[ExI] Religions are not the ultimate cause of war

[Tomasz Rola]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Charlie Stross wrote:

> 
> On 1 Oct 2012, at 19:44, Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > Spike, I have already covered this subject earlier this year. Or maybe 
> > previous year.
> > 
> > The atheistic credo comes in few different forms, but they all converge to 
> > something like this:
> > 
> > "There is No (Not), a Supreme Entity"
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > "There is No, God"
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > "There is Not, a God"
> 
> Disagree.
> 
> You seem to have missed "the human concept of "god" is a cognitive 
> processing error -- we observe random events and are prone to ascribe 
> them to purposeful behaviour, and our theory of mine then back-projects 
> a conscious intelligence behind it".
> 
> In other words, *not* "there is no God" but "the concept of God is a 
> cognitive malfunction".
> 
> 
> -- Charlie

I see.

Charlie, do you play tennis?

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

--
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.      **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home    **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened...      **
**                                                                 **
** Tomasz Rola          mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com             **