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Re: Image comments for Beast from the sea
Posted by: Mrkim
Date: 23/10/2008 01:20AM
I know there is wind, therefore I know there is a God.

Hmm, seems your logic train hasn't left the station, nor is it likely to. Seems like somebody's obviously onboard and loudly blowin the horn, but it ain't goin anywhere.

Wind has a scientific explanation for being, which religon does not. Psychology will however offer many examples of WHY people hold beliefs in religon.

Try utilizing the brain you were born with and explore a bit on the topic of wind. What such an exploration will yield is how science can easily define the wind, measure its forces and even its reason for being, then try again to draw an analogy between a verifiable physical phenomenon and one based in myth. To say your analogy is weak and simple minded might seem mean spirited, but at least it's correct.

Science can and has defined and de-mystified many things in this world and outside of it that defy simplistic understanding. With that in mind how is it that it can not also demystify the concept of religon? Why is it that the tenets of all religon require suspension of natural and physical laws to believe in them? Why is it that when confronted with such things the response given by believers is that one "must have faith" to believe?

With the continuing dilution of the gene pool by those of lesser intellect, I'm sure you can find lots of people to take such a requirement in "faith" as reasonable ... just don't expect anything like that to arise from this side of the screen.

BTW, your "athiest in a foxhole" comment is fraught with exactly the same "hedging your bet" mentality that also leads people near death to embrace such otherwise illogical concepts, even some fellow athiests who have lived their lives totally outside the confines of religon.

That however is simply a response orchestrated by weak minded psyches who want so desparately to believe that in the event of their death there will be some great meaning attached to their earthly existence or something wonderful to go on to after their death. Try a bit of study in psychology on this topic, it's well documented and undertood there, and no "faith" in otherworldly powers will be required to understand it.

I've never been in a foxhole thankfully, and at this point in life, doubt I ever will, though I do know as do all humans who are born, that we all die. I can unequivocably state that I will die believing just as I do today that when I'm gone, the only thing that will happen is that I will cease to exist. To believe in anything else, with nothing but "faith" to go on, seems like absolute lunacy winking smiley

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