Claes Persson wrote:
>
> I do think that we have a general obligation to meet arguments of that
> kind and take them down in order to stop other people to spend time and
> effort spreading this. It's superstition.
>
> But unlike you I have found no reason to think that there must be any
> intelligence or any other entity that is resposible for that life of all
> those different beings on this planet excist. The DNA has been
> responsible for the development via the evolution and lots and lots of
> time. We are all, every kind of lifeform on earth, at the mercy of the
> experimenting DNA molecule. Darwin explained that a long time ago. Now
> that insight is of course not enough for most people (witch is the
> reason for that this nonsence of creation is still spread. They would
> like to think that we humans have been created for a special reason and
> with a special purpose that makes them feel more important. We, a
> lifform on a small planet that rotates around a small yellow midget sun
> in the outskirt of one of billion galaxies - the milky way. They also
> want to think that there is more. As humans we realise that life has not
> only a start, it has unfortunatelly also an end. That's for sure.
>
> Common for all religions is the comfort that they tell the story of a
> life after death in one form or another, but usually only for those that
> beleive in the right faith - all of them. In my mind this is diception
> in order for the priests to be able to keep their flock around them. Big
> organisations have been created for this pupose and for collecting
> fortunes.
>
> A person - any person- cought in a religion is not free in his or hers
> mind. It's locked up In some religions they are severly punished if they
> would dare to express any doubt in the priests explanations. The tribe
> kills him or her that dare to express any other idea or question than
> what is given as a religious rule.
>
> Look at all the places where unrest is going on and you will find that
> there are always a part of religious war going on. And for what? As
> there are no such thins as a god nor satan nor heaven nor hell. It's
> invented for religious reasons, so are people not mad? Yes they are and
> with their thinking locked up.
>
> Claes Persson
> §( :8-)
> ----------------------------
I try not to go too far into discussions of God. It's hard for me to
imagine that intelligence just slowly emerged from the primordial soup
without there being a pre-existing intelligence. If I'm part of the
universe and I have a degree of intelligence there's intelligence in the
universe.
But I don't have anything specific to add to that. Nothing around which
to build a cathedral, I might say.
How religion has impacted on politics and society is another question
that I don't mind kicking around a bit. Religion has come in handy from
time to time to help keep things orderly. "Thou shalt not steal, commit
murder...etc., etc. or you'll burn in etenal hell.[or whatever]" It
could work.
Too bad when people start believing that their own dismal superstition
means they have to kill people who have a different superstition.
Al Winslow
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