Let's heat this forum up

[bigred]

New Wired Article on "The New Atheism"

http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0...l?tw=rss.index
Thoughts?

[Xianti]

ooh, wow. That's long. Can you give us a summary? Preferably when you're drunk.

By the way, being that the topic is religion and this is an Internet forum, this could only end in tears.

[gametight]

Its saying, the human race needs to rid itself of religion before religous conflicts cause the us to destroy ourselves. Possibly, in the future, we will evolve past religion and begin using reason and logic instead of archaic beliefs in dealing with one another.

Interesting article..... So how long till religions gone?? Anyone wanna guess....

[Phantaroth]

Religion will never be gone.

[Toe]

we can only pray that one day it is, haha.

[swiggidy]

Religion is good for a lot of people because they are incapable of unbiased independent introspective reflection (I don't think I've ever used 4 words that big before, but yes it was necessary). I know a lot of good people who have a gap between how they expect others to act and how they live their life. OK, everyone has this gap, but few realize it, and even fewer recognize the gap and try to minimize it.

The Religious extremists need to go, in fact we would be better off if all the extremists disappeared.

[Rondavu]

Religion would gone already, if atheists were more efficient at knocking up naughty catholic school girls. Let's bwn these bitches.

[bigred]

Religion would gone already, if atheists were more efficient at knocking up naughty catholic school girls. Let's bwn these bitches.

LOL

[thenonsequitur]

re‧li‧gion  /rɪˈlɪdʒən/
Pronunciation[ri-lij-uhn]
–noun
1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

Get rid of the whited-out small text, and this sounds like a good thing to me, as a concept. Of course real religions are a result of an organic process of develoment that involved a lot of incohesive logical foundations, corruption, mistakes, misunderstandings, and mythology. Hence you get a system that follows the above definiton but has (a) a bad set of beliefs concerning the nature of the universe; (b) a bad moral code governing human affairs; and (c) the whited-out stuff above that doesn't belong as part of a fundamental set of beliefs to use as a basis for living (especially the part involving observances and rituals, which are pretty much across-the-board antiquated).

Religion would gone already, if atheists were more efficient at knocking up naughty catholic school girls. Let's bwn these bitches.

A religion built upon a principled foundation of sex. Now there's a good idea! "a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe"; cause of the universe: sex/reproduction. nature: sexual. purpose: to have sex. "when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies"; aphrodite. "usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often"; need I say more? "containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs"; um, have affairs frequently?

[ChrisTheFish]

Thank god for the suffering.

[bigred]

I thought it was a decently written article but ironic as well. The guy seems to side with science and logic the entire article and then cops out like all the "passive nonbelievers" the article's interviewees are against.


Oh, and the religious apoclypyse is just the opinion of one of the people interviewed, not the entire article summary.

[Warpe]

"We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know." Robert G. Ingersoll

[thenonsequitur]

Good quote, warpe.

[Staple Gun]

I completely agree with the article but I feel so hopeless with humanity. Our society is so deeply entranched in religion that there is no clear/quick solution and before there is one it may be to late.