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by Nuroblav » Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:59 am
by Panslav » Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:59 am
Tarchuna and Ravenna wrote:Dogmeat wrote:It infects us in our deepest integrity. It says we wouldn't know right or wrong without it. It says we must kneel to an unquestionable, unalterable supreme authority. Whom we must love, and fear. And threatens children with eternal torment if they do not.
Among other things.
And if one simply believes in a higher power?
by Dogmeat » Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:59 am
Tarchuna and Ravenna wrote:Dogmeat wrote:It infects us in our deepest integrity. It says we wouldn't know right or wrong without it. It says we must kneel to an unquestionable, unalterable supreme authority. Whom we must love, and fear. And threatens children with eternal torment if they do not.
Among other things.
And if one simply believes in a higher power?
by VoVoDoCo » Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:59 am
Tarchuna and Ravenna wrote:VoVoDoCo wrote:The weight of religious inference in Hitler’s speeches far outweigh the occasional criticism he had against religious institutions.
Read all of his quotes under the speeches tab:
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Religio ... olf_Hitler
He kinda had to pose as a Christian to control Germany.
by United Muscovite Nations » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:02 am
Bear Stearns wrote:No, because it didn't make the world less religious, it transferred the desire for spirituality and morality away from Christianity and towards political extremism.
by Dogmeat » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:02 am
Panslav wrote:The Emerald Legion wrote:
Not really. The idea of the spooky scaries and spirits is pretty darn natural.
Animism is the default, even if not inherently formalized.
Animism makes a positive claim. Something that makes a positive claim can't be the default position since it has the burden of proof on it.
by United Muscovite Nations » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:03 am
Panslav wrote:The Emerald Legion wrote:
Not really. The idea of the spooky scaries and spirits is pretty darn natural.
Animism is the default, even if not inherently formalized.
Animism makes a positive claim. Something that makes a positive claim can't be the default position since it has the burden of proof on it.
by Tarchuna and Ravenna » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:05 am
by Eglaecia » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:05 am
by Estanglia » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:06 am
Antityranicals wrote:Ladies and gentlemen, Atheism is a meritless delusion which defies all sense and restricts the mind, plain and simple. There is an argument to be made that deism made the world a better place, but Atheism has dulled the minds of generations, and must be fought and killed on the intellectual battlefield.
Torrocca wrote:"Your honor, it was not mein fault! I didn't order the systematic genocide of millions of people, it was the twenty kilograms of pure-cut Bavarian cocaine that did it!"
by Thomas More » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:07 am
by Satuga » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:07 am
by Eglaecia » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:08 am
by Dogmeat » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:08 am
by Celritannia » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:09 am
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by United Muscovite Nations » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:10 am
Celritannia wrote:Considering the happiest, freest, and most advanced counties are more secular. Compared to the most religious nations that are more impoverished and use it as an escape.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/142727/rel ... tions.aspx
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/do-countr ... -1.1310451
by Celritannia » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:11 am
United Muscovite Nations wrote:Celritannia wrote:Considering the happiest, freest, and most advanced counties are more secular. Compared to the most religious nations that are more impoverished and use it as an escape.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/142727/rel ... tions.aspx
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/do-countr ... -1.1310451
They also statistically have some of the highest rates of depression and fairly high rates of suicide compared to the most religious countries.
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by Satuga » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:11 am
by LimaUniformNovemberAlpha » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:13 am
Tarchuna and Ravenna wrote:VoVoDoCo wrote:The weight of religious inference in Hitler’s speeches far outweigh the occasional criticism he had against religious institutions.
Read all of his quotes under the speeches tab:
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Religio ... olf_Hitler
He kinda had to pose as a Christian to control Germany.
Trollzyn the Infinite wrote:1. The PRC is not a Communist State, as it has shown absolutely zero interest in achieving Communism.
2. The CCP is not a Communist Party, as it has shown absolutely zero interest in achieving Communism.
3. Xi Jinping and his cronies are not Communists, as they have shown absolutely zero interest in achieving Communism.
How do we know this? Because the first step toward Communism is Socialism, and none of the aforementioned are even remotely Socialist in any way, shape, or form.
by United Muscovite Nations » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:14 am
Celritannia wrote:United Muscovite Nations wrote:They also statistically have some of the highest rates of depression and fairly high rates of suicide compared to the most religious countries.
Nope, not really:
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/ ... 127465.htm
by Eglaecia » Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:15 am
Celritannia wrote:Considering the happiest, freest, and most advanced counties are more secular. Compared to the most religious nations that are more impoverished and use it as an escape.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/142727/rel ... tions.aspx
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/do-countr ... -1.1310451
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