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Edward Dolan
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> Again, Claire, I'm not trying to be unduly critical, and I intend to
> ignore what my detractors say. I thought you needed some feedback on
> how you come across on here, to me at least. You really need to face
> the fact that religion has exactly nothing of relevance to offer to
> anyone, and that religion has caused much more harm to the world than
> good. (Ironically, perhaps, your own post makes this point.) While it
> is indeed challenging to realize that the universe is meaningless, it
> is even worse to believe in something really stupid like religion.
> Religion offers no meaningful code of moral conduct, and even if it
> did, by definition the various religions would be in conflict about
> what such a moral code would be and that would create more hatred and
> discontent than having no religious moral codes would create.
> Religions are for those people who are too timid to admit that the
> universe is meaningless and that everyone needs to discover his/her own
> moral code the hard way.
Ah, some meat for the Great Ed Dolan!
I have been an atheist since my teenage years, but I grew up immersed in the
Catholic faith.
Let us grant that everything you say is true. It is all irrelevant because
man needs religion just he needs air to breath. It is part of what it means
to be a human being. It goes with our species. Simply put, man cannot live
without religion.
Yes, you and I can, but we are an infinitesimal minority. What happens to
societies which try to do away with religion? Something else much worse
comes in to fill the vacuum. Communism in the Soviet Union was as much a
religion as any other, but a very bad religion. No thank you. I will take my
Roman Catholicism any old day over Communism.
A very small number of men will be able to live without any faith, but it is
not for the vast majority. It actually requires a lot of intellectual work
to break free from religion. I think our brains are wired for religion. In
other words, I believe it may be as much an instinct as is hunger or sex.
Religion most likely came about in the evolution of our species because of
the fear of death due to our consciousness. In earlier times death was a
constant companion to man all of his days. You cannot live with the fear of
death (and oblivion) hanging over you every second of your life. You would
be reduced to a trembling mass of quivering flesh. Religion gives us what we
need in order to live.
I fear the Muslims more than I ever did the Communists. They are saturated
with religion and this gives them the kind of strength that we have largely
lost in the West.
Abandon religion at your peril!
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
news:[email protected]...
> Again, Claire, I'm not trying to be unduly critical, and I intend to
> ignore what my detractors say. I thought you needed some feedback on
> how you come across on here, to me at least. You really need to face
> the fact that religion has exactly nothing of relevance to offer to
> anyone, and that religion has caused much more harm to the world than
> good. (Ironically, perhaps, your own post makes this point.) While it
> is indeed challenging to realize that the universe is meaningless, it
> is even worse to believe in something really stupid like religion.
> Religion offers no meaningful code of moral conduct, and even if it
> did, by definition the various religions would be in conflict about
> what such a moral code would be and that would create more hatred and
> discontent than having no religious moral codes would create.
> Religions are for those people who are too timid to admit that the
> universe is meaningless and that everyone needs to discover his/her own
> moral code the hard way.
Ah, some meat for the Great Ed Dolan!
I have been an atheist since my teenage years, but I grew up immersed in the
Catholic faith.
Let us grant that everything you say is true. It is all irrelevant because
man needs religion just he needs air to breath. It is part of what it means
to be a human being. It goes with our species. Simply put, man cannot live
without religion.
Yes, you and I can, but we are an infinitesimal minority. What happens to
societies which try to do away with religion? Something else much worse
comes in to fill the vacuum. Communism in the Soviet Union was as much a
religion as any other, but a very bad religion. No thank you. I will take my
Roman Catholicism any old day over Communism.
A very small number of men will be able to live without any faith, but it is
not for the vast majority. It actually requires a lot of intellectual work
to break free from religion. I think our brains are wired for religion. In
other words, I believe it may be as much an instinct as is hunger or sex.
Religion most likely came about in the evolution of our species because of
the fear of death due to our consciousness. In earlier times death was a
constant companion to man all of his days. You cannot live with the fear of
death (and oblivion) hanging over you every second of your life. You would
be reduced to a trembling mass of quivering flesh. Religion gives us what we
need in order to live.
I fear the Muslims more than I ever did the Communists. They are saturated
with religion and this gives them the kind of strength that we have largely
lost in the West.
Abandon religion at your peril!
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
