Quote:You seem to not understand the answer. Blaming all religion
A nonsensical statement that does not answer the thrust of the argument put forward. Just because you cannot articulate your argument logically, you dismiss it or try and shuffle it past; with a decoy of a personal tragedy to try and deter response. Pathetic.
for these three actions is the same thing as my car analogy.
It is not my fault you refuse to understand it.
Quote:Does it? I'd love to see a study done to see if that is true but
Those are two completely disconnected statements. I will deal with the second one first. Atheism does not necessarily make you smarter but it does make you considerably more resistant and resilient to the claims of hucksters, mountebanks and charlatans. Does god exist? Show me the proof. Does this treatment work? Show me the proof. You can find water by dowsing? Great, let us do a double blind test and see if you actually find water or if you are just talking out of your arse. You may not necessarily be smarter, but you do more with whatever smarts you have, and develop the capacity for analysis, observation and inquiry to expand your horizons.
since you allready beleive that those that practice religion are
allready being duped it would be useless. And for the record
there are religious people that do the same delelopment on
the capacity for analysis observation, and iquiry to expand
their horizons as athiests.
Quote:The first part of this sentence is the only thing that
Again we do not have complete information, but the sharp whiff of desperation is absent; the rank stench of fundamentalism is not.
was 'true'. the rest was just opinion on your, or whichever
source you got it from if it wasn't yours, part.
Quote:
A religious authority is far more likely to get a pass as the established meme not to challenge to actions of those of the same faith kicks in
So you are blaming the their religion, the church they
belonged to AND all religion in general for the actions of
three people that could have been making it up as they
went along. Gee.. so much for free will and personal
responsiblity huh? *sarcasm off*
Quote:Pot meet kettle.
That is a nonsensical statement and completely unconnected to the argument. I know it is hard to stay focused, but do try. Your crass attempts to link your spurious line of thought with a hot button issue are pathetic, trite and sadly predictable.
Quote:Are they? How do you know this? Can you read minds!?? Did
No, but they are going to travel that road with more care to the bumps, blind curves and warning signs and with any luck, be more considerate to the other travelers on the route. As opposed to swerving from lane to lane because turn signals are the tools of the devil; tailgating because Mary and Joseph rode ass to Bethlehem, and stopping suddenly for no reason because they, like their lord, wish to move in a mysterious way.
Mentok train you?! DO you "oooOOOOooo EeeeEEE oooOOOO'
when you read them?! *sarcasm off*
The problem is that you making a dangerous assumption that
they will come to the same or similiar conclusions as you did
based on 'facts' as you view them. which is pretty suspect
given your views to begin with..
To coin a phrase
'Thus endeth the sermon'
((Edited from previous posting due to pure lack of sleep when
writing previous post. It was just bad...))