Have you ever noticed how perfectly rational, intelligent people can act like perfectly irrational bumpkins, when they start talking about religion? How they are perfectly capable of launching a blazing criticism on politics but are equally reluctant to discuss and critique religion? Why are we so damn respectful of religion? Why do we hold up ancient values and norms as being relevant to our society; even going so far as to suggest their past as one of enlightenment? Why are we afraid to question our own beliefs, and cast them aside?
The fact is that no other invention of man has had the devastating effect of dividing him on the basis of his beliefs; the fact that a Muslim hates a Jew because of his beliefs is absurd given the fact that they both believe in the same stuff; that people immediately associate Muslims with terror, Jews with Zionism, conspiracy theories, wealth, etc etc;.......
If there is any reason that religion is at best a waste of time, or at worst a threat to humanity, it is this; if a guy can be simply convinced that he will go to heaven and get 70 virgins, if he dies as martyr vis-a-vis blowing himself up and killing as many people he can; you don't blame the guy who told him that; you blame the system(religion) that disabled the poor sod from questioning what he was being told......and this goes for any major religion (and I mean every major religion; I ain't pointing fingers at any particular one)
Religion denies a child the universe, for it strips his ability to question, to think freely without hindrance, to explore what lies behind the looking-glass.....
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson
-Thomas Jefferson
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
Richard Dawkins
"Leon Lederman, the physicist and Nobel laureate, once half-jokingly remarked that the real goal of physics was to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt. In that spirit, Dawkins offered up his own T-shirt slogan for the ongoing evolution revolution:
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators."
Richard Dawkins
"Leon Lederman, the physicist and Nobel laureate, once half-jokingly remarked that the real goal of physics was to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt. In that spirit, Dawkins offered up his own T-shirt slogan for the ongoing evolution revolution:
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators."
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
Napoleon Bonaparte
The 3 Laws of Prediction by Arthur C. Clark
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
My thoughts on religion............
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atheist,
critique on religion,
free thinker,
rational thought,
Religion
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