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Originally Posted by 0MAHADEG3N
I mean, could monotheism be any sillier?
Yes, it could be far sillier. Look at the pagan or animist religions or pretty much any polytheist religion. They are ****ing nuts, and bind men to twisted earthly rituals and superstitions. Whatever you think of monotheism, Christianity was an enormous improvement over that, which civilized society and gave you the freethinking world you live in now, where even the average Joe is enlightened enough (but not enlightened enlightened enough) to post "could monotheism be any sillier"?
Monotheism frees the mind away from earthly pursuits and superstitions, into an intellectual, principled, philosophical place, from which high thought and high culture can develop.
Your favorite Internet memes arose out of the Jesuit order.
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Outside time, space and physics, lurks a singular God(or any type of eternal force) in a spiritual utopia?
Why not? Is it any more ****ing crazy that we live in a finely tuned, perfectly complex world where thinking, feeling, spiritual beings like us could just magically appear out of the goo? Really? Without multiple levels of deep philosophical sophistication and multiple lines of hard-won evidence, the explanation you're mocking seems the most plausible.
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Is it really just childhood religious indoctrination and death that causes this mess?
That and Occam's Razorm applied through the filter of human cognitive biases, yes.
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That's what I see. I assume by going over the hands people post here, that we're just a stupid species that can simply not grasp a universe from nothing. Emotions and intelligence play a big role in monotheism. lol
And yet Christians are no less intelligent than atheists. The Enlightenment, which was put together by religious men and women far brighter than any atheist Internet theorizing, was done by Christians. So they can't all be dummies.
Last edited by ToothSayer; 10-09-2017 at 07:18 AM.