On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:38:01 -0700, Harry K
wrote:

On Nov 1, 12:20 pm, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:21:29 -0700, Harry K
wrote:

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Strange. Science has given us all the modern conveniences. Just what
has religion given us other than constant wars about it?. Just to
cite one field. I will take science's medical knowledge over the
'pray to be cured' any day. I wonder just how far more advanced we
would be were it not for reliegion trying to hold back, and in some
cases outright ban, scietific discoveries.

I have a poster at home, where the left half is labeled "Science
Discoveries", and contains a long list of things like anthrax vaccine,
Brownian motion, and X-rays. The other side is labeled "Creation
Science Discoveries" and is otherwise blank.

As for the 'atheism is a religion'? Give me a break! You have to
believe in something for a religion. Show where we 'believe in
something', conduct rituals, mouth meaningless phrases, pray to
something... then your juvenile complaint will have some foundation.

People will do anything to justify their delusions.

Oh, man is an ape - deal with it.

Of course.

Once I remember hearing how a normal human has approximately the SAME
number of body hairs all over as a chimpanzee of the same size. The
hairs are just thinner, and so less noticeable.

Harry K

BTW, I did not say I knew that "God does not exist" when I was 5. I
said I recognized bull****. That's quite different.

Yep. When I was old enough to recognize the BS in the bible was the
day I began to retreat from religion. Anyone who can read just
Genesis and 'believe it' needs a brain transplant.

Harry K

I had a somewhat different past. I never got to retreat from religion,
since I was never there.

Actually at the age of 5, I didn't think anyone could take such
nonsense seriously.

I wouldn't have read the Bible then (it's NOT a children's book).
That doesn't mean I couldn't recognize spoken BS.

Most likely that (Christianity) was some sort of game (fantasy
role-playing game?) I didn't understand. I never thought I knew
everything, so that wasn't a problem. Several years later, I was
surprised to find that some people seemed to actually take it
seriously.

The story I put on my website
(http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com/a.../bull****.html) is the
first 2 chapters of Genesis with some word substitution (leaving in
the weird grammatical stuff of the original). When I got to the 4th
word, what to substitute seemed obvious. The other substitutions
needed to be consistent with that.

I was going to do more, but the source material was getting boring.

This sort of humor does tend to make this stuff a bit more tolerable.
--
53 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"All your western theologies, the whole mythology of them,
are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
-- Tennessee Williams