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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 11/30/2009 : 16:26:31
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God doesn't turn people nuts, people that are nuts turn to god.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 11/30/2009 : 22:55:30 [Permalink]
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| Interesting article, interesting studies. But these studies show that "believers...endow God with their own beliefs" - I don't see anything here about those believers being "nuts". Do you? |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 12/01/2009 : 06:09:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Zebra
Interesting article, interesting studies. But these studies show that "believers...endow God with their own beliefs" - I don't see anything here about those believers being "nuts". Do you?
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I think that's implicit in their beliefs.
Your mileage my vary, depending upon your definition of "nuts." (In my mental dictionary, there are three illustration under the heading, nuts: A can of mixed nuts, a pair of human testicles, and a person kneeling to pray. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2009 : 09:38:58 [Permalink]
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| I'm not saying that all believers are nuts. I'm saying that religion doesn't really cause people to do much in the way of evil, it simply enables those who are already crazy. I know many people of faith who are sane, rational, and good people, one is even a founder of our local skeptics group. |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
Baculum's page: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590 |
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2009 : 19:26:01 [Permalink]
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| There's no mention that non-theists were studied. I wonder if the results would be much different, other than non-theists wouldn't attribute their beliefs to "god". But many non-theists might attribute their beliefs to a presumably objectively correct external "force" (for lack of a better word), for example "the right thing to do" or "what thinking people would consider to be the right thing to do". The religious people just call that "god". |
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ThorGoLucky
Snuggle Wolf
USA
1487 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2009 : 11:22:21 [Permalink]
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| It's the old, "man makes god in his own image" not the other way around as the believers think. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2009 : 12:55:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by ThorGoLucky
It's the old, "man makes god in his own image" not the other way around as the believers think.
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This is entirely true. On a smaller scale, I read an article a while back that stated "God's word" usually runs parallel to the believer's opinion whether it's in Scripture or not.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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This confirms what I've often said.
