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The funny thing is how accurate (not perfect) the depiction of Mormonism is from South Park.
Obviously they left some stuff out but its pretty funny nonetheless...because its true.
i don't really think so. religion provides more than just answers to the natural world. religion provides hope, comfort, and a code to follow. i don't think science will ever really replace that. i think the fact that mormonism still exists shows that nothing will eradicate religion.
It may give you hope and comfort for the after life but I don't see how it does for when you're living. Science gives me hope and comfort that if one day I go blind or deaf there will be technology to fix that. Or if I get cancer or some disease that there will be a cure for that. Science keeps me away from death. If I were to pray and wait for Jesus to touch my shoulder or put his hands over my eyes it just won't happen. And then I'll end up dying shorty after. And then If you go back to my first sentence that's the first thing a believer is avoiding the most in the first place.
And a code to follow. We have structure to our society. We're not in the biblical times where everyone has a rock for a brain. Back then you tell somebody if you kill or steal you'll go to hell. That idea alone shows you how far they were from any type of knowledge. Still do this day actually but we're obviously much more ahead of the curve now as opposed to back then. Now, now we have laws. Now if I kill or steal I go to jail. Shut, you don't gotta tell me twice.
Religion has killed millions of more people than any atomic bomb.ok i will start
science created the atomic bomb
Do you think this means humans have tried to manufacture heaven and hell on earth?
How society claims to believe in God, yet instead of letting God hash out punishment and benefits, we do it ourselves with the institutions we have created. Like big houses on the hills being the heavens and the prisons being the hells?
That's an interesting way of looking at it. I guess in a way you could say that's the way it is although its not what is intended. We just haven't figured out a way yet to make everyone happy. Someone will always have more than others. We do have an incentive based system though which has worked but like anything can always be critiqued. Again because Its just too hard to make everyone happy, too many people not enough resources, or maybe there are if it were spread evenly? Either way communism has failed like every time so I could only imagine how much harder it it would be on a world scale. But yeah the more you work the closer you get to the palace, the less you work the closer you are to jail.
Have you ever seen the documentary future by design? One the most interesting things I've ever seen, I think I've watched it like 4 times. This dude is just a complete genius. You name it he invented it. His job title is endless. Structural engineer, social engineer, industrial designer, futurist ect. He talks about how society can be most efficient and his ideas are just mind blowing. politics have a lot to do with it as well. How things should be run. It all seems so right. Complete cultural change but it just works. A completely different way of how humans think or speak. One of the main things he talks about though is being civilized. And we're far from it. He's envisioning a society where you only take what you need. You go to the store and get a camera for free. When you're done using it you put it back. But as long as there's war, police, and jails, there isn't anything civilized about us.
Idk if this is off topic or if I answered your question but yeah it's on Netflix by the way.
The only thing I want to say in this thread is this:Religion has killed millions of more people than any atomic bomb.ok i will start
science created the atomic bomb
The only thing I want to say in this thread is this:
Can we stop attributing misdeeds and tragedies to objects that do not have a will of their own?
To say that "science" has killed people is incorrect. It was the people misusing science that allowed for the people to die/get hurt.
Similarly, religion didn't go out with a burner and waste a fool. It was a person misusing religion that allowed for that to happen.
How the hell would science make people more religious?In the long run I think once science as a body of knowledge grows and discovers more, it will make people more religious but with an affirmation of miracles rather than belief and hope for the possibility.
Thats not the same thing. Again. DNA does what it does. Genetic reengineering can store pieces of DNA you want to express like genes but its not the same as loading up a an MP3 on a jump drive.http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/f...dna-then-read-show-bio-digital-storage-947354
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Atheism is prominent because people just don't believe in the claims religion presents. This doesn't even touch on how irrational the concepts themselves are.this is truth.The only thing I want to say in this thread is this:
Can we stop attributing misdeeds and tragedies to objects that do not have a will of their own?
To say that "science" has killed people is incorrect. It was the people misusing science that allowed for the people to die/get hurt.
Similarly, religion didn't go out with a burner and waste a fool. It was a person misusing religion that allowed for that to happen.
It's up to the people that use these systems/ tools on how they use them.
The same hammer used to build a house is the same hammer that beat someone to death. Depends on how the hammer is handled.
I think this is the generation of personal vendettas with religion due to how much information is flowing between people now.
That's why I think Atheism is so prominent now. It's a popular way to vent institutional frustrations in a socially acceptable manner.
How is prayer working out for you?Science found "CURES" for cancer ey?
Not accurate. Again, you're making a stretch into an excuse for organized religion.The only thing I want to say in this thread is this:Religion has killed millions of more people than any atomic bomb.ok i will start
science created the atomic bomb
Can we stop attributing misdeeds and tragedies to objects that do not have a will of their own?
To say that "science" has killed people is incorrect. It was the people misusing science that allowed for the people to die/get hurt.
Similarly, religion didn't go out with a burner and waste a fool. It was a person misusing religion that allowed for that to happen.
Yes.Do you think this means humans have tried to manufacture heaven and hell on earth?It may give you hope and comfort for the after life but I don't see how it does for when you're living. Science gives me hope and comfort that if one day I go blind or deaf there will be technology to fix that. Or if I get cancer or some disease that there will be a cure for that. Science keeps me away from death. If I were to pray and wait for Jesus to touch my shoulder or put his hands over my eyes it just won't happen. And then I'll end up dying shorty after. And then If you go back to my first sentence that's the first thing a believer is avoiding the most in the first place.
And a code to follow. We have structure to our society. We're not in the biblical times where everyone has a rock for a brain. Back then you tell somebody if you kill or steal you'll go to hell. That idea alone shows you how far they were from any type of knowledge. Still do this day actually but we're obviously much more ahead of the curve now as opposed to back then. Now, now we have laws. Now if I kill or steal I go to jail. Shut, you don't gotta tell me twice.
How society claims to believe in God, yet instead of letting God hash out punishment and benefits, we do it ourselves with the institutions we have created. Like big houses on the hills being the heavens and the prisons being the hells?
A jesuit proposed the big bang...For the sake of debate, I'd like to see an intelligent theist (as someone schooled by Jesuits for most of my life, I'm certain they are out there) at least try to refute Future MD on issues rather than insults. There's rather a large pool of users, but the religious members of the board seem to always resort to the same insults. Is that not trolling, the very thing they accuse Future MD of doing?
As long as there are poor and uneducated people, there will be a religion of some sort.FutureMD is making some great points. but to OP, I think and hope religion will phase out once people realize there's no reason to believe in any mythological deities. And the process of science will explain things more clearly as it advances.
That combined with the older generation dying off almost makes it certain, look at the Europe for example.
Never. Until science can explain who came first, the chicken or the egg.
A comment from the corner of the interweb:Never. Until science can explain who came first, the chicken or the egg.
Looking at it very logically, it would be the egg. By the theory of evolution, species change through mutation and sexual reproduction. At some point in time, some ancestor of the chicken held an egg that held a hatchling with enough mutation in its DNA that when hatched would cross the threshold from not-chicken to chicken.Never. Until science can explain who came first, the chicken or the egg.