Though I've been a complete and unapologetic atheist since I was 12, I'd rather have one million people who think like Chris Hedges, than one Christopher Hitchens with power on this planet. I don't know what the hell happened to Hitchens' once-lucid brain. Was it booze, not enough fame, creeping obesity? Hard to believe that this is the same person who wrote a scathing (and factual) book on the crimes of Henry Kissinger, but who now praises Bush and Cheney's Iraq Disaster? The man has gone completely around the bend. In his wrinkled and too-snug white suit and open shirt, he …
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mlwmohawk You make many excellent points, which I completely agree with. However, we must be careful not to appear condescending to Theists--at least the one we want as friends. My own mother ( an otherwise intelligent, educated person) had the audacity to tell me" "Of course you believe in god! You just don't realize it." That kind of patronizing attitude makes enemies, and I want to keep my Theist friends. I just don't discuss religion with them. Spirituality, yes, but not religion. In my ideal world, there would be no religion, and spirituality would be based on ethics and common sense. …
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mlwmohawk Zeus=God Jesus= Dionysus, Horus, Osiris, Virgin Mary= Isis, Venus, Athena And so on, in every culture, and with the ages, each one builds on the earlier. I find it fascinating, from an anthropological point of view. Easter Bunny is not a "god,” but a fertility figure, but I get your point, and I agree with what you are saying But one cannot put Bishop Tutu, MLK, Dali Lama and Gandhi in the same basket as those money-grubbing narrow-minded leeches like Pat Robertson, Billy Graham, the pope, Sai Baba, Rev. Hagee, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, George Bush, televangelists etc, who basically do …
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mlwmohawk I wish education and science were the cure for the need for religion, but I don't think that's the case. I think it's much more complex than that. There are many educated people who are religious and there are many uneducated but thinking people who are Atheists. My entire family received a good education with an emphasis on science, as there are many who are in the medical field. However with the exception of one brother and me, they are all Catholic (in their defense they all believe in Evolution) but they go to Church and speak of God as …
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mlwmohawk Today's NEW SCIENTIST has an interesting article which relates to this discussion. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13983 Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests God may work in mysterious ways, but a simple computer program may explain how religion evolved By distilling religious belief into a genetic predisposition to pass along unverifiable information, the program predicts that religion will flourish. However, religion only takes hold if non-believers help believers out – perhaps because they are impressed by their devotion. [NOTE from Marta: NOW, that's a SCARY thought!] "If a person is willing to sacrifice for an abstract god then people feel like they …
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