tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33572374.post4765435365083727161..comments2023-03-25T23:14:28.396+10:00Comments on Waving Not Drowning: Kentucky Hosts Child-Indoctrination Centregraywavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11609426782409481706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33572374.post-13520044407215038862007-06-10T12:35:00.000+10:002007-06-10T12:35:00.000+10:00Hi X :-)You know, there are hundreds and hundreds ...Hi X :-)<BR/><BR/>You know, there are hundreds and hundreds of gods from hundreds of religions and I can't disprove the existence of any of them. Does that mean I have to believe in them all? Then there are fairies, goblins, elves, the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, aliens, etc., etc.. I can't disprove their existence either. Should I believe in them too?<BR/><BR/>Sorry but this 'you can't disprove graywavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11609426782409481706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33572374.post-582224808587817302007-06-10T01:28:00.000+10:002007-06-10T01:28:00.000+10:00Hi Gray :-)How can anyone say there is no God when...Hi Gray :-)<BR/><BR/>How can anyone say there is no God when they cant prove it?. Its OK to say I haven't met one yet, but nobody can accurately say one does not exist without it being just a personal preference, surely?<BR/><BR/>And if religion is hard wired into the brain - how did it get there?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930497642555141696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33572374.post-354047134908485112007-05-29T00:26:00.000+10:002007-05-29T00:26:00.000+10:00I'm not going to argue with you about the existanc...I'm not going to argue with you about the existance of God, mainly because that isn't at issue here. What is at issue is how people choose to celebrate God, and whether it does more harm than good.<BR/><BR/>This is a big topic for me. I've just finished a novel that deals with religion being used as justification for evil. I don't think religion itself is to blame, though. It all comes down Timothy Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08982874914735092331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33572374.post-75337682824971186282007-05-27T21:06:00.000+10:002007-05-27T21:06:00.000+10:00Hi Gorilla. You're just saying that about hard-wir...Hi Gorilla. You're just saying that about hard-wiring to depress me, aren't you? Anyway, what would you know about the human brain - ya big ape!<BR/><BR/>I suppose I agree about people being naturally inclined to confabulating this stuff but I also believe that what we're seeing is cultural evolution in action here, not physical evolution. It is the most vicious, expansionist, authoritarian graywavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11609426782409481706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33572374.post-89457182525341936172007-05-27T18:43:00.000+10:002007-05-27T18:43:00.000+10:00Spirituality - sensations of awe, mystery, reveren...Spirituality - sensations of awe, mystery, reverence - may well be hard-wired, but the details of religious mythology seem entirely cultural. The Christian creation myths were products of a pre-scientific society - when they were first taught, they didn't contradict any known facts. People invent religions to explain things they don't know, not to deliberately contradict things they do. If we Bechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14115860950541642900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33572374.post-92091946627062609822007-05-27T17:07:00.000+10:002007-05-27T17:07:00.000+10:00"If we could just stop them teaching children for ..."If we could just stop them teaching children for a couple of generations, all of this madness would die out."<BR/><BR/>I doubt it. Religious belief has arisen quite independently in countless different human cultures. It is probably hard-wired into the human brain. Those who have it are better at surviving and reproducing than those who don't.Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.com