Politics and Religion

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Posted By: Laffy
So, you completely make something up, while ignoring the fact I proved it's the other side that gets pissed, and when I refute you, you claim you're "reading between the lines" to prove you're right?  
   
 Priceless.  
   
 Just remember that the next time I use your own tactic against you freaks.  
   
 Of course, you'll just wet your pants saying, "Only we're allowed to do that" like you do with the insults.  
   
   
 Oh, and since when have you hillbillies ever cared what the dictionary says?  It says Thumpers are bigots....you claim you aren't anyway.  I gave you the definition of Tea Bagger (mailing in tea bags) and you homophobes keep crying it's some gay thing (guilt conscience).
I made nothing up. I stated that you sounded very angry from your posts. I would suggest that calling people retards and using all caps and such aren't really the actions of a calm person. If you want to disagree, fine.  

You're wrong, but fine.

You also proved nothing. What proof have you provided of 'it's the Thumpers that are angry', or whatever point it is you're trying to make? Shouting some more rhetoric is not proof of anything.

I included the link because apparently you don't understand what inferred means. From this post that still seems to be the case. I mentioned reading between the lines because it seems that 'inferred' might be too complex a word for you.

You'll also note that I have posted on this board previously that I have no patience for people who'd rather believe in religion than science, so you can keep your assumptions that I'm a 'hillbilly', or a 'thumper', or a 'freak', or anything else you've dared to call me thus far. Again, you really, really don't sound like you aren't angry. You don't post like a calm person would. Maybe you could try responding without coming across as a sociopath.

Tell one Person

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=openly+secular+day&FORM=VIRE15#view=detail&mid=2D95954C49C64B4955B92D95954C49C64B4955B9

No, but in actuality what's the use of telling believers what you don't believe? They're just going to hate you and if Muslim
maybe kill you.  
Wouldn't you just be acting like them on Sundays, bothering people.

But really, how can religion be so into everything and make it sound like is the right thing? It does seem like they do have the power right now? Or the power has them with religion or something like that.

Don't restrict yourself to one good book if you are looking for different  answers.  

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Posted By: Robertini
Tell one Person  
   
 http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=openly+secular+day&FORM=VIRE15#view=detail&mid=2D95954C49C64B4955B92D95954C49C64B4955B9  
   
 No, but in actuality what's the use of telling believers what you don't believe? They're just going to hate you and if Muslim  
 maybe kill you.  
 Wouldn't you just be acting like them on Sundays, bothering people.  
   
 But really, how can religion be so into everything and make it sound like is the right thing? It does seem like they do have the power right now? Or the power has them with religion or something like that.  

Not really like them, no. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating we should get in their faces, knock on their doors, approach them with pamphlets and evangelism in bowling alleys, restaurants, hospitals, schools, hotels, libraries, outside of strip clubs, on the streets, and just about everywhere else with the intent on blasting them for their fallacious beliefs and threatening them if they don't deconvert. No, none of that. But approaching someone in your life to say "I'm an atheist/secularist" can go a long way to humanize the members of the most hated group in the US (and many other countries).  

It's also important because we need to take control of our public perception. As long as we stay in the shadows and let them paint us as they see fit we will continue to be described as immoral devil worshipers hell bent on destroying the moral fabric of this nation.

As to how religion can be so effective at what it does the answer is quite simple: it's based upon, and nurtured by, emotions. Logic and reason are frequently demonized ( "ignorance is bliss," "God works in mysterious ways," etc.), while emotional appeals ("Love thy neighbor," "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son," "believe or spend eternity in hell," etc.) are used to obfuscate the illogical nature of their beliefs. If something feels right or good people rarely will question it and analyze it logically.  

I also hypothesize, though science has not definitively conclude this, that most people are born with a high external locus of control. Research has shown that your locus of control is both innate and subject to nurture, so a child born into a religious household will have figures of authority reinforcing and magnifying his/her external locus of control. This is why one of the most common "pedestrian" theistic arguments starts with "Well, if God didn't do it then how do you explain . . ." Thus, you see people who seek treatment from doctors/medicine/science for a medical condition and then praise God when they are cured or treated. It starts with the emotion that a terrible fate has befallen them, then their external locus of control convinces them they are powerless to do anything about it, and when scientific advancements come to the rescue they decide it must divine intervention.

Couple all that with the amount of power, money, and influence a religious authority wields and it's hardly a mystery why they are such a dominant force around the world. They control the game, the rules, and the players. And to borrow a quote from the Matrix "You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."

Europeans,once at least nominally Christian but increasingly secular,have a low birth rate. However,thanks to relaxed immigration laws there has been an influx of Muslims to the continent.They are popping out babies left and right.Give it a few generations Europe will be known as Eurabia.
Secular societies don't last.

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