Imagine no Religion...
Offline I keep thinking how much better the world would be without religion in it. Ever see that picture that has the NYC skyline (with the World Trade Center still there) with the caption "Imagine no Religion? "* Think about a world with no religion:
1. Much less terrorism
2. Nobody trying to replace real science with mythology
3. No anti-abortion fucktards killing doctors, intimidating people and bombing clinics
4. Equal rights for women and homosexuals
5. No idiotic cartoon tracts put in public places or divisive phrases on money
6. Nobody dying because of an irrational avoidance of medicine
7. No "Honor Killings" or brutal female circumcisons, no barbaric sentences under Sharia law.
8. No unwanted pregnancies that are the result of not knowing enough because of "abstinence only" education or access to birth control being denied.
I'm sure there would be more benefits, but isn't this enough?
* Note: This was cuntpasted from my Yahoo 360° blog. Obviously almost everyone here has seen it as at least 2 members here use or have used it as their avatar.
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Now that you mention it...
"Physical reality” isn’t some arbitrary demarcation. It is defined in terms of what we can systematically investigate, directly or not, by means of our senses. It is preposterous to assert that the process of systematic scientific reasoning arbitrarily excludes “non-physical explanations” because the very notion of “non-physical explanation” is contradictory.
-Me
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Secularism needs a new "killer app," like science was during the Enlightenment. Now that science is no longer novel, it's no longer apparent to the average person (if it ever was) what its role is in maintaining modern civilization, and how it's incompatible with a biblical literalist perspective. The dichotomy that's arisen has shown us something: that there's no panacea for changing the way people think; specifically, that they should think for themselves at all. If the average person can be saturated with and dependent on the spoils of scientific achievement and social progress, and still deride the next logical steps of those things, then there's really no guarantee that any philosophical change can stick. IMO, we shouldn't worry about the end of religion, but a modest awakening of the intelligence of the working class.
By the way, on that "Save Darfur" album from last year Avril Lavigne sings "Imagine. " She's so hot and has a sexy voice.
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