Posts by Ross Mason
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Thursday before easter is nigh ended. Golf tomorrow.
But it is time. Time to partake in one of history's greatest moments. We venture back to 1979. When we celebrate the life of one Brian Cohen.
I DO enjoy a good documentary.
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On the other hand, it didn’t hurt you or me that other people did this thing.
Let's repeat a previous line:
“Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion will change its commitment to nonsense.”
It could be said of any nonsense the community (people) allege works: Homoeopathy, new age medicine, colour therapy etc etc. If these people pray, yes, it doesn't hurt me. But I can't help think that we have a moral obligation to assist in the education of these people to try and appeal to their sense of (il)logic and and persuade them they are wasting their time and resources. It goes two ways. If someone knows someone is praying for them then, again, I can't help but suggest their fellows could and should try and inform them they too are wasting their time and resources.
Why on earth perpetuate such myths?
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Chris...we have a problem
infidel [in-fi-dl, -del] [in-fi-dl, -del] noun
1.Religion .
a. a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity.
b. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, especially a Muslim.
c. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kaffir.
2. a person who has no religious faith; unbeliever.
3. (loosely) a person who disbelieves or doubts a particular theory, belief, creed, etc.; skeptic.Nothing like covering the bases.
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Find me that first quote Craig. I am having difficulty. Found the Falwell one though.
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You are right. It appears their prayers did not hurt you or me. (I suspect the intention was the opposite.) I am more concerned about how people get to the point where they feel the need to get on bended knee to pray. I dare to suggest that without the 'help' of parental guidance that the numbers frequenting churches would be few. What is even more scary is how seemingly rational people can be influenced by the evangalists. What tools 1) do the people picked up have missing and 2) do the evangies have that enhance the pickup?
And what influence has the media here?
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Dawkins on "What if he is wrong?"
An accident of birth.
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“We are on secular, commercial networks,” says Phil Guyan who took over command of CBA in 1995, “so 86 to 91 per cent of our listeners are non-Christian. It’s the most effective means of reaching large numbers of New Zealanders.
Ah yes. It's a numbers game alright. Somewhere out there in the 86 to 91% there will be enough found to keep the funding coming in eh John?
Extra extra:
“When we had our media prayer day a couple of months ago we wrote to over 1400 churches and we know that at least 700 churches prayed,” says Mr Guyan.
What a bugger it doesn't seem to work.
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I find it helps to at least act like an arsehole. That way you get to see both sides.
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I don't know. Dictionary has this: in psychology, a rigid system of beliefs with which a person is preoccupied and to which the person firmly holds, despite the logical absurdity of the beliefs and a lack of supporting evidence
Pretty clear I would ahve thought. Can't see any derogatory conotation in there either. Religious folk are pretty preoccupied. hold pretty firmly beliefs and certainly with no supporting evidence. QED.
Edit. B Russell focused on why he wasn't a christian. Dawkins is talking about any god. Christian or otherwise.
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Craig, doesn't that behaviour demonstrate Santorum is not all in this world?