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AtheistCrusader

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15. Humans seem predisposed to it.

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #11)

Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:44 AM

Mar 2017

A majority, are anyway. There may be an evolutionary mechanism by which such social rules and order may have formed. It may have helped us survive even if it was manufactured out of whole cloth, and god was made by man in his image.

I certainly don't need it anymore.

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A song for today, March 20 [View all] guillaumeb Mar 2017 OP

In the time of Trump, so to speak, guillaumeb Mar 2017 #1

What happens if god responds and says to kill someone? What will you do then? AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #2

Embrace the song of peace. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #3

So, cherry pick then based on YOUR current personal morals? AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #4

Embrace the essential message. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #5

Who decides what the "essential message" is? trotsky Mar 2017 #6

It might be a problem for some. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #7

I don't need to "believe" in diversity of belief. trotsky Mar 2017 #8

Diversity only exists when it is allowed. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #9

How gracious of you. AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #13

Simply realistic. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #14

Some more than others. AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #18

I'm not going to tolerate bigotry. trotsky Mar 2017 #20

Does that belief require you to shit on others for who they love, what they do AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #12

A philosophical concept older than christianity and in no way dependent upon any of the baggage that AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #10

Religion seems to be a part of humanity, and seems to have existed very early. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #11

Humans seem predisposed to it. AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #15

I agree that it might be one survival mechanism. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #17

Problem is, it doesn't. AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #23

Scholars Are Reassessing Saint Francis of Assisi trotsky Mar 2017 #16

Kind of like Mother Teresa Heddi Mar 2017 #19

Right. trotsky Mar 2017 #21

Remember, only positive stories of Religion are apparently allowed Heddi Mar 2017 #22

But but but.... she glowed in a photograph! AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #25

I believe Wolf is being short-sighted. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #24

So ad hominem, eh? trotsky Mar 2017 #26

You do realize that it was a question, and not a statement? guillaumeb Mar 2017 #27

No, and I'm sorry that you don't understand what ad hominem means. trotsky Mar 2017 #28

Well, one of us does not. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #29

It's an opinion piece. trotsky Mar 2017 #30

I am flattered again. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #31

OK trotsky Mar 2017 #32