"Admitting you don't know something is not the same as believing in nothing."
Pat Condell: "God or Nothing"
by leavingwt 40 Replies latest jw friends
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tec
Um... I laughed. A lot. But I think I missed the point?
Tammy
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tec
Oh wait... there's something else there now.
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zoiks
I love this guy.
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leavingwt
Oh wait... there's something else there now.
Sorry about that. I had posted the wrong link for about 10 seconds, and then I corrected it.
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BurnTheShips
"Admitting you don't know something is not the same asbelieving in nothing."
I'll dredge up a bit of GK Chesterton:
"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing — they believe in anything."
BTS
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OnTheWayOut
Nice post. I always liked this guy.
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BurnTheShips
Case in point:
Look Who's Irrational Now
The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us.
…traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians…
The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Will creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster someday be discovered by science?
The answers were added up to create an index of belief in occult and the paranormal. While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship more than once a week did.
...bring to mind the assertion of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown character that all atheists, secularists, humanists and rationalists are susceptible to superstition: "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense, and can't see things as they are."
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tec
"Admitting you don't know something is not the same as believing in nothing."
I watched the video, even though it didn't really apply to me. I already agree with the above statement.
Tammy
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leavingwt
It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition.
If you scan through the posts on this very forum, you'll find persons who are without THEISM, but believe in UFOs, life after death and many various conspiracies for which the evidence is less compelling than several popular religions, IMHO.