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Dec 24 2019 03:49pm
Quote (ofthevoid @ Dec 24 2019 03:13pm)
Christianity teaches responsible stewardship. Buddhism & Hinduism teaches karma and the value of all life, reincarnation, etc. Pretty much every major religion is focused on morality.

Your comment isn't consistent with reality. According to most religions, some form of morality standards leads to paradise not over consumption or hedonism.

You're either really ignorant of reality or some bitter atheist that wants to portray religions in some negative light.

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Dec 24 2019 04:01pm
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Theres plenty of examples in the United States of politicians saying the equivilant of "God will fix climate change if its a problem" or "Jesus is coming back soon, before climate change will be a problem".

What he's saying is grounded in examples of the modern Republican party.


Crushing others in obscurantism. Old "fascist" ideology.
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Dec 24 2019 04:12pm
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Theres plenty of examples in the United States of politicians saying the equivilant of "God will fix climate change if its a problem" or "Jesus is coming back soon, before climate change will be a problem".

What he's saying is grounded in examples of the modern Republican party.


I get the feeling that those types of politicians would be using different words to say the same thing if they were atheists. Religion has very little to do with it.
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Dec 24 2019 05:28pm
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And yet there are whole religions dedocated to escaping existence


That's probably a non-reason for the proliferation of religion.

Religion is about social cohesion. Hence why the religious live longer, happier lives.

Being a nihilist sucks ass.
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Dec 24 2019 05:44pm
Quote (ofthevoid @ Dec 24 2019 04:46pm)
Who and when was this said?


Oh God damn.
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Dec 24 2019 05:50pm
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That's probably a non-reason for the proliferation of religion.

Religion is about social cohesion. Hence why the religious live longer, happier lives.

Being a nihilist sucks ass.


The truth is usually worse than fantasy, I agree
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Dec 24 2019 07:44pm
Quote (Thor123422 @ Dec 24 2019 06:50pm)
The truth is usually worse than fantasy, I agree



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Dec 24 2019 09:24pm
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That's probably a non-reason for the proliferation of religion.

Religion is about social cohesion. Hence why the religious live longer, happier lives.

Being a nihilist sucks ass.


I think it is more of a remnant from a previous mode of cognitive being, a bicarmel mind that we have moved away from evolutionarily speaking.

If you look at the Old Testament and compare it to even the Illiad it is written by completely different beings. The people who wrote the Bible seem incapable of introspection completely. There is a reason for all the ancestor worship and hanging with dead relatives, and I think it has to do more with hallucinatory voices being more widespread and self talk being more directive and dictatorial. A lot of cognitive science supports this in the since that one side of the brain tells the other side side what to do and the other side acts without it knowing.

Religion is contined by this ativism and we keep it because it is the opiate of the masses. Also it is a better answer than I don't know...

I don't think of being a naturalist as being nihilistic as just grounded in reality and keeping the supernatural in the realm of imagination.

Religion is philosophical suicide.

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Dec 24 2019 09:27pm
Religion is like the mountains. Everything runs into the ocean
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Dec 24 2019 11:32pm
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I think it is more of a remnant from a previous mode of cognitive being, a bicarmel mind that we have moved away from evolutionarily speaking.

If you look at the Old Testament and compare it to even the Illiad it is written by completely different beings. The people who wrote the Bible seem incapable of introspection completely. There is a reason for all the ancestor worship and hanging with dead relatives, and I think it has to do more with hallucinatory voices being more widespread and self talk being more directive and dictatorial. A lot of cognitive science supports this in the since that one side of the brain tells the other side side what to do and the other side acts without it knowing.

Religion is contined by this ativism and we keep it because it is the opiate of the masses. Also it is a better answer than I don't know...

I don't think of being a naturalist as being nihilistic as just grounded in reality and keeping the supernatural in the realm of imagination.

Religion is philosophical suicide.


Biologically speaking we are virtually identical to men of 5000 years ago. A major transformation like splitting of the mind would take far longer evolutionarily speaking than the little time we have been writing.
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