Interesting GW whackiness

[Dozyproductions]

You can have a good sense of morality without religion. You can have faith as well, but faith in your own decisions.

Honestly I'm not 100% aware of what you're really driving at.

[mrsleeve]

You can have a good sense of morality without religion. You can have faith as well, but faith in your own decisions.

Honestly I'm not 100% aware of what you're really driving at.

You are totally right you dont have to have faith in god to live a moral and just life (I am that way) it all really stems to your sense of right and wrong.


My point is that just because one uses a faith in god as a moral template to help guide their decision making process is a good thing, so long as they use the teachings that you do what is best for ALL, that most faiths preach. Not the secondary teaching that those that dont partake your brand are not really deserving of your good judgment, that is the undertones of much religious teaching as well.

[Dozyproductions]

My point is that just because one uses a faith in god as a moral template to help guide their decision making process is a good thing, so long as they use the teachings that you do what is best for ALL, that most faiths preach. Not the secondary teaching that those that dont partake your brand are not really deserving of your good judgment, that is the undertones of much religious teaching as well.

I guess it all comes down on how you view topic of the article, global warming. I'm aware of your standpoint on this from reading earlier threads but I am one that leans the other way of the argument. So for me, this probably seems more borderline dangerous than for the greater good of debunking a resource wasteful myth.

[HarryPotter]

I'll just leave this here for you believers.

http://www.wnho.net/global_warming.htm

[Dozyproductions]

This better not tell me that the Jews are some how orchestrating the myth that is global warming.

[HarryPotter]

GW is a hoax. The link is filled with more links, to even moar links.

[mar1t1me]

I feel bad for your kids if you have any. That's a poor worldview to pass along to them.

You'd prefer a less realistic one full of happy fairy tales? We will not get out of the problems we've created with the same thinking that got us into them. I teach my children to think critically for themselves and not be drawn into superstition.

The fact that you keep saying Mythology is insulting and intolerant.

Why? Why are you insulted? What happier word would you like me to use? Santa Claus is a myth. Muhammad rising to Heaven is a myth. Zeus, Aphrodite, and all the Greek and Roman gods are mythical. The ONLY thing that saved Christianity from becoming just another forgotten Greco-Roman cult was its adoption for political reasons by Constantine. What was one of the first things he did? Started persecuting "other" Christians.

Do you know who this is? The Halo and inscription on the standard should inform you. It says "I am the way. The truth. And the life."



It's Constantine's Jesus. A Roman Soldier! No one in those days knew what he might have looked like. He has been contemporaneously re-invented throughout history.

Ironically, you're an intolerant, bigoted person much like many a Christian.

I've discussed this above with Mr. Sleeve.

You think you have the answers, then enlighten the world. The fact (you like to claim those a lot) is that you don't "know". Nobody does.

No. I KNOW I don't have "the answers", unlike religion which either has the answer, or simply proclaims it "a mystery".

But rather than just take the "faith" cop-out, I want us as a species to face our issues and own them.

You can speculate and have faith, but you don't know despite how much you emphatically dismiss, insult, demean and in general have no tolerance for other's worldviews.

And how many "worldviews" have you experienced? I've seen some crazy shit on this planet inspired by the uniquely human capacity to convince ourselves that we are acting in accordance with what the invisible man wants. Even if it is genocide. We have got to get past this infantile stage of human evolution.

[payney8]

You'd prefer a less realistic one full of happy fairy tales? We will not get out of the problems we've created with the same thinking that got us into them. I teach my children to think critically for themselves and not be drawn into superstition.



Why? Why are you insulted? What happier word would you like me to use? Santa Claus is a myth. Muhammad rising to Heaven is a myth. Zeus, Aphrodite, and all the Greek and Roman gods are mythical. The ONLY thing that saved Christianity from becoming just another forgotten Greco-Roman cult was its adoption for political reasons by Constantine. What was one of the first things he did? Started persecuting "other" Christians.

Do you know who this is? The Halo and inscription on the standard should inform you. It says "I am the way. The truth. And the life."



It's Constantine's Jesus. A Roman Soldier! No one in those days knew what he might have looked like. He has been contemporaneously re-invented throughout history.



I've discussed this above with Mr. Sleeve.



No. I KNOW I don't have "the answers", unlike religion which either has the answer, or simply proclaims it "a mystery".

But rather than just take the "faith" cop-out, I want us as a species to face our issues and own them.



And how many "worldviews" have you experienced? I've seen some crazy shit on this planet inspired by the uniquely human capacity to convince ourselves that we are acting in accordance with what the invisible man wants. Even if it is genocide. We have got to get past this infantile stage of human evolution.

You my man speak only the truth yet the majority of humanity cannot see how true you speak because they so blindly follow. People cannot fathom the true nature of humanity. They use religion as a cop out. People use them to pass the blame and believe that what their doing to each other/themselves isn't because of what they have decided or done it's all part of some "greater plan". I don't see any difference between santa claus and religion. What is the difference? They are both myths used to control a great mass of people.