Is the internet the final nail in the coffin for religion? (hell, Buddha)
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The Internet delivers information, and while it is not 100% vetted, curated, and accurate, it is still far easier and cheaper to fact-check and research than it ever was before. This can never be good news for those who advise against trusting in "your own understanding", as if that were somehow ignoble and misleading and inferior to "just believe what I say".
As TroutDude pointed out, it's arguably less a problem for more liberal Christians and less stridently dogmatic religions like Buddhism, but I have to believe that it ultimately poses real challenges for the acceptance of anything for which there is not empirical evidence.
Actually, what we are doing on this site IS Hinduism. We log on and we create the deity on this site. We are creating spirits of ourselves, or wish to be. I believe that the Norse deity Odin and his story is a prophecy of future online religious debate. Odin created warrior deities to fight in Ragnarok, which is what I believe we are doing online in peaceful debate. We are engaging in battles of the Gods here online. Odin knows he is going to die (get banned) but he still hand picks his deities to fight it out. Odin believes that everything is in a cycle, nothing is linear, and that Ragnarok is at the end times to the cycle of the Gods. It is time for Gods to die. Odin's deities will also die, but a new beginning of a new era of the Gods will be born, and according to the prophecy, it will be a peaceful one.
Last edited by Rider's Pantheon; 12-22-2013 at 08:42 PM..
You do need to lighten up and have fun in places like this. If it ain't fun, why do it? No one wins here, you just get to spout off and vent. And as a side note. The closed minded quote is a fabrication of yours. Freudian slip?
You have instructed us not to take your posting seriously. I find it fairly easy to comply with that.
Hmmmm! A hobby of making bad arguments - interesting - have not tried that yet. Maybe after that wine.
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Originally Posted by Grandstander
You have instructed us not to take your posting seriously. I find it fairly easy to comply with that.
Hobbies are fun. Yet My posts are dead serious. And fun! You can ignore what I say. Your choice.
See here is the deal, you guys take this stuff here as life and death. I play on that. On my phone. No less! Come on..
Maybe atheists are without humour.
12-22-2013, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr5150
Hobbies are fun. Yet My posts are dead serious. And fun! You can ignore what I say. Your choice.
See here is the deal, you guys take this stuff here as life and death. I play on that. On my phone. No less! Come on..
Maybe atheists are without humour.
Now your changing your tune - what have I ignored that was so dead serious.
What you do and say I agree - it's play time - like kids in the sand box building sand castles. Easily refuted and knocked down like I am Godzilla. Weeeeeeeeeeee! Having Fun!
I said before, the internet is going to be a coffin nail for religion.
Religion will never completely die out though. Hope and salvation will always be bought and sold. But, I think religion is going to cease to be debated as an equal force to reasoning(not that it ever really was). They will have to rely on their only strong suit- faith and magical thinking. Their numbers are going to dwindle and they may likely be relegated to small pockets of resistance.
The Church is simply not going to be able to lie(Creationism and ID) it's way into survival. It's eventually going to have to stand on it's own merit. The day of judgement will soon be upon the church. snicker.
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