Orientations toward religion
Re: Orientations toward religion
by spacemonkey » Sun Jun 02, 2013 7:17 am
The hardest part of doing nothing is knowing when your done.
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Re: Orientations toward religion
by JDHURF » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:14 am
Yeah, but if you said that the man wasn't just any man, but in fact a magician who could conjure spells and dragons and unicorns, and you believed that he was behind the door only because some peasants in the first century organized a cult around the belief and your parents happened to be born into the cult and indoctrinated you into it as well, I would tell you that you are an idiot to believe so.
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Re: Orientations toward religion
by exploited » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:30 am
The man behind the door analogy is a reasonable way to show the rationale behind being agnostic. But as Hurf has pointed out, using it as a basis for making affirmative statements of any kind is idiotic.
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Re: Orientations toward religion
by Stratego » Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:26 pm
Sigmund Freud defined four parts of a psyche; the id, the ego, the superego and the stratego. The Stratego being the highest form of morality and scientific thinking.
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Re: Orientations toward religion
by JDHURF » Sun Jul 14, 2013 9:09 pm
Ridiculous. It sounds to me like you have become conservative. Prayer is "more like an inner dialogue," well, no kidding.
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