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I'm gonna quote my favorite author, Robert Heinlein. "Religion benifits 3 groups of people.

  1. The priests, because they only have to use their jawbone to make a living.
  2. The government, because it helps them control the people.
    1. The priests, because they only have to use their jawbone to make a living.
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heathen77 6 May 3
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Level 6

Hello Mr Heathen. Items 1 and 3 on your list appear to be identical. Is that by design? I don’t quite grok you. Please explain.

It is the same, but it is such an important point It needed to be said twice
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Level 6

according to my biotech teacher, his knowledge of biology was ahead of it's time too. (see the book Time Enough for Love and the story the Twins that Weren't)

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Level 9

True

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Level 8

Go along with Tom.

Coldo Level 8 May 3, 2018
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Level 7

501 = 6
c3 = 6
1023 = 6

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Level 4

I know many people who say they find great Joy and comfort from their Faith.

wmou Level 4 May 3, 2018
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I'll just take my drugs from a beer can, or pot pipe

many ppl find joy and comfort in their money, too, so i'm not sure how to take that lol; i guess how they treat others is what really matters. If they did what Jesus said and gave it all away first i guess they would really have a chance to, um, put their mouth where their money is tho huh

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Level 7

One of my top 10 authors.

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Level 7

I grok.

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Level 7

"Poets, Priests, and Politicians have words to thank for their positions." Sting

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Level 9

One of my favorite authors since I was 12 years old. Those old books seem to grow with you through the years.

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Level 8

Nice. Good to see some still reads.

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Level 2

Heinlein was fantastic. A free market conservative not burdened by the idiocy of evangelism.

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Level 7

'The Earth is too Small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."--R.A. Heilein

"Keep all of your eggs in one basket and watch that basket very carefully"
Mark Twain

@273kelvin ah no one like good'ol Samuel !!

@273kelvin Ole Mark did not know anything about the extinction of the dinosaurs by asteroid, which is what RA was commenting about.

@Davesnothere this is funny, I am Nobody talking to someone who is not there, ain't that some'n??... Let alone Samuel may have had known or not about dinosaurs ?
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Level 6

I love Heinlein!

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Level 8

All also benifits companies that make crappy bass guitars.

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Level 8

Not his best quote on the topic since the same could be said about politicians and even, in a way, authors of fiction.

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Level 7

I prefer this quote by Heinlein.

“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.”

Kimba Level 7 May 3, 2018
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Level 8

I love Heinlein!
bought most of his books for my Kindle library, after owning his paperback books for decades.
I usually read one of his novels every week, as I keep getting a thirst for one or the other of his books.

I started reading his juvie books when I was 12. The local library carried most of them. 1962.

@buzz13 I started reading his short stories in sci-fi paperback anthologies in 1960, when I was eight, by sneaking into my dad's bedroom and reading his private stash of sci-fi books.

I didn't see Heinlein's full novels until later. They aren't all good, but most are.

@birdingnut You were lucky, the only thing my father read was the Chicago White Sox scores before he went out drinking.
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Level 6

If something that is harmful to mankind, it does not benefit anyone because everyone is a human. Only deluded would think harmful things to mankind would benefit someone.

@icolan Does pollution harm to everyone or not? Only idiots would think that just because it benefit someone and do not care about the harm of other, That would make such person being so damn stupid, because of lack of consideration and thoughtfulness, those are a huge sign of being small minded, that is why they keep doing stupid stuff.

@icolan I am speaking the term of all mankind. Not being individual small minded and selfish thinking.

@icolan we can combine our conversation on the other end, let finish up with the word "lack" first.
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Level 7

FWIW, I'd add one more to the list.

  1. A substantial portion of the population (especially in the U.S.) of people who believe it benefits them and uses it as a balm, a crutch and a social network. Karl Marx knew it when he called religion, the "opiate of the masses"..
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