On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:58:03 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: > > Hi John Clark > > From his hostile postings, Craig seems to have been very > very badly hurt by the Christian Church sometime in the past. >
Haha, not at all. Some of my best memories in high school were of drinking beers and smoking cloves with the lovely and exciting girls from my friend's church group. I think cathedrals are wonderful. Church services bore me but not as much as synagogue services - wow, if you want to have a monotonous meaningless experience try sitting through a three hour monologue in Hebrew. I just think that the idea of an anthropomorphic God is an unfortunate and seductive mistake. If I sound hostile, it is because of the tremendous damage that this concept can do to people's lives. I am hostile toward crystal meth too. I love the idea of recreational drugs, but I have known too many exceptional people who have seen the course of their lives derailed by crystal. Craig > > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > *From:* John Clark <javascript:> > *Receiver:* everything-list <javascript:> > *Time:* 2013-01-22, 13:23:37 > *Subject:* Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS. > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Craig Weinberg > <whats...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > > >> The astronomer Giordano Bruno would not have been surprised to hear >>> that the invention of science was a fight against theology, he was burned >>> alive by the church for suggesting that the bright points of light you see >>> in the night sky were other suns very very far away. >>> >> >> >The Catholic Church of the 16th century is no more representative of >> Theology >> > > In Europe in 1600 the Catholic Church was not representative of theology > it virtually was theology; competing franchises like Judaism and Islam were > just rounding errors, and they were just as dumb anyway. � > > >than ethnic cleansing is representative of Darwin. >> > > Huh?� Charles Darwin and ethnic cleansing, it does not compute. > > >> Explaining how complexity came about from simplicity is much better >>> than saying complexity came about from even more complexity. >>> >> >> > Religion does the same thing. >> > > Bullshit. > > > The Tower of Babel. Noah's Ark. Genesis. Complexity emerges from >> simplicity >> > > God is not simple, although very often the believers in God are.� > � > >> > Ron Popeil is not a theologian. >> > > True, Ron Popeil is much more moral than theologians because the stuff he > sells on TV actually exists. > > >> What would lead to unemployment is if the LHC discovers nothing >>> mysterious that contradicts what we think we know. >>> >> >> > Not really. >> > > Yes really. > > > Validating the standard model is just as profitable as mystery. >> > > Bullshit. Everybody knows that the standard model is very very good but > they also know it can't be the end of the story because it says nothing > about gravity or Dark Matter or Dark Energy nor can it explain why > neutrinos have mass. And everybody knows that unlike telescopes that have > found a lot of surprising stuff in fundamental physics, particle > accelerators have not discovered anything surprising in almost 40 years > (finding the Higgs was not surprising, not discovering it would have been > surprising and that's why many hoped it didn't exist but they were > disappointed), and if the LHC doesn't find anything new either it could be > the last of these very expensive machines for a century. > > �ohn K Clark > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/iQ5HjTvBgZIJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
