This place sure goes in "spurts"

[Odd]

Liam Proven wrote:
> 2009/7/20 Odd <iodine at runbox.no>:
>> Harold Sawyer wrote:
>>> I don't consider myself a nutbag.  I don't think the world is 6,000 years old.
>>>
>>> None of my circle believe that either.  But I am an active Christian,
>>> volunteering in prisons.  Not pushing my faith on others, but helping
>>> those who want to try my faith connect, then change life styles.  Over
>>> the past 15 plus years, I think I have had some positive impact.
>> Fair enough.
>>
>>> Of course, anti-christian nuts might take issue with that.    Odd, are
>>> you an anti-christian nut?
>> Mostly anti-religion. I see what religious beliefs do to the world
>> and wish for a world with no religions..
> 
> Entirely agree. I would like to see a world with no religious or any
> supernatural belief of any kind. Rationality and science are the only
> ways to get anywhere. Morality is entirely separable from religion,
> but religion can be used to justify any kind of vile crime - and is
> for most of them.
> 
> And I'm /not/ being remotely humorous.

Oh, not me either, not about that. The 6000 year old thing,
I should perhaps have included a smiley.

> Organised religion and the use of faith to justify irrational actions
> are the among the most negative and invidious problems of the world
> today.
> 
> We need science, reason and logic to find our way out of the mess we
> have got in by believing in great invisible beings in the sky who
> control things, will make it all better when we screw up and will take
> us away to an undetectable, unprovable and entirely irrational better
> place when we die.

I wish for that too.

-- 
Odd