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Thread: Religion... why?
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09-12-2008, 11:40 AM #101My wife and I made a game to teach kids about nutrition. Please try our game and vote for us to win. (Voting period: July 14 - August 14)
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09-12-2008, 11:42 AM #102OberonGuest
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09-12-2008, 11:44 AM #103OberonGuest
I would venture a guess that the Communist Party deliberately tried to substitute communist philosophy in place of religion, at least among the professional class. So while atheism may have been the official state belief, it's not exactly true to call the Soviet state areligious.
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09-12-2008, 12:05 PM #104
He can't find his shoes, silly, because he doesn't look in the last place he left them.
That'll be 5 cents. Next question, please!
nice clarification.
Although that leads me to ask: What sort of philosophy / way of life would be an alternative to religion, without simply acting as one in religion's place?"Hey Capa -- We're only stardust." ~ "Sunshine"
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09-12-2008, 12:48 PM #105
I think that the closest point in wich humanity come to ateistic society is European union. For the first time in history you have a place where you have huge number of atheist and no one is directly forcing them to be atheists.
They will even defend their atheism if that is what it takes.
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09-12-2008, 03:31 PM #106
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Why no civilization was atheist: because most civilizations were founded when most of the people believed in an invisible man, and their kids did because the adults in their community made them to do so, and that process repeated itself.
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09-12-2008, 04:01 PM #107
Yes but we have an analog to that in the US. Soviets were very nationalistic and idealize communism. Americans are very nationalistic and idealize democracy. Political ideals may bare some resemblence to religion, but they really aren't the same thing. So far what we know of atheistic societies is that they don't work very well, although we do only have a small sample to draw from.
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09-12-2008, 09:28 PM #108
We just have a simple misunderstanding.
A society is not a civilization.
For instance, Russian society, and for a while Soviet Society, is part of Western Civilization.
And the religion of Western Civilization is Christianity, just as the religion of Mother Russia is Russian Orthodox Christianity.
It is merely sleight of hand to describe Mother Russia as atheist. And just a propaganda argument put up by theists.
The point is that the argument between theists and atheists is a logical trap.
And when you are in trap the only important thing is to get out.
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09-12-2008, 09:35 PM #109
How odd.
Western Civilization takes its very name from, "Western Europe".
And the religion of Western Civilization is Christianity.
And the very birthplace of Christianity is Western Europe.
To say that Western Europe is atheist is merely the special pleading of atheists. It is the propaganda of atheists.
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09-12-2008, 09:48 PM #110
And curioser and curioser.
Both theists and atheists defend their positions even though both will admit they can prove nothing.
And odder and odder, even though they can't establish their positions, they identify with them.
So they defend them in the same way you defend you identity whether it is American or Islamic, whether you are straight or gay or even whether you like Rock or Classical.
We are completely reluctant to dissociate from our identity because that leaves us disorientated and vulnerable.
So we cling to theism or atheism for safety.
In exactly the same way we cling to MBTI even though is has the same truth value as astrology.
And interestingly MBTI is defended in exactly the same way as theists and atheists defend their identity.
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