What is the purpose of religion...?

[musicman]

All this "nothing is real" crap only gives people an excuse to ignore aspects of reality they find uncomfortable. Extending this paradigm, society would devolve into a bunch of children, responding only to their emotions, and feeling justified in ignoring whatever they want. Ultimately, this is an attack on rationality itself. Attacking rationality is a prime directive of new age/socialist movement.

Absolutely. When a viewpoint cannot withstand rational discussion, the concept of rationality itself is condemned, as just another tool of the "oppressor". Quite convenient. Quite daft.

 

[MJDuncan1982]

Haha I don't think we're quite f***ed yet. It seems we can get information that we can be sure is 99%. Just as good as pure "knowledge" which is 100% in my opinion.

 

[Bullypulpit]

All this "nothing is real" crap only gives people an excuse to ignore aspects of reality they find uncomfortable. Extending this paradigm, society would devolve into a bunch of children, responding only to their emotions, and feeling justified in ignoring whatever they want. Ultimately, this is an attack on rationality itself. Attacking rationality is a prime directive of new age/socialist movement.

The "nothing is real' crap leads to nihilism and self-destruction. Recognizing that things have no permanent or eternal existence though, changes the picture. A genuine, internalized understanding of this leads one to cease grasping after things and gives one a sense of just how precious this life...here...now...is. The focus shifts to the people around you and how your actions affect both you and them. It's no longer a "me" focus, the focus is shifted to "us".

 

[rtwngAvngr]

The "nothing is real' crap leads to nihilism and self-destruction. Recognizing that things have no permanent or eternal existence though, changes the picture. A genuine, internalized understanding of this leads one to cease grasping after things

Why do you want to take other people's money and redistribute it with the force of government? Isn't that grasping? Libs are completely materialistic and focus on how much stuff people have to incite class envy.

and gives one a sense of just how precious this life...here...now...is. The focus shifts to the people around you and how your actions affect both you and them. It's no longer a "me" focus, the focus is shifted to "us".

The economic stagnation caused by your socialist schemes and excessive taxation (see jimmy carter's presidency) only have a negative effect on the human population. When the economy ceases to grow, there are no new jobs to feed new mouths in new families. SO that is the effect, here, now, and yes, life is precious.




ENVIRONMENTALISM IS ANTI-HUMAN.
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[nakedemperor]

ENVIRONMENTALISM IS ANTI-HUMAN.
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How ignorant. Let's ignore the environment and watch the human race fade away as it dies of skin cancer and UV rays penetrating the dissipating ozone layer.

Also, in rerence to the first question, what's the purpose of religion, IMO it is to explain the unexplainable and to provide comfort. Faith, however epistemologically irrational, does offer lots of people comfort, that's undeniable.

That being said, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable when the President says he does not believe in evolution. It means the leader of the Free World*has closed his mind to vast areas of human experience and knowledge. Rejecting evolution requires him to repudiate the core tenets** of entire fields of study... Such as biochemistry, genetics,ecology, paleontology, anatomy, physics, astronomy, geology, cosmology, history, and archaeology. Leaving...gym, band, and frat hazing. Kind of explains all the C's doesn't it?

 

[5stringJeff]

How ignorant. Let's ignore the environment and watch the human race fade away as it dies of skin cancer and UV rays penetrating the dissipating ozone layer.

Also, in rerence to the first question, what's the purpose of religion, IMO it is to explain the unexplainable and to provide comfort. Faith, however epistemologically irrational, does offer lots of people comfort, that's undeniable.

That being said, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable when the President says he does not believe in evolution. It means the leader of the Free World*has closed his mind to vast areas of human experience and knowledge. Rejecting evolution requires him to repudiate the core tenets** of entire fields of study... Such as biochemistry, genetics,ecology, paleontology, anatomy, physics, astronomy, geology, cosmology, history, and archaeology. Leaving...gym, band, and frat hazing. Kind of explains all the C's doesn't it?

Rejecting evolution does not repudiate the core tenets of science. It actually recognizes that such sciences (genetics, cellular biology, etc.) are way too complex to have spontaneously appeared by accident.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

How ignorant. Let's ignore the environment and watch the human race fade away as it dies of skin cancer and UV rays penetrating the dissipating ozone layer.

Global warming is just a theory.

 

[Annie]

ENVIRONMENTALISM IS ANTI-HUMAN.
:finger:

How ignorant. Let's ignore the environment and watch the human race fade away as it dies of skin cancer and UV rays penetrating the dissipating ozone layer.

Also, in rerence to the first question, what's the purpose of religion, IMO it is to explain the unexplainable and to provide comfort. Faith, however epistemologically irrational, does offer lots of people comfort, that's undeniable.

That being said, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable when the President says he does not believe in evolution. It means the leader of the Free World*has closed his mind to vast areas of human experience and knowledge. Rejecting evolution requires him to repudiate the core tenets** of entire fields of study... Such as biochemistry, genetics,ecology, paleontology, anatomy, physics, astronomy, geology, cosmology, history, and archaeology. Leaving...gym, band, and frat hazing. Kind of explains all the C's doesn't it?

He didn't say that about evolution:

http://slate.msn.com/id/1006378

You have heard this argument before. It's the standard neoconservative denunciation of the 1960s. (To break the monotony, David Frum wrote a book this year arguing that the culprit was actually the 1970s.) But what about Bush's own relativism on the question of evolution? An Oct. 29 New York Times piece by Nicholas Kristof reports:

Characteristically, he does not believe in evolution--he says the jury is still out--but he does not actively disbelieve in it either; as a friend puts it, "he doesn't really care about that kind of thing."

As a matter of policy, Bush told The Associated Press last Nov. 14:

I'd make it a goal to make sure that local folks got to make the decision as to whether or not they said creationism has been a part of our history and whether or not people ought to be exposed to different theories as to how the world was formed.

His own preference, Bush said around the same time, was that "children ought to be exposed to different theories about how the world started." This echoed a similar statement Ronald Reagan made on the stump in 1980.

 

[KLSuddeth]

I may be right or wrong. If I'm wrong, that's alright, I will have learned something. If I'm right, that's alright, I will have learned something.

 

[musicman]

He didn't say that about evolution:

http://slate.msn.com/id/1006378

Wow, imagine that - local folks making these decisions for themselves. The group of individuals known as the community having a say-so in their own lives. A government governing least - and therefore best. This could really be the start of something! I hope it catches on.

 

[nakedemperor]

Is no one else taken aback by the unmistakable irony of the statement "environmentalism is anti-human"???!?!?!?!?! I mean COME ON people.

 

[Annie]

Is no one else taken aback by the unmistakable irony of the statement "environmentalism is anti-human"???!?!?!?!?! I mean COME ON people.

Site and highlight what you are speaking about. I'm a fast reader and I've yet to find. Could have missed.

 

[popefumanchu]

The purpose of religion is to remind us that there is a greater power than us.

It also is one of the few things that makes us sentient. We have a concept of the divine, that something created us, we were put here for a reason.

Religion serves it's own purpose.

By the way, environmentalism is just another religion, instead of being punished in the afterlife, we will destroy all life through our sins.
It is the ultimate hubris to think that we could possibly be powerful and evil enough to destroy the planet.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Environmentalism in it's current politically activated incarnation is just an excuse to practice eugenics through economic means. Environmentalists justify slowing or stopping the expansion of humanity; it's fundamentally anti-human. That is undeniable.

 

[popefumanchu]

Environmentalism in it's current politically activated incarnation is just an excuse to practice eugenics through economic means. Environmentalists justify slowing or stopping the expansion of humanity; it's fundamentally anti-human. That is undeniable.

Not to mention it is based on the fallacious assumption that humans are unenlightened and, basically, a disease. It does not take into account the inventiveness of the human race in solving its problems. People, especially industrialized people, have done more to clean up the environment than to destroy it in the past fifty years and will continue to do so as technology and innovation improves.

We don't shit where we eat.

 

[5stringJeff]

Many environmentalists use new-age ideas to justify their absolute respect - and sometimes worship - of the planet.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Not to mention it is based on the fallacious assumption that humans are unenlightened and, basically, a disease. It does not take into account the inventiveness of the human race in solving its problems. People, especially industrialized people, have done more to clean up the environment than to destroy it in the past fifty years and will continue to do so as technology and innovation improves.

We don't shit where we eat.

Right. Yet the so called Sustainable Development movement focuses only on stopping humanity and actually does very little to develop technology to sustain development. They prefer to stop development. Where is the biodome technology? Shelved by the illuminati?

 

[popefumanchu]

I WANT MY BIODOME AND I WANT IT NOW, DAMMIT!!!!

By the way, where is my flying car?

 

[nakedemperor]

Oh. wow. The half dozen people who actually post on this board are fanatics.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Oh. wow. The half dozen people who actually post on this board are fanatics.

You wish you were as cool as us.