Raising kids: fairies Vs skeptical toolkits

Heraclitus comments on May 19, 2018:

First of all, I think eight is just a little old to still be believing in a fairly tale world. When I was growing up, pretty much every one's fairy tale bubbles had been burst by the age of seven, and those who still believed in such stuff were mocked at school for still being "babies". Secondly, if belief that planet earth is a fairly tale world goes on too long, it certainly won't be harmless, either socially or mentally. Being detached from reality is a pretty good definition of neurosis or mental illness. Thirdly, I really don't buy the idea that literally believing in fairy tales is really so harmless to smaller children either. We like to think that it is harmless, but how many fewer children would grow up to believe literally in the mythology of religions if they had not been so indoctrinated while children? Also, I remember how disturbed I was when I learned that the adults of the world had been lying to all of us kids all this time for "our own good and happiness." It made my wonder what other things adults had been lying to us about for "our own good and happiness." This can subtly start to destroy trust between children and their parents and lead to a rebellious child if unchecked.

Okay, I would really appreciate some help.

Heraclitus comments on May 19, 2018:

How about an examination of the mythical stories about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Great Pumpkin?

I think it's safe to say it I this group.

Heraclitus comments on May 19, 2018:

People are on the site for all kinds of different reasons. There is hardly a common thread.

New DNA.

Heraclitus comments on May 19, 2018:

What about George I of Hanover? He introduced German DNA into the royal family and at the time was far more criticized and controversial a figure than Meghan is today.

What do you think?

Heraclitus comments on May 18, 2018:

Those categories are rather meaningless unless you first establish a standard of proof.

Free will, Determined, or something else?

Heraclitus comments on May 17, 2018:

I could persuaded on Soft Determinism, as our subconscious thought is estimated to consist of about 95% of all thought processes, and there are obviously an incredible amount of penchants, predispositions, and persuasions that impinge upon us. We react far more than we act. Try to think of a situation in which you were not reacting your environment in some way. However, to claim that there is no such thing at all as independent thought simply runs into too many paradoxes. For example, it makes this debate mute since we are only expressing the thoughts that we are determined to express anyway. In other words, if you believe in Determinism, it is only because you can't help it.

Flat Earthers rebutted.

Heraclitus comments on May 17, 2018:

https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round#page-17

Flat Earthers rebutted.

Heraclitus comments on May 17, 2018:

The idea that most people used to believe the earth was flat is also a myth. This myth was perpetuated by a book written in the 19th century. Not only has the roundness of the earth been known at least since the Ancient Greeks (Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Aristotle), but every sailor knew it. The top sail of a ship is always seen first, the stars are different in the Southern Hemisphere than they are in the Northern Hemisphere, and the existence of time zones. Also, the earth's shadow on a lunar eclipse, and the fact that you can actually see the earth's curvature on a high mountain. The ancients were not so dumb as we like to think.

Science is a way of thinking. It is never final.

Heraclitus comments on May 17, 2018:

Scientists live for the thrill of discovery, not for the stubborn arrogance of always believing you are right no matter what. If a scientific theory becomes debunked through scientific testing, it can actually be quite exciting as it opens up all kinds of new possibilities and career paths.

I don't talk much about religion but here's a thought; If Jesus was a Jew in Israel and Israel was ...

Heraclitus comments on May 17, 2018:

A better question might be: why is it that Jesus didn't even ask for one? You are assuming that justice system everywhere and everywhen have and had similar advocacy systems to ours. This was not the case with the Jewish Sanhedrin which was an assembly of twenty-three or seventy-one rabbis appointed to sit as a tribunal in every city in the ancient Land of Israel. The number of rabbinic judges depended upon whether it was a lesser Sanhedrin or the Great Sanhedrin that was assembled. The Sanhedrin reviewed the evidence and listened to the testimony of witnesses, including that of the accused, and then made its decision.

My neighbor (nosey) asked me if I had a will in place for my kids.

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Also, if children don't claim their inheritance the state usually gets to keep it by default. The state governments make a lot of money that way.

My neighbor (nosey) asked me if I had a will in place for my kids.

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Actually, it depends upon the laws of your state. Most states have a default inheritance. Chances are that your estate, such as it is, will be divided up among your children, anyway, without a will.

Why is the mantra: “Israel has the right to protect its borders”?

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

There is a political and historical twist to that mantra. The borders of Israel have changed a number of times since 1948. Most Arabs have never recognized any borders beyond those of the 1949 Armistice Agreements. So, when Jews and Arabs talk about the borders of Israel, they are not talking about the same borders.

Why do so many people avoid calling themselves an atheist?

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

The word "Atheist" was defined incorrectly many years ago in the Catholic Encyclopedia and was given a very negative connotation. Our society still hasn't recovered.

What’s a movie you can never get tired of?

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Sling Blade

Of all of the popular unscientific nonsense what's your biggest pet peeve?

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

That climate change is a hoax...but that's not harmless.

If Jesus was a Jew, and his mother was a "1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth" (from ...

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

No contradiction. The earliest Christians were all Jews. They celebrated the Jewish Sabbath. A conversion from Judaism to Christianity wasn't required. Jesus was considered to be the Jewish Messiah. "Christ", or Christos, is the Greek word for Messiah. Even "Jesus" is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew/Aramaic name Joshua.

How do you handle unwanted robo phone calls?

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Have a display on my phone. Block the persistent ones and don't answer the phone numbers I don't recognize. They can always leave a message if they are legit.

I think, therefore, I am.

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Some believe that happiness is inversely proportional to intelligence. Better said that happiness is inversely proportional to awareness and sensitivity. Hence, ignorance is bliss.

History of Philosophy without any gaps: King's College London

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Kind of a trick question. That is sometimes identified as Socrates, and sometimes identified as Plato.

Went out to a Mexican place, here’s the men’s room... Why!

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Because the toilet seats are left up.

I believe that humans have not evolved to the point where we can empirically know if there is an ...

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

That's not a question of evolution. Empiricism is the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. You cannot know an immaterial being empirically. It's a contradiction.

Belief in God - Religion in America: U.

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

I question your assumption that we will continually migrate in the direction of non-belief. There was an increasing number of agnostics and atheists in the latter 19th century, but it did not continue, but rather swung back in the opposite direction. At the time of the founding of America the number of Deists were steadily increasing, but we haven't become a nation of mostly Deists. I seriously doubt these numbers will ever invert. There is too much of a deep-seated emotional need of most humans for a god-like figure to direct their lives. Most also have a propensity for spiritual and mystic experiences that begs a divine explanation. As a species we are more emotional than rational. We may indeed be genetically hardwired with a predisposition toward religious experiences via a specific gene called vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2).

I don't mean to start anything, but it seems to me, as an agnostic, that it takes as much faith to ...

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

I consider myself agnostic, but atheism is often misunderstood. Refusal to buy into a theistic belief system, or anti-theism, is not faith. It is independence and honesty.

Do you have an interest in comparative religion?

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Yes, one of the best ways to understand your own religion, if you have one, is to understand other religions. It can be quite liberating.

There is a move towards religious fundamentalism in the world, particularly among the Abrahamic ...

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

Fear. But, Atheists and Agnostics are now less apologetic about their position on religion than I have ever known them to be. They didn't simply used to be apologetic, they were in denial and for good reasons. You can still, and I would argue should, respect other people without necessarily respecting their beliefs. Think of them as victims of their belief systems...which they are.

On morality

Heraclitus comments on May 16, 2018:

In the words from the move South Pacific ( 1958 ): "You've got to be carefully taught."

Does anyone subscribe to Skeptic magazine? [skeptic.com]

Heraclitus comments on May 15, 2018:

Used to.

Did you ever wonder when mediums channel the spirits of the dead the deceased never tell their ...

Heraclitus comments on May 15, 2018:

Mediums will most likely tell you things you want to come true, and are likely to come true sooner or later. Such as you will take a trip, come into some money, find romance, etc. I went to a group seance once. The medium insisted on not doing it until midnight. In the preceding hours I noticed she was listening in on all the conversations going on in the room and used that info in the seance.

Philosophy ?

Heraclitus comments on May 15, 2018:

A lot. The unexamined mind is not worthing thinking.

We all do or have and will carry with us profound religious statements .

Heraclitus comments on May 15, 2018:

"One nation under God" wasn't added to our Pledge of Allegiance until 1954. It was added primarily as a way of emphasizing our difference from the "godless commies."

Did something bad that happened to you as a child turn you away from religion

Heraclitus comments on May 15, 2018:

If anything, my bad experiences in life led me to turn to God early in life. It was reason that turned me away from God. My father, a lukewarm believer, always said, "God gave us a brain for a reason."

A good friend & I were discussing creating a new religion.

Heraclitus comments on May 15, 2018:

I prefer the Church of Wine and Cheese, but that's me.

I honestly don't care where the universe came from all I know for sure is the concept of God is a ...

Heraclitus comments on May 15, 2018:

The God of the Gaps dies hard.

Bastards

Heraclitus comments on May 15, 2018:

Historically, and unfortunately, when a country begins to nostalgically worship its own past and make itself "great again" it is a symptom of its decline.

US Was Better Before ......

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

When state and religion become bedfellows, both are corrupted.

It's a good point. :D

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

And if he had killed his grandfather he wouldn't have come back at all...or been able to go back in time to kill his grandfather in the first place since he would have never been born.

When is a lie right? When is a lie righteous? When is a lie not a lie?

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

To prevent a greater evil, but that is a subjective judgment.

I watched contact again last night, a movie from a book written by carl Sagan.

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

I enjoyed the movie, but I was somewhat disappointed in the way Jodie Foster was depicted as a not too bright atheist. She simply insisted that she didn't and wouldn't believe in God unless and until it was proven to her. Both atheists and (intelligent) believers know that the existence of God can't be proven one way or the other. If it could, this forum wouldn't exist.

After direct neural links to the internet are possible, the invasion I fear is a combination of ...

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

Not entirely, the BSers always seem to be one step ahead of us. Some even get elected President. ;-)

A friend asked me why I am so much in favor of the space program.

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

There have been tremendous unforeseen benefits from the space program. The benefits have outweighed the costs many times over. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html

Assuming there was a neural net type computer that could completely emulate a particular human mind,...

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

Though it may not be wise, not sure what would make it immoral. Don't believe that is listed in any of the "Thou Shall Not"s.

Hello everyone.

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

This is just a form of attempted mind control. The world is full of religious people who are sick. Those who accuse you know this. They themselves suffer from a sickness of the soul or they wouldn't treat you like this.

Here are 5 representations of God and yes, one of those representations is God as a woman, extra ...

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

I'll have to go with Marianne Faithful in Absolutely Fabulous.

Atheist dialogue in A Raisin in the Sun - YouTube

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

Amazing they even had the courage to leave this in the movie back then.

Do you think agnostics lack confidence in general by not making a decision? :)

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

No, rather it takes self-confidence to admit you don't know things that others pretend to know.

RIP Margot Kidder My favorite Lois Lane.

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

Sadly, she struggled for years with being bipolar.

Listening to "The Way of the World" by Ron Suskind.

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

People will usually trade freedom for security. This is dangerous and regrettable, but understandable. Freedom does you no good if you are dead.

I'm certainly in no way religious, but I ghost hunt, occasionally with some pretty impressive ...

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

Unexplained noises and sightings or reflections are not logically connected to ghosts. You've heard of the God of the Gaps. These are the "ghosts of the gaps." We can't explain something so we attribute it to ghosts.

Solve this Riddle

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

At the risk of redundancy, a school or a prison.

It is amazing to me how all the major religions were based on love and tolerance and are twisted by ...

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

What's amazing is how many religious people get love and hate mixed up. The pied pipers are nothing without the children who follow.

Did the latest I.S. stabbings in Paris make the news in your country?

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

Yes, including BBC America which I like to watch to get better coverage of European news.

Philosophers have fun, too. How many existentialists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

Two. One to actually change the light bulb, and one to get nausea over having to make the decision to change it.

Listening to "Noam Chomsky at St.

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

The sad thing about CC is that we have known about it for at least half a century and now it is too late to do anything more than slow it down and delay the coming disaster. The second sad thing is that we are doing so little to prepare for the inevitable. In the NC Outer Banks they are still trying to change the zoning laws that allow public buildings, such as libraries, police and fire stations, museums, etc. to be constructed in the known future flood zones. Worse, the NC legislature passed a law disallowing the use of the new revised data that shows CC happening at a faster rate. It is now illegal for the sea level to rise faster than previously determined by antiquated data :-) This is the modern version of Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

I neither believe or disbelieve. Am I in the right place?

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

I don't know. :-)

As an agnostic, I often think of myself as an explorer of ideas rather than a defender of Truths.

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

To me agnosticism is honesty.

Why do we assume that physical laws exist, i.

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

What is a law? We don't assume that physical laws exist, we create them in the sense that physical laws are a human description of the rhythms and patterns of nature that we observe, measure, and test.

I am the only person in my large latino family who does not believe in god.

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

I close my eyes out of politeness and respect, and just relax. Why make any more of it than that? I give family members their superstitions. They will take them anyway.

I am moving through deconstruction and have hit the "I am very angry stage" as I think about all of ...

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

You are not the Lone Ranger. Don't wallow in your past. Celebrate life and your new found freedom.

For as long as I’ve been an decidedly critical thinker, I’ve been outspoken about it.

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

So, what speech do you think should be considered illegal in light of the First Amendment...besides yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater?

To gain better knowledge is to use your critical thinking, not your ego.

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

The ego's prime directive is first survival and then expansion, not knowledge or truth.

Hi everyone

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

Greetings to you and your grapevines (I think).

And this is the case with all religions. How we can prevent this atrocity?

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

In the words of the philosophers Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: "Teach your children well."

Just got back from God country.

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

If God is Nature, you're absolutely right. ;-)

Newt Gingrich: Atheism Is More Dangerous To Christians Than Terrorists Are - The Intellectualist

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

Are you sure its not: Newt Gingrich is more of a terror to Christianity than Atheism? :-)

How common is this argument?

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

If you can't create something out of nothing, then what did God create the universe out of? That means that God must have created the Universe out of pre-existent something. So, where did this pre-existent something come from if it couldn't have come out of nothing and God didn't create it?

On the concept of "mindfulness.

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

Stoicism only goes back to the early 3rd century BC.

Define God! What is your definition of God, that you disbelieve completely if you are an ...

Heraclitus comments on May 12, 2018:

Your definition is not a bad definition to be agnostic/atheist about. Creation ex Nihilo, however, is a relatively modern concept. By relatively modern, I mean the early Roman Catholic Church (Latin). Creation ex Nihilo essentially originated as a way of saying to the pagans, "Our God is greater than yours. He can create out of nothing." Note also that Creation ex Nihilo is not explicitly found in Genesis. The ancients thought that creation out of nothing was completely illogical. Nothing comes from nothing (ex nihilo nihil fit). (Yes, Shakespeare played on this saying in King Lear.) Consequently, the ancient Greeks believed that there was always some sort of matter or primordial stuff which a creator God organized into creation as we see it (Creation ex Materia).

Are there any Gnostic Atheist out there besides me?

Heraclitus comments on May 11, 2018:

I am not sure that epistemology and philosophy are entirely useless, just indeterminate. In fact, you have just given your epistemological basis for determining the existence of God. Philosophy can help one examine and clarify your own and others assumptions, just as you have apparently done.

I've been considering the implications of current trends in technology.

Heraclitus comments on May 11, 2018:

Back in 1983 I toured a "factory of the future." I only saw a total of four people in a large factory. There were two technicians checking on the machines, and two men at the bottom of a chute stacking product boxes. Today, they wouldn't need the two people stacking boxes. My only surprise is that the Automation Revolution has taken so long. We are now entering a new phase of the Automation Revolution. Recently, a robot was successfully programmed to fold clothes. This may not sound like a big deal, but actually the programming was rather complicated. Most people can't easily fold clothes without leaving some wrinkles in them. From now on, more complicated tasks are going to be replaced by automation. Neural networks are also becoming more sophisticated. IBM's Watson, for example, uses complex neural networks to problem-solve in fields such as medical diagnosis and computer problem analysis. There are times when you might be interfacing with a neural network online and not even know it, which means they pass the Turing Test.

Which is more useful, intelligence or wisdom?

Heraclitus comments on May 11, 2018:

Intelligence without wisdom is dangerous.

So everyone who I know is trying to get me to believe in God and I just want to remain an atheist ...

Heraclitus comments on May 11, 2018:

Tell them you honestly don't believe in God and you can't force yourself in believe in God any more than you can force yourself to believe in Santa Claus. Your only choice is to be honest about your lack of belief or put on an act and pretend to believe. If there is a God, then God will only honor a life of honesty, not a life of pretense. There is no such thing as salvation by hypocrisy.

Age makes you realize you’re never gonna grow up.

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

The two times in life when people usually feel truly free are early childhood and old age.

How best can we comfort our dying atheist friend(s) and family members?

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

Though dying is tough for everyone, most true Atheists don't fear death. Why would you? It simply means that all the pain and suffering of dying is over. To fear the loss of consciousness is to fear going to sleep at night. The only real reason to fear death is if you have some sort of residual fear that you, or your loved one, might go to hell. However, grief is the feeling of loss and is perfectly natural. It is better felt than repressed. All my life I have known religious people who have grieved terribly in spite of their beliefs. The pain of a lost loved one transcends all belief.

My friend is questioning her faith My former secretary was raised in an AME church and now attends ...

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

Google "Bible contradictions".

Ever been startled by someone's vehement religion-inspired opposition to something you regarded as ...

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

If your colleague really believes in the Bible, point out the following verses to him: Deuteronomy 22:11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. Ecclesiastes 9:8 Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil. Deuteronomy 22:12 You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

Love! needs a religion/god?

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

Either you believe in God or you do not. All you can really do is to pretend to believe in God for "love". Are you really contemplating a love relationship based on hypocrisy? Only two things can happen and both of them bad: 1) A love based on pretense, which isn't really love. No telling what it will turn into. 2) The "love" soon fades. What then would be left of your soul/person now that you have given away your integrity?

It’s possible a higher intelligence could exist beyond on our own.

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

Yes, this is the Bandwagon Fallacy, or proof by numbers.

In Vino Veritas.

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

True enough. Oenophilia forever!

Coincidence I think not..

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

This is a false dichotomy. Given the astronomical expanse of spacetime it is a near certainty that life would develop somewhere.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of ...

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

And so, Candide, we tend our garden as best we can.

Glass half full or half empty?

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

An optimist says the glass is half-full. A pessimist says the glass is half-empty. An engineer says the glass is twice a big as it needs to be. :-)

The truth is out there

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

True to a point, but if you are religious you have to spend your whole life rationalizing your given beliefs to yourself and others. This can create a lot of cognitive dissonance and become mentally exhausting. Many people who become agnostic/atheists do so simply because their religious defense mechanisms get worn down by reason.

Israel has the right to defend itself.

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

Well, remember the military dictum: "The best defense is a good offense." ;-)

Can all facts be proven? What is acceptable proof?

Heraclitus comments on May 10, 2018:

If you really want to get philosophical about this, refer to David Hume's discussion of causation in "A Treatise of Human Nature" and "An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding" in which Hume undermined our assumptions concerning the validity of cause and effect. But, even Hume admitted that we had to accept the validity of cause and effect, or else it would be virtually impossible to go about our daily lives.

Can all facts be proven? What is acceptable proof?

Heraclitus comments on May 9, 2018:

In historiography, a "fact" is by consensus. There are no proven facts, only accepted facts.

For some reason, it is very difficult for me to find people who are both existentialists and ...

Heraclitus comments on May 9, 2018:

I think Sartre explained this when he proclaimed that we are "condemned to be free."

After joining this group today I started to think about a famous quote - "I think therefore I am" - ...

Heraclitus comments on May 9, 2018:

Descartes was French. In French, "Cogito ergo sum" becomes "Je pense, donc je suis." In French, the verb "penser" and has a somewhat more complex meaning than "to think." Sometimes penser is translated "to think" and sometimes it is translated "to doubt." In French philosophy all thinking implies a certain doubt about the subject at hand. It is this doubt about the nature of the subject of analysis that drives thinking. Consequently, some philosophers, especially those taking Descartes in the context of his writings, think that what Descartes really meant was, "I doubt, therefore I am." In other words, Descartes was saying in his introverted analysis that he could doubt absolutely everything except the fact that he was doubting. There is no doubt that there is doubt. Where there is doubt, there is a doubter, or self. No shit.

Atheists who bash Christians.

Heraclitus comments on May 9, 2018:

You're right, and it doesn't work. In fact, it backfires. You can't insult someone out of their religious beliefs. It just makes them not want to be like you.

10 good things Trump has done his first year in office [google.com]

Heraclitus comments on May 9, 2018:

Taught the apathetics that voting is important. Democracy: use it or lose it.

If Jesus Christ was really God, what should he have said?

Heraclitus comments on May 9, 2018:

God or not, if Jesus were alive today he would reject and rebel against Christianity.

Has the republican party become the party of traitors?

Heraclitus comments on May 9, 2018:

I was once a Republican. I think of them more as the party of hypocrisy.

Did Jesus exist?

Heraclitus comments on May 7, 2018:

Jesus of Nazareth lived as testified to by the Jewish Roman historian Josephus, though some scholars think it was really Jesus the Nazarene (an ascetic Jewish religious sect). (Note that only the Gospel of Luke claims that the hometown of Jesus, Mary and Joseph was Nazareth.) BTW, his name couldn't have been Jesus. That's a Greek name that is the equivalent of Joshua in Aramaic and pronounced more like 'Yoshava'. Being the son of Joseph, he was probably referred to as Joshua ben (son of) Joseph. Isn't it interesting that after 2000 years of deifying him, we still can't get the guy's name right?

How often do you talk to yourself?

Heraclitus comments on May 7, 2018:

Only when I want someone to listen to me. :-)

What The Fuck Bible Passages So I have decided to find wtf bible passage, write them down and break...

Heraclitus comments on May 7, 2018:

Here's another WTF bible passage: the talking ass (donkey) of Numbers 22:28.

What The Fuck Bible Passages So I have decided to find wtf bible passage, write them down and break...

Heraclitus comments on May 7, 2018:

Reminds me of King Lear disinheriting his daughter Cordelia just for refusing to lie to him.

Chortle ....

Heraclitus comments on May 7, 2018:

Hmm, I guess human ridiculousness is God's will, too. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so much of it.

What's the worst thing done to humanity in the name of religion?

Heraclitus comments on May 7, 2018:

Turning us into slaves/robots/zombies of tyrannical and destructive human belief systems, and thereby robbing us of our soul in the name of God.

I've been pondering the WHY of religion. That is, why does it exist?

Heraclitus comments on May 7, 2018:

Mystery. Without mystery there is no religion. There is the mystery of death. There is the mystery of life, and the purpose of life. There is the mystery of the Good, and there is the mystery of Evil. Knowledge is the enemy of mystery. In Genesis, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden were FORBIDDEN to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. And once they partook of this knowledge, which destroyed mystery, they were cast out of paradise for their sin of knowing too much.

When religious people demand that I respect their beliefs because it is their god given right to be ...

Heraclitus comments on May 7, 2018:

Respecting someone's religion and respecting their prejudices against you are not the same thing. Prejudice means to pre-judge (before knowing the facts), and they are pre-judging you to hell. (Gee, I thought only God had the right to judge someone to hell.) Unfortunately, religion is often a cover for practicing prejudice and blaming it on God, as in "I don't really mean to discriminate against you, but God says I must."