http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=43272&in_page_id=2
I find it damn amusing..
"some remain spagnostic".
I find it damn amusing..
"some remain spagnostic".
Spa-get out of here!
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Oh that is fucking ridiculous.
Absolutely inspiring.
such things are commonplace when the understanding of religion has left the public sphere
http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/RatingsD.htm
http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/RatingsD.htm
At one point in history, religion was the source of education and understanding of the natural world around us. As that knowledge began to threaten to free the human mind from superstition, that knowledge became dangerous to religion and had to be supressed. Religion today is superstition dictated by the elite few.
If a fool can concoct something and get attract a following in the name of religion it indicates that the understanding of religion has left the public sphere - just like if I could sell gold spray painted granite on the gold market it would indicate that the knowledge of what gold is has left the public sphere (even though people might say the word "gold" quite profusely)
now we have totally safe fields of knowledge that have flourished in the fields of industrialism
:m:
I had been taught that the purpose of religion was to explain that which we didn't understand. Rather than leave a tribe with a pile of "I don't knows", the being who would become the holy man or holy woman would try to assuage the fear of the unknown with a spiritual answer. Try to explain to the very primitive mind what makes a volcano erupt if you don't know yourself. If you told the people that it was an angry fire god living deep beneath the earth, well, it fit and it gave an answer.
Therefore, religion is based in misunderstanding and placebo answers. I believe it still fosters those things.
Therefore, religion is based in misunderstanding and placebo answers. I believe it still fosters those things.
RoyLennigan
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It is my understanding that the understanding of religion has never been in the "public sphere". If it were, I would wager that there would be as many religions as there are opinions, wouldn't you think?
Each of the religions of humanity is nothing more than "golden spray." And their followers are only willing to scrape away the sprays of cults other than their own, whilst believing that their cult is gold all the way through. To the believer, there is no reason to scrap at the surface to see if its just spray, since their doctrine tells them it isn't.
This is the beauty of the Pastafarian movement and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It exposes religious nutters for the nutters they are as they go on about how its an "invented" religion and "obviously" not real.
This is one for Godless: The Invisible Pink Unicorn gets Touched by His Noodly Appendage!
that is your conclusion - lets see if it comes with any premises
another conclusion - on a separate issue - however lets see if this one comes with a premise
Nope - another (you guessed it) conclusion
perhaps in the minds of atheists (who already have a preconceived notion on the subject)
Regarding your post, its a bit hard to address since it is just a bunch of opinions - if you want to form a coherent argument you could try backing up your opinions with premises rather than further opinions - this will help others understand why you believe what you do (and, god knows, if your premises are good enough you might be able to convince someone)
actually when there is no standard understanding of an existing object, the understanding of that object tends to get misrepresented and fractured up into many non convergent ideals
only if you assume that there is no essential distinction between a fool and a saintly personTo use your analogy above, don't you think that is exactly what happened 2500 years ago? Thus religion has never been understood in the public sphere!