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LifeToTheFullest!

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I like where you're going with this.

Perhaps they could call this program, The Final Solution?

All scientists would need would be a few Christians to be medically examined for a gene somewhere in our...

Oh, wait!

Nevermind -- :)
But first, everyone gets a RFID.... muuuuuwaaaaahaaaa
 
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I've always wondered why god always chose the ignorant, meek, humble and illiterate to reveal his precepts to. :confused:
He says why -- to confound Homo sapienism:

1 Corinthians 1:27a But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
 
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That hasn't worked very well, as spirituality seems to grow with age. Would you support a government funded 'deprogramming' program to rid us of the (intellectual) scourge of Christianity and other similiar beliefs?

Not me. But I do want to see the churches taxed just like any other business and that tax money dedicated solely to medical research to find cures for the diseases that kill us.
 
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Not me. But I do want to see the churches taxed just like any other business and that tax money dedicated solely to medical research to find cures for the diseases that kill us.
Yes, I find it ludicrous at this point in time that religious institutions are not taxed.
 
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Yes, I find it ludicrous at this point in time that religious institutions are not taxed.
Taxation without representation is tyranny, so atheists shouldn't be lobbying to tax God's churches.
 
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That hasn't worked very well, as spirituality seems to grow with age. Would you support a government funded 'deprogramming' program to rid us of the (intellectual) scourge of Christianity and other similiar beliefs?

Why do you guys always go into this macabre and authoritarian ideas?
 
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Homo Sapienism?! What on earth is that meant to mean? ^_^
The belief that we are Homo sapiens, along with all the scientific justification and associated rhetoric.
 
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How many people support you in your anti-homo-sapienic beliefs? Or does your club currently have a membership of 1?
I don't know; why don't you poll us?

(Watch the rhetoric too.)
 
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The belief that we are Homo sapiens, along with all the scientific justification and associated rhetoric.

Unfortunately for you, AV, you are undeniably a member of the species homo sapiens. If you weren't you wouldn't be able to go and get treatment from doctors who are trained to treat problems in that species.
 
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Unfortunately for you, AV, you are undeniably a member of the species homo sapiens.
Don't bet on it, your 'undeniable' record just got broke.
If you weren't you wouldn't be able to go and get treatment from doctors who are trained to treat problems in that species.
The fact that they can (and do), tells me you're wrong again.
 
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LifeToTheFullest said:
Actually, non-belief is the fastest growing 'belief' in America. As for a government funded 'deprogramming,' I'm willing to try. We've already seen what theocracy does to humankind. It was called the Dark Ages in Europe, and is currently happening in the Arab world. Theocracies love to suppress knowledge and kill those who promote it.

I've seen this argument before. Why it it acceptable for atheist organisations to 'deprogram' people into rejecting belief, but it is not OK for theist organisations to encourage belief? Why is one form brainwashing and the other is education?

LifeToTheFullest said:
I've always wondered why god always chose the ignorant, meek, humble and illiterate to reveal his precepts to. :confused:

Because knowledge - including God's message - should not be confined to society's elite. It applies to everyone, including (indeed especially) the common man. Giving it only to people deemed 'good enough' is what leads to dictatorships, including theocracies.

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To answer OPs question: one theory is that we are programmed for belief because we have an uncanny ability to 'recognise' human features in innanimate objects, to anthropomorphize almost anything. Because of this, so many things seem humanised it gives the impression that the world and everything in it was created by some kind of 'super-human'. The world looks designed, so somebody must have designed it.

Now, not surprisingly perhaps, I don't agree with this theory. We still seem to have this presumption that everything - including belief - is something physical which if necessary be can be cut out, removed from life. Once we know what it is we can get rid of it. The idea does not only apply to religion. The Soviet Union misused psychiatry to label anybody with 'outlandish' ideas as mentally ill.
 
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That doesn't answer my question.
No, of course not.

Heaven forbid we would ever answer you guys' questions.

Then you would have to at least empathize with us.
 
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