To the atheists...
- Thread starter S.A.M.
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Thanks for the information, but perhaps you can refer me to an internet source (considering I have no access to your given list). Either way, the beliefs of a handful of scientists in a single region does not offer an explanation as to the characteristics of atheists and theists regarding science abroad.
Now atheists are superior in geography?
"Think Muslims are bad"? Why do you say this (not that I disagree)?
I didn't realize Hindus were on such a steep rise. Soon they'll be the second largest beleif system after Xianity.
hinduism is a name coined by the muslims for those who lived over the Sindhu (Indus) river - which got corrupted into a H
Needless to say, there is a vast variety in Hinduism - its kind of like calling Muslims, Jews and Christians "Jordanists"
I'ts only strange when they are wrong to do so.SAM said:
Some folks are going to have to give up some of their ways, if they want to live in a pluralistic society.
But I think you mistake many in the West making such demands, SAM - they don't advocate a plurastic society. Especially not the very religious ones.
National Geo graphics: Young Americans Geographically Illiterate
"Nine in ten couldn't find Afghanistan on a map of Asia."
Negative Perception Of Islam Increasing: Poll Numbers in U.S. Higher Than in 2001
The poll found that nearly half of Americans -- 46 percent -- have a negative view of Islam, seven percentage points higher than in the tense months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, when Muslims were often targeted for violence.
My guess is primarily because they are Xian and Xians think Mohammad and John Smith were either the Devil himself or tricked by the Devil. Ergo Muslims are damned to hell.
Also, even before 9/11 Muslims were always protrade in Hollywood as nutty suicide bombers trying to nuke the world/USA (see any Arnie movie).
So that's my guess anyway,
Michael
I've noticed (on these forums, anyway) that the people who bash Islam the most are religious (Christian, predominately).
With that in mind, you may be on to something.
Your links do not support your post. I have to say S.A.M was absolutely brilliant throughout this thread, except for the unsubstantiated story (link) she posted. But then S.A.M has the courtesy of not being verbally abused or ridiculed due to here demograpraphic. Bravo.
I don't think government should take position on anything.
How did you come to that conclusion?
Are you referring to the links in regards to science and beleif or the links to USA and geographic incompetence or to the links of USA and intolerance for Muslims or to the statement that suggests the general population in the USA has a higher percentage beleif in a personal God compared with scientists.
I will stand by the following statements:
Scientists from the NAS more often than not reject a personal God.
Americans tend to be geographically illiterate.
Americans tend to beleive in a personal God.
Americans tend to think poorly of Islam.
AMERICANS STILL LACK BASIC GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE
WASHINGTON--Despite the barrage of news coverage about the Iraq war since it began in 2003, six in 10 young Americans ages 18 to 24 cannot find Iraq on a map of the Middle East, according to a new National Geographic-Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Study. Two-thirds do not know that the catastrophic October 2005 earthquake that killed 70,000 people struck in Pakistan. More than four in 10 can't even place Pakistan in Asia.
WASHINGTON--Despite the barrage of news coverage about the Iraq war since it began in 2003, six in 10 young Americans ages 18 to 24 cannot find Iraq on a map of the Middle East, according to a new National Geographic-Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Study. Two-thirds do not know that the catastrophic October 2005 earthquake that killed 70,000 people struck in Pakistan. More than four in 10 can't even place Pakistan in Asia.
YES it was on a survey. The whole point of the survey was to repeat a study done around 1918.
a little
needless to say, having a non-godless household certainly didn't strike me as a prerequisite for making his writing intelligible (I lived in a godless household when we were tested on it in school, and I managed to pass without drawing on any theological issues)
(remember we are talking about poetry appreciation here and not PhD lit crit essays)
and Mary Karr seems to say that was her experience also
kerux
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Hey Uncle or Auntie Sam
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS a-------------theism?
OH lullaby, Bye bye Blackbird. Anyway, without theism, what is a-?
Atheism is another profiteering acts of those religious money-faced people. Anyway, not all of these people are bad. But to those who knows the secrets of theism, perchance they are liable of being blinding these a-religious folks.
:bawl::shrug:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS a-------------theism?
OH lullaby, Bye bye Blackbird. Anyway, without theism, what is a-?
Atheism is another profiteering acts of those religious money-faced people. Anyway, not all of these people are bad. But to those who knows the secrets of theism, perchance they are liable of being blinding these a-religious folks.
:bawl::shrug: