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Originally Posted by DAMNMAN
Whenever I bring up the idea that religious people are stupid, brainwashed fucktards, people look at me like I am crazy!!!!
I have mellowed out on talking anti-theism, because it doesn't matter what I say. Logic and reason mean jack shit to people who justify their beliefs at all costs.
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Being that its a universal thing, has existed in all cultures, in all societies and throughout the history of man, and more often than not, in the very same fundamental forms with the very same fundamental rituals and rules, no matter how far any two might be separated from each other,... maybe there is a little more to it than your simplistic notions.
With respect to man, many of our behaviors are unisersal, our tendency to like music/dance is universal (both bond groups). aesthetic beauty is universal (whether its a woman or waterfall or building). tribal behaviors are universal, religious beliefs are universal and so on. To understand this, you'd have to understand both the role of religion in evolution and the neural mechanisms which underpin our propensity towards religion and religious beliefs in the brain and why they come so naturally to us. I'd type out a couple pages explaining it, but it'd be like teaching calculus to 1st graders.
The tragic thing about someone who is as simple as you is that you'll go through your life not understanding others.... and simply dismissing them as "crazy", "brainwashed", "stupid" etc etc, no different than Liberal vs. Conservative or New England Patriots vs Colts etc Sound familiar? Beliefs are beliefs. Once you start to believe in ANYTHING, you then begin to irrationally defend it... you'd recognize this if you weren't too simple minded to care and lazy to educate yourself,... too lazy to attempt to understand. At the core of it all, you understand very little about human behavior and psychology, why and how we see, perceive, interpret and think differently and moreover, why its an evolutionary benefit to enhance survival or even understand the simple and obvious fact that monotheistic religions only appear as agriculture did and with man shifting to sedentary lifestyles vs nomadic. Of course you're mystified by a book of 2000+ rules on how to treat each other, conduct war, handle food, deal with disease, corpses, relationships, manage personal hygiene and so on. Why wouldn't you be? You're just not real bright.
Basically the majority of you are simply immature, petulant children upset at a book of of just over 2000 rules because you're antisocial jerk offs in a business that attracts little more than anti social jerk offs.
I don't believe in God. I do believe in education and understanding.
Just because you don't understand something... doesn't mean they are the problem.
It's amusing to watch people attack beliefs which have existed since the dawn of man by pointing out an insignificant number of times which you belief they were the root cause of evil... which is rarely the case and the simple fact that it was cited as the primary reason for the crusades for example, doesn't make it any more true than WMD's being the primary reason to invade Iraq.
It takes a great deal of arrogance and ignorance to dismiss the vast majority of the world brainwashed and stupid.
That said, i think the entire middle east should be turned to glass.