that the world would be better without religion...

I see both sides of this recent debate: On the one, chris, its your bud and if you wanna sweeten it up that way, why not? beej, on your hand, you're right, you would have the cannabis equivalent of boone's farm, which most wine drinkers call piss but that shit's on the shelf which means some...

Afrawfraw posted a somewhat amusing cartoon to respond to this and made a near response in his edit as well, its the same page where you quoted him from...but you don't really need to go look at all that because he doesn't address it.

Schizoid behavior is not related to emotional connection. if what you mean by schizoid is irrational then yes, some irrational behavior is solely motivated by emotion but there are other motivators like desire which are not rational as well. Our need for emotions has not expired, nor will it...

You forgot to respond to the Heisenberg's proposition that religion reinforced our moral framework; you could point out that it was not a necessary condition for religion to reinforce our moral framework. everything religion does to reinforce our moral framework can be accomplished through...

hell yeah man, can't wait to see the pics tonight! be easy

I just watched that and there were few statistics actually presented besides "most" of this kind of person etc. What this also assumes is that the data it does present falls into the realm of causation, but they are in fact correlations, not proof of causation. Since you fail to grasp the...

Right, and because there would be no control group, it would be impossible to SCIENTIFICALLY PROVE THIS. You would have to evolve at least one entire human species on another planet free from all other interference than the one you are testing: religion. So, no, i don't see how you could easily...

While I tend to agree with much of this, and I do dig the sports analogy, I would like to point out that scales and evaluations are, at some point, invented by man. I bet if we all sat down and tried hard enough we could come up with a scale of evaluation to rate religion, religious practice...

yes, facts may remain facts, regardless of who presents them, but when do they become facts? And peer review, in science, is precisely to check whether a datum is consistently reproducible within a range of error; that groups of scientists have dedicated their lives to preserving and...

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ SOMETHING LONG PLEASE, >>> The bible does not say this. those leviticus quotes are translations taken out of context and reinterpreted by persons ill-equipped to do such intellectual work, then used selectively to incite anger and abhorrence towards homosexuals. The...

nice work! hope the bowl was good too:eyesmoke:

how, exactly?

or, even more skeptically, cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (i think i think, therefore i think i am)

Heisenberg, I agree with this but I want to make perfectly clear that I was not attempting to insinuate a causative correlation between the acts committed by Hitler, Pol Pot, etc., and the fact that none of them believed in a God. I recognize that there are many theists who would want to go down...

So where does misperception fall into this? can you see, smell, taste touch or hear the subconscious mind? there are many phenomena which do not exist in a physical way such that man may perceive them but that does not mean they (a) don't exist, and (b) don't matter. I understand you're going to...

I would think Pol Pot, Hitler, and Stalin would fit into the capital-A Atheist group you're discussing

how exactly would someone have noticed that the world still existed while he or she was still sleeping? you see that phenomenological example requires of proof that it be presented to your senses...it is a slightly oblique manner of approaching heisenberg's uncertainty principle (wherein...