[ExI] atheists declare religions as scams.

[Sondre Bjellås]

No religion are sane. Religions are invalid as basis for morality, as the
morality in all religions are not based upon realities in the world and
doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Religions is the mechanism of which to get people to submit their lives to
rude and evil beings, of which then the leaders of each religion can
manipulate their masses at will.

Yet you are right, it's not far fetched that religious individuals can
believe anything, even in evolution. Believing has nothing to do
with understandability, truth and right.

:-)

- Sondre


2011/1/7 Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com>

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> There are many many flavors of Christian - some are actually pretty sane.
>  :)   Mainstream Christianity for a while was denatured of all that biblical
> literalism and thought many things were mostly symbolic, for instance.  Then
> we got the fundamentalist resurgence - in my opinion partially as reaction
> to Future Shock.
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> If you hold that it is possible within the laws of physics of this universe
> to run multiple virtual universes then you believe in principle that it is
> possible for an entire universe to have a creator.   You also believe in
> principle that things that apparently violate the physics of such a virtual
> universe can be done by those controlling the simulating machinery.  And of
> course you believe that genetic algorithms could be used to develop beings
> of all kinds tuned to parts of this virtual universe.    So yeah,  a
> Christian that understands and affirms evolution is not that far fetched.
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> - samantha
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