Terrible news for the Creation Science museum (and Republicans)

[Cypress]

And what do you think about Jung's question? I'm about to walk into work, but I'd be interested to read your thoughts.

On balance, I think there could be an overall net benefit of religious tradition and spirituality to human psychology and the human sociological condition.

The fact that spiritual practices have been with us for at least fifty thousand years suggests it is something imbued in our DNA perhaps.

On the flipside, there are a lot of downsides to some aspects of religion.

 

[Darth Omar]

Sure. That's why I already told you that I don't particularly care if someone is a creationist. Some people think the son of a supernatural deity was birthed on Earth through Immaculate Conception. Religious people believe a lot of stupid shit, but you're spinning your wheels because my problem is with anti-intellectualis, not creationists.

Define anti-intellectual.

 

[Grumpy]

On balance, I think there could be an overall net benefit of religious tradition and spirituality to human psychology and the human sociological condition.

The fact that spiritual practices have been with us for at least fifty thousand years suggests it is something imbued in our DNA perhaps.

On the flipside, there are a lot of downsides to some aspects of religion.

Yep ... but when you look at a body that is alive one minute and dead the next ... what is the difference ???

Some religions talk about 'soul', 'Ka' or a litany of other nouns, adjectives and adverbs ... but there IS something more ... and like the caveman looking up to the night sky, I have no answers

 

[moon]

I've got Moon on ignore for his towelhead adoration,

I thread-banned you, you racist prick.

 

[BidenPresident]

On balance, I think there could be an overall net benefit of religious tradition and spirituality to human psychology and the human sociological condition.

The fact that spiritual practices have been with us for at least fifty thousand years suggests it is something imbued in our DNA perhaps.

On the flipside, there are a lot of downsides to some aspects of religion.

Murder and rape have been around for a long time. No reason to oppose that, either.

 

[Diesel]

On balance, I think there could be an overall net benefit of religious tradition and spirituality to human psychology and the human sociological condition.

The fact that spiritual practices have been with us for at least fifty thousand years suggests it is something imbued in our DNA perhaps.

On the flipside, there are a lot of downsides to some aspects of religion.

Probably true. Religion, like lots of things, is probably a great thing that humans corrupted.

 

[BidenPresident]

Probably true. Religion, like lots of things, is probably a great thing that humans corrupted.

Religion is only human.

 

[Diesel]

Define anti-intellectual.

Seriously?

Now that I've finished rolling my eyes, "A philosophic doctrine that assigns reason or intellect a subordinate place in the scheme of things and questions or denies the ability of the intellect to comprehend the true nature of things ... Anything that celebrates feeling over thought, intuition over logic, action over contemplation, results over means, experience over tradition and order tends toward anti-intellectualism."

That's a good enough definition for me.

 

[Darth Omar]

Seriously?

Now that I've finished rolling my eyes, "A philosophic doctrine that assigns reason or intellect a subordinate place in the scheme of things and questions or denies the ability of the intellect to comprehend the true nature of things ... Anything that celebrates feeling over thought, intuition over logic, action over contemplation, results over means, experience over tradition and order tends toward anti-intellectualism."

That's a good enough definition for me.

Sounds like you’re defining lefties lol.

So, our intellect is able to comprehend the true nature of things. How do we know this to be true and are we allowed to question that *assumption*?

 

[BidenPresident]

Sounds like you’re defining lefties lol.

So, our intellect is able to comprehend the true nature of things. How do we know this to be true and are we allowed to question that *assumption*?

Yes, critical thinking means questioning the very foundations.

 

[Darth Omar]

Yes, critical thinking means questioning the very foundations.

But wouldn’t that make me anti-intellectual lol?

 

[Wolverine]

Agreed. While I don't believe Jesus was a divine being (e.g. God himself), I do think he was a reformer of religion, a philosopher, and moral teacher. Very much like the Buddha.

People like Jerry Falwell (both Sr. and Jr.) and Huckabee, and Graham, and Robertson, preach perversions of Christianity.

Check out Hitchens' farewell to Falwell. It's epic.

 

[Wolverine]

Hmm says page does not exist or can't be found! Doesn't matter, let me ask you how the dated the fossils?

 

[BidenPresident]

But wouldn’t that make me anti-intellectual lol?

I don't know lol.

 

[Diesel]

Murder and rape have been around for a long time. No reason to oppose that, either.

Murder and rape are inherently bad. Religion in and of itself is not.

 

[Wolverine]

It's not my theory, and while you can evade the issue you can't hide from the fact that attributing everything to God is simply ignorance in disguise.

Very close minded aren't you?

 

[Diesel]

Religion is only human.

You don't know that. Our perception is only human.

 

[BidenPresident]

Murder and rape are inherently bad. Religion in and of itself is not.

Don't agree. But that was not the argument. The idea was that natural inclinations are inherently good.

 

[BidenPresident]

You don't know that. Our perception is only human.

Yes...you agree with I said. Religion is human.

 

[Wolverine]

Paul was not an Apostle, he was a disciple. A true scholar of the Gospels would know this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles_in_Christianity