I talk to my dog, but he gets bored easily so I try to talk about things he likes in between my personal problems.

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The catmandor shall inform me of that which he desires. String theory has the number of dimensions in the universe fully wrong. There are as many dimensions as my cat would like. That number could change from moment to moment.

I am god.

I use to pray to god, then I found I was only talking to myself

It seems that some of the awful things that you used to believe you are still, all be it unaware, are still selling yourself.

If a man has multiple partners, we congratulate them on their conquests. But when a woman has multiple partners, we call them "whores".

How about this. Sex is not dirty. It does have it's risks and certainly man or woman take risks when they have sex, but merely having sex doesn't make a woman a whore.

Instead of calling women "whores" educate both boys and girls about their bodies and the risks involved in sex such as unwanted pregnancy and disease.

But a woman, even being a stripper or porn star, by itself, does not make her a "whore". There is risk in life in everything we do, sex should not be treated any differently. You only get involved in it via consent, you take precautions when doing it, and you educate yourself as to what you want out of it.

I do agree that when it comes to sex Christians can be the biggest hypocrites though.

It would be nice if the world's population could do that, but I don't think it ever will. I think the best humanity can do is to keep government secular and put religion on a leash so it can constantly be monitored with oversight and checks so it does not gain a political monopoly.

I think the rise of atheism will increase the idea of secular governments, but our evolution has always had as a species the gap filling flaw of Dawkins moth. That evolutionary trait isn't going to go anywhere any time soon.

We as atheists should never try to gain the same type of forced monopoly that theism, and even state dogmatism that has caused the authoritarian states of Stalin and Iran. One was the state being the god, and the other was the god running the state, but both have the same Big Brother authoritarian absolute power.

The best we can achieve as a species long term, is to increase education and promote science and government neutrality and anti-political and religious monopolies on government. That wont rid the world of absurd beliefs, but it will help improve the human condition by taking the focus away from gang mentalities and set the priority on the common ground of the human condition.

I wish no one believed in fictional beings, but we cant ourselves attempt an impractical utopia like Stalin or religion does.

I know you were not advocating government force, I was just reminding those reading that humanity in general needs to get away from the attitude of gangs and labels.

I think you underestimate the future. In the past, religion was a survival mechanism that did us well in a world we had no understanding of. That benefit largely vanished with the onset of democracy, even more with the age of enlightenment, and religion has waned since. Every year that goes by sees more authority taken from theists. It's a slow process, much like the spread of christianity was slow. But it is also an enivitable one. Because we are so limited in the amount of time we spend alive, such processes can be nearly invisible, much like evolution itself. But if you look you can see it happening, and it has already passed the point of no return. While not in our lifetimes, irrational religion will die. Unless we give up fighting it.

It is getting to the point where noone will reach the age of reproduction if they are irrational. Because we will have killed ourselves otherwise. Therefore evolutionary pressures will remove such behaviour, or we will die.

Perfection doesn't exist, cannot exist, and is irrelevant.

Irrational behaviours like false religion will end or we will. It's that simple.

No, irrational behaviors are part of evolution and placebos do work, not because they are real, but if that false perception leads to luck or safety in numbers, that will lead to the point of reproduction,

This is a bit of a doomsday motif here, even for an atheist.

Our demise as a species will happen like all life, no matter if humans reach a majority of rational thought.

The irrational belief that the sun was a god worked quite well for the ancient Egyptians. That false belief kept them going for 3,000 years. Believing in science or believing in the absurd will not stop our species from attempting to fuck.

That is not to say we shouldn't try to minimize the harm of dogmatism. Just to say that evolution will continue EVEN IF we go backwards in scientific discovery and become less educated.

Evolution doesn't care if you have a PHD or money. If you fuck and produce offspring, your education, status or religion don't mean a fuck.

If an education was required in evolution to make biological life successful, then Dawkins is a retard compared to cockroaches. Which most scientist project will outlast humans.

Brains can help humans survive, yes, but when you look at our brief existence compared to the older span of more adapt life  which has lasted longer and will probably outlast us, it is absurd to say that evolution cares about what level of education we have.

The way 'perfection' has been used when talking about Mathematics is to refer to 'ideal' concepts,  abstractions,  definitions.

The way it has been applied to 'real' things is different, none of which can be actually 'perfect' in any meaningful way. When we use it today to describe some person or thing, it is, or should be, meant metaphorically, not literally.

Wow. What church did you go to? Maybe I'd still 'believe' if I had gone to that one.

But aren't we all whores, Captn?

Evolution does not care about anything. RIGHT and agreed. So why you think our species survival will depend on everyone being atheists is absurd.

Adaptation does include irrational behavior and sometimes that irrational meme, just like a placebo, can result in benefit, even if the belief itself is false. I do not see evolution changing long term in this context.

I think you are confusing memes which can evolve with evolution itself and they are NOT the same.

I agree that IF IF IF IF IF IF, technology and education continue to spread, just like polytheism lead to monotheism, it is certainly possible for that meme progression to lead to more atheists, which it seems to be doing. But those are ideas, not evolution.

I agree with your progression of memes.

1. earthy volcano dieties

2. Polytheism

3.Monotheism

4.deism

5.pantheism

6. atheism

But this is a progression of ideas, not biological evolution.

We could still easly regress because of some event, like a nuclear war, have enough theist survive and go on to re populate the planet. Much like you can have a forest fire that kills tons of trees but still leaves enough behind who repopulate the forest.

My point is that the future is not given, nor do I think evolution will depend on humans not believing. It has survived for millions of years in a history where a majority has believed something of some sort. So why you think that will change the future automatically is a stretch.

I am not saying we wont all eventually give up on gods, but as you said, and I agree that evolution doesn't care about anything. So to say we will go extinct if we dont give up on god belief is a bit contradictory.

We WILL go extinct no matter what. A meteor or gamma ray could fry all life on this planet at any time.

"So why you think our species survival will depend on everyone being atheists is absurd."

I never said that. I said, in effect, that to survive we will have to become more rational as a species. The death of religion will be a side effect. Yes, there will likely always be some crazy person on a box on some street corner somewhere, but the organisation of said crazy people will end. The churches will fall and become museums and clubs.

Btw, a progression of ideas is societal evolution. Biological evolution isn't the only evolution.

Also, our extinction is only as guaranteed as Homo Erectus. We can survive, there's nothing currently to say it's impossible. We'll just evolve or die, as everything always has.