This place sure goes in "spurts"

[Mike McMullin]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 12:02 -0500, Ian L. Target wrote:
> Odd wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> Oh me too.  We know that nothing else causes wars.  Each and every 
> problem we face in the world today is because of religion.  It has no 
> positive aspects and serves no purpose whatsoever . . .

  Yes and we have history to prove it, people worshipped the face that
launched a thousand ships, and the Visigoth's were adamant that
Constantinople was the proper Seat not Rome.  I'm not sure what the
religious dispute was between Rome and Carthage, but Rome's own General
said that Rome was Apostate,  ;)
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